Management and micro-scale landform determine the ground flora of secondary woodlands and their verges in the Tama Hills of Tokyo, Japan

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2137-2157

  Okubo, Satoru ^a   Kamiyama, Asako ^a   Kitagawa, Yoshiko ^a   Yamada, Susumu ^a   Palijon, Armando ^a,b   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Coppice woodland; Ground flora; Micro scale landform; Species richness; Vegetation management; Verge to paddy field

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TAMA HILLS; TOKYO [KANTO]; WORLD;

EID: 23744494661     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-4362-0     Document Type: Article

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