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- Title
A research note on developing a novel method for the estimation of annual volume increment in standing trees.
- Authors
Marianthi, Tsakaldimi; Lydia-Maria, Petaloudi; Petros, Ganatsas
- Abstract
Measuring tree growth rates is an important requirement in many scientific disciplines and forest production sector. The assessment of annual volume growth rates in standing living trees, under ambient field conditions without destroying the tree has so far only been conducted with model approaches or by repeated measurements of tree dimensions in the field. This research note proposes a novel simple non-destructive method for the estimation of annual volume increment in standing trees, based on tree ring analysis of sampling of the two increment cores for each targeted tree and simple trigonometry rules. The extracted data by the method application can be widely used in many forest disciplines, such as forest ecology, silviculture, and forest management.
- Subjects
DENDROCHRONOLOGY; TREE growth; FOREST management; FOREST productivity; FOREST ecology; DEAD trees
- Publication
Austrian Journal of Forest Science / Centralblatt für das Gesamte Forstwesen, 2023, Vol 140, Issue 4, p241
- ISSN
0008-9583
- Publication type
Article