Tree Allometrics

Populus grandidentata / Stem biomass

Canadian national equation, largetooth aspen, dbh and height (stem wood plus stem bark; Table 4)

Stem biomassPopulus grandidentata · SalicaceaeCanadaRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Eq. 3)

y wood = β wood1D βwood2Hβwood3 + ewood

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

Stem biomass = 0.0128 * D^2.0633 * H^0.9516 + 0.024 * D^2.3055
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
H
Total tree height, m

Stem from ground level to tree top, stem wood plus stem bark; the stem is the sum of the two compartment equations. Height drops out of the bark term: the paper leaves its height exponent blank (—, not significantly different from zero). r2 is the adjusted R² (AdjRSq) of this compartment in Table 5. Fitted on the original scale (weighted nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression), so there is no back-transform correction. Dead branches, cones and fruits are not part of aboveground biomass in this work (Materials). Stand type was not always recorded. Ung, Bernier & Guo (2008) later revised parameters for some species with British Columbia data; not used here.

Source
y bark = β bark1D βbark2Hβbark3 + e bark
Equation · Eq. 3
Largetooth aspen bwood1 0.0128
Equation · Table 4, Largetooth aspen
bwood2 2.0633
Equation · Table 4, Largetooth aspen
bwood3 0.9516
Equation · Table 4, Largetooth aspen
bbark1 0.0240
Equation · Table 4, Largetooth aspen
bbark2 2.3055
Equation · Table 4, Largetooth aspen
bbark3 —
Equation · Table 4, Largetooth aspen
Largetooth aspen 100 15.8±0.7 16.9±0.6 114.8±12.2
Trees measured · Table 2 (No. of trees)
(1.5;39.2) (2.3;28.9) (1.0;641.2)
Smallest DBH · Table 2, Largetooth aspen (ranges of dbh, height, total biomass)
Stem 0.4481 0.94 25.7 2.29 0.0011 0.98 14.7 3.94
R² · Table 5, Largetooth aspen (AdjRSq in the dbh- and height-based set, second block)
Trees measured
100
DBH range
1.5–39.2 cm
Height range
2.3–28.9 m
R²
0.98
Method
Nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression with weight functions; additivity constrained so compartments sum to total
Where
Ontario, Canada (ENFOR archival data, early 1980s)
Last checked
2026-11-03
Calculate
Height from
105
Stem biomass (kg)
49.5
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
182
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
Fitted DBH range0100200300400500510152025303540DBH (cm)Stem biomass (kg)Stem biomass

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%.

InputsExpectedWe getFrom
D = 20, H = 15105105Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form at dbh = 20 cm, H = 15 m

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