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Modeling Wood Fibre Length In Black Spruce (Picea Mariana (Mill.) Bsp) Based On Ecological Land Classification, Elisha Townshend, Bharat Pokharel, Art Groot, Doug Pitt, Jeffery P. Dech

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Effective planning to optimize the forest value chain requires accurate and detailed information about the resource; however, estimates of the distribution of fibre properties on the landscape are largely unavailable prior to harvest. Our objective was to fit a model of the tree-level average fibre length related to ecosite classification and other forest inventory variables depicted at the landscape scale. A series of black spruce increment cores were collected at breast height from trees in nine different ecosite groups within the boreal forest of northeastern Ontario, and processed using standard techniques for maceration and fibre length measurement. Regression tree analysis …