Microstructure alignment of wood density profiles: An approach to equalize radial differences in growth rate

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1267-1274

  Bender, Bela J ^a   Mann, Martin ^a,b   Backofen, Rolf ^a   Spiecker, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alignment; Climate signal; Dendroecology; False rings; Intra annual density fluctuations; Wood density

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PROFILES; CHARACTERISTIC POINT; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CURVE ALIGNMENT; DENDROECOLOGY; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; DENSITY PROFILE; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DOUGLAS FIR; GERMANY; INFLECTION POINTS; MEAN DENSITY; PROGRESSIVE ALIGNMENT; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; RADIAL DIRECTION; REFERENCE POINTS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TREE RINGS; WOOD DENSITY; WOOD FORMATION;

ALIGNMENT; HARDWOODS; MICA;

FORESTRY;

ALIGNMENT; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; MICA; WOOD DENSITY;

ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 84864343350     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0702-y     Document Type: Article

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