Measuring wood specific gravity...Correctly.

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  American-Eurasian journal of botany

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3732/ajb.0900243PMID 21622413
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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