Effects of elevation and postharvest disturbance on the composition of vegetation established after the clear-cut harvest of conifer plantations in southern Shikoku, Japan

Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 253-265

  Sakai, Atsushi ^a   Hirayama, Takahisa ^b   Oshioka, Shigenori ^b   Hirata, Yasumasa ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Nishinihon Institute of Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clear cutting; Multivariate analysis; Old growth species; Regeneration process; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; VEGETATION;

CLEAR-CUTTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH SPECIES; REGENERATION PROCESS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION;

HARVESTING;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PLANTS; SEEDS;

ABIES; ABIES FIRMA; BETULA GROSSA; CASTANOPSIS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON; CONIFEROPHYTA; QUERCUS;

EID: 33746451689     PISSN: 13416979     EISSN: 16107403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-005-0182-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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