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Subtropical China AGB from D²H x wood density (Model I.3)
Aboveground biomass41 subtropical forest tree species (Fagus lucida, Castanea seguinii, Carpinus viminea and others)ChinanaturalRead from the original paper
Fitted on these 3 species and others the paper does not name here: Fagus lucida, Castanea seguinii, Carpinus viminea
Many species, no single photo
Equation
As printed (Table 2, model I.3)
I.3 ln(AGB) = a + bln(D²H × WD) −2.456 0.939
In this library's units, ready to compute (kg)
Aboveground biomass = exp(-2.456 + 0.939 * ln(D^2 * H * rho))D- Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
H- Total tree height, m
rho- Wood density (oven-dry mass / green volume), g/cm³
Log-log model fitted by Bayesian MCMC; no correction factor is stated, so none is applied. Natural log assumed from the paper's ln notation. Wood density WD is in g cm-3 (Table 2; the running text says g/m3). Whole-tree AGB includes branches, leaves and fruit.
Source
doi:10.1890/es15-00198.1 · Open access · copy we read
I.3 R² 0.987 RSE 0.197
we harvested and weighted dry mass of 147 trees from 41 dominant species in subtropical forest
- Trees measured
- 147
- R²
- 0.987
- Residual SE
- 0.197
- Method
- Bayesian log-log regression (MCMC)
- Where
- Badagongshan National Nature Reserve, Hunan province
- Last checked
- 2026-11-02
Calculate
Height from
167
Aboveground biomass (kg)
78.7
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
288
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
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%.
| Inputs | Expected | We get | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| D = 20, H = 14, rho = 0.57 | 167 | 167 | Computed from the printed form computed from the printed coefficients |
| D = 40, H = 20, rho = 0.6 | 902 | 902 | Computed from the printed form computed from the printed coefficients |
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