ISSN:
1573-5052
Keywords:
Allonetries
;
Apparent volume
;
Biomass growth
;
Regression equations
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract One of the difficult problems arising in many ecological models of development of plant communities and populations is how to estimate the aerial biomass in a non destructive way. This paper presents a nondestructive estimation of the aboveground biomass of plants of several species of Mediterranean shrubs. The method used combines the length-based measurements of a number of plants of each of several taxon with measured biomasses of those same plants fitting allometric nonlinear regression equations to yield parameterized models of plant biomass as a function of plant apparent volume. Two methods of estimating the apparent volume are developed and compared with a well known one in literature.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009765825024
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