Comparison of the Growth of Six Eucalyptus Species in Angola

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		𝑁	𝐺	𝐷𝑔	𝐻𝑔	Volume	Mortality rate
	Yield^1	Height^2	trees/ha	m^2 ha^−1	cm	m	m^3 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

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