Lodgepole pine seedlings were used to test a general hypothesis of how water and nitrogen stress affect a plants' monoterpene composition. Four treatments, consisting of high and low levels of both water and
nitrogen, were applied to the trees. Growth measurements, consisting of shoot and needle lengths, needle fresh weights...
The hypothesis is explored that lodgepole pine at the seedling emergence period is more resistant to low temperatures than ponderosa pine. Differential tolerance between species to low temperatures is then related to the prevalence of lodgepole pine in frost pocket areas in central Oregon to the exclusion of ponderosa pine....
Seedlings were thinned to spacings of 5, 9, 12, 15, and 18 feet and measured periodically. Twenty-seven years after treatment, quadratic mean diameters increased curvilinearity (p < or = 0.05) as spacing increased, but total height did not differ significantly (p < or = 0.05) with spacing. Corresponding basal areas...