Tree Fanatic

Tree Species

Pentaclethra brevifila Benth.

Taxonomy

Variable

Wood Density
13 rows
0.720.9590.839512-15Prospect: The Wood Databade Version 2.1
0.6890.6890Fanshawe, D.B. 1961. Forest products of British Guiana I: principal timbers. Forestry Bulletin (New Series). Forest Department, Georgetown, British Guiana By H ter Steege.South America (tropical)
0.520.5200King, D.A. 1996. Allometry and life history of tropical trees. Journal of Tropical Ecology 12: 25-44.Central America (tropical)
0.880.8800Lorenzi, H. 1992. Arboles brasileiras: Manual de identificação e cultivo de plantas arbóreas nativas do Brasil. Nova Odessa, SP, Brazil, Instituto Plantarum de Estudos da Flora Ltda. ISBN 85-86714-11-9 www.plantarum.com.br.South America (tropical)
0.490.4900Malavassi, I.M.C. 1992. Maderas de Costa Rica: 150 Especies forestales, Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.Central America (tropical)
0.640.6400Parolin, P., Ferreira, L.V., and Junk, W.J. 1998. Central Amazonian floodplains: effect of two water types on the wood density of trees. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 26, 1106-1112. Data also used in Parolin, P. and M. Worbes. 2000. Wood density of treeSouth America (tropical)
0.430.4300Proyectos Andinos de Desarrollo Technologico en el area de los recursos forestales tropicales. 1981. Tablas de propiedades fisicas y mecanicas de la madera de 20 especies del Peru. PADT-REFORT, Lima. By T Baker.South America (tropical)
0.650.6500Reyes, G., Brown, S., Chapman, J. and Lugo, A.E. 1992. Wood densities of tropical tree species. General Technical Report SO-88, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. Brown's 1997 FAO Primer is a summaSouth America (tropical)
0.480.4800sg4FLS measured by Helene Muller-Landau at La Selva in 2001.Central America (tropical)
0.6890.6890Venezuela database. By H ter Steege.South America (tropical)
0.470.4700Wiemann, M.C. and Williamson, G.B. 1989. Wood specific gravity gradients in tropical dry and montane rain forest trees. American Journal of Botany 76(6): 924-928Central America (tropical)
0.70.7000Worldagroforestry wood density databaseSouth America (tropical)
0.430.4300Baker, T.R., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Almeida, S., Arroyo, L., Di Fiore, A., Erwin, T., Killeen, T.J., Laurance, S.G., Laurance, W.F., Lewis, S.L., Lloyd, J., Monteagudo, A., Neill, D.A., Patiño, S., Pitman, N.C.A.,Silva, J.N.M. and Martínez, R.V. (200Americas
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Statistic Summary of Wood Density (g/cm³)

N
13
Mean
0.6083
Median
0.6400
Mode
0.4300, 0.6890
Stdv
0.1507
Variance
0.0227
Range
[0.43, 0.88]
Cumulative Distribution Plot
  • If the Moisture Content column is undefined, you may assume the value of 15%
  • The statistic summary is based on data availability in the database, thus it may change upon the data collection updates

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