Change bamboo grass density after harvesting.

<p>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.</p

Productivity of bamboo shoots in the year of harvesting.

<p>(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.</p

Initial status of bamboo grass in the year the experiment was started (2013).

<p>(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.</p

Productivity of bamboo shoots in the year following harvesting (2014).

<p>(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.</p