caa a22 4500 46907485X CHVBK 20180323132932.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02418942 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02418942 Factors affecting the dynamics of vegetation in the landscapes of shimokamagari Island, southwestern Japan [Elektronische Daten] [Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Yoko Ohta] On Shimokamagari, an island of the Seto Island Sea, patterns of vegetation in the landscape were studied using vegetation maps. Relationships between social and economic changes, site conditions and the vegetation were examined from a historical perspective. In the process of economic development, mandarin orange production became important on this island. However, over-production, a reduction in the price of mandarin oranges and low-temperature damage to orange trees caused large citrus orchards to be abandoned. A plant community dominated by kudzu appeared in the abandoned orchards and the pine forests, as well. These changes in orchards were connected with the natural site conditions, such as soil, geology, inclination, elevation, direction of slope, and also with artificial conditions, such as density of working paths. Another factor causing change was the replacement of the organic fertilizer of litter from forests by chemical fertilizer since the 1960's. As a result, medium and small forests of pine became tall forests and tall forests of pine changed into tall oak forests. In the human-dominated areas, the major factors affecting the process of vegetation were economic activities, and after the abandonment of the farm-lands, forest succession were controlled by natural site conditions. SPB Academic Publishing bv, 1992 agricultural economics nationallicence citrus fruit production nationallicence island nationallicence landscape nationallicence rural forest nationallicence site condition nationallicence social change nationallicence Nakagoshi Nobukazu Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-senda, Naka-ku, 730, Hiroshima, Japan aut Ohta Yoko Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-senda, Naka-ku, 730, Hiroshima, Japan aut Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/2(1992-06-01), 111-119 0921-2973 7:2<111 1992 7 10980 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418942 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418942 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nakagoshi Nobukazu Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-senda, Naka-ku, 730, Hiroshima, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ohta Yoko Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-senda, Naka-ku, 730, Hiroshima, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/2(1992-06-01), 111-119 0921-2973 7:2<111 1992 7 10980 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer