2012年9月
Incorporating a periodic function into an equation for estimating herbage mass in Zoysia-dominated pastures from rising plate readings
GRASSLAND SCIENCE
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- 巻
- 58
- 号
- 3
- 開始ページ
- 127
- 終了ページ
- 132
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1744-697X.2012.00253.x
- 出版者・発行元
- WILEY-BLACKWELL
A rising plate meter (RPM), which enables rapid, non-destructive estimation of herbage mass of pastures, is useful in grazing management. Herbage mass is estimated from the RPM readings using a linear regression model, which has the parameters a (constant) and beta (slope). In this study, we analyzed the seasonal changes in the two parameter values for total and green herbage (TH and GH, respectively) masses in Zoysia-dominated pastures, and examined the potential for incorporating a periodic function (PF) of the parameters into the equation for estimating herbage mass. The values of both a and beta showed a weak seasonal periodicity for TH. No periodicity and a clear seasonal periodicity were detected in the a and beta values for GH, respectively. Compared with the linear regression models developed separately for individual dates, the equation incorporating a PF for beta improved the estimation accuracy for the GH mass (from 0.64 to 0.77 as R2), though it did not affect the predictability for the TH mass. Incorporation of a PF into the model relating herbage mass to the RPM reading increases the sample number and broadens the data range by allowing the use of all seasonal data, and produces a single equation useful for estimating herbage mass across seasons.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1111/j.1744-697X.2012.00253.x
- ISSN : 1744-6961
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000308302500002