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Table 4. Allometric regression equations for biomass in the karst area, southwestern China.
| Species | Life form | Number of samples | Allometric regression equations | |||
| Foliage | R 2 | Wood | R 2 | |||
| Platycarya longipes | Deciduous tree | 10 | WL = 1.0488(DBH 2·H)0.7016 | 0.985 | WW = 1.3941(DBH 2·H)0.9162 | 0.989 |
| Quercus aliena | Deciduous tree | 8 | WL = 0.6885(DBH 2·H)0.6577 | 0.98 | WW = 0.691(DBH 2·H)0.9587 | 0.997 |
| Itea yunnanensis | Evergreen tree | 7 | WL = 0.0311(DBH 2·H) | 0.948 | WW = 1.0465(DBH 2·H)0.9297 | 0.995 |
| Machilus cavaleriei | Evergreen tree | 11 | WL = 0.0432(DBH 2·H) | 0.982 | WW = 0.5097(DBH 2·H) | 0.998 |
| Lithocarpus confinis | Evergreen tree | 10 | WL = 0.1512(DBH 2·H)1.0448 | 0.973 | WW = 0.6007(DBH 2·H)0.9643 | 0.985 |
| Carpinus pubescens | Deciduous tree | 10 | WL = 0.3644(DBH 2·H)0.7443 | 0.971 | WW = 0.8076(DBH 2·H)0.9378 | 0.998 |
| Kalopanax septemlobus | Deciduous tree | 10 | WL = 1.8976(DBH 2·H)0.5042 | 0.986 | WW = 1.0657(DBH 2·H)0.8852 | 0.998 |
| Viburnum foetidum var. ceanothoides | Deciduous shrub | 9 | WL = 0.5132(BD 2·H)0.7189 | 0.945 | WW = 0.2316(BD 2·H) | 0.987 |
| Pyracantha fortuneana | Evergreen shrub | 9 | WL = 0.6246(BD 2·H)0.8138 | 0.724 | WW = 0.1884(BD 2·H)1.1503 | 0.845 |
| Zanthoxylum armatum | Deciduous shrub | 9 | WL = 0.0884(BD 2·H) | 0.832 | WW = 0.2823(BD 2·H) | 0.937 |
| Myrsine africana | Deciduous shrub | 8 | WL = 0.3221(BD 2·H)0.9371 | 0.858 | WW = 0.5194(BD 2·H) | 0.963 |
| Rosa cymosa | Deciduous shrub | 9 | WL = 0.3264(BD 2·H) | 0.877 | WW = 0.7212(BD 2·H) | 0.973 |
| Stachyurus obovatus | Evergreen shrub | 10 | WL = 0.0167(BD 2·H)1.3728 | 0.914 | WW = 0.5015(BD 2·H) | 0.963 |
| Lindera communis | Evergreen shrub | 8 | WL = 1.399(BD 2·H)0.6587 | 0.951 | WW = 1.0101(BD 2·H)0.8344 | 0.935 |
| Rhamnus heterophylla | Deciduous shrub | 8 | WL = 0.0726(BD 2·H) | 0.808 | WW = 0.3584(BD 2·H) | 0.954 |
| Total of trees | Arbor | 66 | WL = 1.2966(DBH 2·H)0.66 | 0.793 | WW = 1.11(DBH 2·H)0.9119 | 0.986 |
| Total of shrubs | Shrub | 70 | WL = 0.4175(BD 2·H)0.8218 | 0.683 | WW = 0.3074(BD 2·H)1.0468 | 0.909 |
WL, WW, DBH, BD, H are biomass of leaf (g), biomass of woody material (g), diameter at breast height (mm), basal diameter (mm) and height (m), respectively.
Reference
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