Modeling height growth for teak plantations in Colombia using the reducible stochastic differential equation approach  

作　　者：Sergio Orrego Cristian Montes Héctor IRestrepo Bronson PBullock Mauricio Zapata 

机构地区：[1]Departamento de Ciencias Forestales,Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Sede Medellín,Cra 65 No 59A-110,Medellín,Colombia [2]Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources,University of Georgia,Athens,GA 30602,USA

出　　处：《Journal of Forestry Research》2021年第3期1035-1045,共11页林业研究（英文版）

基　　金：The sabbatic and travel expenses of the lead author for the 2019 Southern Mensurationists meeting in Asheville;North Carolina;September 15–17,were funded by the National University of Colombia。

摘　　要：Teak(Tectona grandis L.f.)plantations are increasingly being established in tropical regions to meet a rising demand for its highly valued timber.Teak plantations have been established in the Atlantic Coastal Plain region of Colombia,a region climatically suitable for teak growth by having a monsoon climate with a unimodal precipitation pattern.Tree diameter at breast height(DBH,1.3 m above ground)and mean top height,periodically measured over a 17-year period in 44 permanent sampling plots of size 0.06 and 0.10 ha,were used in this study.A stochastic differential equation(SDE),along with a Bertalanffy–Richards-type height growth model,was used to model and estimate top height growth of teak plantations in Colombia.Environmental noise and height measurement errors were explicitly considered as the main uncertainty sources of mean top height growth.The best model for estimating mean top height,based on statistical performance and biological rationale,had the asymptote defined as a local parameter and the growth rate and shape specified as global parameters.This model outperformed its counterpart that had the growth rate specified as a local parameter and asymptote and shape as global parameters.The selected model also outperformed alternative approaches such as the mixed-effects model,generalized algebraic difference approach,and the dummy variable method.Estimated trajectories for the mean top height of teak in Colombia are biologically sound based on the measured height series and previous studies in Latin America.Results suggest that most of the uncertainty associated with the mean top height growth of teak plantations in Colombia was largely explained by environmental noise.The best estimated model using the SDE approach can be useful for predicting height growth and evaluating site productivity of teak plantations in Colombia and in neighbouring countries with biophysical characteristics similar to those where teak has been planted in Colombia.

关 键 词：Mean top height Stochastic differential equation Forest productivity Timber production Timberland investment 

分 类 号：S758.54[农业科学—森林经理学]