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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
卷 38, 期 6, 页码 1397-1405出版社
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/X08-008
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- Consortium de recherche sur la foret boreale commerciale
Wood anatomical features measured in tree-rings are useful indicators of environmental change and wood quality. The effect of latitude on the wood anatomy of mature black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) was investigated along a 500 km transect from 47 degrees N to 52 degrees N across the continuous boreal forest in Quebec, Canada. Total tree-ring width, earlywood width, latewood width, latewood proportion, cell numbers, tracheid length, radial diameter, lumen diameter, and cell wall thickness were measured using image analysis on samples from 15 mature stands. Our results suggest that tree-ring, earlywood, and latewood widths, cell numbers, latewood radial cell diameter, and cell wall thickness decrease with latitude. No significant trend was observed for latewood proportion, despite a slight increase with latitude (p = 0..0856). However, the hight variability in radial growth seen along the gradient might explain the absence of a significant relationship. Latitude and the associated growth rate reduction had no effect on tracheid length. The existence of a latitudina pattern of variation in black spruce wood anatomy may be the result of tree adaptatin to differing environmental conditions along the gradient.
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