Understanding wood formation: Gains to commercial forestry through tree-ring research

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 37-51

  Downes, Geoffrey M ^a   Wimmer, Rupert ^b   Evans, Robert ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cambium; Dendrometers; Process modelling; Silviscan; Stem growth; Tree rings; Wood formation; Wood properties

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 2342535269     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1125-7865-00006     Document Type: Article

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