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Lomatia hirsuta aboveground dry weight from DAP (Cuadro 2)

Aboveground biomassLomatia hirsuta · ProteaceaeArgentinanaturalRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Cuadro 2, Lomatia hirsuta column, T row (DAP), p. 98)

T –43,875 + 7,155 * DAP

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

Aboveground biomass = -43.875 + 7.155 * D
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm

Total aboveground dry weight (T, kg) is the sum of leaves, thin and thick branches and stem, built branch by branch. Adjusted R² 0,91 is printed as R² aj.; the schema field r2 is left out because the paper gives only the adjusted value. No correction factor applies (linear model). The same table gives a basal-diameter (DB, measured at 15 cm above ground) equation, not added because DB at 15 cm is not a canonical variable. Stem dry weight (F) rows are credited to Gyenge et al. (2008) and the DAP volume rows to Reque et al. (2007), so they are not taken from this paper.

Source
T –43,875 + 7,155 * DAP 0,91 8
Trees measured · Cuadro 2, R² aj. and n columns, p. 98
La distribución de DAP de los árboles apeados fue de: radal 4,8 a 25,4 cm
Smallest DBH · Métodos, p. 97
Trees measured
8
DBH range
4.8–25.4 cm
Method
stepwise linear regression of tree dry weight on DAP (adjusted R² 0,91)
Where
Foyel river valley, Río Negro, NW Patagonia, Argentina
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
13.37
Aboveground biomass (kg)
6.282
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
23.03
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
Fitted DBH range050100150200250510152025303540DBH (cm)Aboveground biomass (kg)Aboveground biomass

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

Checks this equation passes

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 = 813.413.4Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the Cuadro form
D = 2099.299.2Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the Cuadro form

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