The effects of a typhoon on Japanese warm temperate rainforests

Ecological Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-247

  Bellingham, P J ^a,b   Kohyama, Takashi ^a,c   Aiba, Shin Ichiro ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

damage; disturbance; gaps; mortality; resistance; sprouting

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FOREST GAP; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; SPROUTING; TYPHOON;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030301363     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02347781     Document Type: Article

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