Effectiveness of Japanese larch windbreaks during spring cultivation season: Evaluation in local history chronicles, Tokachi plain
2018
Nakagawa, M. (Forestry Research Institute, Hokkaido Research Organization, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido (Japan). Doto Station)
Japanese larch buds open in early May, following which it takes three weeks for the leaves to extend on short shoots. Some researchers therefore insist that larch windbreaks are ineffective in spring. However, a review of local history chronicles revealed that deciduous larch windbreaks protecting against westward foehn winds during the spring cultivation season had been evaluated as highly effective by farmers and agricultural personnel on Tokachi plain, eastern Hokkaido.
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