Frost Crack Incidence in Northern Hardwood Forests of the Southern Boreal–North Temperate Transition Zone
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in the second-growth stands. In addition, because primary and second-growth northern hardwood stands often differ in overstory structure or composition (Goodburn and Lorimer 1999, Hale et al. 1999, McGee et al. 1999, Crow et al. 2002), we hypothesized (2) that %FC would be associated with differences in structural attributes between the two stand types.
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