Bibliography on Ochroma pyramidale, Balsa

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Bibliography on Ochroma pyramidale, Balsa

PDF, Articles, Books on Ochroma pyramidale, Balsa

BORREGA, Marc, AHVENAINEN, Patrik, SERIMAA, Ritva and Lorna GIBSON
2015
Composition and structure of Balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) wood. Wood Sci Technol. Vol. 49, No. 2. Pages 403-420.

Available Online:
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/102327

BORREGA, Marc and Lorna GIBSON
2015
Mechanics of balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) wood. Mechanics of Materials. Vol. 84. Pages 75-90.

Sold Online:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167663615000216

FRANCIS, John
1991
Ochroma pyamidale Cav. Balsa. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. Pages 371-376.

RAMOS, Pablo
2016
“Balsa” Ochroma pyramidale (Cav. Ex Lam.) Urb. (Bombacaceae): etnobotánica, anatomía, ensayos fitoquímicos y actividades biológicas. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. 143 pages.

Available Online:
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/bitstream/handle/10915/56011/Documento_completo__.pdf-PDFA.pdf?sequence=3

ROJAS, Freddy and Gustavo TORRES
2009
Árboles del Valle Central de Costa Rica: reproducción. Kurú: Revista forestal. Vol. 6, No. 17. 3 pages.

Available Online:
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/5123236.pdf

RÍOS, Carlos, ORANTES, Carolina, MORENO, Rubén and Oscar FARRERA
2016
Viabilidad y germinación de semillas de Jopi (Ochroma pyramidale (Cav. Ex Lam.) Urb.) (Malvaceae). Lacandonia. Vol. 10, No. 2. Pages 7-11.

Available Online:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313746805_Viabilidad
_y_germinacion_de_semillas_de_Jopi_Ochroma_pyramidale_
Cav_ex_Lam_Urb_Malvaceae

SERRANO, Sócrates, TENE, Rosario and Mabel TUALA
2016
Comportamiento de Ochroma pyramidale (Balsa) ante tres intensidades de raleo en esmeraldas. Investigación y saberes. Vol. 5, No. 3-

Available Online:
http://utelvt.edu.ec/ojs/index.php/is/article/view/160

VLEUT, Ivar, LEVY, Samuel, DE BOER, Willem, GALINDO, Jorge and Neptalí RAMÍREZ
2013
Can a fast-growing early-successional tree (Ochroma pyramidale, Malvaceae) accelerate forest succession? Journal of Tropical Ecology. Vol. 29. Pages 173-180.

Suggested webpages with photos and information on Ochroma pyramidale, Balsa

www.biomuseopanama.org/sites/default/files/articulos/BALSO.pdf
Information and photos.

www.ecuadorforestal.org/download/contenido/balsa.pdf
Information.

http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ochroma+pyramidale
Information and photos.

www.conabio.gob.mx/conocimiento/info_especies/arboles/doctos/15-bomba6m.pdf
Information.

http://eol.org/pages/584793/overview
Photos.

http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/sarigua/species/73
Photos.

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2401123
Synonyms.

First posted, June 2018
Bibliography prepared by Marcella Sarti, FLAAR Mesoamerica