Effects of flooding and artificial burning disturbances on plant species composition in a downstream riverside floodplain

Ecological Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 745-755

  Ishida, Shinya ^a   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^b   Gonda, Yutaka ^a   Kamitani, Tomohiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burning; Environmental factor; Flood; Riparian vegetation; Riverside floodplain

Indexed keywords

BURNING; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GERMINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SUCCESSION;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; SHINANO RIVER;

FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 46749136410     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0434-4     Document Type: Article

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