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A Study on Correlation Between the Growth of Korean Red Pine and Location Environment in Temple Forests in Jeollanam-do, Korea

전남 사찰림에서의 소나무 생육과 입지환경간의 상관관계 연구

  • Park, Seok-Gon (Division of Forest Resources and Landscape Architecture, Sunchon National Univ.) ;
  • Hong, Suk-Hwan (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Oh, Chan-Jin (Jeollanam-do Forest Resources Research Institute)
  • 박석곤 (국립순천대학교 산림자원.조경학부) ;
  • 홍석환 (부산대학교 조경학과) ;
  • 오찬진 (전라남도산림자원연구소)
  • Received : 2017.01.23
  • Accepted : 2017.06.23
  • Published : 2017.08.31

Abstract

Although Korean red pine (Pinus densiflora) forests near temples are valuable as forests of the cultural landscape, they are likely to be deteriorated because of vegetation succession and climate changes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the vegetation structure, the pine vitality, and the site environmental characteristics of the pine forests near temples to identify the correlation between pine tree growth and location environment. We selected Chuneunsa, Wonhyosa, Jeungsimsa, and Taeansa Temples since these four areas still had the healthy pine forests. In all four studied area, the pine trees dominate the canopy layers while the deciduous broadleaf trees mostly inhabited appeared in the lower layers. The growth of pine trees in Jeungsimsa and Wonhyosa areas was not as good as Chuneunsa area where the pine trees tended to be older. We found higher total nitrogen content in soil in Jeungsimsa area than other areas, maybe because of increase in total nitrogen caused by the development of low vegetation in the area. This peculiarity may have led to the pine trees in the area to fall behind the deciduous broadleaf trees in competition for nitrogen nutrient and thus to show deteriorated growth. The altitude and the twig length showed a negative correlation as did the degree of slope and the mean importance percentage of the pine tree. In other words, the growth environment such as soil became poorer when the altitude and the degree of slope increased, and thus the growth amount and dominance of the pine trees were lower. The degree of slope showed a positive correlation with the twig length of the pine tree. Within boundaries of location environment where the pine tree forests were dominant, it seemed that growth of the pine trees was more favorable as the slope was steeper because the trees could avoid competition with deciduous broadleaf trees. On the other hand, the growth of pine trees deteriorated as the electrical conductivity of soil increased; increase in soil nutrients might have accelerated vegetation development of deciduous broadleaf trees and thus aggravated the growth environment of pine trees to negatively affect maintaining the health of the pine tree forests.

사찰인근 소나무림은 문화경관림으로서 가치가 높으나 식생천이와 기후변화로 쇠퇴할 가능성이 높다. 본 연구에서는 사찰인근 소나무림을 대상으로 식생구조와 소나무 활력도, 입지환경 특성을 조사해 소나무 생육과 입지환경간의 상관관계를 밝히고자 했다. 소나무림이 양호하게 남아 있는 전남지역의 천은사, 원효사, 증심사, 태안사 4개소를 연구대상지로 선정했다. 이 대상지의 교목층에는 모두 소나무가 우점하고 하층에는 낙엽활엽수종이 주로 출현했다. 소나무의 수령이 많은 천은사 지역보다 증심사 원효사의 소나무 생육상태가 전반적으로 좋지 않았다. 토양의 총질소량은 증심사가 다른 지역보다 높은 편이었는데 하층식생 발달로 총질소량이 늘어난 것으로 보인다. 이로 인해 낙엽활엽수종과의 질소양분 경합에서 밀려 소나무의 생육이 악화된 것으로 추정된다. 해발고와 가지길이는 부(-)의 상관관계를, 경사도와 소나무 평균상대우점치도 부(-)의 상관관계를 보였다. 즉, 해발고 경사도가 상승할수록 토양환경을 포함한 생육환경이 열악해지면서 소나무의 생장량 우점도가 저조해지는 것으로 보인다. 경사도는 소나무 가지길이와 정의(+) 상관관계를 보였다. 소나무림이 주로 분포하는 입지환경 범위 내라면, 급경사지일수록 낙엽활엽수종과의 경쟁을 회피해 소나무 생육이 양호해지는 것으로 판단된다. 반면, 토양의 전기전도도가 증가할수록 소나무 생육이 더 악화되는 것으로 분석됐다. 토양양분 증가는 낙엽활엽수종의 식생 발달을 촉진해 소나무의 생육환경을 악화시켜 소나무림의 건전성 유지에 부정적 영향을 미친 것으로 보인다.

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