Claim · model-written summary
Sway increased root diameter growth near the trunk.
- Taxon
- Pinus radiata D. Don
Pinus radiatat0 - Treatment
- Swaye0
- Outcome
- diameter growth of roots near the trunke0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Sway caused increased diameter growth of roots near the trunk”
t0“Pinus radiata D. Don”
Title
The effect of wind sway on the form and development of Pinus radiata D. Don
MR Jacobs Australian Journal of Botany 1954. doi:10.1071/bt9540035
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Free swaying increased lower trunk diameter growth.
- Observation Sway related diameter growth reached 25 to 30 ft after 10 years.
- Intervention effect Sway effects at 4 ft were greater in heavily thinned than well stocked areas.
- Intervention effect Sway increased eccentric trunk development along prevailing winds.
- Intervention effect Stayed and free swaying trees had little difference in height growth.
- Intervention effect Staying changed height to diameter relationships.
- Intervention effect Trees prevented from swaying were unstable after two years.
- Observation When upper parts could sway, stayed trees used locality factors well for eight years.
- Intervention effect Full length restraint progressively suppressed diameter and volume increment over 15 years.