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North American taxa group: Hippocastanaceae/Tiliaceae (Table 5)
Aboveground biomassHippocastanaceae/Tiliaceae (Aesculus flava, Tilia americana)United StatesmixedRead from the original paper
Fitted on these 2 species: Aesculus flava, Tilia americana
Equation
As printed (Table 5 caption, p. 140)
ln(biomass) = β0 + β1 ln(diameter)
In this library's units, ready to compute (kg)
Aboveground biomass = exp(-2.4108 + 2.4177 * ln(D))D- Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
Yellow buckeye and basswood (including white basswood, T. americana var. heterophylla). Median specific gravity of the group: 0.32. Diameter range is that of the pseudodata. R² is the published 'R²-statistic'.
Source
doi:10.1093/forestry/cpt053 · Open access · copy we read
Hippocastanaceae/Tiliaceae 0.32 −2.4108 2.4177 77 11 dbh 3–56 0.83
Tiliaceae Tilia americana Basswood 951 0.32 7
we did not include a correction (Baskerville, 1972) for underestimation
- DBH range
- 3–56 cm
- R²
- 0.83
- Method
- Weighted regression of ln(biomass) on ln(dbh) fitted to 77 pseudodata points generated from 11 published equations; no back-transform correction
- Where
- United States (equations compiled from US and Canadian studies)
- Last checked
- 2026-11-03
Calculate
334
Aboveground biomass (kg)
157
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
576
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 = 30 | 334 | 334 | Computed from the printed form computed from the published form at dbh = 30 cm |
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