Author:
Gonzalez Josefina S.,Richards Jane
Abstract
Selection age for wood density in vigorous coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugamenziesii (Mirb.) Franco) was determined by examining the following: strength of the correlation between total-stem wood density of 50-year-old trees and their breast-height density when the trees were 5 through 30 years old (breast-height age); efficiency in terms of gain per year of tree improvement effort by selecting at ages 5 through 30, relative to selecting at age 50. The linear regression and rank correlation between total-stem and breast-height densities improved as age increased from 5 to 15 years, but showed no significant improvement from 15 to 30 years. Densities of early-growth rings fluctuated considerably and their exclusion from the calculation of breast-height density enhanced the linear regression with total-stem density. Efficiency estimates in terms of gain per year showed an optimum value at age 15, but the estimates for ages 10–14 were nearly as efficient.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Ecology,Forestry,Global and Planetary Change
Cited by
11 articles.
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