Effect of thinning on relationships between three measures of wood stiffness in Pinus radiata: Standing trees vs. logs vs. short clear specimens

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2870-2879

  Raymond, Carolyn A ^a,b   Joe, Bill ^a   Anderson, Dean W ^a   Watt, Duncan J ^a  

^a State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; STIFFNESS;

DYNAMIC MODULUS OF ELASTICITIES; LINEAR DECREASES; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; PINUS RADIATA; QUALITY TRAITS; RADIATA PINES; STANDING TREES; TREES GROWING; WOOD STIFFNESSES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONIFEROUS TREE; ELASTIC MODULUS; STIFFNESS; THINNING; WOOD QUALITY;

ELASTICITY; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PINUS RADIATA; STIFFNESS; THINNING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 55549133281     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-124     Document Type: Article

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