Sprouting traits and population structure of co-occurring Castanopsis species in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in southern China

Ecological Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-348

  Nanami, Satoshi ^a   Kawaguchi, Hideyuki ^b   Tateno, Ryunosuke ^c   Li, Changhua ^d   Katagiri, Shigeo ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Persistence; Regeneration; Size distribution; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN FOREST; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGENERATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

CASTANOPSIS; CASTANOPSIS CARLESII; CASTANOPSIS FARGESII;

EID: 2942556565     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1703.2004.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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