Season and substrate effects on the first-year establishment of current-year seedlings of major conifer species in an old-growth subalpine forest in central Japan

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 210, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 461-467

  Mori, Akira ^a   Mizumachi, Eri ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fallen logs; Seedling bank; Seedling mortality; Seedling survivorship; Woody debris

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GROWTH KINETICS; SOIL MECHANICS;

ABIOTIC FACTORS; BIOTIC FACTORS; CONIFER SPECIES; WOODY DEBRIS (WD);

BIODIVERSITY;

MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUBSTRATE; WOODY DEBRIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATES; FORESTRY; GROWTH; SOIL MECHANICS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; WORLD;

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

EID: 17844385583     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.02.027     Document Type: Article

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