Maintaining plant species composition and diversity of understory vegetation under strip-clearcutting forestry in conifer plantations in Kyushu, southern Japan

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 231, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 234-241

  Ito, Satoshi ^a   Ishigami, Satoshi ^a   Mizoue, Nobuya ^b   Buckley, G Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Light environment; Seed dispersal; Species composition; Strip clearcutting

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

LIGHT ENVIRONMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STRIP-CLEARCUTTING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLEARCUTTING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DIVERSITY INDEX; PLANTATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SEEDS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KYUSHU;

CHAMAECYPARIS; CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; MISCANTHUS SINENSIS;

EID: 33745877325     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.05.056     Document Type: Article

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