The influence of initial stocking on corewood stiffness in a clonal experiment of 11-year-old Pinus radiata D.Don

New Zealand Journal of Forestry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 18-23

  Lasserre, Jean Pierre ^a   Mason, Euan ^a   Watt, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAL EXPERIMENTS; COREWOOD; STOCKINGS; WIND-FLOW;

CORRELATION METHODS; CROPS; HARVESTING; LUMBER; STABILITY; STIFFNESS; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

CORRELATION; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LUMBER; STABILITY; STIFFNESS; WOOD;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 4544258987     PISSN: 11747986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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