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Pertti Hari,
Pirkko Heikinheimo,
Leo Kaipiainen,
Eeva Korpilahti,
Annikki Mäkelä,
Juha Samela.
(1986).
Trees as a water transport system.
Silva Fennica
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20
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3
article id 5274.
https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15453
Keywords:
Pinus sylvestris;
branches;
stem;
water transport system;
cross-sectional-area;
coarse roots
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The structure of 20 Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees was analysed as a water transport system. There is a tight linear regression between the cross-sectional area of the stem at the height of its lowest living branch and the cross-sectional area of its coarse roots, between the cross-sectional area of the stem at the height of its lowest living branch and the total cross-sectional area of its branches, and between the cross-sectional area of the base of a branch and the total cross-sectional area of subsidiary branches of that branch. The capacity of successive organs, measured as cross-sectional areas, to transport water was thus found to be regular within a tree.
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Hari,
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- Heikinheimo, E-mail: ph@mm.unknown
- Kaipiainen, E-mail: lk@mm.unknown
- Korpilahti, E-mail: eeva.korpilahti@luke.fi
- Mäkelä, E-mail: am@mm.unknown
- Samela, E-mail: js@mm.unknown
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