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http://dx.doi.org/10.13047/KJEE.2021.35.4.408

Monitoring on the Vegetation Structure and Dynamics of Abies Koreana Populations in Jirisan National Park  

Chun, Young-Moon (Songgwang Ecological Institute)
Kim, Sang-Min (Sunchun National University)
Park, Eun-Hee (Korea National Park Service)
Park, Sun-Hong (Jirisan National Park Southern Office)
Lee, Ho-Young (Hankil Forest Institute)
Kim, Jin-Weon (Korea National Park Research Institute)
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Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology / v.35, no.4, 2021 , pp. 408-423 More about this Journal
Abstract
We established and monitored survey sites in seven regions of Mt. Jiri to investigate population decline and change of the Korean fir (Abies koreana) over a ten-year period from 2009 to 2018. With the exception of one site (Seseok), the six remaining ones all showed a four-layer stratification structure. The importance value of Korean firs in all of the survey areas decreased significantly by 28.5%, from 55.7% in 2009 to 39.8% in 2018. The average population of objects with a diameter at breast height (DBH) of 5cm or more in all survey sites was 711 objects/ha in 2018, and the cumulative death rate from 2009 to 2018 was 10.8%. Among the death types, DS (dead standing) was the most dominant, comprising 82.4% of the total survey area. However, in Banyabong 1, which had a high gradient of 35°, the death types other than DS accounted for 44.2%. We estimate that A. koreana can maintain a stable population as its distribution type for each diameter class in the Saeseokpyeongjeon site showed a reverse-J shape. The average annual ring growth in all survey sites was 1.09 mm/year, with the most abundant growth observed in the Seseokpyeongjeon site, which was formed mainly by a subtree layer. The growth ring survey showed the estimated average age of A. koreana population in the Byeoksoryeong and Banyabong 1 sites to be 102 and 91 years, respectively, a general downward trend of vitality since 2013.
Keywords
SUBALPINE VEGETATION; ABIES KOREANA DECLINES; IMPORTANCE VALUE; GROWTH DYNAMICS; ANNUAL RING GROWTH;
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