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Vegetation Structure of Some Abandoned Coal Mine Lands in Taebaek Area, Gangwon Province  

Min J. G. (상주대학교 산림자원학과)
Lee J. H. (경상대학교 농업생명과학원)
Woo S. Y. (서울시립대학교 환경원예학과)
Kim J. K. (경상대학교 산림과학부)
Moon H. S. (경상대학교 산림과학부)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.6, no.4, 2004 , pp. 256-264 More about this Journal
Abstract
Vegetation structure was investigated to provide basic information on revegetation of abandoned coal mine lands in Borim, Sungwon, Hyeopjeong, Daedong and at a control site in Taebaek. The upper layer of the control site consists of 7 species and the Importance Value was highest for Pinus densijlora, but there were no species in the four abandoned coal mines. The number of dominant species in the middle layer of each coal mine site was 2 for Borim, 2 for Sungwon, 3 for Hyeopjeong and 2 for Daedong. In the case of the lower layer in Borim, Sungwon, Hyeopjeong and Daedong, there were 12, 14, 9 and 8 species, respectively. The lower level importance values were highest for Pinus densiflora in Borim, for Amorpha fruticosa in Sungwon and for Rubus crataegifolius in the Hyeopjeong and Daedong coal mines. Weigela subsessilis, R. crataegifolius, P. densiflora, Betula platyphylla var. japonica, Stephanandra incisa, Lespedeza crytobotrya and A. fruticosa appeared in the lower layers of abandoned coal mines. Species diversity of the lower and the herbaceous layers ranged from 0.800 to 0.952 and 0.699 to 0.907 in abandoned coal mines. Evenness and dominance in all abandoned coal mines ranged from 0.840 to 0.949 and 0.051 to 0.160.
Keywords
vegetation structure; species diversity; abandoned coal min;
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