Comparison of tree species composition of traditional farmhouse structural timbers and of surrounding forests in central Japanese snowbelt

Nihon Ringakkai Shi/Journal of the Japanese Forestry Society

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-144

  Ida, Hideyuki ^a   Shoji, Takahiro ^a   Goto, Aya ^a,b   Ikeda, Chika ^a   Tsuchimoto, Toshikazu ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Asama International Outdoors and Nature School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beech; Building timber; Rural forest; Stand structure; Traditional farmhouse

Indexed keywords

FARM BUILDINGS; HOUSES; TIMBER;

BEECH; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; FOREST STAND STRUCTURE; LOADBEARING STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STAND STRUCTURES; TRADITIONAL FARMHOUSE; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

FORESTRY;

CEDAR; FAGUS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HOUSES; QUERCUS; ZELKOVA;

EID: 77955624085     PISSN: 0021485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4005/jjfs.92.139     Document Type: Article

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