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Table 3 Breast-height (1.4 m) outerwood basic density (BHBD) for commercial species averaged across all New Zealand studies in Scion’s wood density database

From: Plantation species-specific adjustment functions for the Forest Carbon Predictor in New Zealand

      

Age regression

Species

Mean BHBD

No. of regions

No. of studies

Total no. trees

Region p value

Intercept

Slope

p value

Acacia dealbata

406

3

8

62

0.0189

385

4.7

0.2153

Cupressus lusitanica

361

9

24

283

0.0261

339

1.3

0.0225

Eucalyptus botryoides

512

3

8

51

0.5848

425

5

0.0017

Eucalyptus fastigata

450

2

6

22

0.5433

389

2.4

0.0003

Eucalyptus nitens

437

4

15

117

0.0414

400

4.7

< .0001

Eucalyptus regnans

406

6

28

159

0.0643

380

1.7

< .0001

Eucalyptus saligna

509

5

16

97

0.0552

446

3

0.0002

  1. Statistically significant p values (p ≤ 0.05) for region and stand age are shown in italics