On the use of data mining for estimating carbon storage in the trees

Carbon Balance and Management

Greyce Charllyne Benedet Maas²  Aurélio Lourenço Rodrigues²  Ana Paula Dalla Corte¹  Jaime Wojciechowski³  Carlos Roberto Sanquetta¹ 

[1] Department of Forest Science, Federal University of Paraná, Rua Simão Brante, 103, sob. 5, Uberaba, Curitiba, Paraná, 81.570-340, Brazil;Graduate Programme in Forestry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil;Sector of Professional and Technological Education, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

关键词: Root-to-shoot ratio;    Regression equations;    Euclidean distance;    Biomass expansion factor;    Biomass;   

Others  :  790856
DOI  :  10.1186/1750-0680-8-6

 received in 2013-02-15, accepted in 2013-06-01,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Forests contribute to climate change mitigation by storing carbon in tree biomass. The amount of carbon stored in this carbon pool is estimated by using either allometric equations or biomass expansion factors. Both of the methods provide estimate of the carbon stock based on the biometric parameters of a model tree. This study calls attention to the potential advantages of the data mining technique known as instance-based classification, which is not used currently for this purpose. The analysis of the data on the carbon storage in 30 trees of Brazilian pine (Araucaria angustifolia) shows that the instance-based classification provides as relevant estimates as the conventional methods do. The coefficient of correlation between the estimated and measured values of carbon storage in tree biomass does not vary significantly with the choice of the method. The use of some other measures of method performance leads to the same result. In contrast to the convention methods the instance-based classification does not presume any specific form of the function relating carbon storage to the biometric parameters of the tree. Since the best form of such function is difficult to find, the instance-based classification could outperform the conventional methods in some cases, or simply get rid of the questions about the choice of the allometric equations.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Sanquetta et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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