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We used thermal images of bamboo culms of Guadua angustifolia Kunth to analyze the relationship between culm surface temperature and maturity, driven by the hypothesis that young culms may exhibit lower surface temperatures than old ones. The culm surface temperature shows small but constant differences between three age classes of 1, 2, and 3 years. Our findings indicate that surface temperature may be applied as an additional indicator to support the determination of maturity of guadua culms besides the visual assessment of the culms.
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We want to thank to the projects “Nuevas metodologías para la evaluación y monitoreo de carbono e indicadores de biodiversidad en sistemas silvopastoriles y bosques de guadua en paisajes de la zona cafetera de Colombia” and “Innovación tecnológica para la optimización de procesos y la estandarización de productos en empresas rurales con base en Guadua: una contribución para el fortalecimiento de la competitividad de la cadena productiva de la Guadua en el eje cafetero de Colombia” both funded by Colciencias. Great thanks are also going to DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service, for supporting the university partnership between Pereira and Göttingen in the course of which this research had been implemented.
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Project funding: This work was both financially supported by “Nuevas metodologías para la evaluación y monitoreo de carbono e indicadores de biodiversidad en sistemas silvopastoriles y bosques de guadua en paisajes de la zona cafetera de Colombia” and “Innovación tecnológica para la optimización de procesos y la estandarización de productos en empresas rurales con base en Guadua: una contribución para el fortalecimiento de la competitividad de la cadena productiva de la Guadua en el eje cafetero de Colombia” by Colciencias.
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Nölke, N., García, J.C.C., Kleinn, C. et al. Changes in culm surface temperature with maturity of the bamboo species Guadua angustifolia . J. For. Res. 27, 419–425 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-015-0152-7
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