Fig 1.
Numerical proportion of harvested (red area), survival (green area) and withered (gray area) bamboo shoots in 2013.
(a) Harvest treatment and (b) control treatment.
Fig 2.
Productivity of bamboo shoots in the year of harvesting.
(a) Numbers of produced bamboo shoots one day after harvesting (on June 11th, 2013) and 2–46 days after harvesting (from June 12th to July 26th 2013). Red circles: harvest. Blue circles: control. (b) Total number of bamboo shoots produced in 2013. Bars: SE values.
Fig 3.
Initial status of bamboo grass in the year the experiment was started (2013).
(a) Relationship between the density of the matured bamboo grass and the bamboo shoot productivity. Red circles: harvest. Blue circles: control. Solid line indicates the linear regression between the density of matured bamboo grass and bamboo shoots. (b) Density of matured bamboo grass. Bars: SE values.
Fig 4.
Productivity of bamboo shoots in the year following harvesting (2014).
(a) Numbers of bamboo shoots produced. Bars: SE values. (b) Relationship of produced bamboo shoots between the year of harvesting (2013) and the next year (2014). Red circles: harvest. Blue circles: control. Solid and dashed lines indicate the linear regression of the harvest and control treatment, respectively.
Fig 5.
Change bamboo grass density after harvesting.
Red circles: harvest treatment. Blue circles: control treatment. Solid and dashed lines indicate the linear regression of the harvest and control treatment, respectively. Dotted line denotes no change in bamboo grass density between 2013 and 2014.