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引用次数: 9
Abstract
More than one-third of Germany s Douglas-fir resources, stock in age-classes from twenty-one to fifty-nine years. As such timber increasingly enters markets, detailed knowledge of the anatomy and properties of its wood is of importance to forest managers and wood processors. Anatomical and mechanical wood analyses in this study were carried out on twenty trees from four scientifically managed plantations in Southern Germany. The age of the trees selected was forty-two years whereby varying growth conditions were considered. Juvenile and adult woods were identified by segmented linear regression of radial profiles of anatomical characteristics, such as latewood percentage, tracheid wall thickness microfibril angle and density. Additionally, the width of earlywood, latewood and growth rings as well as bending modulus of elasticity were determined. Variance was dependent on the trait used for differentiation, j uvenile wood comprised of an eleven to thirty-one growth rings resp. radial amounts of fifteen to sixty-five percent. When compared to adult wood, juvenile wood showed corresponding features of approximately thirty percent wider growth rings, th irty four percent lower latewood percentage, fourteen percent thinner tracheid walls, and eighty percent larger microfibril angles, eleven percent lighter wood and fifty -seven percent lower bending modulus of elasticity. As the assortment features fast grown trees, adult heartwood characteristics were slightly inferior to the characteristics of European Douglas-fir.
期刊介绍:
Wood. Research papers. Reports. Announcements" ("Drewno") is an international scientific journal that publishes original results of innovatory basic and applied research concerning technological, technical, economic and ecological issues important for the wood science and forest-based industries, including their environment, and interesting to the international recipients. "Drewno" is an Open Access biannual journal.
Aims and scope:
wood science: anatomy, biology, chemistry, physics
wood mechanical and chemical technology, inter alia, sawmilling, composite wood products, wooden construction, furniture making, wood pulp, paper making
material engineering, biocomposites, nanocomposites
material management
environmental protection, safety of the processes, products and working stations
biotechnology
bioenergy, biofuels
forestry: harvesting and wood quality
wood-based industries economics
The Editorial Board of the journal especially welcomes articles concerning increase in wood resources (wood mobilisation); innovative composites and lignocellulosic materials; new trends in the protection, modification and finishing of wood; biorefining of raw wood material; "green" building; new technologies of wood waste recycling; sustainable development; innovation management; and business networks.