Host: The Japanese Forestry Society
Long Term and Large Scale Studies at the MONDORI-Dani 16ha Forest Plot in Ashu, Kyoto. Long term and Large scale research is difficult to continue for long term, because the members will easily change in short term and long term foundations is rare. University training forest can be suitable to carry out long term and large scale research. We want to summarize how could be carried out establishment and 3 times censuses of this study plot. Another purpose is how to continue this study with no official support from University forest which reduced their research because of right sizing. Research site: The MONDORI-Dani plot was established in Ashu research forest of FSERC, Kyoto Univ. in 1992, to investigate long term dynamics of cool temperate climax forest. Three times censuses have been done every 5 years, All trees of upper 10cm by DBH were measured with diameter. At the time the status of trees were checked and remarked. All area of the MONDORI-Dani catchment is covered by plot area, which totally is 16ha. Plot was divided to 256 sub quadrates, each size is 25m*25m. The dominant species were Cryptomeria japonica, Fagus crenata, Querqus crispula, Betula grossa.
