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1. Differences in Seedling and Sapling Densities and Species Composition between
Canopy Gaps and Forest Understories in a Subtropical Forest in Bangladesh
Tarit Kumar BAUL, Anwarul Islam CHOWDHURY, Md Jamal UDDIN, Mohammad Kamrul HASAN, Tapan
Kumar NATH, Lars Holger SCHMIDT
1. Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong, Chittagong 4331, Bangladesh 2. Faculty of
Science, Forestry and Technology, School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu 80101, Finland 3.
Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences and Engineering, University of Lleida, Lleida 25001, Spain 4. Natural
Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki 00790, Finland 5. Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham
Malaysia, Jalan Broga 43500, Malaysia 6. Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of
Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C 1958, Denmark
Figure 3 Densities (no. ha -1 ) of seedling, sapling, and tree for dominant species in canopy openings ( ) and dense
canopy ( ) of SFR, Bangladesh Note: Bars represent the standard error of the mean. The same suffix letters indicate no
significant difference ( P >0.05) between canopy openings and dense canopies for seedlings, saplings, and trees.