Claim · model-written summary
Stand density had little effect on foliage proportion by crown position or age.
- Taxon
- radiata pinet0
- Treatment
- stand densitye0
- Outcome
- proportionate distribution of foliage by position in the crown or leaf agee0
- Direction
- little effecte0
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Verbatim
e0“stand density had little effect on proportionate distribution of foliage by position in the crown or leaf age”
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 In the upper crown, one-year foliage increased acropetally from 52 to 75%.
- 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.
- 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.