title: [Biomass and yield of Betula platyphylla population in Mila Mount of Tibet].
abstract: Mila Mount in Southeast Tibet is the west boundary of the horizontal distribution of Betula platyphylla. It is also the highest altitude area in China and the world, where Betula platyphylla is distributed. Based on the investigation of regional sample plots and the analysis of analytic trees, this paper compared the biomass and yield of Betula platyphylla population at different slope orientation and different altitude. The results showed that the growth of Betula platyphylla was greatly interfered by human activities. The yearly productivity of Betula platyphylla grown in Mila Mount was 363.1-2,072.94 kg x hm(-2), and the biomass was 7,625.00-33,167.00 kg x hm(-2), indicating that the biomass of Betula platyphylla was quite different for different population. The productivity and biomass of Betula platyphylla coppice after cutting were lower than those of seedling forest, and there existed youth broken-down in the coppice. The zonal changes of water resources had no significant effect on the water allocation and the biomass of Betula platyphylla.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Tibet Plateau Ecology, Linzhi, China. dqluo0894@163.com
authors.forename: Daqing
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Weilie
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Jingsheng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jiangping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Xuebing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Guohui
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhong
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D029662:Betula / Q000254:growth & development*; D018533:Biomass; D011156:Population Density; D018609:Tibet