Trees as a water transport system.

Hari, Pertti; Heikinheimo, Pirkko; Kaipiainen, Leo; Korpilahti, Eeva; Mäkelä, Annikki; Samela, Juha

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Silva Fennica vol. 20 no. 3 article id 5274 | 1986 | Article

Pertti Hari , Pirkko Heikinheimo, Leo Kaipiainen, Eeva Korpilahti, Annikki Mäkelä, Juha Samela

Trees as a water transport system.

Hari P., Heikinheimo P., Kaipiainen L., Korpilahti E., Mäkelä A., Samela J. (1986). Trees as a water transport system. Silva Fennica vol. 20 no. 3 article id 5274. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15453

Abstract

The structure of 20 Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees was analysed as a water transport system. There is a tight linear regression between the cross-sectional area of the stem at the height of its lowest living branch and the cross-sectional area of its coarse roots, between the cross-sectional area of the stem at the height of its lowest living branch and the total cross-sectional area of its branches, and between the cross-sectional area of the base of a branch and the total cross-sectional area of subsidiary branches of that branch. The capacity of successive organs, measured as cross-sectional areas, to transport water was thus found to be regular within a tree.

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Pinus sylvestris; branches; stem; water transport system; cross-sectional-area; coarse roots

Published in 1986

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