Growth and basic wood properties of black spruce along an alti-latitudinal gradient in Quebec, Canada

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 77-87

  Rossi, Sergio ^a   Cairo, Ernesto ^a   Krause, Cornelia ^a   Deslauriers, Annie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Cambial age; Fibre length; Modulus of elasticity; Modulus of rupture; Wood density

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LATITUDE; TREE; WOOD;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84919948791     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-014-0399-8     Document Type: Article

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