Growth characteristics and influencing factors of Quercus variabilis seedlings on the north slope of Qinling Mountains

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 6512-6520

  Ma, Liwei ^a   Zhang, Wenhui ^a   Xue, Yaoqin ^a   Ma, Chuang ^a   Zhou, Jianyun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Forest edge; Forest gap; Quercus variabilis; Understory

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS; CORRELATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST EDGE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GAP DYNAMICS; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT TYPE; LEAF AREA INDEX; LITTER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; REGENERATION; SEED; SEED BANK; SEEDLING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SLOPE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THINNING; UNDERSTORY;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

QUERCUS VARIABILIS;

EID: 79952721525     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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