Year: 1992
Type: report
Abstract: Wood density information for a large number of tropical tree species is presented in units of ovendry weight in grams per cubic centimeter of green volume.The data base includes 1,280 entries from tropical America (40 percent), tropical Asia (36 percent), and tropical Africa (24 percent).The most frequent wood densities were 0.5 to 0.8 g/cm3.In all three tropical continents, the most frequent class was the 0.5 to 0.6 g/cm3.These data are useful for a wide variety of practical and scientific applications, including the estimation of forest stand biomass from wood volume data.
DOI: 10.2737/so-gtr-088
Authors: Gisel Reyes, Sandra Brown, Jonathan Chapman, Ariel E. Lugo
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Award: G4792323
OpenAlex ID: W4241905346