Fresh-stem bending of silver fir and Norway spruce

Tree Physiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-366

  Lundström, Tor ^a,b   Stoffel, Markus ^b   Stöckli, Veronika ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Energy absorption; Experiment; Fresh wood; Model validation; Nonlinear behavior; Picea abies

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BIOMECHANICS; CONIFEROUS TREE; ELASTIC MODULUS; ENERGY; EXPERIMENT; GROWTH; MODEL VALIDATION; STEM; WOOD;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; PICEA ABIES; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 40649112521     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/28.3.355     Document Type: Article

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