Rethinking the value of high wood density

By M. Larjavaara, H. Muller‐Landau. 2010

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. John R Moore
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Citations in the corpus

• Radial Variation in Wood Structure and Function in Woody Plants, and Hypotheses for Its Occurrence (2011, result): “This latter argument is also supported by Larjavaara and Muller-Landau (2010) who argue that a large stem of low-density wood can have greater strength at lower construction cost than a thinner stem of high-density wood.”
• How much variation in tree mortality is predicted by soil and topography in Central Amazonia (2011, background): “However, the disadvantages of light wood species to resist against stem breakage are under question since a fat trunk of low-density wood can achieve greater strength at lower construction cost than a thin trunk of high-density wood (Larjavaara and Muller-Landau, 2010).”
• On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted (2016, background): “It has been widely expected that species with low tissue construction cost will typically have fast growth rates, at least in favourable physical environments (e.g. Muller-Landau 2004; Poorter et al. 2008; Chave et al. 2009; Larjavaara & Muller-Landau 2010; Iida et al. 2012; Paine et al. 2015).”
• Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size dependency (2014, background): “…species with high-density wood, probably because of a reduced mechanical or physiological stability at the tissue level (e.g. xylem) and a high maintenance (respiration) cost at the organ (e.g. stem) level (Muller-Landau 2004; Chave et al. 2009; Larjavaara & Muller-Landau 2010; Iida et al. 2012).”