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  • Xylem embolism in ring-porous, diffuse-porous, and coniferous trees of northern Utah and Alaska.

    Survivorship Bias « Climate Audit 2006

  • If the pores are readily visible, the wood is from a broadleaf tree; if the large pores are collected in a ring it belongs to the ring-porous division of the broadleaf woods.

    Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

  • All of our broadleaf woods are either ring-porous or diffuse-porous, though some of them, like the walnut, are nearly half way between the two groups.

    Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

  • A wood with its large pores collected into one row or in a single band is said to be _ring-porous_.

    Studies of Trees Jacob Joshua Levison

  • Even against freezing-induced cavitation are not spatially so, the trade-off between vessel diameter and freezing - segregated in different types of vessels like in species induced cavitation may be unclear due to the narrow with ring-porous wood.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Hibrids 2009

  • On average, Q. ilex showed intermediate vessel diameter and total predicted hydraulic conductance values within those of the wide earlywood vessels and the narrow latewood vessels of the coexisting deciduous oaks with ring-porous wood

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Hibrids 2009

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