Do Different Young Plantation-Grown Species Require Different Biomass Models?

Abstract

Sweetgum and water oak trees sampled from a plantation over 7 years were used to test whether primary tree component (bole wood, bole bark, limb wood, limb bark, and leaves) predictions could be summed to estimate total bole, total limb, and total tree values. Estimations by summing primary component predictions were not significantly different from predictions for the totals, but prediction variances were increased for sweetgum and reduced for water oak.

Citation

Schlaegel, Bryce E.; Kennedy, Harvey E. 1985. Do Different Young Plantation-Grown Species Require Different Biomass Models? In: Saucier, Joseph R. ed. Proceedings 1984 Southern Forest Biomass Workshop. Athens, GA: USDA-Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, University of Georgia School of Forest Resources. 23-25.