Neighborhood interactions influencing tree population dynamics in nonpyrogenous boreal forest in northern Finland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-150

  Doležal, Jiří ^a,b   Šrutek, Miroslav ^b   Hara, Toshihiko ^c   Sumida, Akihiro ^c   Penttilä, Timo ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betula; Boreal forest dynamics; Picea; Ripley's K function; Size dependent competition; Spatial size autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; REGENERATION; SURVIVAL; WOODLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ABIES; BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BRYOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 33745506249     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9090-3     Document Type: Article

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