Comparison of the Growth of Six Eucalyptus Species in Angola : Table 1

Table 1: Stand characteristics of six tropical Eucalyptus species at 43 years in the Tchianga experiment. The last column shows the mean annual mortality rate.


Species	Number of plots						Volume	Mortality rate
Species	Yield¹	Height²	trees/ha	m² ha⁻¹	cm	m	m³ ha⁻¹	% year⁻¹

E. saligna	2	14	652	67.8	44.4	41.3	1427	2.1
E. resinifera	2	2	531	34.2	32.2	39.0	680	2.8
E. camaldulensis	2	2	302	25.8	36.6	38.8	511	3.9
E. macarthurii	1	1	294	25.0	36.8	33.1	423	3.9
E. siderophloia	1	1	833	55.0	34.4	30.6	858	1.5
E. grandis	2	2	476	34.6	35.5	57.1	1006	2.9

: number of trees per hectare; : stand basal area; : basal-area-weighted mean diameter; : basal-area-weighted mean height.
¹Number of plots used in growth and yield analysis.
²Number of plots used for mean height modelling.