Characterization of juvenile wood to mature wood transition age in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) at different stand densities and sampling heights

Wood Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-138

  Alteyrac, Jérôme ^a   Cloutier, Alain ^a   Zhang, S Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b FORINTEK CANADA CORP   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BLACK SPRUCE; JUVENILE WOOD; RING DENSITY; TRANSITION WOOD;

WOOD;

DENSITOMETRY; PICEA MARIANA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAND DENSITY; WOOD; X RAY ANALYSIS;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 32344447799     PISSN: 00437719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00226-005-0047-4     Document Type: Article

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