Architecture and neighbourhood competition of understorey saplings in a subalpine forest in central Japan

Ecoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-224

  Mori, Akira ^a   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abies; Competition; Overstorey; Picea; Plasticity of tree architecture; Regeneration; Shading; Understorey crowding

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; OVERSTORY; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; REGENERATION; SHADING; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; UNDERSTORY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MOUNT ONTAKE;

ABIES; ABIES MARIESII; ABIES VEITCHII; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA JEZOENSIS; PICEA JEZOENSIS VAR. HONDOENSIS;

EID: 0042623433     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2003.11682769     Document Type: Article

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