Altitudinal differences in bark stripping by sika deer in the subalpine coniferous forest of Mt. Fuji

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2089-2095

  Takeuchi, Toru ^a   Kobayashi, Takuya ^a   Nashimoto, Makoto ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal range expansion; Forest management; Herbivore impact; Mountain ecology

Indexed keywords

ALPINE AREAS; ALTITUDE RANGE; BROADLEAF SPECIES; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; CONIFEROUS SPECIES; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STAND; FOREST SUCCESSION; HERBIVORE IMPACT; MOUNTAIN ECOLOGY; MT. FUJI; RANGE EXPANSION; RELATIVE DENSITY; SMALL-DIAMETER; SUCCESSIONAL STAGES; TREE SPECIES; TREE STEMS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPANSION; LANDFORMS; REFORESTATION;

BARK STRIPPING;

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HERBIVORE; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE EXPANSION; STAND DYNAMICS; SUCCESSION; TREE STUMP;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BARK; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPANSION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; JAPAN; MOUNTAINS; REFORESTATION; STRIPPING;

CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; MOUNT FUJI;

ABIES; ABIES VEITCHII; ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON;

EID: 79955018518     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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