Distance- and density-dependent seedling mortality caused by several diseases in eight tree species co-occurring in a temperate forest

Forest Ecology: Recent Advances in Plant Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 181-196

  Yamazaki, Miki ^a   Iwamoto, Susumu ^b   Seiwa, Kenji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOWA HAKKO KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disease; Herbivore; Host specificity; Janzen Connell mechanism; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900626860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2795-5_14     Document Type: Chapter

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