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Above-ground biomass models for coffee bushes (Coffea arabica L.) in Líbano, Tolima, Colombia

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Biomass models are practical and useful tools to estimate biomass of perennial wood plants in land use systems that mitigate climate changes, such as coffee plantations. In Colombia, biomass models for coffee (Coffea arabica L.) have not been developed. These models have been built through destructive sampling of 40 individuals of Caturra and Castillo cultivars that grow in the most dominant coffee production systems in the municipality of Líbano, Tolima, Colombia: (1) monoculture; (2) agroforestry systems (AFS) with plantain (Musa AAB); (3) AFS with Spanish elm (Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pavon) Oken)); and (4) organic. The bushes were measured (trunk diameter at 15 cm high, D 15, and total height, ht), cut at ground level, and their biomass was estimated gravimetrically by component (trunks, branches, leaves and fruits). Correlation analysis between dependent and independent variables were carried out, and generic models with linear and transformed variables were tested. Biomass models by component, and total, with R2 of 0.62–0.88, including D 15 and ht as an independent variable were found. However, for practical purposes, a total above-ground biomass model was developed exclusively based on D 15 [B = 0.36 − 0.18 * D 15 + 0.08 * D 215 ; R2 = 0.82; where B: total above-ground biomass (kg/plant)]. These models represent practical tools in carbon fixation studies and nutrient cycling.

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Acknowledgements

To all coffee producers that supported this study by allowing the cut of coffee bushes and providing manpower. To Comité de Cafeteros del Tolima (Tolima’s Coffee Committee) for their support in contacting coffee producers. To Comité Central de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Tolima (Universidad del Tolima Central Committee of Research) for supporting the Project “Huella de Carbono en Sistemas de Producción de Café en el Municipio del Líbano, Tolima” (Carbon Footprint in Coffee Production Systems in Libano (Tolima) Municipality, code 80111; and to Diana Skarly Canal for her support in the field and in the laboratory.

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    Hernán J. C. Andrade, Mateo Feria & Wilber Suárez

  2. Facultad de Ingeniería Forestal, Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia

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Andrade, H.J.C., Segura, M.A., Feria, M. et al. Above-ground biomass models for coffee bushes (Coffea arabica L.) in Líbano, Tolima, Colombia. Agroforest Syst 92, 775–784 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-016-0047-4

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