Authors
Martin JP Sullivan, Simon L Lewis, Wannes Hubau, Lan Qie, Timothy R Baker, Lindsay F Banin, Jerôme Chave, Aida Cuni‐Sanchez, Ted R Feldpausch, Gabriela Lopez‐Gonzalez, Eric Arets, Peter Ashton, Jean‐François Bastin, Nicholas J Berry, Jan Bogaert, Rene Boot, Francis Q Brearley, Roel Brienen, David FRP Burslem, Charles De Cannière, Markéta Chudomelová, Martin Dančák, Corneille Ewango, Radim Hédl, Jon Lloyd, Jean‐Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Beatriz S Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Faizah Metali, Sam Moore, Laszlo Nagy, Percy Nuñez Vargas, Colin A Pendry, Hirma Ramírez‐Angulo, Jan Reitsma, Ervan Rutishauser, Kamariah Abu Salim, Bonaventure Sonké, Rahayu S Sukri, Terry Sunderland, Martin Svátek, Peter M Umunay, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Ronald RE Vernimmen, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Jason Vleminckx, Vincent Vos, Oliver L Phillips
Publication date
2018/5
Journal
Methods in ecology and evolution
Volume
9
Issue
5
Pages
1179-1189
Description
- Quantifying the relationship between tree diameter and height is a key component of efforts to estimate biomass and carbon stocks in tropical forests. Although substantial site‐to‐site variation in height–diameter allometries has been documented, the time consuming nature of measuring all tree heights in an inventory plot means that most studies do not include height, or else use generic pan‐tropical or regional allometric equations to estimate height.
- Using a pan‐tropical dataset of 73 plots where at least 150 trees had in‐field ground‐based height measurements, we examined how the number of trees sampled affects the performance of locally derived height–diameter allometries, and evaluated the performance of different methods for sampling trees for height measurement.
- Using cross‐validation, we found that allometries constructed with just 20 locally measured values could often predict tree height with …
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