%0 Journal Article %T Curvas de altura-diametro de ac¨¢cia negra (Acacia Mearnsii de Wild) %A Finger %A C¨¦sar Augusto Guimar£¿es %A Spathelf %A Peter %A Schneider %A Paulo Renato %A Coelho %A L¨ªsias %J Ci¨ºncia Rural %D 2000 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Maria %R 10.1590/S0103-84782000000300002 %X in the present study the height-diameter relationship of acacia mearnsii was analyzed for three different regions of rio grande do sul, brazil, using reforestations with age of eight, nine and ten years, planted with a spacing of 3 x 1.33m. among the regression models applied was selected prodan£¿s model with a determination coefficient (r2) of 0.98 and a mean standard error (sxy%) of less than 9%. analisis of covariance was applied to test parallelism of height-diameter curves of the different stands in the respective regions. the height-diameter relationships showed equal inclination for the different stands of every region which allowed the use of a unique curve to re-estimate the coefficient of intercept for each new observational plot in the respective region. %K height-diameter relationship %K acacia mearnsii. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-84782000000300002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en