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Radial variation in wood specific gravity of tropical tree species differing in growth-mortality strategies.
Am J Bot
May 2014
Department of Biological Sciences, 2023 G Street NW, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052 USA Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri 63166 USA.
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Premise Of The Study: Wood specific gravity (WSG) mediates an interspecific trade-off between growth and mortality and is a key measure for estimating carbon stocks. Most studies use species mean values to represent WSG, despite variation at different levels of biological organization. We examined sources of variation in WSG across four nested scales (segments within cores, cores within trees, trees within species, and species), compared the pattern of radial variation in WSG among species differing in growth strategies, and investigated the effect of WSG radial variation on aboveground biomass estimates.