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JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 296-301Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-008-0080-x
Keywords
Abies homolepis; Cervus nippon; debarking; Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis; wind damage
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- Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [14206019]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [18380090, 18380097]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [14206019, 18380097, 18380090] Funding Source: KAKEN
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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.
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