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Diameter growth of Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees.

Description

von Guttenberg (1915) diameter growth data of Norway spruce trees in the Alps. The data contain measurements of 107 average-size trees from seven locations that encompassed five different sites from healthy, fully stocked stands growing in the Alps. These data are more fully documented in Zeide (1993).

Usage

data(diamgr)

Format

The data frame contains the following columns:

site

site

location

location

tree

Tree number

age

Total age, in yrs.

htot

Total height, in m.

dbh

Diameter at breast height, in cm.

volume

Total volume, in m^{3}.

bha

Breast-height age, in yrs.

tree.id

Tree code, merging site, location and tree number.

Source

Data were provided by Prof. Andrew Robinson, for his Statistical lectures at the University of Idaho (USA), meanwhile Dr Christian Salas-Eljatib was a student there.

References

- von Guttenberg, A. R., 1915. Growth and yield of spruce in Hochgebirge. Franz Deuticke, Vienna (in German). - Zeide, B., 1993. Analysis of growth equations. Forest Science 39 (3), 549-616. doi:10.1093/forestscience/39.3.594

Examples

data(diamgr)    
head(diamgr)
library(lattice)
xyplot(dbh ~ age | tree.id, type="b", data=diamgr) 

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