Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-31-2014

Abstract

Stand tables list numbers of trees per unit area for each diameter class. A stand table projection model, which projects a stand table through time, requires knowledge of the distribution of tree diameters in each class so that it can predict the movements of trees from one diameter class into another. In this study, we evaluated different statistical distributions for modeling stand table diameter data. The distributions were uniform, truncated and segmented Weibull, and truncated and segmented SB. Results indicated that the truncated Weibull with parameters obtained from the least-squares method was overall the best method. © 2014 Society of American Foresters.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Forest Science

First Page

628

Last Page

635

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