On tree growth

Effect of temperature and evaporative stress on tree growth... 

Singh, M. and D.P.H. Tucker (1988). Herbicide effects on trees growth and weed population in citrus. Proc. Fla. State Hort. Sco., 101 ... 

Benson, N.R. and E.S. Degman (1961). The use of herbicides around nonbearing pome fruit trees. Proc. Soc. Hortic. Sci., 78 46-52. Bould, C., H.M. Hughes, and E. Gunn (1972). Effects of soil management and NPK fertilizers on tree growth, yield and leaf nutrient composition of dessert apples. Exp. Hortic., 24 25-36. 

The profound effect of water on tree growth that is so widely reported may be expected with the electrokinetic model on the basis of three principal effects. Water filling the crazes as they develop will help prevent their collapse. Water, as a good solvent for ionic species, will be an excellent medium to facilitate entry of surface-active agents, which, by a process similar to that of environmental stress cracking, will advance the void and craze formation caused by the electric field. Water, with its high relative permittivity, will distort and locally enhance electric fields in the neighbourhood of the voids and crazes where it accumulates. Whether one or other of these effects dominate in a particular situation depends on the exact nature of the specimen and its environment. 

The effect of temperature on tree growth is complex and required statistical evaluation of a large number of samples. At 4600 Hz and 30°C, 3.4 kV/mm stress the growth rate was 5 to 8 times higher for PE than for XLPE. Increasing the temperature to 90°C lowered the rate for both insulations by a factor of about... 

Gregg, J.W., C.G. Jones, and T.E. Dawson Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City, Nature, 424 (2003) 183-187. 

Table 12.35. Effect of polymer blending on tree growth and length [Wu and Chen, 1983]...

The status of our knowledge of the effects of mycorrhizae on tree growth was summarized by Levisohn (1958). He concluded that the results of modem researches do, on the whole, agree that under conditions approximating to natural environments, mycorrhizal associations are not parasitic. Much circumstantial evidence has been advanced... 

Innes, J.L. and Cook, E.D. (1989). Tree-ring analysis as an aid to evaluating the effects of pollution on tree growth. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 19, 1174-1189. 

Peterson, D.L., Arbaugh, M.J. and Robinson, L.J. (1989). The effects of ozone stress on tree growth and vigor in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. In, Air pollution and forest decline, ed. J.B. Bucher and I. Bucher-Wallin, 289-296. Eidgenossische Anstalt fiir... 

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