Tree Allometrics

Pinus sylvestris / Foliage biomass

Mongolian pine plantation foliage biomass from D, Mu Us (Table 3)

Foliage biomassPinus sylvestris var. mongolica · PinaceaeChinaplantationRead from the original paper
Photo of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica
© Douglas Goldman · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
Equation

As printed (Table 3, Foliage row)

Foliage Wfo = 0.094D1.898

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

Foliage biomass = 0.094 * D^1.898
D
Diameter at breast height (1.3 m), cm

Additive system fitted by WNSUR (Table 3). 131 trees (116 felled, 15 climbed standing trees); n and ranges from Table 1 and Section 2.2. Biomass of stump not included. Exponents are printed flattened in the HTML text (D followed by its exponent); read as D^exponent and consistent with Table 2. No R2 recorded (the paper gives adjusted R2 only).

Source
A total of 131 trees were measured
Trees measured · Abstract
Trees measured
131
DBH range
2.4–44.2 cm
Height range
1.9–15.25 m
Method
weighted nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression (WNSUR), additive system
Where
Mu Us Sandy Land, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Last checked
2026-11-02
Calculate
4.87
Foliage biomass (kg)
2.29
Carbon (kg), ×0.47
8.39
CO₂e (kg), ×44/12
Fitted DBH range020406080100120510152025303540DBH (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 = 8, H = 54.874.87Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form (coefficients as printed)
D = 20, H = 927.727.7Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form (coefficients as printed)
D = 35, H = 1380.180.1Computed from the printed form
computed from the published form (coefficients as printed)

Report a problem with this equation · JSON

Related

Compare these curves