Overview
Describes the different forms and causes of wood characteristics in detail
More than 1,000 illustrations, most of them in color
Compares wood characteristics found in trees of the boreal, temperate and tropical climate zones
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Wood, a Truly Remarkable Material
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Wood Characteristics Overview
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Description of the Wood Characteristics
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers a broad range of options for technically adapting, handling and processing wood with specific wood characteristics. It starts by discussing wood anatomy and the general factors leading to the formation of wood characteristics. The individual characteristics are then categorized into four groups: 1. Wood characteristics inherent in a tree’s natural growth. 2. Biotically-induced wood characteristics. 3. Abiotically-induced wood characteristics. 4. Types and causes of cracks.
New to this English edition is a comparison of wood characteristics found in trees from the boreal, temperate and tropical climate zones. The results show a clear relationship between the effects of sunshine duration, the vertical and horizontal angle of radiation, and crown coverage and the way wood characteristics form.
The book addresses all those who work with wood professionally: foresters, gardeners and arborists who want to be able to observe a living tree and identify its internal features and the causes of its prominent wood characteristics. Based on the findings described in this book they can determine how to avoid certain undesirable characteristics, or alternatively how to promote favorable ones as the tree and stand grow. Botanists and dendrologists will learn how wood characteristics arise, and how they affect living trees and wood products. The needs of wood technologists seeking to prevent adverse wood characteristics from influencing wood processing, or to enhance favorable wood characteristics, are also addressed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wood Characteristics
Book Subtitle: Description, Causes, Prevention, Impact on Use and Technological Adaptation
Authors: Christoph Richter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07422-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07421-4Published: 05 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36029-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07422-1Published: 10 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 222
Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations, 201 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Original German edition published by DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, 2010
Topics: Wood Science & Technology, Forestry, Tree Biology