What happens below the canopy? Direct and indirect influences of the dominant species on forest vertical layers

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1145-1153

  Yuan, Zuoqiang ^a   Gazol, Antonio ^c   Wang, Xugao ^a   Xing, Dingliang ^a,b   Lin, Fei ^a,b   Bai, Xuejiao ^a,b   Zhao, Yuqiang ^a,b   Li, Buhang ^b   Hao, Zhanqing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HETEROGENEITY; SHADING; SHRUB; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TOPOGRAPHY;

BAEKDU MOUNTAIN; CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS;

PINUS KORAIENSIS;

EID: 84862771245     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19757.x     Document Type: Article

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