Influence of Commercial Thinning on Recovery from Defoliation in Spruce-Fir Forests: Spruce-Fir Tree Response Data
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- Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative
- Address:
705 Spear Street
South Burlington, Vermont 05403
United States of America
Phone: (802) 391-4135
Email: femc@uvm.edu
Website: www.uvm.edu/femc
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Researchers sought to determine the impact of commercial thinning practices on defoliation recovery by examining the ability of red spruce and balsam fir to recover from defoliation by storing non-structural carbohydrates (NSC's) used for foliar growth and secondary defensive compounds such as lignins and tannins.
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- Michael Day: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator
- CJ Langley: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator
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- Northeastern States Research Cooperative : funder
- University of Maine : lead
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- dataset_eml_datatablecitation: Day, M., and CJ Langley. 2017. Spruce-Fir Tree Response Data. University of Maine. FEMC. Can be found at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/commercial_thinning_spruce_fir_forests/dataset/spruce-fir-tree-response-data
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