FOREST BIOMETRICS FINAL PAPER SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS

FOREST BIOMETRICS FINAL PAPER
SOLVED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS

●● Alnus tenuifolia (alder)
Answer: strobili w/ woody bracts
*leaves doubly serrate
smooth stems/bark*
riparian


●● Betula occidentalis (water birch)
Answer: *leaves irregularly serrate*
*rough twigs/bark*
riparian


●● Juniperus scopulorum (RM juniper)
Answer: *needles scaly, opposite*
small tree
berry-like cone


●● Picea englenmannii (Englemann spruce)

, Answer: needles 4 angled, *not sharp*
*sterigmata*
bark cinnamon-orange, thin scaly
*small cones*
*twigs hairy*
high elevation


●● Picea pungens (blue spruce)
Answer: needles 4 angled, *sharp*
*sterigmata*
bark greyish
*cones large*
*twigs glaberous*
low elevation


●● Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine)
Answer: needles short
*fasicles in 2*
bark thin and scaly
closed, small *serotinus* cones
high elevation