We imported Log R Ratios (LRR) from the GenomeStudio software into Golden Helix SNP & Variation Suite (SVS) 7.7 (Golden Helix Inc., Bozeman, MT, USA) using its DSF Export Plug-In 4.1.
The increase in N/P ratios with ongoing decomposition might indicate that either more N than P is imported into logs, either through N in the canopy through fall, through N fixation (e.g. Hoppe et al. 2014), or through fungal mycelia, or that more P than N is exported from logs.
Some factories, however, import logs for veneer production and then re-export.
Last month I noted that federal officers raided Lumber Liquidators headquarters, investigating whether the company had imported illegally logged wood products from eastern Russia, the home of the critically endangered Siberian tiger.
The so-called Dutch elm disease entered the United States from Europe in 1930, in elm-burl logs imported for the veneer industry.
His concerns appeared unlikely to make ripples; Timber yards and open cast pits suggested the local economy is now dependent on mining and the processing of logs imported from Siberia.
Although some of the trees are used to make wood products that China exports, analysts say that at least two-thirds of the logs imported into China ultimately end up in the homes of affluent Chinese who are willing to pay steep prices for teak beds, merbau wood flooring and mahogany trim.
[Associated Press] The House Natural Resources Committee votes to weaken the Lacey Act, marking up a bill that would make it easier to import illegally logged wood into the United States.
Unfortunately, some companies continue to import illegally logged wood.
Normalized data were imported into Microsoft Excel, log transformed, and the median blank intensity on a microarray for each dye was subtracted from the respective normalized spot intensity values.
