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http://dx.doi.org/10.14578/jkfs.2011.100.1.8

Height-DBH Growth Models of Major Tree Species in Chungcheong Province  

Seo, Yeon Ok (Department of Forest Resources, Kongju National University)
Lee, Young Jin (Department of Forest Resources, Kongju National University)
Rho, Dai Kyun (National Forest Resource Inventory Center, National Forest Cooperatives Federation)
Kim, Sung Ho (Division of Forest Resources Information, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Choi, Jung Kee (Division of Forest Management, Kangwon National University)
Lee, Woo Kyun (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.100, no.1, 2011 , pp. 62-69 More about this Journal
Abstract
Six commonly used non-linear growth functions were fitted to individual tree height-dbh data of eight major tree species measured by the $5^{th}$ National Forest Inventory in Chungcheong province. A total of 2,681 trees were collected from permanent sample plots across Chungcheong province. The available data for each species were randomly splitted into two sets: the majority (90%) was used to estimate model parameters and the remaining data (10%) were reserved to validate the models. The performance of the models was compared and evaluated by $R^2$, RMSE, mean difference (MD), absolute mean difference (AMD) and mean difference(MD) for diameter classes. The combined data (100%) were used for final model fitting. The results showed that these six sigmoidal models were able to capture the height-diameter relationships and fit the data equally well, but produced different asymptote estimates. Sigmoidal growth models such as Chapman-Richards, Weibull functions provided the most satisfactory height predictions. The effect of model performance on stem volume estimation was also investigated. Tree volumes of different species were computed by the Forest Resources Evaluation and Prediction Program using observed range of diameter and the predicted tree total height from the six models. For trees with diameter less than 30 cm, the six height-dbh models produced very similar results for all species, while more differentiation among the models was observed for large-sized trees.
Keywords
height; dbh; growth model; national forest inventory;
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