Yabu (thicket) - thicket

Japanese: やぶ(藪) - やぶ（英語表記）thicket

Among plant communities, thickets are a collective term for those that are mainly composed of shrubs and have a structure intermediate between forests and grasslands. There are thickets that are composed of a single species, such as bamboo thickets, and thickets with a complex structure, and some are in a climax phase and some in a transitional phase. Climax thickets develop in terrains and soil environments where forests do not develop, and are generally low in productivity. In addition, the stratigraphic structure of the community is not clear, and light often reaches the ground surface, so undergrowth plants also flourish.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

植物の群落のうち，灌木を主体とするもので，森林と草原の中間的な構造のものを総称してやぶという。竹やぶのように構成種が単一のものと，構成の複雑なものとがあり，それで極相になっているものも，遷移相のものもある。極相になっている場合は，森林の発達しない地形や土壌環境のところに発達しており，一般に生産性は低い。また，群落の層序構造がはっきりしておらず，光は地表まで届くことが多いので，下生えの草木もよく繁茂する。

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