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Secondary succession in two subtropical forests

Plant Ecology, 1999
We studied secondary succession in two subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests near Shanghai, China that had been harvested 2–60 years earlier. Shrubs were thinned in one of the forests to about 60% of their original density for the first 20 years after harvesting. The other was not disturbed after harvesting. Five stands were sampled in each forest.
X. Li, S.D. Wilson, Y. Song
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Carbon dynamics in three subtropical forest ecosystems in China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020
The carbon sequestration capacity of the forest ecosystem normally increases overage due to the carbon dynamic in below canopy and soil. The carbon dynamic is reflective of the forest characteristics and their interactions with climate, topographic, and soil conditions.
Zhongrui Zhang, Quanlin Zhong, Dongliang Cheng, Zhiqun Huang, Chaobin Xu, Hua Yu, Shihong Xiao   +6 more
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Subtropical Dry Forests: The Main Forest Ecoregion of Argentina

2020
The Chaco is a sparsely populated, wooded grassland natural region of the Rio de la Plata basin, where four physiognomic regions can be identified: Humid Chaco, Semi-arid Chaco, Arid Chaco, and Chaco Serrano. In this introduction to the section of subtropical dry forests, the most relevant tree genera and species are presented. A severe degradation and
Aníbal Verga, Diego López Lauenstein
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Drivers of tree carbon storage in subtropical forests

Science of The Total Environment, 2019
Tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems play an important role in the global carbon regulation. Despite increasing evidence for effects of biodiversity (species diversity, functional diversity and functional dominance), stand structural attributes, stand age and environmental conditions (climate and topography) on tree carbon storage, the relative ...
Yin Li, Weikai Bao, Frans Bongers, Bin Chen, Guoke Chen, Ke Guo, Mingxi Jiang, Jiangshan Lai, Dunmei Lin, Chunjiang Liu, Xiaojuan Liu, Yi Liu, Xiangcheng Mi, Xingjun Tian, Xihua Wang, Wubing Xu, Junhua Yan, Bo Yang, Yuanrun Zheng, Keping Ma   +19 more
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Avian Extinctions from Tropical and Subtropical Forests

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2004
▪ Abstract  Tropical forests are being lost at an alarming rate. Studies from various tropical locations report losses of forest birds as possibly direct or indirect results of deforestation. Although it may take a century for all the sensitive species to be extirpated from a site following habitat loss, species with larger or heavier bodies and those ...
Navjot S. Sodhi, L.H. Liow, F.A. Bazzaz
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Carbon Economy of Subtropical Forests

2016
Compared to tropical and temperate forests, subtropical forests have received little attention in physiological and ecological studies until now, and the contribution of this ecosystem type to the global carbon cycle has not been fully assessed. In this chapter we discuss results on the carbon balance of subtropical forests at different spatial and ...
Yong-Jiang Zhang, Piedad M. Cristiano, Yong-Fei Zhang, Paula I. Campanello, Zheng-Hong Tan, Yi-Ping Zhang, Kun-Fang Cao, Guillermo Goldstein   +7 more
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COMMUNITY CONVERGENCE IN DISTURBED SUBTROPICAL DUNE FORESTS

Ecology, 2005
Do communities return to their former state when we disturb them? The answer is ''surely not always,'' since some disturbances may be so devastating that recovery will be impossible. If communities do recover, then how fast is that recovery? Do different subsets of species return at the same rate?
T. D. Wassenaar, R. J. van Aarde, S. L. Pimm, S. M. Ferreira   +3 more
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Ecosystem Dynamics of a Subtropical Floodplain Forest

Ecological Monographs, 1985
The carbon, phosphorus, and water cycles of a subtropical floodplain forest, and related ecosystem characteristics, were studied. Located at 750 m elevation in Puerto Rico (latitude 18°N) the forest had 27 tree species, 3059 stems/ha, a basal area of 42.4 m2/ha, maximum height of 17 m, and a leaf area index of 3.3. Palm (Prestoea montana) dominated the
Jorge L. Frangi, Ariel E. Lugo
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Tropical and subtropical forests

1985
A significant amount of information has accumulated over the last century on the ecology of tropical and subtropical forests (Golley, 1983a; Golley and Medina,1975; Richards,1952; Walter, 1971). However, as pointed out recently by Mooney et al. (1980), very little information is available on the physiological ecology of tropical and subtropical plants.
Robert W. Pearcy, Robert H. Robichaux
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Soil water hydraulic redistribution in a subtropical monsoon evergreen forest

Science of The Total Environment, 2022
Hydraulic redistribution (HR), which is the passive movement of water through plant roots from wet to dry soil due to the water gradient, is important for plant physiology and ecohydrological processes. However, our poor knowledge on HR in the humid monsoon climate zone hampers the understanding of the interactions between vegetation and soil water ...
Wei, Lezhang, Qiu, Zhijun, Zhou, Guangyi, Zuecco, Giulia, Liu, Yu, Wen, Ya   +5 more
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