Wood specific gravity variations and biomass of central African tree species: The simple choice of the outer wood

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Bastin, Jean François ^a,b,c   Fayolle, Adeline ^b   Tarelkin, Yegor ^a   Van Den Bulcke, Jan ^d   De Haulleville, Thales ^b,e   Mortier, Frederic ^f   Beeckman, Hans ^e   Van Acker, Joris ^d   Serckx, Adeline ^b,c,g   Bogaert, Jan ^b   De Cannière, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c DR Congo   (Congo)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^f CIRAD   (France)

^g ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARK; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ERROR; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MODEL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REGENERATION; RELATIVE DENSITY; SHADE; SPECIES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; CENTRAL AFRICA; TREE; WOOD;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; BIOMASS; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84953222382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142146     Document Type: Article

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