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The Relationship Between Soil Seed Bank and Actual Vegetation  

Yi, Myung-Hoon (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Yong-Shik (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Do-Gyun (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Sunchon National University)
Park, Seok-Gon (Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University)
Shin, Hyun-Tak (Gyeongsangnam-do Forest Environment Research Institute)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.24, no.6, 2010 , pp. 638-647 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed in order to analyze influences the actual vegetation between the communities of Pinus densiflora and Quercus mongolica in southern Korea to the species composition of the seed bank in the top soil. The soil samples were collected from the studied plots and transported to the Experimental Glasshouse at Department of Landscape Architecture, Yeungnam University and examined the germinated species individual numbers with species composition and germinated individual numbers by species. The overall germination status was the highest in the herbaceous layers than the layers of tree, sub-tree and shrub, respectively. There were no significantly different between numbers of species and individuals and between actual vegetation and seed bank in the two communities. The woody species marked in the seed bank as a pioneer or edge species than in the two communities which are in the stage of mid or late successional species. Although the plant species in the herbaceous layers was highly influenced to the species composition of the seed bank, but no significantly different was showed within the same forest zone and latitudes of Korean peninsula. As the pioneer or edge species of the actual vegetation possibly will be higher the buried in the top soil layer and this phenomenon will influence overall species composition in the seed bank population.
Keywords
TOP SOIL; SPECIES COMPOSITION; GERMINATION; Pinus densiflora; Quercus mongolica;
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