Tree ring wood density of Scots pine and European beech lower in mixed-species stands compared with monocultures

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 400, Issue , 2017, Pages 363-374

  Zeller, L ^a   Ammer, Ch ^b   Annighofer P ^b   Biber, P ^a   Marshall, J ^c   Schutze G ^a   del Rio Gaztelurrutia M ^d,e   Pretzsch, H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomass; High frequency densitometry; Lignostation; Morphological plasticity; Overyielding; Tree ring wood density; Wood quality

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; HARDWOODS; WOOD;

DENSITOMETRY; LIGNOSTATION; OVERYIELDING; WOOD DENSITY; WOOD QUALITIES;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; MIXED FOREST; MONOCULTURE; MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAND DYNAMICS; TREE RING; WOOD; YIELD RESPONSE;

BIOMASS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FORESTRY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; WOOD DENSITY; WOOD PROPERTIES;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

FAGUS SYLVATICA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 85020876476     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.018     Document Type: Article

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