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Guadua culm AGB from dbh, weighted power model (Model 7, Table 7)
© Daniel A. Monsalve Ortiz · CC BY · iNaturalistAs printed (Table 7, Model 7 (form AGB = a × X^b, Eq. 9))
In this library's units, ready to compute (kg)
Aboveground biomass = 0.4608 * D^1.8366D- Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
Per culm (guadua bamboo), not per tree; dbh is culm diameter at breast height in cm, AGB in kg (culm + branches + leaves). Model 7 of the paper, recommended for practical use because it needs dbh only. The paper's Table 2 gives culm dbh 6.6 to 16.6 cm for the assessed forests but does not say that is the fitted sample, so no range is recorded. Source table shows only the model number, predictor, a and b.
doi:10.1007/s10668-023-03460-1 · Open access · copy we read
a total of 130 of these culms were used for destructive sampling and calculating biomass
- Trees measured
- 130
- R²
- 0.6403
- Method
- weighted nonlinear power model (weights 1/dbh^2δ)
- Where
- Coffee region, Colombian Andes (six sites, 900 to 2000 m a.s.l.)
- Last checked
- 2026-11-02
Shaded: the DBH range the model was fitted on. Other inputs held at the values above.
On every build, the library's form and the paper's own form (in its units) must both give these values within 1%.
| Inputs | Expected | We get | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| D = 8 | 21 | 21 | Computed from the printed form hand-computed from the published form |
| D = 12 | 44.2 | 44.2 | Computed from the printed form hand-computed from the published form |
| D = 16 | 75 | 75 | Computed from the printed form hand-computed from the published form |
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