Biomass allometric equation and expansion factor for a mountain moist evergreen forest in Mozambique

Table 5 Predictive accuracy of the DBH-based model developed in this study against the models selected from the literature, as compared with observed tDW

Biomass allometric equation	MAE (kg tree⁻¹)	RMPE (%)
This study (model 4)	− 4.2	− 1.1
Brown et al. [22]	− 4.9	− 1.2
Pearson et al. [41]	− 56.2	− 14.1
Guedes et al. [17]	110.2	27.7
Mugasha et al. [37]	64.8	16.3
Chave et al. [42]	54.2	13.6
Masota et al. [43]	105.5	26.5

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