Morphometricstructure of commercial species in the Guisa Agroforestry Experimental Station (Original)

Abstract

The work was carried out in the forest of the Experimental Agroforestry Station of Guisa to characterize the morphometric structure of the commercial species. A simple sampling was carried out with 20 plots of 500 m2 located in three altitude levels of the forest and the morphometric variables height of insertion of the cup, cup diameter, cup length, cup volume, as well as dasometric variables normal diameter and total height. Commercial species have a good condition of acclimatization to the site where they develop and meet the conditions conducive to produce biomass without inconvenience, since they show glasses of greater length than diameter, which allows it to maintain an optimal cup volume for biomass production, flowering and fruiting. Morphometric indices allow visualizing that commercial species are only vulnerable to high winds and therefore the degree of resilience would be affected by those with high Slenderness Index in the forest