Colophospermum mopane / Root biomass
Mopane root biomass from D²H (RM3)
As printed (Table 6, model RM3, p. 10)
In this library's units, ready to compute (kg)
Root biomass = exp(-2.797 + 0.803 * ln(D^2 * H))D- Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm
H- Total tree height, m
Root model with D²H; the D+H model RM2 is left out because its height term is not significantly different from zero (95% CI –0.591 to 1.350). Root biomass (BGB) is stump plus coarse roots from excavation; fine roots under 2 mm were not sampled. n and ranges are not stated separately for the root sample, so they are omitted. No back-transformation correction factor is stated or applied. n = 120 sampled trees (Methods p. 3, Table 3), but Table 5 heads the total-AGB column 'n = 84', so the fitted n may be 84.
doi:10.1038/s41598-025-87297-w · Open access · copy we read
RM3 ... R-square 97.80
- R²
- 0.978
- Method
- MM-estimator robust regression (ln Y = ln a + b ln(D²H))
- Where
- Mabalane (Gaza) and Tambara (Manica) districts, mopane woodland
- Last checked
- 2026-11-01
Shaded: the DBH range the model was fitted on. Other inputs held at the values above.
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 = 20, H = 9 | 43.8 | 43.8 | Computed from the printed form computed from the published form |
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