Tree Allometrics

Acer rubrum / Foliage biomass

Canadian national equation, red maple, dbh only (foliage; Table 3)

Foliage biomassAcer rubrum · SapindaceaeCanadaRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Eq. 2)

y foliage = β foliage1D βfoliage2 + efoliage

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

Foliage biomass = 0.0515 * D^1.5198
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm

Foliage is leaves and twigs. 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
bfoliage1 0.0515
Equation · Table 3, Red maple
bfoliage2 1.5198
Equation · Table 3, Red maple
Red maple 177 19.9±0.8 15.7±0.4 238.6±21.7
Trees measured · Table 2 (No. of trees)
(2.4;56.0) (3.8;25.4) (1.1;1875.9)
Smallest DBH · Table 2, Red maple (ranges of dbh, height, total biomass)
Foliage 0.0263 0.73 2.6 1.75 0.0263 0.73 2.6 1.75
R² · Table 5, Red maple (AdjRSq in the dbh-based set, first block)
Trees measured
177
DBH range
2.4–56 cm
R²
0.73
Method
Nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression with weight functions; additivity constrained so compartments sum to total
Where
Canada: Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec (ENFOR archival data, early 1980s)
Last checked
2026-11-03
Calculate
4.89
Foliage biomass (kg)
2.3
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
8.42
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
Fitted DBH range0246810121416510152025303540DBH (cm)Foliage biomass (kg)Foliage 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 = 204.894.89Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form at dbh = 20 cm

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