Site Index Curves

Loblolly Pine - Georgia Piedmont

Loblolly Pine - Georgia Piedmont
Total Age (Years)
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
Total Height (Feet)
0
20
40
60
80
100
Site Index 35
Site Index 40
Site Index 45
Site Index 50
Site Index 55
Site Index 60
Site Index 65
Site Index 70
Site Index 75
Site Index 80
Site Index 85


Loblolly pine plantations (Clutter and Lenhart 1968)
Georgia Piedmont
141 dominant and codominant trees, number of plots not given
Stem analysis, polymorphic, nonlinear regression
Site index is total height at 25 years plantation age
Convert d.b.h, age to plantation age by adding years according to
site index (BH = 0.0):

SI <50 >50
Years 3 2