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ArticlePlant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.)2024

Associations between shade tolerance and wood specific gravity for conifers in contrast to angiosperm trees: Foundations of the conifer fitness-enhancing shade tolerance hypothesis.

Gabriel F Tucker, Douglas A Maguire, Frederico Tupinambá-Simões

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Article in Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gabriel F TuckerDepartment of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1176-9651
Douglas A MaguireDepartment of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon USA.
Frederico Tupinambá-SimõesUniversity Institute for Research in Sustainable Forest Management Universidad de Valladolid|UVa Palencia Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For decades, researchers have held that wood specific gravity was an indicator or surrogate for both shade tolerance and successional status. However, recent research in dry tropical forests has shown very different associations regarding wood specific gravity. Past analyses of the tolerance and wood properties of tree species have focused on pooled coniferous and angiosperm species in temperate regions; fewer analyses have been conducted separately for conifers and angiosperm species. A database was compiled for the wood properties and/or tolerance scores of 542 temperate Northern Hemisphere conifer and angiosperm trees. Plant strategy was defined by shade tolerance (

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drought tolerancemodulus of elasticitymodulus of rupturepolytolerancerelative stiffnessrelative strengthshade tolerancestatic bendingwood densitywood specific gravity

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PMID38323133
PMCPMC10840375

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