Modeling corewood-outerwood transition in loblolly pine using wood specific gravity

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 999-1011

  Mora, Christian R ^a,d   Allen, H Lee ^a   Daniels, Richard F ^b   Clark, Alexander ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d Bioforest SA Chile   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITOMETERS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); WOOD;

COREWOOD-OUTERWOOD TRANSITION; SERIAL-CORRELATION STRUCTURE; SILVICULTURAL EFFECTS; WOOD SPECIFIC GRAVITY;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; GROWTH MODELING; PROVENANCE TRIAL; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE;

DENSITOMETERS; FORESTRY; WOOD;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 34948833559     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-250     Document Type: Article

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