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http://dx.doi.org/10.13047/KJEE.2018.32.5.497

Study on Minimum Viable Population of Seed Bank in Pine Forest  

Yi, Myung-Hoon (Daegu Arboretum)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.32, no.5, 2018 , pp. 497-506 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the proper minimum viable population of a seed bank for the ecological restoration of pine forest using a seed bank. It examined the germinated soil seed bank from August 2010 to November 2011. The results of the correlation analysis showed that the area and the number of herbaceous species were the highest at 0.686. The results of the regression analysis of four variables including the number of woody species, the number of woody individuals, the number of herbaceous species, and the number of herbaceous individuals using the theory of island biogeography to the minimum viable population in studied plots showed that all four variables were significant with area at the level of 0.05, and R square was 0.583. One function was selected between the number of species and the number of individuals from the canonical correlation analysis, and the function square was 0.824. Both canonical function and squared canonical correlation showed significant at the level of 0.01. The result of study recommended the area size of the minimum viable population in pine forest applied by seed bank to be larger than $64m^2$, the number of species to be over 21, and the number of population to be over 120. It also found that the number of herbaceous species determined the cluster size of the seed bank. Therefore, it is necessary to consider herbaceous species that appear in the seed bank.
Keywords
TOP SOIL; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; NUMBER OF SPECIS; NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS; THEORY OF ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY;
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