Gnawing damage by rodents to the seedlings of Fagus crenata and Quercus mongolica var. grosseserrata in a temperate Sasa grassland-deciduous forest series in southwestern Japan

Ecological Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-103

  Ida, Hidevuki ^a   Nakagoshi, Nobukazu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest regeneration; Gnawing; Rodents; Sasa; Seedling mortality

Indexed keywords

FAGUS CRENATA; QUERCUS MONGOLICA; SASA SPP.; FAGACEAE; QUERCUS MONGOLICA GROSSESERRATA; RODENTIA; SASA;

FOREST; GRASSLAND;

JAPAN, MOUNT JIPPO;

EID: 0029662442     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02347824     Document Type: Article

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