Effects of sprouting and canopy states on the structure and dynamics of a Castanopsis cuspidata var. sieboldii sapling population in an old-growth evergreen broad-leaved forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 183, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 387-400

  Miura, Masahiro ^a,b   Yamamoto, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy gap; Castanopsis; Height growth; Mortality; Recruitment; Sapling; Sprout

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GROWTH KINETICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SPROUTING;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY GAP; GROWTH; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SAPLING; STAND STRUCTURE;

JAPAN; TATERA FOREST RESERVE; TSUSHIMA;

CASTANOPSIS; CASTANOPSIS CUSPIDATA; CASTANOPSIS CUSPIDATA VAR. SIEBOLDII; CUSPIDATA; TATERA;

EID: 0041692991     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00140-3     Document Type: Article

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