corkoak {datana}R Documentation

Tree-level cork biomass data for Oak trees in Portugal.

Description

Measurements of cork weight in sample trees of Quercus suber (Oak) in Portugal.

Usage

corkoak

Format

tree

A correlative number for each sample tree.

csc

Circumference at 1.3 m outside bark, in cm.

cbc

Circumference at 1.3 m under bark, in cm.

bt

Bark thickness, in cm.

hdeb

Debarking height, in m.

hblc

Height to base of live crown, in m.

nb

number of branches debarked

crown.d

crown diameter, in m.

w

total green weight of the stripped cork, in kg

stratum

Stratum

Source

Data supplied electronically to Prof. Timothy Gregoire (Yale University) by authors accompanied by a note which said "After the article was published we discovered a problem with 2 of the observations so Teresa and I decided it was best just to delete them."

References

- Fonseca TJ, Parresol BR. 2001. A new model for cork weight estimation in northern Portugal with methodology for construction of confidence intervals. Forest Ecology and Management 152(1):131–139.

Examples

data(corkoak)    
head(corkoak) 

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