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Article: New findings from G. Trincado and co-researchers in the area of forestry described.
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- Agriculture Week
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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According to recent research published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research - Revue Canadienne de Recherche Forestiere, "A stochastic model to simulate the processes of initiation, diameter growth, death, and self-pruning of branches in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) trees is presented. Information on whorl formation and branch growth was obtained from destructive sampling of whorl sections from 34 trees growing under 10 different initial spacings."
"Three different components were modeled and hierarchically connected: whorl, branches, and knots. For each new growing season, whorls and branches are assigned stochastically along and around the stem. ...