Seed supply and the regeneration potential for plantations and shrubland in southern China

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2390-2398

  Wang, Jun ^a   Li, Danyan ^a   Ren, Hai ^a   Yang, Long ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Indigenous species; Plant recruitment; Seed bank; Seed dispersal; Seed limitation; Succession

Indexed keywords

DOMINANT SPECIES; FOREST REGENERATION; LATE-SUCCESSIONAL SPECIES; MATURE FOREST; MIXED-CONIFER; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT RECRUITMENT; QUALITATIVE COMPOSITIONS; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SHRUBLANDS; SOUTHERN CHINA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE SPECIES;

EMPLOYMENT; RAIN; REFORESTATION; VEGETATION;

SEED;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANTATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SEED RAIN; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS;

DISPERSIONS; EMPLOYMENT; PLANTS; RAIN; REFORESTATION; SEEDS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

CHINA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 77952106570     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.03.015     Document Type: Article

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