Steep slopes promote downhill dispersal of Quercus crispula seeds and weaken the fine-scale genetic structure of seedling populations

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 405-412

  Ohsawa, Takafumi ^a   Tsuda, Yoshiaki ^a,b   Saito, Yoko ^a   Sawada, Haruo ^c   Ide, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genetic structure; Microsatellite marker; Quercus crispula; Seed dispersal; Slope

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HILLSLOPE; MONTANE FOREST; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING;

QUERCUS CRISPULA;

EID: 34547466813     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/forest:2007017     Document Type: Article

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