Modelowanie rozkładów pierśnic młodocianych drzewostanów brzozy brodawkowatej na gruntach porolnych za pomocą dwuparametrowego rozkładu Weibulla

The paper presents the diameter distributions of young silver fir stands (Betula pendula Roth.) growing on former agricultural lands described using the 2−parameter Weibull distribution. Various methods of parameters' estimation were tested: maximum likelihood method, method of moments and percentile approach. It was found, that the diameter distributions in such birch stands can have various shapes and forms – from close to the exponential to almost normal. The shape parameter were not affected by the age of the stand, but the scale parameter was strongly correlated with age. The most efficient methods for the tree diameter distribution modeling using the 2−parameter Weibull distribution are the method of moments and the maximum likelihood method. However, the obtained results does not exclude the percentile method, which is relatively simple and can be further modified for obtaining better results.