Vegetation patterns and their dependency on site conditions in the pre-industrial landscape of northeastern Japan

Ecological Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 753-765

  Osumi, Katsuhiro ^a   Ikeda, Shigeto ^a   Okamoto, Toru ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Human disturbance; Land use pattern; Pre industrial landscape; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GRASSLAND; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LAND USE; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SECONDARY FOREST; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 1642450653     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1703.2003.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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