Defining an Adequate Sample of Earlywood Vessels for Retrospective Injury Detection in Diffuse-Porous Species

Estelle Arbellay; Christophe Corona; Markus Stoffel; Patrick Fonti; Armelle Decaulne

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038824

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Defining an Adequate Sample of Earlywood Vessels for Retrospective Injury Detection in Diffuse-Porous Species

Estelle Arbellay ,

* E-mail: estelle.arbellay@dendrolab.ch

Affiliations Laboratory of Dendrogeomorphology, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Carouge-Geneva, Switzerland
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Christophe Corona,

Affiliation Laboratory of Dendrogeomorphology, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland
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Markus Stoffel,

Affiliations Laboratory of Dendrogeomorphology, Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Carouge-Geneva, Switzerland
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Patrick Fonti,

Affiliation Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Armelle Decaulne

Affiliation CNRS Geolab, University Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Defining an Adequate Sample of Earlywood Vessels for Retrospective Injury Detection in Diffuse-Porous Species

Estelle Arbellay,
Christophe Corona,
Markus Stoffel,
Patrick Fonti,
Armelle Decaulne

Published: June 26, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038824

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Tree injuries: their impact and detection

Posted by bondlamberty on 05 Jul 2012 at 14:22 GMT

A tree's vascular cambium is the living, growing part of the trunk, moving water up to the leaves and photosynthate down to the roots through internal conduits. When it is injured by externally-induced trauma, the cambium responds in ways critical to the tree's health, narrowing these conduits. In this study Arbellay et al. examine how injury from avalanches changed internal cambial structure, and what sampling is necessary to reliably identify such damage. Their findings thus advance retrospective injury detection, and help us to understand the hydraulic implications of wounding.

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