Claim · model-written summary
New shoot growth as a share of needle weight decreased from crown top to middle in white fir.
- Taxon
- white fire0
- Organ / stage
- top to the middlee0
- Outcome
- 1979 new shoots growth, expressed as a percent of the total needle weight for the branche0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“The 1979 new shoots growth, expressed as a percent of the total needle weight for the branch, decreased from the top of the crown to the bottom in Douglas-fir and from the top to the middle in white fir.”
Title
Distribution of foliage on open-grown white fir and Douglas-fir in northern New Mexico, U.S.A.
J. M. Schmid; M. B. Morton Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1981. doi:10.1139/x81-084
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Douglas-fir foliage area and needle biomass followed a 1:3.5:2 upper-to-lower crown ratio.
- Observation White fir foliage followed a 1:2:1 crown ratio.
- Observation New shoot growth as a share of needle weight decreased from crown top to bottom in Douglas-fir.
- Observation Douglas-fir foliage weighed 14 to 38 kg.
- Observation White fir foliage weighed 22 to 59 kg.