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http://dx.doi.org/10.5532/KJAFM.2016.18.4.327

Growth and Water Use Efficiency of Major Tree Species for Rehabilitation and the Impacts of Planting Trees on Microclimate Condition in Central Dry Zone of Myanmar  

Park, Go Eun (Center for Forest and Climate Change, National Institute of Forest Science)
Kim, Chan Beom (Division of Forest Restoration, National Institute of Forest Science)
An, Jiae (Center for Forest and Climate Change, National Institute of Forest Science)
Thang, Tluang Hmung (Dry Zone Greening Department, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry)
Maung, Wai Phyoe (Forest Research Institute)
Wai, Khaing Hsu (Dry Zone Greening Department, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry)
Kwon, Jino (Division of Forest Restoration, National Institute of Forest Science)
Park, Chanwoo (Devision of Forest Ecology, National Institute of Forest Science)
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Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology / v.18, no.4, 2016 , pp. 327-336 More about this Journal
Abstract
The Bagan, the central part of Myanmar, is dry zone where the mean annual precipitation is less than 600 mm for the last ten years. Forest in this region has been degraded due to biotic and abiotic disturbances. While there have been various efforts to rehabilitate the degraded area, the information on growth and physiological characteristics of planting species and the impacts of planting trees in the region still lacks. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the growth and physiological water use efficiency characteristics of five species (Azadirachta indica A. Juss., Acacia catechu Willd., Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn., Acacia leucophloea (Roxb.) Willd. and Albizia lebbek (L.) Willd.) which are utilized as rehabilitation species in the dry zone and to identify the impacts of tree planting on microclimate change in dry zone. The growth and the foliar carbon isotope composition of seedlings and the above mentioned five species planted in 2005 were measured. And from February 2015 to January 2016, microclimatic factors air temperature and relative humidity at 60 cm and 2 m above soil, soil temperature, soil water contents and precipitation were measured at every 30-minute interval from the two weather stations installed in the plantation located in Ngalinpoke Mt. Range. One was established in the center of A. indica plantation, and the other was in the barren land fully exposed to the sunlight. Among the five species, A. indica and A. lebbek which showed higher water use efficiency could be recommended as rehabilitation species in dry zone. Planting trees in the dry area was shown to affect the change of microclimate with shading effects, declining temperature of the land surface and aridity of the air, and to contribute to conserving more water in soil by preventing direct evaporation and containing more water with fine roots of trees.
Keywords
Adaptation; Arid region; Rehabilitation; Shading effect;
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