Tree growth and competition in a Betula platyphylla-Larix cajanderi post-fire forest in central Kamchatka

Annals of Botany

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 333-343

  Doležal, Jiří ^a,b   Ishii, Hiroaki ^c   Vetrova, Valentina P ^d   Sumida, Akihiro ^b   Hara, Toshihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY AND SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Competitive asymmetry; Individual based spatial competition model; Richards model; Ripley's K function; Size dependent growth; Stem allometry; Stem size variability

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; GROWTH; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; RECOVERY; SUCCESSION; TREE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

BETULA PLATYPHYLLA; LARIX; LARIX CAJANDERI; PINUS PUMILA;

ARTICLE; BIRCH; FIRE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARIX; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; SOIL; TREE;

BETULA; FIRES; LARIX; PLANT STEMS; SOIL; TREES;

EID: 16544383261     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mch149     Document Type: Article

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