Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (한국수산과학회지)

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Spatio-temporal Variation in the Benthic Environmental Conditions and Salt Marsh Vegetation in Donggeomdo, Incheon, Korea

강화 동검도 염습지 식생의 분포와 저서환경조건의 시.공간적 변화

  • Lee Hyung-Gon (Marine Environment Research Department, KORDI) ;
  • Park Heung-Sik (Marine Environment Research Department, KORDI) ;
  • Hong Jae-Sang (Department of Oceanography, College of Natural Science, Inha University) ;
  • Je Jong-Geel (Marine Environment Research Department, KORDI) ;
  • Lee Jae-Hac (Marine Environment Research Department, KORDI)
  • 이형곤 (한국해양연구원 해양환경연구본부) ;
  • 박흥식 (한국해양연구원 해양환경연구본부) ;
  • 홍재상 (인하대학교 자연과학대학 해양학과) ;
  • 제종길 (한국해양연구원 해양환경연구본부) ;
  • 이재학 (한국해양연구원 해양환경연구본부)
  • Published : 2006.05.01
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Abstract

We examined the effect of salt marsh vegetation on the benthic environment in macro-tidal flats at Donggeomdo, Ganghwa, on the west coast of Korea. Nine stations were established along a transect across the tidal flats, including salt marsh, and field sampling was conducted monthly from July 1997 to June 1998. During the study period, environmental parameters fluctuated as follows: salinity, 15.0 to 28.2 psu, exposure time, 613 to 702 hr/m, inundation time, 28 to 117 hr/m, sediment organic carbon, 0.71 to 1.34%, nitrogen, 0.07 to 0.16%, sulfur from 0.07 to 0.22%, mean grain size from 6.3 to $6.9{\phi}$, water content from 19.4 to 44.4%, water temperature from 4.4 to $20.4^{\circ}C$ and temperature of the surface sediments, 2.7 to $31.1^{\circ}C$, in total, seven halophyte species were sampled and found to be vertically distributed across the tidal levels. Carer scabrifolia, Suaeda maritima, Limonium tetragonum and Phragmites communis dominated the upper zone of the salt marsh, Juncus haenkei, Triglochin maritimum and P. communis dominated the middle zone, and Suaeda japonica predominated in the lower area. Principal component analysis (PCA) and non-metric multi-dimensional scaling revealed that the zonation of halophytes was related to environmental variables such as salinity and exposure time. The halophyte communities were likely related to the organic content of the surface sediment.

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