Northern Research Station

Title: Estimating total forest biomass in New York, 1993

Author: Wharton, Eric; Alerich, Carol; Drake, David A.

Date: 1997

Source: Resour Bull. NE-139. Radnor, PA; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Seivice, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 48 p.

Station ID: RB-NE-139

Description: Presents methods for synthesizing information from existing biomass literature for estimating biomass over extensive forest areas with specific applications to New York. Tables of appropriate regression equations and the tree and shrub species to which these equations can be applied are presented well as biomass estimates at the county, geographic unit, and state level

Keywords: forest inventory, weight estimation, tree biomass forest biomass, shrub biomass, regression equations

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Wharton, Eric; Alerich, Carol; Drake, David A.  1997.  Estimating total forest biomass in New York, 1993.   Resour Bull. NE-139. Radnor, PA; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Seivice, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 48 p..