The periodic motion of lodgepole pine trees as affected by collisions with neighbors

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 475-482

  Rudnicki, Mark ^a   Meyer, Thomas H ^a   Lieffers, Victor J ^b   Silins, Uldis ^b   Webb, Vincent A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crown collisions; Mechanobiology; Spectral analysis; Sway damping; Sway frequency

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RIVERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH; WIND POWER;

ALBERTA , CANADA; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; HIGH WINDS; LATIFOLIA; MEAN WINDS; PERIODIC MOTIONS; PINE TREES; SPECTRAL ANALYSES; SPRINGER (CO); WIND DIRECTION (WD); WIND SPEED (WS);

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 46649086756     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-007-0207-2     Document Type: Article

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