Effects of sika deer (Cervus nippon yakushimae) population growth on saplings in an evergreen broad-leaved forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 431-437

  Koda, Ryosuke ^a   Noma, Naohiko ^b   Tsujino, Riyou ^c   Umeki, Kiyoshi ^d   Fujita, Noboru ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Food preference; Inter annual vegetation change; Mortality rate; Sapling vegetation; Yakushima Island

Indexed keywords

CANNING; ECOLOGY; FOOD PRESERVATION; GROWTH RATE; LANDFORMS; MONITORING; NATURAL RESOURCES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POPULATION STATISTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEGETATION;

CERVUS NIPPON YAKUSHIMAE; DEER POPULATION; ELSEVIER (CO); EVERGREEN (CO); FOREST COMMUNITIES; FOREST VEGETATION; INDIVIDUAL TREES; LONG-TERM MONITORING (LTM); LOW GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY RATES; NATURAL WORLD; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES PREFERENCE; TREE SAPLINGS;

FORESTRY;

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DAMAGE; DEER; EVERGREEN FOREST; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SAPLING; VEGETATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU; YAKUSHIMA;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON; CERVUS NIPPON YAKUSHIMAE;

EID: 45849085765     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.044     Document Type: Article

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