Site Index Curves

Shortleaf Pine - North Carolina Piedmont

Shortleaf Pine - North Carolina Piedmont
Total Age (Years)
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Total Height (Feet)
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Shortleaf pine (Schumacher and Coile 1960)
North Carolina Piedmont
74 plots having 8 dominant and codominant trees on each plot
Total height and total age, anamorphic, logarithm equation
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