Detailed overview:
Tree Decay - An Expanded Concept
Tree Decay - An Expanded Concept
| Title: | Tree Decay - An Expanded Concept |
| Identifier: | http://www.na.fs.fed.us/Spfo/Pubs/misc/treedecay/cover.htm |
| Creator: | Shigo, Alex L. |
| Contributor: | Carol, David M. [Watercolor illustrations] |
| Publisher: | USDA = United States Department of Agriculture / Forest Service |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this publication is to clarify further the tree decay concept that expands the classical concept to include the orderly response of the tree to wounding and infection-compartmentalization-and the orderly infection of wounds by many microorganisms-successions. The heartrot concept must be abandoned because it deals only with decay-causing fungi and it states that these fungi grow unrestricted through heartwood after infection of fresh wounds. The heartrot concept emphasizes descriptions of decay-causing fungi and types of decayed wood. It describes disordered wood and events that occurred in the past. The expanded decay concept emphasizes the order of a compartmented tree, the order of comparimentalization, and the order of successions. Regulation of discoloration and decay depends on understanding compartmentalization and successions. [Information of the supplier] |
| Subject: |
Stems (575.4); Trees (582.16) » find similar sources! |
| Audience: | Intermediate; Experts |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | website |
| Resource type: |
Textbooks / Online-textbooks; Discipline based websites |
| Access: | free |
| Metadata update date: | 2013-11-08 |
| Metadata provider: |
 |
| URL of this vifabio-resource: | http://www.vifabio.de/en/iqfBio/detail/7044 |
| © Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Biologie (vifabio) | |