MECHANICAL ABRASION AND INTERCROWN SPACING

被引：113

作者：

PUTZ, FE

PARKER, GG

ARCHIBALD, RM

机构：

[1] UNIV GEORGIA, INST ECOL, ATHENS, GA 30602 USA

[2] UNIV WASHINGTON, COLL FOREST RESOURCES, SEATTLE, WA 98195 USA

来源：

AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST | 1984年 / 112卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.2307/2425452

中图分类号：

X176 [生物多样性保护];

学科分类号：

090705 ;

摘要：

The crowns of neighboring trees of similar height do not interdigitate but rather are generally separated by spaces called crown shyness gaps. In a black mangrove (Avicennai germinans) forest in Costa Rica, the width of crown shyness gaps was positively correlated with the distance pairs of trees or branches adjacent to the gap swayed in the wind (n = 22; P < 0.01). Abrasion of buds, leaves and branches due to trees knocking into one another seems to create and maintain the spaces around each tree crown.

引用

页码：24 / 28

页数：5

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