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Preferred term

dendrometer

Definition

  • [Henderson's] a. device for measuring small changes in the diameter of a tree trunk, such as the minute amounts of shrinkage and swelling that accompany the daily fluctuations in transpiration.

Broader concept

Note

  • [controlled by ] Neagu Stefan 31/05/13" , "[comments ] the Hendersons definition is for \\"dendrometer bands\\", but the new definition does not exclude such devices" , "[source of definition ] wikipedia

Scope note

  • US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

  • herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/20365

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