High-resolution proxies for wood density variations in Terminalia superba

Annals of Botany

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-302

  De Ridder, Maaike ^a,d   Van Den Bulcke, Jan ^a   Vansteenkiste, Dries ^a   Van Loo, Denis ^a,b   Dierick, Manuel ^a,b   Masschaele, Bert ^a   De Witte, Yoni ^a,b   Mannes, David ^c   Lehmann, Eberhard ^c   Beeckman, Hans ^d   Van Hoorebeke, Luc ^a,b   Van Acker, Joris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

drilling resistance; High resolution X ray tomography; neutron imaging; Terminalia superba; wood density

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; TOMOGRAPHY; WOOD; WOOD QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITOMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; TERMINALIA; TREE; WOOD;

BIOMECHANICS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DENSITOMETRY; TERMINALIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREES; WOOD;

TERMINALIA SUPERBA;

EID: 79551551185     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq224     Document Type: Article

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