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Guadua angustifolia / Aboveground biomass

Guadua culm AGB from dbh, weighted linear model (Model 2, Table 4)

Aboveground biomassGuadua angustifolia · PoaceaeColombianaturalRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Table 4, Model 2 (form AGB = a1 + b1 × X1, Eq. 7))

M 2, P dbh, a −29.755, b 6.2659, R2 0.7866

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

Aboveground biomass = -29.755 + 6.2659 * D
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm

Per culm (guadua bamboo), not per tree; dbh is culm diameter at breast height in cm, AGB in kg (culm + branches + leaves). Model 2 of the paper; the intercept is negative so the linear form gives negative AGB below dbh of about 4.7 cm. The paper's Table 2 gives culm dbh 6.6 to 16.6 cm for the assessed forests but does not say that is the fitted sample, so no range is recorded. Source table shows only the model number, predictor, a and b.

Source
a total of 130 of these culms were used for destructive sampling and calculating biomass
Trees measured · Sect. 3, Data collection and measurements
Trees measured
130
R²
0.7866
Method
weighted linear regression (weights 1/dbh^2δ)
Where
Coffee region, Colombian Andes (six sites, 900 to 2000 m a.s.l.)
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
20.4
Aboveground biomass (kg)
9.57
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
35.1
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
050100150200250510152025303540DBH (cm)Aboveground biomass (kg)Aboveground biomass

Shaded: the DBH range the model was fitted on. Other inputs held at the values above.

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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
D = 820.420.4Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form
D = 1245.445.4Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form
D = 1670.570.5Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form

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