Characterization of moisture content and specific gravity of branchwood and stemwood of Aningeria robusta and Terminalia ivorensis

Holz als Roh - und Werkstoff

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-158

  Okai, Reynolds ^a   Frimpong Mensah, K ^b   Yeboah, D ^b  

^a FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HARVESTING; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

ANINGERIA ROBUSTA; BRANCHWOOD; CROWNWOOD; NATURAL FOREST; STEMWOOD; TOTAL TREE VOLUME;

TIMBER;

ANINGERIA; DENSITY; GHANA; HARVESTING; HEART WOOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; SAP WOOD; TERMINALIA IVORENSIS;

EID: 0037677812     PISSN: 00183768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00107-002-0360-7     Document Type: Article

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