Litter dynamics and its effects on the survival of Castanopsis sieboldii seedlings in a subtropical forest in southern Japan

Ecological Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 792-801

  Kubota, Yasuhiro ^a   Narikawa, Akiyoshi ^a   Shimatani, Kenichiro ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABIC; Lateral movement of litter; Litter dynamics; Safe site; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; DECOMPOSITION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST FLOOR; LITTERFALL; MOVEMENT; SEEDLING; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURVIVAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

CASTANOPSIS CUSPIDATA VAR. SIEBOLDII;

EID: 36148948200     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-006-0329-9     Document Type: Article

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