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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Tree Architecture and Structural Complexity in Mountain Forests of the Annapurna Region, Himalaya.

Smita Das, Prakash Basnet, Dominik Seidel, Alexander Röll, Martin Ehbrecht, Dirk Hölscher

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Smita DasTropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology University of Göttingen Gottingen Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3367-7161
Prakash BasnetDepartment for Spatial Structures and Digitization of Forests University of Göttingen Gottingen Germany.
Dominik SeidelDepartment for Spatial Structures and Digitization of Forests University of Göttingen Gottingen Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4131-9424
Alexander RöllTropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology University of Göttingen Gottingen Germany.
Martin EhbrechtDepartment of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones University of Göttingen Gottingen Germany.
Dirk HölscherTropical Silviculture and Forest Ecology University of Göttingen Gottingen Germany.

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Abstract

Mountain ranges comprise heterogeneous environments and high plant diversity, but little is known about the architecture and structural complexity of trees in mountain forests. We studied the relationship between tree architecture, environmental conditions, and tree structural complexity in forests of the Annapurna region in the Himalaya. We further asked whether and how tree structural complexity translates into forest stand structural complexity. The study covers 546 trees on 14 undisturbed study plots across wide ranges of elevation (1300 to 3400 m asl.) and annual precipitation (1180 to 3600 mm yr.

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box‐dimensionelevationprecipitationstructural complexitytree architecture

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PMID40297317
PMCPMC12034751

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