Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1998

Abstract

Three to five dominant trees from each of 445 ten-factor variable radius inventory points were utilized to evaluate the height- diameter relationships of 13 species or genera found on bottomland hardwood sites throughout east Texas. Regression analysis was performed using the linear model such that height = (30 + (31 x (d.b.h.). The species were placed into six groups: (1) pines (Pinus taeda and P. enchinata) ; (2) water oak/willow oak/white oak/swamp chestnut oak (Quercus nigra)/(Q. phe//os)/(Q. alba)/(Q. michauxi1) ; (3) blackgum/laurel oak/overcup oak (Nyssa sylvatica)/(Q. laurifolia)/(Q. lyrata); (4) ash/maple (Fraxinus spp.)/(Acerspp.); (5) hickories (Carya spp.), and (6) elms (Ulmus spp.), or were analyzed as individual species: (7) cherrybark oak (Q. pagoda) and (8) sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) based on similar intercepts and slopes of the regression lines. The coefficients of the model were estimated and residual analysis conducted for each species group.

Comments

Oswald, B.P. G. Holley, L. Dale and G. D. Kronrad. 1998. Initial Investigation of Height-Diameter Relationships of Dominant Trees in the mixed Hardwood Bottomland Forests of East Texas. pp 608-610. Waldrop, Thomas A.; [Editor] 1998. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-20. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 628 p


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