Factors influencing establishment by direct seeding of indigenous tree species in typical plantations and shrubland in South China

New Forests

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-33

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

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Colonization; Litter; Seed limitation; Seedling establishment; Understory vegetation

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DIRECT-SEEDING; EARLY-SUCCESSIONAL; FOREST REGENERATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LITTER; LOW COSTS; MIXED-CONIFER; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL FORESTS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SEED MASS; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; SHRUBLANDS; SOUTH CHINA; TREE SPECIES; UNDERSTORY LIGHT; UNDERSTORY VEGETATION;

PLANT EXTRACTS; POTASSIUM; REFORESTATION; SEED; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGY;

COLONIZATION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DICOTYLEDON; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANTATION; POTASSIUM; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUBLAND; SOIL NITROGEN; SURVIVAL; UNDERSTORY;

CHINA; ECOLOGY; EXTRACTIVES; FOREST LITTER; PLANTS; POTASSIUM; REFORESTATION; SEEDS;

CHINA;

CASTANOPSIS CHINENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; CRYPTOCARYA; CRYPTOCARYA CHINENSIS; EUCALYPTUS; PSYCHOTRIA; PSYCHOTRIA RUBRA;

EID: 79957987922     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-010-9234-8     Document Type: Article

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