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Cordyline australis, NZ, belowground biomass from RCD (Table 3)

Root biomassCordyline australis · AsparagaceaeNew ZealandplantationRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Table 3, Total below-ground biomass, Cordyline australis)

y = 99.4e0.0253x

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

Root biomass = 0.0994 * exp(0.253 * DRC)
DRC
Root collar / stem base diameter, cm

Open-spaced juvenile plants (2-year-old containerised plants on-grown for 3 years, sampled up to 5 years). The tables are headed 'at age 5 years' but the appendix figures show points from all harvest years, and the paper gives no n or RCD range for these fits, so none is recorded. x is root collar diameter in mm; biomass in g and height in m (units inferred from Table 2 and Appendix 1 means, which the equations reproduce; the paper does not print units beside the equations). r² for exponential fits is a pseudo r².

Source
0.912
R² · Table 3, Total below-ground biomass, Cordyline australis, r² column
R²
0.912
Method
nonlinear least squares, exponential (y = a e^(bx))
Where
Taruheru River terrace, Gisborne, New Zealand
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
0.165
Root biomass (kg)
0.077
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
0.284
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
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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
DRC = 20.1650.165Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form (RCD in mm, mass in g, converted)
DRC = 60.4540.454Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form (RCD in mm, mass in g, converted)
DRC = 154.424.42Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form (RCD in mm, mass in g, converted)

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