Initial Aboveground Biomass - k-NN Estimations

Dominic Cyr
Updated on Jan 31 2018

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This document presents summary statistics of initial tree aboveground biomass as estimated by Beaudoin et al (2014) for several areas where LANDIS-II simulation experiments have been conducted.

The following summary statistics are computed for what are considered 'active' forest pixels in our simulations, i.e. those that are made of at least 50% of productive forest at a 250-m resolution.

The methodology and known biases associated with the following results are described in Beaudoin et al's paper.

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Summary statistics - Total aboveground biomass

##          code                   name LANDIS-II
## 1     Acadian                Acadian available
## 10      ALPAC                  ALPAC available
## 2          AM      Atlantic Maritime available
## 3          BP           Boreal Plain available
## 4         BSE  Eastern Boreal Shield available
## 7      BSEmod      BSE (Boreal only) available
## 5         BSW  Western Boreal Shield available
## 6         LSJ         Lac Saint-Jean available
## 9  NorthShore            North Shore available
## 12  QcCentral         Central Quebec available
## 11       QcNb Quebec - New Brunswick available
## 8      SudStl      Sud Saint-Laurent available

##            SimulationArea meanAGBiomass_TonsPerHa maxAGBiomass_TonsPerHa
## 1                 Acadian                    63.8                  288.8
## 2                   ALPAC                    56.6                  306.7
## 3       Atlantic Maritime                    70.1                  284.0
## 4            Boreal Plain                    61.2                  256.2
## 5   Eastern Boreal Shield                    68.0                  276.2
## 6   Western Boreal Shield                    77.4                  264.8
## 7          Lac Saint-Jean                    49.6                  316.3
## 8             North Shore                    59.7                  187.0
## 9          Central Quebec                    52.5                  260.1
## 10 Quebec - New Brunswick                    69.8                  288.8
## 11      Sud Saint-Laurent                    68.3                  277.3
##    quantile0.05 quantile0.25 quantile0.5 quantile0.75 quantile0.95
## 1          20.5         44.0        62.8         82.3        109.6
## 2          12.5         29.6        50.4         80.0        117.4
## 3          26.6         48.7        67.8         90.6        118.2
## 4           7.9         36.1        59.2         85.2        117.5
## 5          11.6         49.1        70.1         88.3        118.1
## 6          31.2         59.1        78.9         96.3        119.2
## 7           6.3         26.6        52.9         70.9         87.7
## 8          10.3         43.2        65.2         79.8         91.9
## 9          11.1         35.1        53.1         70.1         91.4
## 10         23.5         49.5        70.3         88.3        117.5
## 11         24.4         49.5        68.0         85.5        114.7

Summary statistics - Individual species

Individual species' initial biomass can be found in the following '.csv' tables and maps:

1. Acadian (Display / Download / Map)
2. ALPAC (Display / Download / Map)
3. Atlantic Maritime (Display / Download / Map)
4. Boreal Plain (Display / Download / Map)
5. Eastern Boreal Shield (Display / Download / Map)
6. Western Boreal Shield (Display / Download / Map)
7. Lac Saint-Jean (Display / Download / Map)
8. North Shore (Display / Download / Map)
9. Central Quebec (Display / Download / Map)
10. Quebec - New Brunswick (Display / Download / Map)
11. Sud Saint-Laurent (Display / Download / Map)