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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on May 24 2008)

Spring ephemeral

Spring ephemeral

Producing flowers immediately after snowmelt and completing the life-cycle by early summer

be perennial that can reproduce by underground organs in each spring soon after snow melting
be able to utlize excess light before the leaf flushing of canopy trees →
be distributed in deciduous forests

Phenology

Relative
light
intensity
(%)
100






50






0
light
spring fall
Seasonal change

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