Table 2 Selected previously published model for comparison.

From: Species-specific allometric models for reducing uncertainty in estimating above ground biomass at Moist Evergreen Afromontane Forest of Ethiopia

Reference

Model

Brown36

ABG (kg) = 42.69–12.800*(dbh) + 1.242*(dbh)^2

Chave, et al.34

AGB (kg) = 0.0509*wbd*dbh^2*ht

Chave, et al.33

AGB (kg) = 0.0673*(wbd*dbh^2*ht) ^0.976

Asrat et al.26

AGB = 0.21765 × (dbh)^1.77660 × (ht)^0.33242 × (crw)^0.65575 × (wbd)^1.07739

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