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Dendrometry is the branch offorestry that is concerned with themeasurement of the variousdimensions oftrees, such as theirdiameter, size,shape, age, overallvolume, thickness of thebark, etc., as well as thestatistical properties of tree stands, including measures ofcentral tendency anddispersion of these quantities,wooddensity, or yearly growth, for instance.
The most frequent measurements acquired in the field include
These key measurements are used to infer, throughallometric relations, other tree properties that may be of greater interest but are harder to measure directly, such as the quantity of commercial wood retrievable, or the amount ofcarbon sequestered in the plants.
