AN Yun, DING Guo-dong, GAO Guang-lei, et al. Quantity Characteristics and Distribution Pattern of Standing Dead Trees in Natural Secondary Forests of Rocky Mountain Area in Northern China[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2012, 31(4): 246-250.
AN Yun, DING Guo-dong, GAO Guang-lei, et al. Quantity Characteristics and Distribution Pattern of Standing Dead Trees in Natural Secondary Forests of Rocky Mountain Area in Northern China[J]. Bulletin of Soiland Water Conservation, 2012, 31(4): 246-250.DOI:
Standing dead trees(SDT) are widespread in forest ecosystems and have a particular important in-fluence on forest development and succession. Based on vegetation community survey in plots of 4 hm2 in Mulan-Weichang forest farm of Hebei Province
this study analyzed the species
diameter structure
bio-mass and distribution pattern of SDT in the rocky mountain area of Northern China. The results indicate that the SDT involved eight species. The density of the SDT was 79.25 stems/hm2
accounting for 10.13% of to-tal tree numbers in the plots. The biomass of the SDT was 18.46 t/hm2
accounting for 6.88% of the total biomass in the plots. Among them
both the number and the biomass of Populus were the greatest
account-ing for 83.60% and 90.58% of all the SDT
respectively. The diameter at breast height(DBH) of the major-ity of the SDT was smaller than 22 cm. The average uniform angle index of all the SDT of the forest is 0. 543