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The Vegetation Structure of Beomseom Islet, Jeju-do  

Kim Chan-Soo (Warm-Temperate Forest Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Song Gwan-Pil (Dept. of Life Science, Cheju National University)
Moon Myong-Ok (Dept. of Life Science, Cheju National University)
Kang Young-Jae (Warm-Temperate Forest Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Byun Gwang-Ok (Warm-Temperate Forest Research Center, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Kim Moon-Hong (Dept. of Life Science, Cheju National University)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.7, no.3, 2005 , pp. 201-210 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to prepare efficient and systematic measures for nature conservation and management in Beomseom Islet, and to provide for basic data to investigate the process of vegetation change in the future. The vegetation of Beomseom Islet was classified to six vegetation type; i.e., Miscanthus sinensis community, Pinus thunbergii community, Iythophyte vegetation, evergreen broad leaf community, shrub community, and Pseudosasa japonica community. The size of each vegetation type was 40,230 $m^2$ ($23.3\%$) for shrub community, 39,366 $m^2$($22.8\%$) for Iythophyte vegetation, 30,012 $m^2$ ($17.4\%$) fur Pinus thunbergii community, 29,853 $m^2$ ($17.3\%$) for Miscanthus sinensis community, 5,564 $m^2$ ($3.2\%$) for evergreen broad leaf community, and 3,325 $m^2$ ($1.9\%$) for Pseudosasa japonica community. The area of non-vegetated sea cliff Bone that composed of bare rocks is 24,246 $m^2$($14.1\%$). We estimated that these distribution patterns of vegetation were the result of various environmental factors such as the steepness of slope and shallowness of soil as well as the cultivation of exotic plants causing disruption of native vegetation.
Keywords
Nature conservation; Nature management; Vegetation type;
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