International Journal of Ecology

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 858630, 2 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/858630

Erratum

Erratum to “Development of Allometric Equations for Estimating Above-Ground Liana Biomass in Tropical Primary and Secondary Forests, Malaysia”

Patrick Addo-Fordjour1,2 and Zakaria B. Rahmad¹

¹School of Biological Sciences, University of Science Malaysia, 11800 Pulau Penang, Penang, Malaysia

²Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Received 19 June 2013; Accepted 12 August 2013

Copyright © 2013 Patrick Addo-Fordjour and Zakaria B. Rahmad. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

In Table 4 values of () are modified from to in the 3rd row and from to in the 7th row.

Table 4: Allometric equations of mixed species for estimating liana stem biomass (kg).

#
Equation
(SE)
(SE)
(SE)
(adjusted)
FI

1
Stem biomass =

—
0.989
0.58

2
Stem biomass =

—
0.896
1.70

3
Stem biomass =

0.976
0.84

4
(Stem biomass)0.9 =

—
0.990
0.53

5
Stem biomass =

—
0.861
2.63

6
Log₁₀ (Stem biomass) = ()

—
0.981
0.18

7
Log₁₀ (Stem biomass) = () ()

0.954
0.47

#: equation number; : liana diameter; : liana length.

In Table 5 values of () are modified from to in the 3rd row and from to in the 7th row.

Table 5: Allometric equations of mixed species for estimating total above-ground biomass (kg) of lianas.

#
Equation
(SE)
(SE)
(SE)
(adjusted)
FI

8
Total biomass =

—
0.992
0.58

9
Total biomass =

—
0.900
1.92

10
Total biomass =

0.987
0.89

11
(Total biomass)0.9 =

—
0.993
0.53

12
Total biomass =

—
0.904
2.41

13
Log₁₀ (Total biomass) = ()

—
0.986
0.22

14
Log₁₀ (Total biomass) = () + β()

0.960
0.49

#: equation number; : liana diameter; : liana length.