Plant community dynamics on volcanoes
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[ Introduction | Mount Usu | Mount Koma | Others | References ]
- Introduction of volcanoes
- Mount Usu
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Crater basin in 1986 Vegetation damaged by the 2000 eruptions. (by J.H. Titus at August 2001) A crater created by the 2000 eruptions, taken at September 4 2002
Seedbank in the former topsoil
We collected seedbank in the former topsoil 10, 20 and 30 years after the 1977-78 eruptions. Many seeds were still alive!
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Seedbank
- Mount Koma
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Flora
Smoke was rising from the 1996 crater on the volcano Mount Koma. (in the autumn of 1996) In the summer of 2001 by Jon In the summer of 2001 by Jon
Biological invasion
The dominant species is Larix kaempferi that is non-native to Hokkaido, taken on October 2001 by M. Akasaka
Facilitation and Interaction
Between plant-plant
Patch-forming shrub species, Salix reinii, vs cohabitants.
Study site on the effect of facilitationBetween animal-plant
Corvus macrorhynchos vs Rhus trichocarpa
Between plant-fungus
- Others
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World
Mount Kliuchevskoi, Kamchatka
The volcano Mount Kliuchevskoi (ca 4800 m) and Kamchatka River (a letter photo from Grishin S).Mount St. Helens, USA
Pinatubo, Philippines
Mudflow occurring on the foot of Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines, on Jan. 1997. Close-up. Looks like a desert. Even on the unstable ground surface, plant had immigrated on the surface. Rangitoto Island, NZ
Japan
Mount Esan
Mount Eniwa - References
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Volcano World (Oregon State Univ.) Volcano Watch Volcano Live (John Seach) Llaima Volcano, Chile Volcano Report by Stefan KuettelMount St. Helens, WA, USA Volcanoes in New Zealand Volcanoes on Hawaii Islands Krakatau, Indonesia (Research program) Papandayan, Indonesia, erupted on Nov. 15, 2002 Surtsey (Surtsey Research Society) |
Volcanoes of Japan Mount Fuji: Visual database on vegetation of Mt. Fuji, Japan (Japanese/English) Miyake Island |
On mountain names, '-dake', '-take', '-san' and '-yama' mean 'mountain'. For example, Komagatake means Mount Koma
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| A. A permanent plot established in 1983 to monitor the effects of 1977-78 eruptions on plant communities on Mount Usu | B. A permanent plot established in 1996 to monitor the effects of 1996 eruptions on plant communities on Mount Koma | C. A permanent plot established on Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand (Dr. B. Clarkson, the University of Waikato) |
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