What is a relative density? Here are some definitions.
Noun
(sciences) A measure of the density of a material. The ratio of the density of a substance to the density of water at the same temperature. It is dimensionless and therefore has no units.
However, the relative density of this species was negatively correlated with tree age in the sapling layers of abandoned agriculture plots.
The critical relative density is determinated for the failure models under aerodynamic pressure load.
Recent debate has considered the relative density of trees within these primeval woods or wildwoods.
For ground, sub-canopy and shrub vegetation, importance values were calculated using relative cover, relative frequency and relative density.
No natural reactors exist today, as the relative density of fissile uranium has now decayed below that needed for a sustainable reaction.
I used relative basal area as a measure of importance, because that value is less influenced by differences in sampling procedure than is relative density.
