Change pattern of heartwood of Larix olgensis plantation.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201807.017

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the data of 1179 discs and whorls of 49 trees from larch (Larix olgensis) plantations located in Mengjiagang forest farm in Heilongjiang Province, China, we analyzed the longitudinal variation pattern of heartwood radius. The results showed that the heartwood radius decreased with the increases of tree height, which was basically the same as the trunk shape. The relationship between the xylem radius (XR), diameter at breast height (DBH) and cambial age (CA) with the heartwood radius was significant. The stepwise regression analysis was used to develop heartwood radius (HR) and heartwood area (HA) models: HR=b₁+b₂XR²+b₃CA+b₄XR, HA=b₁+b₂DBH·XR+b₃CA+b₄DBH·XR². We used the evaluation statistics such as AIC, BIC, Log Likelihood and Likelihood ratio test to compare the heartwood radius and heartwood area models which fitted with the plot effect and tree effect. The heartwood radius and heartwood area models with parameters b₁, b₂, b₃ as mixed effects performed best when the tree effect was considered. The prediction accuracy of the mixed model was better than that of the basic model. In the application, the total heartwood radius and area could be predicted by the mixed model. Beta regression model was used to simulate the heartwood proportion. In this model, all parameters were significant, and the coefficients of determination were relatively high, with a good simulation effect.

Key words: heartwood area, mixed model, Beta regression model, Larix olgensis plantation, heartwood radius

JIA Wei-wei, ZHU Fei-yan, LI Feng-ri. Change pattern of heartwood of Larix olgensis plantation.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, 29(7): 2277-2285.

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