FBM

quantity: exponential parameter in allometric relation

abbreviation: \kappa
type of quantity: parameter
brief description: exponential parameter in allometric relation which relates the minimum amount of RC fulfilling the functional requirements of the organs represented by GC to GC (right confinement). For the functional types temperate broadleaved forest, coniferous forest, tropical evergreen forest, and grasslands, measurements of woody and/or structural biomass as well as the maximum leaf mass (extrapolated on the total mass of the GC compartment) were used to determine \kappa by least-squares fitting.

characteristics

type: scalar
dimension: 1
unit: -
type of values: numerical metric numerical

range

range of values ecological relevant
range of values used
lower limit: 1.6 upper limit: 1.6

input for the following equations:

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