Sentence examples for diameter of stems from inspiring English sources

But while measuring the growth of young trees under controlled temperature, humidity, and continuous darkness, Zürcher and his colleagues noticed a peculiar 25-hour cycle in the diameter of stems.

All but two of the thinned plots (one for each species) were thinned to maintain the thinning ratio (mean diameter of removed stems over the mean diameter of stems before thinning) at 0.8 – 0.9 (Darling and Omule 1989; Stone 1994).

Inbreeding depression in progeny of Populus nigra derived from full-sib crosses, which is expected to be lower than that in selfed progeny of S. subfragilis, was measured in the height and diameter of stems of 2- and 3-year-old progeny (Benetka et al., 2008).

The proposed model is based on the limit equilibrium principle and accounts for geotechnical soil properties (cohesion, friction angle, unit weight of soil), soil saturation, slope steepness, and brush layer design parameters (number of stems per meter, length and diameter of stems, distance between brush layers).

The shoot height and diameter of stems were measured in the beginning and end of the 14-day experiment.

The diameter of stems used by crows in trials of Experiment 1 changed (non-significantly) over the course of the season (linear mixed model [LMM]: χ2 = 5.75, P = 0.06), peaking in October (Fig.  5b).

The compression tests showed that the maximum compressive load varied from 58 to 1425 N, and the energy requirement varied from 23 to 1809 mJ, depending on the variety, height section and diameter of stem, and compression direction.

Diameter of stem cuttings at the onset of plant propagation was used as a covariate to control for the effect of initial size.

The flexural rigidity of the stems was calculated using the Young's modulus (E) of the alloy multiplied by the second moment of area (I = π[d]/64, where d = diameter of stem at the distal contact point of the head taper).

Measurements taken at the end of each growing season included height of the tallest stem per plant, diameter of every stem, stem number per plant, and specific gravity of a stem segment.

We speculate that it is still the diameters of stems' of the raw materials that influence their qualities.