Tree allometry: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Quantitative relations between some key characteristic dimensions of trees}}

{{expert-subject|Forestry|ex2=Ecology|date=March 2008}}

[[File:Profil du tronc.png|thumb|'''Stem profile measurement''' Electronic equipment (as [[:fr:Field-Map|Field-Map]] for example) is used for stem profile measurements and for measurements of profiles/projections of the crown. These key measurements are used for estimation of carbon sequestered in the plants.]]

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In 2013, the [[Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations]] launched [http://www.fao.org/forestry/databases/allometric-equation/en/ GlobAllomeTree], a web-based platform designed to improve global access to tree allometric equations and support forest and climate-change project developers, researchers, scientists and foresters to assess forest volume and biomass, and carbon stocks. Jointly developed by [[FAO]], the French Research Centre [[CIRAD]] and [[Tuscia University]] of Italy, the GlobAllomeTree platform provides a consistent and harmonized database of tree and [[Stand level modelling|stand]] volume and biomass allometric equations; software to compare equations and assess variables of interests, such as volume, biomass and carbon stocks; access to scientific research information on allometric equations; and access to tutorials, manuals and documentation supporting the development and use of tree allometric equations.

In 2012, FAO and CIRAD published a manual for building tree volume and biomass allometric equations for students, technicians or researchers working to assess forest resources such as volume, biomass and carbon stocks for commercial, bioenergy or [[climate change mitigation]] purposes.<ref>[http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3058e/i3058e.pdf Picard N., Saint-André L., Henry M. 2012. Manual for building tree volume and biomass allometric equations: from field measurement to prediction. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier]</ref>

==Methodology==