Tree Allometrics

Pinus brutia / Foliage biomass

Pinus brutia needle biomass, Middle East (Eq. 39)

Foliage biomassPinus brutia · PinaceaeSyria, LebanonnaturalRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Table 3, Middle East, Eq. 39, p. 105)

y = e^(−0.572 + 11.47·d/(d + 18.745) − 1.179·ln h)

In this library's units, ready to compute (kg)

Foliage biomass = exp(-0.572 + 11.47 * D / (D + 18.745) - 1.179 * ln(H))
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
H
Total tree height, m

Printed residual standard error 0.593 and variance function coefficient δ = 0.863 (model fitted on the original scale, so RSE is not a log-scale value and is not entered as fit.rse). Total aboveground biomass = stem + branches + needles (dry). DBH-only forms are those the authors recommend for tree- and forest-level predictions. Country-specific DBH and height ranges are not printed; the ranges shown are for all 201 trees. Equations using crown length (19, 21) and the crown-biomass equations (23, 24, 33, 34, 43, 44) are not included.

Source
201 P. brutia trees
Trees measured · Section 2.1, p. 103
Trees measured
201
DBH range
2.3–55.8 cm
Height range
3.1–32.5 m
Method
nonlinear generalized least squares on the intrinsically linear form, power variance function (no back-transform correction)
Where
Syria and Lebanon pooled
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
Height from
2.63
Foliage biomass (kg)
1.24
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
4.53
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
Fitted DBH range020406080100120510152025303540DBH (cm)Foliage biomass (kg)Foliage biomass

Shaded: the DBH range the model was fitted on. Other inputs held at the values above.

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On every build, the library's form and the paper's own form (in its units) must both give these values within 1%.

InputsExpectedWe getFrom
D = 10, H = 82.632.63Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form (coefficients as printed)
D = 25, H = 1417.717.7Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form (coefficients as printed)
D = 45, H = 2541.741.7Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form (coefficients as printed)

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