Claim · model-written summary
Moisture content correlated positively with shrinkage.
- Taxon
- Hyphaene compressa
Hyphaene compressat0 - Outcome
- shrinkage propertiese0
- Direction
- positivee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“positive relationships between MC and shrinkage properties”
t0“Hyphaene compressa”
Title
Sami D. Madundo International Wood Products Journal 2025. doi:10.1177/20426445251342681
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Moisture content increased from the main stem to the second branch.
- Observation Basic density decreased toward the second branch.
- Observation Longitudinal shrinkage was lowest at the first branching level.
- Observation Radial shrinkage increased outward to the second branch.
- Observation Tangential shrinkage increased outward to the second branch.
- Observation Volumetric shrinkage increased outward to the second branch.
- Association Basic density correlated negatively with shrinkage.
- Method / resource Clustering distinguished two wood property groups.
- Recommendation Within-tree property patterns should inform processing and utilisation.