Prediction of Biomass in Dry Tropical Forests: An Approach on the Importance of Total Height in the Development of Local and Pan-tropical Models
| Autor: | Robson Borges de Lima, Francisco Tarcísio Alves Junior, José Antônio Aleixo da Silva, Rinaldo Luiz Caraciolo Ferreira, Anderson Francisco da Silva, Mayara Maria de Lima Pessoa, Cinthia Pereira de Oliveira, Josias Divino Silva de Lucena, Nattan Adler Tavares dos Santos, Emanuel Araújo Silva, Cybelle Laís Souto-Maior Sales de Melo, Iran Jorge Corrêa Lopes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Biomass (ecology)
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Sustainable Forestry. 41:983-998 |
| ISSN: | 1540-756X 1054-9811 |
| Popis: | Dry tropical forests in arid lands cover large areas in Brazil, but few studies report the total biomass stock showing the importance of height measurements, in addition to applying and comparing local and pan-tropical models. Here, we use a biomass data set of 500 trees and shrubs, covering 15 species harvested in a management plan in the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil. We seek to develop local models and compare them with the equations traditionally applied to dry forests – showing the importance of tree height measurements. Due to the non-linear relationships with the independent variables of the tree, we used a nonlinear least squares modeling technique when adjusting models, we adopted the cross-validation procedure. In summary, our above-ground biomass data set is best represented by the Schumacher-Hall equation: exp [3.5336 + 1.9126 × log (D) + 1.2438 × log (Ht)], which shows that height measurements are essential to estimate accurately biomass. The biggest prediction errors observed when testing pan-tropical models in our data demonstrated the importance of developing new local models and indicated that careful considerations should be made if generic “pan-tropical” models without height measurements are planned for application in dry forests in Brazil. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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