Venkatarao Mohanrao Desai

Crown Architecture as a Non-destructive Indicator of Competition and Relative Site Conditions in Taxus baccata in Deoban Forest, Chakrata, Uttarakhand, India

Venkatarao Mohanrao Desai, Manish Kumar, Sandhya Goswami & Vikaspal Singh · Asian Journal of Environment & Ecology · 2026

The primary objective of this study was to evaluate whether crown width and the crown width–DBH (CW/DBH) ratio can serve as non-destructive proxy indicators of competition and relative site condition in natural stands of Taxus baccata. Crown architecture regulates light intercept...