Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-41

  Bruelheide, Helge ^a   Böhnke, Martin ^a   Both, Sabine ^a   Fang, Teng ^b   Assmann, Thorsten ^c   Baruffol, Martin ^d   Bauhus, Jürgen ^e   Buscot, François ^f   Chen, Xiao Yong ^g   Ding, Bing Yang ^h   Durka, Walter ^f   Erfmeier, Alexandra ^a   Fischer, Markus ⁱ   Geißler, Christian ^j   Guo, Dali ^k   Guo, Liang Dong ^l   Härdtle, Werner ^c   He, Jin Sheng ^k   Hector, Andy ^d   Kröber, Wenzel ^a   Kühn, Peter ^j   Lang, Anne C ^c   Nadrowski, Karin ^m,n   Pei, Kequan ^o   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^e,p   Shi, Xuezheng ^o   Scholten, Thomas ^j   Schuldt, Andreas ^c   Trogisch, Stefan ^p   Von Oheimb, Goddert ^c   Welk, Erik ^a   Wirth, Christian ^m,n   Wu, Yu Ting ^f   Yang, Xuefei ^a   Zeng, Xueqin ^f   Zhang, Shouren ^o   Zhou, Hongzhang ^q   Ma, Keping ^o   Schmid, Bernhard ^d   more..

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Gutianshan National Nature Reserve   (China)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^k PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

ⁿ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^o INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^p ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^q INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

BEF China; China; Chronosequence; Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA); Gutianshan National Nature Reserve; Immigration; Negative density dependence; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS); Permanent forest dynamic plots; Random assembly; Secondary forest succession; Zhejiang Province

Indexed keywords

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; IMMIGRATION; NATURE RESERVE; SECONDARY FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHINA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 78649976187     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2172.1     Document Type: Article

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