Vegetation Data, Direct Measure of Stems, Standing Above Ground Biomass, South East Queensland Peri-Urban SuperSite, Karawatha, Core 1 ha, 2015

Brief description

All standing vegetation with a diameter at breast height ≥10 cm was identified and measured for height, DBH, health and growth status, individually tagged and located within the 1 hectare core plot at the Karawatha Forest node of the South-East Queensland Peri-Urban Supersite (-27.63°, 153.08°). Survey work was undertaken from early February until mid May, 2015. The allometric equation, e was used to estimate biomass (Willliams et al. 2005*) of each tree. This was then corrected for dead trees. That is, trees with S1 growth stage were assigned 90% of the estimated biomass and trees with a S2 or S3 growth stage were assigned 55% of the estimated biomass. *Williams, R.J., Zerihun, A., Montagu, K.D., Hoffman, M., Hutley, L.B. and Chen, X. (2005). Allometry for estimating aboveground tree biomass in tropical and subtropical eucalypt woodlands: towards general predictive equations. Australian Journal of Botany v53, pp. 607-719.