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Jeffrey pine total aboveground biomass from DBH (Table 4)

Aboveground biomassPinus jeffreyi · PinaceaeUnited StatesmixedRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Table 4, species row and table note)

Jeffrey pine a, b, c, d, CF: −3.1894 3.2244 CF 1.0258; model form exp(a + bX1)

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

Aboveground biomass = 1.0258 * exp(-3.1894 + 3.2244 * ln(D))
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm

AGB is total aboveground live-tree biomass (stem, bark, branches, foliage). X1 = ln(DBH), X2 = ln(HT), DBH in cm and HT in m. Species identified from the common name in Table 4 (scientific name added from the standard species symbol). Stand type is not stated. Observed ranges in Table 1 cover all trees of the species used.

Source
Jeffrey pine ... n 9
Trees measured · Table 1
Jeffrey pine DBH min 14.5 max 43.4; HT min 8.4 max 21.0
Smallest DBH · Table 1
Trees measured
9
DBH range
14.5–43.4 cm
Height range
8.4–21 m
Correction factor
1.0258 (applied)
Method
regression on ln(AGB) with Baskerville log-bias correction factor
Where
Western U.S.A., legacy destructive-sampling biomass collection (Radtke et al. 2015)
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
261.9
Aboveground biomass (kg)
123.1
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
451.3
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
Fitted DBH range01,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,000510152025303540DBH (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 = 15261.9261.9Computed from the printed form
computed from the Table 4 coefficients
D = 354,0244,024Computed from the printed form
computed from the Table 4 coefficients

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