Girdling

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Girdling

in trees and grapevines, a notched ring or the removal of a ring of bark (3–5 mm wide) right up to the wood. The trunk or the skeletal branches of apple and pear trees are girdled. In grapevines the main trunk, perennial branches, or annual shoots are girdled. Girdling is performed in early spring. The wound is covered with grafting wax or opaque paper. As a result of girdling, fruit trees bear fruit earlier and are more productive. In grapevines the conditions for setting the berries is improved and the size and sugar content is increased; the grapes also ripen quicker.

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Branch girdling blocks the phloem flow, making it more nutritive for offspring and future colonizers.

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While we examined and measured the pines in late winter/early spring, we observed a great amount of fresh girdling activity, leading us to hypothesize that pine bark was providing a source of nutrition at a time of year when rodent density was relatively high and the quality of their principal food, monocots, was likely to be poor.

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Days after girdling Treatment 0-5 ([dagger]) 6-10 11-15 flowers per node [d.sup.-1] ([double dagger]) Exp.

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These included Spearman's rank correlations for interval-interval or interval-ordinal variable comparisons such as the girdling index to pellet group counts, and the girdling index to aspect (an ordinal variable with 8 levels).

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Girdling refers to the process of peeling off the bark of a tree trunk to prevent it from sharing nutrients.

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Girdling is a process of removing bark around the tree trunk to block nutrients collected by its leaves from reaching its root system.

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The beetle larvae tunnel beneath the bark, their galleries eventually girdling and killing branches.

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The girdling of the trees had outraged environmental groups, which petitioned an Urdaneta City court for an environmental protection order covering the 770 trees.