Effects of drying temperature and artificial UV irradiation on the pH of veneer surfaces, water absorption, thickness swelling, as well as shear strength of plywood manufactured from untreated and treated veneer sheets were evaluated. Rotary cut veneer sheets from beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) log were selected. The veneer sheets were dried at either 100C or 180C after peeling. Then the sur...

In order to monitor dryness stress under controlled conditions, we set up an experiment with beech seedlings in plant pots and built a platform for observing the seedlings with field imaging spectroscopy. This serves as a preparation for multi-temporal hyperspectral airand space-borne data expected to be available in coming years. Half of the trees were watered throughout the year; the other ha...

European beech is one of the dominating wood species in central Europe and most abundant hardwood Austrian, German Swiss forests. Today, it predominantly used for provision energy furniture industry. With increasing demand on forests to provide sustainable raw materials as well products, importance lesser-used like has continuously increased over last decade. The application load-bearing produc...

This study presents opportunities for the utilization of timber by-products with defects manufacturing engineered wood panels. Three gluing methods were proposed this waste raw material derived from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) wood. The used combining and enabled a more complete complex defects. physical properties (density moisture content) mechanical (bending strength modulus elasticity)...

The annual diet of possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) during both a beech (Nothofagus) mast fruiting year and a non-mast year in the simple beech forests of the North Branch of the Hurunui Catchment, eastern South Island, New Zealand, was determined by sorting the contents of 270 possum stomachs, collected between December 1999 and December 2001. Beech flowers and seeds contributed 46.1% to annual...