Foliage profiles of individual trees determine competition, self-thinning, biomass and NPP of a Cryptomeria japonica forest stand: A simulation study based on a stand-scale process-based forest model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2272-2280

  Toda, Motomu ^a   Yokozawa, Masayuki ^b   Sumida, Akihiro ^a   Watanabe, Tsutomu ^a   Hara, Toshihiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation pattern; Carbon gain of an individual tree; Competitive asymmetry; Maximum carboxylation velocity; MINoSGI; Size structure

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION PATTERN; COMPETITIVE ASYMMETRY; MAXIMUM CARBOXYLATION VELOCITY; MINOSGI; SIZE STRUCTURE;

BIOMASS; CARBOXYLATION; COMPETITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; VEGETATION; VELOCITY;

FORESTRY;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOLIAGE; LITTERFALL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOMASS; SELF THINNING; SIZE STRUCTURE; STAND DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBOXYLATION; COMPETITION; FORESTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; TREES; VELOCITY;

CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA;

EID: 68349144462     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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