Canopy tree development and undergrowth bamboo dynamics in old-growth Abies-Betula forests in southwestern China: A 12-year study

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 200, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 347-360

  Taylor, Alan H ^a   Jinyan, Huang ^b   ShiQiang, Zhou ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sichuan China   (China)

Author keywords

Bamboos; Canopy gaps; Forest dynamics; Giant panda; Tree recruitment and mortality; Tree species coexistence; Understory vegetation

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO DYNAMICS; CANOPY TREE DEVELOPMENT;

PLANTS (BOTANY); SAMPLING; SEED; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY GAP; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; UNDERSTORY;

BAMBOO; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; MORTALITY; TREES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

ABIES; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; BAMBUSA; BETULA; BETULA UTILIS; PANDA;

EID: 4544263055     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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