Claim · model-written summary
In the upper crown, one-year foliage increased acropetally from 52 to 75%.
- Taxon
- radiata pinet0
- Organ / stage
- 1-year foliagee0
- Outcome
- percentage of 1-year foliagee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 52 to 75%e0
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Verbatim
e0“the percentage of 1-year foliage increased acropetally from 52 to 75%”
t0“RADIATA PINE”
Title
EFFECT OF THINNING ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND BIOMASS OF FOLIAGE IN THE CROWN OF RADIATA PINE
G Siemon; WJ Müller; G. B. Wood; et al. New Zealand journal of forestry science 1980
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Upper-crown two-year foliage decreased slightly from 28 to 22%.
- Observation Upper-crown three-year-and-older foliage decreased markedly from 20 to 3%.
- Observation Middle and lower crown foliage proportions were about 37%, 28% and 36% for one-, two- and older leaves.
- Observation One- and two-year leaves averaged 73% of total crown leaf biomass across thinning regimes.
- Intervention effect Stand density had little effect on foliage proportion by crown position or age.
- Observation Foliage biomass ranged from 4.9 to 11.3 tonnes/ha over the observed stand densities.
- Observation Annual foliage production ranged from 2.4 to 4.3 tonnes/ha.