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| 29 Oct 2015
Influence of wood density in tree-ring-based annual productivity assessments and its errors in Norway spruce
National Research and Development Institute for Forestry, National Forest Inventory, Calea Bucovinei 73b, 725100 Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
M. Teodosiu
National Research and Development Institute for Forestry, Calea Bucovinei 73b, 725100 Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
A. V. Kirdyanov
V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Akademgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia
C. Wirth
Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 21-23, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Annual variations in wood density partially compensated ring-width variations in Picea abies. If neglected, annual biomass increment was underestimated by up to 15%. The relative prediction interval of plot-level annual biomass increment ranged from 20 to 40%. The uncertainty related to the allometric models parameters was only about 10%. The errors related to variations in wood density were much larger, the biggest component being the variability between trees.
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