Effects of bark stripping by sika deer, Cervus nippon, on wind damage to coniferous trees in subalpine forest of central Japan
| Autor: | Ei’ichi Shibata, Yudai Torazawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Cervus
biology Agroforestry Forest management Forestry 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 010501 environmental sciences biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Abies homolepis Plant ecology visual_art Stripping (linguistics) 040103 agronomy & agriculture visual_art.visual_art_medium 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Bark Picea jezoensis 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Subalpine forest |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Forest Research. 13:296-301 |
| ISSN: | 1610-7403 1341-6979 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10310-008-0080-x |
| Popis: | We evaluated the effect of bark stripping by sika deer (Cervus nippon), and subsequent wood decay, on tree fall in a coniferous forest on Mt Ohdaigahara in central Japan from July to September 2006. This valuable primeval coniferous forest is declining because of bark stripping. Broken trunks of Abies homolepis and Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis had more serious decay and larger bark-stripping wounds on the trunk than standing trees, suggesting that bark stripping causes trunk decay and results in broken trunks and uprooting by typhoons. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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