Site Index Curves

Shortleaf Pine - Ouachita Mountains of West-Central Arkansas and Southeastern Oklahoma


Shortleaf pine (Graney and Burkhart 1973)
Ouachita Mountains of west-central Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma
216 plots having 2 dominant and codominant trees on each plot
Stem analysis, nonlinear regression, polymorphic
Convert d.b.h, age to total age by adding years according to site
index (BH = 0.0):

SI 30-55 56-75 76+
Years 6 5 4