Differences in growth and wood properties between narrow and normal crowned types of Norway spruce grown at narrow spacing in Southern Finland

Silva Fennica

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-427

  Gerendiain, Ane Zubizarreta ^a   Peltola, Heli ^a   Pulkkinen, Pertti ^b   Ikonen, Veli Pekka ^a   Jaatinen, Raimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diameter; Earlywood; Fibre length; Height; Latewood; Stem volume; Wood density

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; CELL GROWTH; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; FIBERS; HARDWOODS; RAW MATERIALS; TEXTILE FIBERS; WOOD;

(PL) PROPERTIES; CELL-WALL THICKNESS; FIBRE LENGTH; GROWTH AND YIELD; IN TREES; NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEA ABIES [L.] KARST.); NORWAY SPRUCE TREES; PENDULA; PHENOTYPIC CORRELATIONS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATIONS; PICEA ABIES; PULP AND PAPER PRODUCTION; RING WIDTH; SOUTHERN FINLAND; STEM VOLUME; TREE COMPETITION; WOOD DENSITY; WOOD RAW MATERIALS;

FORESTRY;

BREEDING SITE; CONIFEROUS TREE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY; SPACING; WOOD QUALITY;

CELLS; ECOLOGY; FIBERS; FORESTRY; GROWTH; HARDWOODS; RAW MATERIALS; TEXTILE FIBERS; WOOD; WOOD DENSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

PICEA ABIES;

EID: 46249116467     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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