Conifer establishment and root architectural responses to forest floor heterogeneity in an old-growth subalpine forest in central Japan

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 1472-1478

  Doi, Yusuke ^a   Mori, Akira S ^b   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conifer regeneration; Elevated substrate; Log; Soil; Stilt rooted tree

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; SEED; SOILS;

ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CONIFER REGENERATION; STILT-ROOTED TREES;

LOGGING (FORESTRY);

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIFFERENTIATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST FLOOR; HETEROGENEITY; HUMUS; LOGGING (TIMBER); NICHE PARTITIONING; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGENERATION; ROOT ARCHITECTURE; SOIL; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SUBSTRATE;

ABIES LASIOCARPA; GROWTH; SEEDLINGS; SOFTWOODS; SOIL;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; ONTAKE;

ABIES; ABIES MARIESII; ABIES VEITCHII; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA JEZOENSIS SUBSP. HONDOENSIS; TSUGA; TSUGA DIVERSIFOLIA;

EID: 39749157628     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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