REGENERATION PROCESS OF CLIMAX BEECH FORESTS : I. STRUCTURE OF A BEECH FOREST WITH THE UNDERGROWTH OF SASA
1982 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 57-67
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1982 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 57-67
Regeneration process of a climax beech forest in Kayano-Daira, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan, was studied in relation to its structure, especially to an undergrowth of Sasa. The trees of small and middle size classes had contagious distribution, and most of them in the same contagion were confirmed to have emerged within 40-60 years from gap formation. This structure of the forest supports the idea on the regeneration process filling small gaps made after the death and falling over of a single or a few trees. Gap-phase regeneration seemed to be not only inhibited but also synchronized by the simultaneous death of Sasa.
