Manuel de construction d' equations allometriques pour l' estimation du volume et la biomasse des arbres de la mesure du terrain a la prediction

This Manual for building tree volume and biomass allometric equations therefore takesthe form of a guide intended for all students, technicians or researchers working to assessforest resources such as volume, biomass and carbon stocks for commercial, bioenergy orclimate change mitigation purposes. The methods described herein apply to most forestsand ecological areas, but special emphasis has been placed on tropical forest that, morethan the others, today require efforts from the international community to measure carbonstocks. The manual includes a red line to guide the reader. This describes concrete casesillustrating the different questions that arise when constructing allometric equations, takingsamples, making field measurements, entering data, graphically exploring the data, fittingmodels and using them for predictions.