Gender, neighboring competition and habitat effects on the stem growth in dioecious Fraxinus mandshurica trees in a Northern temperate forest

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 812-812

  Zhang, Chunyu ^a   Zhao, Xiuhai ^a   Gao, Lushuang ^a   Gadow, Klaus V ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Causal model; Dioecious species; Intrasexual competition; Sex ratio; Stem growth

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIOECY; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT QUALITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEX RATIO; STEM; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ASIA; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS MANDSHURICA;

EID: 71049167891     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2009068     Document Type: Article

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