Resource communication. Individual tree growth model for radiata pine plantations in northwestern Spain

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Individual-tree basal area and height increment models were developed with data from 130 permanent plots of Pinus radiata D. Don located in Galicia (northwestern Spain). Mixed-models techniques were used for model fitting. Covariates acting at tree and stand level were included as fixed effects. Estimated values of stand variables obtained from aggregation of individual-tree predictions were used in model evaluation. The developed models accounted for 54% of the variability in basal area increment and 36% of the variability in height increment, with mean errors of 16 cm2 and 0.36 m, respectively. These models, along with an existing individual-tree mortality model, constitute a whole individual-tree growth model that can be used to simulate forest management alternatives, helping in forest managers’ decision making
En este estudio se han desarrollado modelos de incremento en sección normal y altura de árbol individual, utilizando datos de 130 parcelas de Pinus radiata D. Don localizadas en Galicia. La técnica de modelos mixtos se utilizó en el ajuste de los modelos. Se incluyeron covariables que actúan a nivel de árbol y a nivel de rodal como efectos fijos en los modelos. En la evaluación de los modelos se utilizaron estimaciones de variables de rodal obtenidas por agregación de las predicciones de árbol individual. Los modelos desarrollados explicaron el 54% de la variabilidad en el incremento en sección normal y el 36% de la variabilidad en el incremento en altura, con errores medios de 16 cm2 y 0.36 m, respectivamente. Estos modelos, junto al modelo de mortalidad de árbol individual existente, forman un modelo de crecimiento de árbol individual que puede utilizarse para simular alternativas de gestión forestal, ayudando a la toma de decisiones de los gestores forestales

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F. Crecente-Campo et al. Resource communication. Individual tree growth model for radiata pine plantations in northwestern Spain. Forest Systems, 2012, 21(3), 538-542

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The present study was financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science; project No AGL-2004-07976-C02-01

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© INIA, 2012. This work is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) License