Estimating foliage area of loblolly pine shoots

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-303

  Murthy, Ramesh ^a   Dougherty, Phillip M ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MeadWestvaco   (United States)

Author keywords

CO2; Fascicle distribution; Fascicle length; Flush foliage surface area; Needle radius; Nutrition; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030958675     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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