Bulletin of FFPRI, Vol.12 No.3 (No.428) September 2013

Table of Contents

Original article

• Butterfly fauna of Shikoku Research Center,Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (PDF:854KB) [in Japanese with English abstract]
  • MATSUMOTO Takeshi, SATO Shigeho and INOUE Takenari
• Estimating forest biomass using allometric model in a cool-temperate Fagus crenata forest in the Appi Highlands, Iwate, Japan (PDF:3,914KB) 
  • ONO Kenji, YASUDA Yukio, MATSUO Toru, Hoshino Daisuke, CHIBA Yukihiro and MORI Shigeta
• Strength properties of kuri (Japanese chestnut, Castanea crenata) timber - Bending strength, compressive strength parallel to the grain, tensile strength parallel to the grain, shear strength parallel to the grain, and compressive strength perpendicular to the grain - (PDF:932KB)  [in Japanese with English abstract]
  • IDO Hirofumi, MIURA Sachiko, NAGAO Hirofumi and KATO Hideo

Note

• Sex discrimination of the nymph of Zootermopsis nevadensis (PDF:779KB) [in Japanese with English abstract]
  • KANZAKI Natsumi and OHMURA Wakako
• Development of ozone-susceptible poplar plants with a sense DNA for 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase (PDF:1,542KB) 
  • MOHRI Takeshi, KOGAWARA Satoshi, IGASAKI Tomohiro, NAKAJIMA Nobuyoshi and SHINOHARA Kenji

Research record

• Non-destructive evaluation of structural members used for an FFPRI model wooden house (PDF:728KB) [in Japanese with English abstract]
  • IDO Hirofumi, HARADA Masaki, NAGAO Hirofumi, KATO Hideo, KARUBE Masahiko, MIYATAKE Atsushi,
  • HIRAMATSU Yasushi, SHINDO Kenta, SHIBUSAWA Tatsuya, OHMURA Wakako, AOKI Kenji, AOI Hideki,
  • UKYO Seiichiro, SUGIMOTO Ken-ichi, MORIKAWA Takeshi and KOBAYASHI Hisataka