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Environmental Factors and Growth Properties of Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino Community and Effect its Distribution on the Development of Lower Vegetation in Jirisan National Park  

Park, Seok-Gon (Dept. of Landscape architecture, Sunchon Univ.)
Yi, Myung-Hoon (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, Yeungnam Univ.)
Yoon, Jung-Won (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, Yeungnam Univ.)
Sin, Hyun-Tak (Korea National Arboretum)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.26, no.1, 2012 , pp. 82-90 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we investigated the environmental factors and growth characteristics of Sasa borealis community inside a temperate deciduous forest and reviewed its effect on the lower vegetation and natural regeneration. The S. borealis community in the Jungsan-ri region of Jirisan National Park was chosen as the study area, and the vegetation and the environmental factors were investigated. The dominance value, height and foliage layer thickness were investigated as the growth characteristics of S. borealis in the area. As the environmental factors, we investigated the photosynthesis photon flux density (PPFD) of the shrub and ground layers as well as the chemical characteristics of the soil. Additionally, we investigated the flora on the ground layer of the area as well as the number and height of woody plants. The result showed that the height and foliage layer thickness of the S. borealis was closely related to the light conditions but the distribution was not determined simply by the effect of the environment or vegetation of the particular area. This may be deeply related with the unique survival strategy of S. borealis, a vegetably propagated plant, that it can extensively distributed on a heterogeneous resources environment in a forest as multiple culm are interconnected with each other through the rhizomes. The dense dominance and great height of S. borealis reduced the plant species diversity in the ground layer by decreasing the PPFD on the ground surface.
Keywords
PHOTOSYNTHESIS PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL INTEGRATION; SURVIVAL STRATEGY; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST;
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