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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 1 Description of the sampled trees

From: Tracing radioactive cesium in stem wood of three Japanese conifer species 3 years after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Species

Site ID

Age (year)

Size IDa

DBH (cm)

Height (m)

LBH (m)

HWMC (%)b

Cedar

1

46

L

32.9

19.1

5.0

97

(Cryptomeria japonica)

M

28.6

18.1

9.0

73

 

S

20.8

16.1

5.5

65

 

2

60

L

48.8

25.9

10.5

53

 

M

39.2

26.1

10.2

69

 

S

30.4

24.8

17.2

61

Cypress

5

46

L

29.4

18.6

9.0

35

(Chamaecyparis obtusa)

M

22.1

17.7

12.0

46

 

S

17.6

16.7

10.5

41

Larch

2

> 50

L

34.6

25.3

15.9

41

(Larix kaempferi)

M

31.4

25.9

15.1

38

  1. DBH diameter at breast height, LBH lowest branch height, HWMC heartwood moisture content
  2. aRelative size of DBH at each sampling site
  3. bMean moisture content of wood disks collected at 2.5 and 4.5 m height