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Vegetation Composition and Structure of Mt. - Kumbong, Uiseong-Gun, Korea  

Bae Kwan-Ho (Department of Forest Resource & Environment, Sangju National University)
Lee Jung-Hyo (Department of Forest, kyungpook National University)
Kim Dong-Geun (Department of Forest Resource & Environment, Sangju National University)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.7, no.4, 2005 , pp. 303-310 More about this Journal
Abstract
Vegetation composition and structure of forest community around Mt. Kumbong, Uiseong-Gun, Korea, were studied using a qualitative and a quantitative approach. Vegetation types and various ecological characteristics including constancy classes, relative coverage, species diversity and interspecific similarity of the major component species were analyzed. Seventy relatives were sampled in $100 m^2$ plots. Forest communities were grouped into mountain vegetation and lower-valley vegetation. The former were divided into 3 communities (Quercus mongolica, Quercus variabilis and Quercus dentata communities). The latter was an Acer mono community. Vegetation units were classified into ten groups. Woody vegetation coverage was $50\~65\%$. The lower-valley vegetation type showed from $2.06\pm0.25\;to\;2.31\pm0.26$ in the species diversity. The species showing interspecific similarity over 0.5 with Quercus mongolica appeared to be Pinus densiflora, Quercus dentata and Tilia amurensis in the tree and subtree layer, and Lindera obtusiloba, Fraxinus sieboldiana, Carex humilis and Carex siderostica in the shrub and herb layer, The species showing higher interspecific similarity with Acer mono were Cornus controversa and Ulmus davidiana in the tree and subtree layer, and Philadelphus schrenchkii and Aristolochia manshuriensis in the shrub and herb layer.
Keywords
Constancy classes; Interspecific similarity; Species diversity; Vegetation composition; Vegetation types;
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