Evaluation of Earlywood and Latewood of Calabrian Pine (Pinus Brutia Ten.) in Terms of Site Index

Abstract

In this paper, the effects of site index on the earlywood and latewood in the fibers (tracheids) biometry of Calabrian pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) and relationships between earlywood and latewood were researched. For this aim, test trees were collected from two similar Mediterranean regions in the south of Turkey. The analyses results showed that the existence of a significant effect of the site index on the earlywood and latewood in the fibers biometry except for the fibers lengths. In general, it is understood that the fibers biometry of latewood is the better than earlywood. Furthermore, the regression analysis was revealed that there is a weak relationship between earlywood and latewood in terms of the fibers biometry. In the end of evaluations, it was suggested that the topic on which more study needs to be done in future.

Keywords

• Calabrian pine
• earlywood
• fibers biometry
• latewood
• site index