Quantification of the potentialities foliage biomass and branches of Pinus cubensis. Sarg. ex Griseb.

Abstract

The study was developed in the patrimony of three Forest Units belonging to the Agroforestal Enterprise Baracoa in the months between January and October 2015, with the objective of quantifying the potentialities of foliage biomass and branches of Pinus cubensis. Sarg. ex Griseb, for the obtaining of the general characterization of the patrimony for units and description of the plantations of the species in study as surface, volume, diameter and half height for rodal. It was revised the "Organization and development project of the forest economy 2008-2017", and by means of the use of the chart of air biomass for the species was quantified the foliage biomass and branches. It was determined that in the three evaluated units an appropriate distribution of number of trees doesn't exist for hectare, and that the Forest Unit “Combate de Sabanilla†presents the biggest potentialities of forest biomass.