Effects of early re-spacing on the physical and mechanical properties of Sitka spruce structural timber

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1174-1180

  Moore, John ^a   Achim, Alexis ^b   Lyon, Andrew ^a   Mochan, Shaun ^b   Gardiner, Barry ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pre commercial thinning; Sawn timber; Sitka spruce; Wood properties

Indexed keywords

BASIC DENSITY; KNOT SIZE; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY; MODULUS OF RUPTURE; NORTHERN IRELAND; PHYSICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PRE-COMMERCIAL THINNING; RESIDUAL STANDS; SAWN TIMBER; SITKA SPRUCE; STRENGTH CLASS; STRUCTURAL TIMBERS;

CONCRETE BRIDGES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FORESTRY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

TIMBER;

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; THINNING; TIMBER; WOOD QUALITY;

CONCRETE; ELASTICITY; IRELAND; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PICEA SITCHENSIS; THINNING; WOOD PROPERTIES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 68949148785     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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