Review Article
Review of Plant Species Diversity in Managed Forests in Japan
Table 1
Effects of management regime on plant species richness and diversity in plantations in Japan.
| Management regime | Change in plant species richness or diversity | Increasing | No change | Decreasing |
| Line cutting | Sakuta et al. [25] | |
Ito et al. [26] | Yamagawa et al. [27] | | |
| | Hanada et al. [30] | | | Thinning | Ishii et al. [31] | | Nagai and Yoshida [33] | | Hirata et al. [32] | | |
| Rotation frequency | | | Hino and Hiura [36] |
| Age | Ito et al. [43] |
Nagaike et al. [50] | | Nagaike et al. [48] | | |
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Distance from seed sources | | Gonzales and Nakashizuka [54] (seedling) | Takahashi and Kamitani [51] Gonzales and Nakashizuka [54] (saplings) | | Utsugi et al. [55] (seedlings and saplings in unthinned, seed fall and seed bank in thinned) | Utsugi et al. [55] (seedlings and saplings in thinned) |
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