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]
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)