Quantifying the Influence of Crown Size on Mechanical Wood Properties in White Spruce (Picea Glauca)

Conceptual models of wood formation suggest that trees with large crowns produce low quality wood, but few studies have explicitly examined the relationship between crown size and wood quality. In this study, I examine how crown size influences the strength and stiffness of wood, as measured by Modu...

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Main Author: Kuprevicius, Adam
Other Authors: Caspersen, John
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/29584