Effects of forest canopy gap on Abies faxoniana seedling's biomass and its allocation in subalpine coniferous forest of West Sichuan

Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 721-727

  Xian, Jun Ren ^a   Hu, Ting Xing ^a   Zhang, Yuan Bin ^b   Wang, Kai Yun ^c  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (China)

^c EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abies faxoniana; Allocation pattern; Biomass; Seedling; Subalpine; West Sichuan

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST CANOPY; GAP DYNAMICS; SEEDLING;

ABIES; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; CONIFER; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; SEEDLING;

ABIES; BIOMASS; CHINA; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; SEEDLING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN;

ABIES; ABIES FAXONIANA;

EID: 34249778669     PISSN: 10019332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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