Roles of thinning intensity in hardwood recruitment and diversity in a conifer, Criptomeria japonica plantation: A 5-year demographic study

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 269, Issue , 2012, Pages 177-187

  Seiwa, Kenji ^a   Etoh, Yukino ^a   Hisita, Masahiro ^a   Masaka, Kazuhiko ^b   Imaji, Aya ^a   Ueno, Naoto ^a   Hasegawa, Yoichi ^a   Konno, Miki ^a   Kanno, Hiroshi ^a   Kimura, Megumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forestry Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advance regeneration; Seed germination; Seedling emergence; Seedling growth; Seedling survival; Successional status

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE REGENERATION; SEED GERMINATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING GROWTH; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; SUCCESSIONAL STATUS;

BIODIVERSITY; CULTIVATION; HARDWOODS; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REFORESTATION;

ECOLOGY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; LITTER; MIXED FOREST; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; THINNING; UNDERSTORY; WOOD;

JAPAN;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CORNUS; CORNUS CONTROVERSA; CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA; JAPONICA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84856492021     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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