Site and neighborhood effects on growth of tree saplings in subtropical plantations (China)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 327, Issue , 2014, Pages 118-127

  Li, Ying ^a   Härdtle, Werner ^a   Bruelheide, Helge ^b,f   Nadrowski, Karin ^c   Scholten, Thomas ^d   von Wehrden, Henrik ^a,e   von Oheimb, Goddert ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology   (Austria)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BEF China; Heterogeneous topography; Local environmental condition; Local neighborhood size; Local Shannon diversity; Sapling growth rate

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; REFORESTATION;

BEF-CHINA; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS; LOCAL SITE CONDITION; MONOCULTURE PLANTATIONS; SHANNON DIVERSITY; TREE SAPLINGS;

TROPICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DIAMETER; DIVERSITY INDEX; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MONOCULTURE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SAPLING; SITE EFFECT; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PLANTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL FERTILITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CHINA;

EID: 84901486161     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.04.039     Document Type: Article

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