Forest Ecology Recent Advances in Plant Ecology
This volume provides an overview of recent advances in forest ecology on a variety of topics, including species diversity and the factors that control species diversity, environmental factors controlling distribution of forests, impacts of disturbances on
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Forest Ecology Recent Advances in Plant Ecology
Previously published in Plant Ecology Volume 201, Issue 1, 2009
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Editor A.G. Van der Valk Iowa State University Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology 141 Bessey Hall Ames IA 50011-1020 USA
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2795-5 ISBN: 978-90-481-2794-8
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Contents
Quantitative classification and carbon density of the forest vegetation in Lüliang Mountains of China X. Zhang, M. Wang & X. Liang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1–9
Effects of introduced ungulates on forest understory communities in northern Patagonia are modified by timing and severity of stand mortality M.A. Relva, C.L. Westerholm & T. Kitzberger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11–22
Tree species richness and composition 15 years after strip clear-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon X.J. Rondon, D.L. Gorchov & F. Cornejo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
23–37
Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China Y. Zhang, M. Wilmking & X. Gou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
39–50
Does leaf-level nutrient-use efficiency explain Nothofagus-dominance of some tropical rain forests in New Caledonia? A. Chatain, J. Read & T. Jaffré . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
51–66
Dendroecological study of a subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) forest in the Qinling Mountains, China H. Dang, M. Jiang, Y. Zhang, G. Dang & Q. Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
67–75
A conceptual model of sprouting responses in relation to fire damage: an example with cork oak (Quercus suber L.) trees in Southern Portugal F. Moreira, F. Catry, I. Duarte, V. Acácio & J.S. Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
77–85
Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest R. Linares-Palomino, V. Cardona, E.I. Hennig, I. Hensen, D. Hoffmann, J. Lendzion, D. Soto, S.K. Herzog & M. Kessler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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