Twenty years of community dynamics in a mixed conifer - Broad-leaved forest under a selection system in northern Japan

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1363-1375

  Yoshida, Toshiya ^a   Noguchi, Mahoko ^a   Akibayashi, Yukio ^a   Noda, Masato ^a   Kadomatsu, Masahiko ^a   Sasa, Kaichiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH KINETICS;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS; SHADE TOLERANT SPECIES; SINGLE TREE SELECTION;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; MIXED FOREST; SHADE TOLERANCE; STAND DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

ABIES SACHALINENSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH; HARVESTING; SOFTWOODS;

ABIES; ABIES SACHALINENSIS; ACER; ACER MONO; BETULA ERMANII; CONIFEROPHYTA; MALVACEAE; TILIA JAPONICA;

EID: 33748540773     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X06-041     Document Type: Article

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