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The Effects Of Pruning Type On Wind Loading Of Acer Rubrum

E. Thomas Smiley and Brian Kane
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) January 2006, 32 (1) 33-40; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2006.005
E. Thomas Smiley
E. Thomas Smiley, Ph.D. (corresponding author), Arboriculture Researcher, Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory, 13768 Hamilton Road, Charlotte, NC, 28278, U.S.
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Brian Kane, Ph.D., MAA Assistant Professor of Commercial Arboriculture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003, U.S.
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