Local height-diameter models for Pinus montezumae Lamb. and Pinus teocote Schiede ex Schltdl. in Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29298/rmcf.v10i51.407Keywords:
Central Mexico, forest management, growth models, pines, non-linear regression, allometric relationsAbstract
Field measurement of total height of standing trees imposes practical difficulties that increases time and costs of forest inventories. Moreover, height measurement is prone to mistakes especially in forests with dense understories. Allometric equations are a suitable option to estimate efficiently total height as a function of tree diameter. The aim of this study was to analyze allometric models to fit the total height-normal diameter relation for Pinus montezumae and P. teocote trees in the forest region of Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala. Database consisted of 583 pairs of total height-normal diameter measurements for P. montezumae and 486 pairs for P. teocote covering a wide range of diameter classes. We evaluated 14 nonlinear and one linear models with regression analysis using the MODEL and REG procedures of SAS® respectively. Goodness of fit was assessed with R2adj, bias, root mean squared error, sum square error, mean square error, and Akaike’s information criterion. The best model for P. montezumae was Yang’s model (M2) with an R2adj=0.91, whereas the quadratic model (M10) was the best for P. teocote with an R2adj=0.87. Such models described with precision the relationship between height and diameter these tree species in the western region of the state of Tlaxcala.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The authors who publish in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales accept the following conditions:
In accordance with copyright laws, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales recognizes and respects the authors’ moral right and ownership of property rights which will be transferred to the journal for dissemination in open access.
All the texts published by Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales –with no exception– are distributed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows third parties to use the publication as long as the work’s authorship and its first publication in this journal are mentioned
The author(s) can enter into independent and additional contractual agreements for the nonexclusive distribution of the version of the article published in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales (for example, include it into an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as it is clearly and explicitly indicated that the work was published for the first time in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Forestales.
For all the above, the authors shall send the form of Letter-transfer of Property Rights for the first publication duly filled in and signed by the author(s). This form must be sent as a PDF file to: ciencia.forestal2@inifap.gob.mx
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license.