Abstract

Wood is affected both by abiotic and biotic environment. Besides these, another component which affects wood is the air pollution, the bane of rapid industrialization in the present century. This article reviews scientific literature of the past decade on the effect of environment on wood and the effect of wood on environment. It may not always be possible to alter the environment in which trees grow, for example, temperature, altitude, snow, wind, etc. Though these factors do alter the anatomical properties, change is not significant enough to alter the wood quality