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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 October 22 2010)

Mixed forest (針広混交森林)


Mixed forest (針広混交森林)
Mixed forest or boreo-nemoral transitional forest

The forest develops tween temperate broad-leaved and subarctic needle-leaved forests.

Forest zoneBoreal coniferous (taiga)Boreonemoral-mixedNemoral-temperate summer green
Needle-leaved treesPicea, Abies, Pinus, Tsuga, etc.Picea, Abies, Pinus
Broad-leaved treesQuercus, AcerFagus, Acer, Quercus, Tilia

Mixed Mixed
Between Jozankei and Nakayama Pass, Sapporo, on October 9 2010. The red and yellow leaves are from deciduous broad-leaved trees, and the green leaves are from evergreen needle-leaved trees.

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