Bayesian inference of biomass growth characteristics for sugi (C. japonica) and hinoki (C. obtusa) forests in self-thinned and managed stands

Forest Ecosystems

Table 3 Prior distributions for parameters of self-thinned model (Eqs. 4, 6, 10, 11, 12)

Model parameters	Law	Law parameter 1	Law parameter 2
\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}Y_{max_{th_{m}}}\)	LogUniform	5	5000
α	LogUniform	0.8	2
n_Y	LogUniform	0.001	8
β_Y	LogUniform	0.2	6
σ_Y	InvGamma	3	0.05
N₀	LogUniform	2000	20000
ω_N	LogUniform	0.001	0.5
δ_N	LogUniform	0.001	0.5
γ_N	LogUniform	0.01	0.3
σ_N	InvGamma	3	0.05
a_B	LogUniform	0.5	1
b_B	LogUniform	0.1	2
σ_B	InvGamma	3	0.05
a_L	LogUniform	0.01	3
b_L	LogUniform	0.5	3
\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}W_{L_{{max}}}\)	LogUniform	10	30
σ_WL	InvGamma	3	0.05