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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (12): 60-66.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20201207

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Study on Additive Equation Systems of Stem Taper and Bark Thickness of Dahurian Larch

Yanli Xu1,2,Pei He1,Shidong Xin1,Lichun Jiang1,*   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management of Ministry of Education School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University Harbin 150040
    2. College of Mining Engineering, Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology Harbin 150022
  • Received:2018-08-07 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-01-22
  • Contact: Lichun Jiang

Abstract:

Objective: The paper focused on studying and developing the additive model systems of stem taper and bark thickness of dahurian larch(Larix gmelinii), which was expected to provide the bases for consistent estimation of the stem and bark volume of dahurian larch. Method: The equations of diameter outside bark (DOB), diameter inside bark (DIB) and bark thickness (BT) of dahurian larch were developed based on Kozak (2004) model and multiple regression technique, and they were compared with former models of taper and bark thickness. In addition, the five methods and the developed individual models were combined to construct the optimal additive taper and bark thickness model systems, respectively. Five methods included the single model estimation, total amount control and two of its logistic transformation, and total decomposition methods. All additive model systems were fitted by the PROC MODEL of SAS packages with the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) method. Four indexes of Akaike information criterion(AIC), Bayesian information criterion(BIC), root mean square error(RMSE) and adjusted coefficient of determination(Ra2) were used to evaluate different additivity methods. Mean error (ME), mean absolute error (MAE), total relative error (TRE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) were employed to evaluate the prediction precision of different model systems. Result: 1) The developed single models Kozak (2004) of DOB, DIB and BT were better than the other selected taper and bark thickness models, and the condition number (CN) values were all less than 30. It was generally believed that if the CN value is less than 30, there is no multicollinearity existed in the models, so they were used to establish the optimal system. 2) The fitting results of the five additive models showed that in general, four indexes of the total amount control performed better than the rest, and the results of validation were in accordance with the fitting results. Conclusion: The fitting and validation results, and the residual graphics of additive equation systems of DOB, DIB and BT with the total amount control showed consistent performances, therefore, the total amount control was selected as consistent prediction model system of stem and bark volume of dahurian larch in Daxing'anling.

Key words: additive equation systems, taper equations, bark thickness, dahurian larch

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