Merchantable Volume Table for Ucar in Puerto Rico

John K. Francis

doi:10.2737/SO-RN-350

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Merchantable Volume Table for Ucar in Puerto Rico

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Authors:

John K. Francis

Year:

1988

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Southern Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/SO-RN-350

Source:

Res. Note SO-350. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.

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Abstract

Ucar (Bucida buceras L.) is a timber tree of the dry forests of islands in and lands surrounding the Caribbean. The wood is attractive and strong but very heavy and hard. Little information and no volume tables were available for the species, however. Fifty trees from forests in Puerto Rico were measured for d.b.h., merchantable height, and diameter and bark thickness at 1-m intervals on the bole. Equations for inside and outside bark merchantable volumes were developed and are presented in equation and tabular form.

Citation

Francis, John K. 1988. Merchantable Volume Table for Ucar in Puerto Rico. Res. Note SO-350. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.