Twenty-one years of stand dynamics in a 33-year-old urban forest restoration site at Kobe Municipal Sports Park, Japan

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 309-314

  Hotta, Kana ^a   Ishii, Hiroaki ^a   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a   Doi, Naoko ^b   Azuma, Wakana ^a   Oyake, Yui ^b   Imanishi, Junichi ^b   Yoshida, Hironobu ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Canopy structure; Native species; Succession; Urban forestry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; HILLSLOPE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEGUME; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SECONDARY FOREST; SHADE TOLERANCE; STAND DYNAMICS; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; THINNING; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; KOBE;

NERIUM OLEANDER; QUERCUS PHILLYRAEOIDES; QUERCUS SERRATA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 84940164906     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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