Dynamics of dominant tree seedlings in montane evergreen broadleaved forest following a snow disaster in North Guangdong

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2708-2715

  Ou, Yuduan ^a,b   Su, Zhiyao ^a,b   Xie, Dandan ^a,b   Ke, Xiandong ^a,b   Li, Zhenkui ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Leaf area index; Natural disturbance; Permutation MANOVA; Seedling dynamics; Snowstorm

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DISASTER; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; EVERGREEN TREE; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; MONTANE FOREST; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; SNOW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

ALNIPHYLLUM FORTUNEI; CASTANOPSIS CARLESII; CASTANOPSIS FARGESII; CINNAMOMUM; CINNAMOMUM PORRECTUM; LITHOCARPUS GLABER; MACHILUS CHINENSIS; NEOLITSEA; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON MOULMAINENSE; SCHIMA SUPERBA; STYRACACEAE; STYRAX;

EID: 79957789401     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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