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SUBMITTER: Gilbert GS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5238698 | biostudies-other | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Applications in plant sciences 20161216 12
<h4>Premise of the study</h4>Field methodology and image analysis protocols using acoustic tomography were developed and evaluated as a tool to estimate the amount of internal decay and damage of living trees, with special attention to tropical rainforest trees with irregular trunk shapes.<h4>Methods and results</h4>Living trunks of a diversity of tree species in tropical rainforests in the Republic of Panama were scanned using an Argus Electronic PiCUS 3 Sonic Tomograph and evaluated for the am ...[more]