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<journal-id>1405-0471</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Madera y bosques]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Madera bosques]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-0471</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto de Ecología A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1405-04712019000300300</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21829/myb.2019.2531712</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Biomecánica de los árboles: crecimiento, anatomía y morfología]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Biomechanics of trees: growth, anatomy and morphology]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Vargas-Silva]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gustavo]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Angelo State University David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San Angelo TX]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2019</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>25</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-04712019000300300&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-04712019000300300&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-04712019000300300&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Los árboles son los seres vivos más grandes y pesados que han poblado la Tierra. Para conseguirlo, cuentan con la madera (un material estructural excepcional) y con un sinnúmero de estrategias de diseño. Este trabajo es una revisión del estado del arte relacionada con las estrategias más importantes de crecimiento, anatomía y morfología que tienen los árboles, destacando conceptos generales relacionados con atributos estructurales que tienen que ver con la biomecánica de las plantas. Asimismo, este artículo resalta las características de los materiales naturales vegetales que poseen una organización jerárquica y que, en su mayoría, son materiales compuestos reforzados con fibras, materiales con estructura celular o ambos, como la madera.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Trees are the largest and heaviest living beings that have ever lived on Earth. In order to achieve this, trees have wood, an exceptional structural material, and they offer several design strategies. This work is a review of the state of the art related to the strategies of growth, anatomy and morphology that use trees, highlighting general concepts related to structural aspects related to plant biomechanics. Moreover, this paper emphasizes the features of natural plant materials, which have a hierarchical organization, and in most cases are fiber-reinforced composite materials, materials with cellular structure, or both, such as wood.]]></p></abstract>
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