Equations / Aboveground biomass
Total AGB from DBH and total height (Eq. 15)
Fitted on these 7 species: Carapa guianensis, Inga coruscans, Laetia procera, Pentaclethra macroloba, Stryphnodendron microstachyum, Tapirira guianensis, Vochysia ferruginea
As printed (Table 5, Eq. 15)
In this library's units, ready to compute (kg)
Aboveground biomass = 1000 * exp(-6.93 + 1.86 * ln(D) + 0.0045 * ln(D) * H)D- Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
H- Total tree height, m
No back-transform correction factor is stated, so none is applied. Only trees with DBH ≥ 60 cm were harvested; the authors warn the models tend to overestimate outside 60-105 cm. Table 5 gives B tot in 'mg/tree', meaning Mg (Table 3 reports total biomass in Mg, mean 6.7 Mg); the canonical expression multiplies by 1000 to give kg. Best-fit biomass model (adjusted R2 0.87) but needs total height.
doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2005.02027.x · Open access · copy we read
19 individual trees were measured before harvest
adjusted well in the interval of diameters sampled (60–105 cm)
- Trees measured
- 19
- DBH range
- 60–105 cm
- R²
- 0.87
- Method
- Least-squares regression (SAS), r2 is the adjusted coefficient of determination
- Where
- Tirimbina (Sarapiquí) and Corinto (Guápiles), northern Costa Rica
- 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 = 80, H = 28 | 5,887 | 5,887 | Computed from the printed form computed from the printed coefficients |
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