Woods of the World.This user-friendly, interactive computer database isn't for everyone, but for people who need to know about wood, it's fabulous. It has information on more than 800 commercially viable wood species and products, with details on physical traits, woodworking and strength properties, and species information. It even has high-resolution color images A (digital) color image is a digital image that includes color information for each pixel. For visually acceptable results, it is necessary (and almost sufficient) to provide three samples (color channels of wood blocks, section micrographs, geographic origin maps, and video clips A short video presentation. . Specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. information--like U.S. Forest Products Lab codes and kiln-drying times for 650 tropical woods--make it a technical wonder. You can search by species, wood color, physical and mechanical characteristics, end-use, and combinations of 10 variables. Users can edit, add information, and save findings. With only about 2 percent of the 25,000 tree species on earth in widespread commercial use, the information could be an important tool for slowing tropical deforestation deforestation Process of clearing forests. Rates of deforestation are particularly high in the tropics, where the poor quality of the soil has led to the practice of routine clear-cutting to make new soil available for agricultural use. and loss of biodiversity biodiversity: see biological diversity. biodiversity Quantity of plant and animal species found in a given environment. Sometimes habitat diversity (the variety of places where organisms live) and genetic diversity (the variety of traits expressed by improving utilization and taking pressure off overused and threatened species. |
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