Technical Note: Why Quadratic Mean Diameter?

By R. Curtis, D. Marshall. 2000

163 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/337428739efed760f1a1c3293865bfe91ff81981

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. M. Z. Peery
2. Ralph J. Gutierrez
3. J. Keane
4. Gavin M. Jones

Citations in the corpus

• Declining old‐forest species as a legacy of large trees lost (2018, background): “Quadratic mean diameter (QMD) is a commonly used metric in forestry that more strongly reflects the influence of large trees on stand tree size classifications than arithmetic mean (Curtis & Marshall, 2000).”
• A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary line (2005, unknown): “…is a direct measurement of average tree size in forest inventory, (2) there is an exact relationship between D, N, and stand total basal area, and (3) we avoid introducing biases into the analysis caused by computing tree volume from a specific volume equation or table (Curtis and Marshall 2000).”