Population maintenance of the short-lived shrub Sambucus in a deciduous forest

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1155-1167

  Abe, Shin ^a   Motai, Hideyo ^b   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Shibata, Mitsue ^a   Kominami, Yohsuke ^c   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^d  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Kanagawa Prefectural Ashigara kami Region Prefectural Administration Center   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy dynamics; Critical life stage; Elasticity analysis; Gap dependent shrub; Ogawa Forest Reserve, Japan; Projection matrix model; Red elderberry; Sambucus racemosa ssp. sieboldiana

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SHADE TOLERANCE; SHRUB; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; JAPAN; LIGHT; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMBUCUS; TREE;

ECOSYSTEM; JAPAN; LIGHT; LONGEVITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMBUCUS; SEEDS; TREES;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; OGAWA FOREST RESERVE;

AVES; SAMBUCUS; SAMBUCUS RACEMOSA;

EID: 42949085859     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2009.1     Document Type: Article

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