Large trees are surrounded by more heterospecific neighboring trees in Korean pine broad-leaved natural forests.

ABSTRACT: Negative conspecific density dependence is one of the principal mechanisms affecting plant performance and community spatial patterns. Although many studies identified the prevalence of density dependent effects in various vegetation types by analyzing conspecific spatial dispersal patterns (spatial patterning) of forest trees, interactions between individuals and heterospecific neighboring trees caused by density-dependent effects are often neglected. The effects of negative density dependence lead us to expect that neighbourhood species segregation would increase with increasing tree size and that larger trees would be surrounded by more heterospecific neighbours than would smaller trees. We studied four mapped 1-Ha plots on Changbaishan Mountain in North-eastern China and used marked po

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002480 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature