Forest Ecosystems and Environments

Integration of ecophysiological processes to stand dynamics.- Plant responses to elevated CO2 concentration at different scales: leaf, whole plant, canopy, and population.- Abies population dynamics simulated using a functional-structural tree model.- Estimation of aboveground biomass and net biomass increment in a cool temperate forest on a landscape scale.- Latitudinal/altitudinal transect of East Asia.- Dynamics, productivity and species richness of tropical rainforests along elevational and edaphic gradients on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo.- Pattern of changes in species diversity, structure and dynamics of forest ecosystems along latitudinal gradients in East Asia.- Local coexistence of tree species and the dynamics of global distribution pattern along an environmental gradient: a simulation study.- Scaling up from shifting-gap mosaic to geographic distribution in the modeling of forest dynamics.- Monitoring and modeling atmosphere-forest-soil processes.- CO2 exchange in a temperate Japanese cypress forest compared with that in a cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest.- Carbon cycling and budget in a forested basin of southwestern Hokkaido, northern Japan.- Seasonal variation in stomatal conductance and physiological factors observed in a secondary warm-temperate forest.- Forest-lake interface in watershed systems.- Biogeochemical and hydrological controls on carbon export from a forested catchment in central Japan.- Dissolved organic carbon and nitrate concentrations in streams: a useful index indicating carbon and nitrogen availability in catchments.- The production-to-respiration ratio and its implication in Lake Biwa, Japan.- Dynamics of methane in mesotrophic Lake Biwa, Japan.