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From Growth In Disposable: The effects of this degradation of environmental quality resulted in part, and their control was made more urgent, by mounting populations. During 1967 and the first three months of 1968, the world population was swelled by nearly 80 million people, and the population of the U.S. increased from 198.1 million to 200.6 million. The individual's share of resources in the U.S. was diluted by 5,500 more people each day, while, judging from growth in disposable income, each individual could demand a somewhat larger amount of goods and services than he had the day before.
Lateral growth in trees frequently begins later than growth in height, but the period of lateral growth is longer. Rates of lateral growth likewise are low at the outset, increasing after a few weeks and then diminishing. In view of the long annual period of lateral growth in trees, deleterious environmental conditions may exercise a pronounced effect on growth. In the wood of trees of temperate regions, narrow and wide growth rings may be observed, marking years characterized by unfavorable and favorable conditions for growth.
Growth Cycles.—Longitudinal and lateral (diametral) growth do not proceed continuously, but rather are cyclical phenomena with periods of growth activity alternating with periods of relative inactivity. One of the best illustrations of the periodic nature of growth in large woody stems is to be found in the annual ring pattern which characterizes the wood of trees of temperate regions. It has been suggested recently that even in the apparently ever-growing trees of the tropical rain forest, cambial growth is not a continuous process. |
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