Developing additive systems of biomass equations for nine hardwood species in Northeast China

作者：Dong Lihu; Zhang Lianjun; Li Fengri^*

来源：Trees - Structure and Function, 2015, 29(4): 1149-1163.

DOI：10.1007/s00468-015-1196-1

• Secondary forests
• Biomass allocations
• Model error structure
• Additive biomass equations
• Anti-logarithmic transformation

We developed two additive systems of biomass equations based on diameter and tree height for nine hardwood species by SUR, and used a likelihood analysis to evaluate the model error structures.
In this study, a total of 472 trees were harvested and measured for stem, root, branch, and foliage biomass from nine hardwood species in Northeast China. Two additive systems of biomass equations were developed, one based on tree diameter (D) only and one based on both tree diameter (D) and height (H). For each system, three constraints were set up to account for the cross-equation error correlations between four tree component biomass, two sub-total biomass, and total biomass. The model coefficients were simultaneously estimated using seemly unrelated regression (SUR). Likelihood analysis was used to verify the error structures of power functions in order to determine if logarithmic transformation should be applied on both sides of biomass equations. Jackknifing model residuals were used to validate the prediction performance of biomass equations. The results indicated that (1) stem biomass accounted for the largest proportion (62 %) of the total tree biomass; (2) the two additive systems of biomass equations obtained good model fitting and prediction, of which the model R (a) (2) was > 0.89, and the mean absolute percent bias (MAB %) was < 35 %; (3) the system of biomass equations based on both D and H significantly improved model fitting and performance, especially for total, aboveground, and stem biomass; and (4) the anti-log correction was not necessary in this study. The established additive systems of biomass equations can provide reliable and accurate estimation for individual tree biomass of the nine hardwood species in Chinese National Forest Inventory.

• 出版日期2015-8
• 单位东北林业大学