Abstract:Sharptooth oak (Quercus aliena var. acuteserrata) is an important broad-leaved deciduous tree in the subtropical and warm-temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, and forests dominated by this oak species are common in the middle range of Minjiang River, Sichuan Province. In order to understand the regeneration of oak forests, which are critical to the restoration of degraded forests in western China, we examined acorn traits, seedling pools and the size structures of sharptooth oak adults in different h...