Assessing corewood acoustic velocity and modulus of elasticity with two impact based instruments in 11-year-old trees from a clonal-spacing experiment of Pinus radiata D. Don

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 239, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 217-221

  Lasserre, Jean Pierre ^a   Mason, Euan G ^b   Watt, Michael S ^c  

^a Forestal Mininco Chile   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Ensis   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Corewood; Modulus of elasticity; Pinus radiata

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTIC MODULI; FORESTRY;

ACOUSTIC METHODS; LOG MODULUS OF ELASTICITY; STANDING TREES; TREE DIAMETER;

WOOD;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLONAL ORGANISM; ELASTIC MODULUS; STEM; TREE; WOOD;

CORE WOOD; DENSITY; FORESTRY;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 33846252236     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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