To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Botany  Vascular Plants  Trees & Shrubs

Wood Characteristics Description, Causes, Prevention, Impact on Use and Technological Adaptation

By: Christoph Richter(Author)
222 pages, 201 colour & 164 b/w illustrations, 30 tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Wood Characteristics
Click to have a closer look
  • Wood Characteristics ISBN: 9783319074214 Hardback Dec 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £139.99
    #219365
Price: £139.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

Originally published in German by DRW-Verlag (2010), Wood Characteristics 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. Wood Characteristics 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 Wood Characteristics 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.

Contents

Part I: Wood, a Truly Remarkable Material
- The Anatomical Structure of Wood
- Wood Characteristic or Defect?
- General Factors Leading to the Formation of Wood Characteristics of the Tree

Part II: Wood Characteristics Overview
- Overview of the Main Wood Characteristics

Part III: Description of the Wood Characteristics
- Wood Characteristics Inherent in a Tree's Natural Growth
- Biotically Induced Wood Characteristics
- Abiotically Induced Wood Characteristics
- Overview of Cracks / Shake Forms and Causes

Customer Reviews

By: Christoph Richter(Author)
222 pages, 201 colour & 164 b/w illustrations, 30 tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides