Regeneration processes of a boreal forest in Kamchatka with special reference to the contribution of sprouting to population maintenance

Plant Ecology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-35

  Homma, Kosuke ^a,c   Takahashi, Koichi ^a,d   Hara, Toshihiko ^a   Vetrova, Valentina P ^b   Vyatkina, Marina P ^b   Florenzev, Sergey ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gap regeneration; Root sucker; Seedling; Sprouting; Trunk sucker

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAP DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BETULA; BETULA PLATYPHYLLA; CATOSTOMIDAE; PICEA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 0038332115     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023230724358     Document Type: Article

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