-6Ê Modelling Variation of Needle Density of Scots Pine at High Latitudes

• Main Authors: Hannu Salminen, Risto Jalkanen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: temperature; precipitation; fascicles; needles; NTM; Pinus sylvestris Authors ’ address F; Arctic; The Needle
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.8152; http://www.metla.fi/silvafennica/full/sf40/sf402183.pdf

The relationship between apical extension and needle density and the effect of temperature and precipitation on needle density was modelled using data gathered from forty-nine felled sample trees in five stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) located along a latitudinal transect from the Arctic...