Recruitment processes and species coexistence in a sub-boreal forest in northern Japan

Annals of Botany

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 741-748

  Kubota, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Hara, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climax forest; mode of competition; regeneration niche; safe site; species diversity

Indexed keywords

CLIMAX FOREST; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; RECRUITMENT; REGENERATION NICHE;

JAPAN;

ABIES SACHALINENSIS; ACER UKURUNDUENSE; ACERACEAE; BETULA ERMANII; BETULACEAE; PICEA GLEHNII; PICEA JEZOENSIS; PINACEAE; ROSACEAE; SORBUS COMMIXTA;

EID: 0030301003     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1996.0184     Document Type: Article

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