Tree Allometrics

Plagianthus regius / Total biomass

Plagianthus regius, NZ, whole-plant biomass from RCD (Table 6)

Total biomassPlagianthus regius · MalvaceaeNew ZealandplantationRead from the original paper
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Equation

As printed (Table 6, Total biomass, Plagianthus regius)

y = 711e0.0235x

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

Total biomass = 0.711 * exp(0.235 * DRC)
DRC
Root collar / stem base diameter, cm

Open-spaced juvenile plants (2-year-old containerised plants on-grown for 3 years, sampled up to 5 years). The tables are headed 'at age 5 years' but the appendix figures show points from all harvest years, and the paper gives no n or RCD range for these fits, so none is recorded. x is root collar diameter in mm; biomass in g and height in m (units inferred from Table 2 and Appendix 1 means, which the equations reproduce; the paper does not print units beside the equations). r² for exponential fits is a pseudo r².

Source
0.9
R² · Table 6, Total biomass, Plagianthus regius, r² column
R²
0.9
Method
nonlinear least squares, exponential (y = a e^(bx))
Where
Taruheru River terrace, Gisborne, New Zealand
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
1.14
Total biomass (kg)
0.535
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
1.96
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
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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
DRC = 21.141.14Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form (RCD in mm, mass in g, converted)
DRC = 62.912.91Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form (RCD in mm, mass in g, converted)
DRC = 1524.124.1Computed from the printed form
hand-computed from the published form (RCD in mm, mass in g, converted)

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