Claim · model-written summary
Sapwood area correlated strongly with red spruce projected leaf area.
- Taxon
- red spruce
Picea rubense0 - Organ / stage
- foliagee0
- Outcome
- projected leaf areae0
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Verbatim
e0“Sapwood conducting area was found to be highly correlated with foliage biomass and projected leaf area in both balsam fir (Abiesbalsamea (L.) Mill) and red spruce (Picearubens Sarg.).”
Title
Peter J. Marchand Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1984. doi:10.1139/x84-016
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Association Sapwood area correlated strongly with balsam fir foliage mass.
- Method / resource Breast-height sapwood predicted balsam fir foliage mass with R = 0.978.
- Method / resource Breast-height sapwood predicted balsam fir projected leaf area with R = 0.952.
- Method / resource Breast-height sapwood predicted red spruce foliage mass with R = 0.914.
- Method / resource Breast-height sapwood predicted red spruce projected leaf area with R = 0.934.
- Method / resource Regressions improved when sapwood area was measured at the base of the live crown.
- Association The balsam fir sapwood–foliage relationship was similar across three contrasting sites.
- Method / resource Foliage area can be predicted from increment cores with high certainty across stand conditions and tree vigor.