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Distribution of woody plants and flora of vascular plant in cheonjiyeon valley in Jeju Island (제주도 천지연계곡의 수목분포와 관속식물상)

  • 김찬수;정은주;송관필;김지은;문명옥;강영제;김문홍
    • Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.114-122
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    • 2002
  • This study investigated the species composition and distribution of woody plants, and flora of vascular plants of Cheonjiyeon where is located in the most southern region of Korea. Twenty-nine taxa of trees were distributed in the valley, and of these, deciduous broad-leaved trees were 13. Of the total number of 2,547 trees, 1,429 were deciduous broad-leaved trees and remainder was broad-leaved evergreen. Deciduous broad-leaved trees covered 48.7% of the tree canopy while evergreen broad-leaved trees covered only 42.3%. The total number of shrub taxa was 37 with more evergreen shrub taxa than deciduous. Evergreen shrubs occupied 64.4% of shrub canopy while deciduous shrubs covered only 35.4%. The result of the investigation of flora showed that there are 446 taxa of flora including 114 families, 320 genera, 397 species, 1 subspecies, 39 varieties, and 9 forma. Of these, two species, Rubus hongnoensis Nakai and Lycoris chejuensis K. Tae et S. Ko, are endemic plants of Jeju Island. The flora includes 17 taxa of rare plants that are distributed only in Jeju Island in Korea. Also, the flora includes 1 taxon, Elaeocarpus sylvestris (Loureiro) Poiret var. ellipticus (Thunb.) Hara, of Korean natural monument, 2 taxa, Psilotum nudum (L.) Griseb. and Crypsinus hastatus (Thunb.) Copeland, of legally protected wildlife and plants, 38 taxa of naturalized plants, and 75 taxa of introduced plants.

An Analysis of Status Quo on the Multi-layer Planting at the landscape Planting Area in Apartment and Neighborhood Parks in Seoul Metropolitan Area (조경식재공간에서 다층식재의 실태분석 -수도권 아파트와 근린공원을 중심으로-)

  • 심우경;이동익
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.140-151
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    • 2001
  • This study based on the theoretical understanding of multi-layer planting which have engineering, ecological and landscape benefits, was conducted to find out the status of multi-layer planting in the apartment and neighborhood park in Seoul. This study was also aimed to seek for the problematic matters, and suggest a solution on the current multi-layer planting. The results of this study were as follows; 1) Since landscape woody plants have been classified just as tree and shrub in Korea, the classification for the multi-layer planting has been unreasonable, and landscape woody plants might have been classified as tree, sub-tree and shrub, or upper, middle, and lower-layer, It could be defined that upper layer is over eight meters in full growth, middle over 3-8 meters and lower under 3 meters. 2) In apartments, the upper layer consisted of eighteen species, the middle and lower layer seven species each. In neighborhood parks, the upper layer consisted of fifteen species, and the middle and lower layer five species each. 3) In terms of planting year of the surveyed areas, there were no differences in the number of species when planting year of the apartment was divided into two groups, the first half(1900-1995) and the second(1996-2000). But, in terms of individual occupation, the percentage was decreased in upper layer, while there was increasing in middle and lower layer. 4) As the result of survey of multi-layered area, it appeared that apartment was shown 0.65 percent and neighborhood park 0.61 percent of the planted area, which was less than 1 percentage of landscape architecturally planted area. 5) In apartment, the number of individual in middle layers has been increased in the first half and the second, but with respect to the correlation with multi-layered area, the apartments had the "$\rho$=0.208", saying that increasing middle layer was scattered planting instead of multi-layered planting. 6) In planting at the apartments in Korea, the planting density was limited, because the layer division was restricted to only tree and shrub. On the contrary, it was divided into upper, middle and lower tree in Japan. Therefore, in Korea, it should be classified as the planting density by dividing into tree, sub-tree, and shrubs, or upper, middle and lower tree by the law. And, it should be considered that the multi-layered planting has a proper organic relation as well as the planting density.g density.

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Species Diversity of a Stratified Hornbeam Community in Kwangneung Forest (광릉산림에 있어서 서나무군집의 층에 따른 종다양성에 관한 연구)

  • 이광석;장남기
    • Asian Journal of Turfgrass Science
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.131-136
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    • 1995
  • The herb, shrub, understory and canopy strata, which arbitrarily delineated by size classes, were sampled separately. The former one were sampled by the pin-point quadrat method. And remaining three by size quadrats, diversity (H= =$\Sigma$ Pi log Pi) of of each stratum was estimated for each set of census data. Species diversity within a stratum was independent of sample plot size above a minimum cumulative area. Diversity based on plotless and plot samples could he determined by the same equation, and by pooling the data needed to estimate diversity of each stratum.

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Anti-inflammatory Effect of Hederagenin Glycoside Isolated from Lonicera japonica

  • Son, Kun-Ho;Chang, Hyun-Wook;Kim, Hyun-Pyo;Kang, Sam-Sik
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.136-137
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    • 2002
  • Lonicera japonica Thunb. is a twining shrub that has been used as an antidote and to treat urinary disorders, fever and headache. It has been known as an anti-inflammatory agent in Korea from ancient times and is used widely for treating upper-respiratory tract infections, diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid arthritis. In the previous research, we isolated several flavonoid derivatives from the EtOAc soluble fraction. (omitted)

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Production of the taste-modifying protein, miraculin, in transgenic lettuce

  • Ezura, Hiroshi;Sun, Heyon-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Biotechnology Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.126-131
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    • 2005
  • Richadella dulcifica, a native shrub in tropical West Africa, gives red berries that have the unusual property of modifying a sour taste into a sweet taste. The red berries contain a taste-modifying protein named miraculin. A synthetic gene encoding miraculin was placed under the control of constitutive promoters and transferred to lettuce. High expression of miraculin was obtained, with accumulation of up to 1% total soluble protein in lettuce leaf. In addition, the miraculin expressed in lettuce possesses a taste-modifying activity.

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Cytotoxicity and Antimutagenic Activity of the Thorns of Gleditsia sinensis Lam.

  • Choi, Ho-Gyu;Lee, Dong-Ung;Lim, Jae-Chul;Park, Jong-Hee;Ryu, Shi-Yong
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.381.1-381.1
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    • 2002
  • Gleditsia sinensis Lam. (Leguminosae) is a perennial shrub distributed in Gyeongju in Korea and throughout China. Its thorns called "Jo Gak Ja" (Korean name) or "Zao Jia Ye (Chinese name) have been known to possess an antiinflammatory effect. Korean "Jo Gak Ja". a speciality of Gyeongju. is much longer and thicker than that of Chinese one. (omitted)

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Ecological Research of Abies holophylla Forest at Wol-jong Temple(Mt. Odae, Kangwon-do) (오대산 월정사지역 전나무림의 생태학적 연구)

  • Nam, Seong-Yeol;Yoo, Seok-In;Park, Wan-Geun;Han, Sang-Sup
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.69-81
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    • 2000
  • The vegetation structure of Abies holophylla forest was analyzed to provide the information for conservation of Abies holophylla forest at Wol-jong Temple in Mt. Odae national park, southern Korea. The layer structure of Abies holophylla forest was consists of tree layer(2 species), subtree layer(20 species), shrub layer(46 species) and herb layer(87 species), The importance value of Abies holophylla was the highest one 34.09%, and those of Acer pseudo-sieboldianum. Acer barbinerve, Philadelphus schrenckii. Isodon excisus, Acer triflorum, Staphylea bumalda, Carex humilis, Isodon japonicus, Acer mono and Actinidia polygama were 23.07%, 14.44%, 10.72%, 8.49%, 7.80%, 7.65%, 6.79%, 5.76%, 5.47% and 5.41%, respectively, Especially, when predicting succession in Abies holophylla forest, such seedlings were not formed and succession was governed by competition of Acer species, Quercus species and Tilia species of subtree and shrub layer.

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Ecological Characteristics of Daphniphyllum macropodum Miq. Community in Naejangsan National Park (내장산국립공원 굴거리나무군락의 생태적 특성)

  • Choi, Song-Hyun;Oh, Koo-Kyoon;Cho, Hyun-Seo;Kang, Hyun-Mi
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.175-188
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the vegetation structure of Daphniphyllum macropodum community in the Geumseon Valley area of Naejangsan National Park. To do so, thirty-seven plots($100m^2$) were set up and surveyed. The surveyed plots were divided into four groups according to the analysis of classification by TWINSPAN; (I)Carpinus laxiflora community (II)Carpinus laxiflora community (III)Deciduous Broad-leaved community and (IV)Zelkova serrata community. The results of vegetation structure analysis were; Daphniphyllum macropodum did not appeared in the canopy later but in understory and shrub layer. Even though Daphniphyllum macropodum will not be dominant species in the canopy later, but it was expected that Daphniphyllum macropodum will be major species in understory and shrub layer. The expected age of forest of the Geumseon Valley where Carpinus laxiflora and Zelkova serrata were dominant trees in canopy layer, was about 50 years old while that of Daphniphyllum macropodum in understory layer was 20 years old.

Effect of Gaps on Species Diversity in the Naturally Regenerated Mixed Broadleaved-Korean Pine Forest of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, China

  • Jin, Guangze;Liu, Yanyan;Liu, Shuang;Kim, Ji-Hong
    • Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.325-330
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    • 2007
  • Recognizing the ecological importance of forest gap formation for forest community structure, we examined the differences in species diversity between forest gaps and closed canopy areas for trees and shrubs in three developmental stages (seedling, sapling I, and sapling II) in a typical mixed broadleaved-Korean pine forest. We randomly placed 100 sample plots ($2{\times}2m$ for seedling and sapling I, and $5{\times}5m$ for sapling II) in forest gap and closed canopy areas of a 9 ha permanent sample plot for vegetation surveys of plants of each developmental stage in each habitat type. Even though the formation of forest gaps encouraged the occurrence of gap-dependent species and increased overall species diversity, there were no significant differences in species richness among the three developmental stages for both tree and shrub species (p>0.05). Comparing the two types of sites, statistical tests revealed no difference in species richness for trees, but highly significant differences (p<0.01) between forest types for shrubs for seedlings and sapling I, but not sapling II. Analysis of variance test indicated that there were no significant differences in species diversity among the three developmental stages of tree species (p>0.05) for both Simpson and Shannon indices. The variance for shrub seedlings was significantly different between forest gaps and closed canopy areas, but not for sapling I and sapling II. The analysis showed that the species diversity in forest gaps was significantly different from that of closed canopy areas for seedling and sapling I (p<0.01), but not for sapling II (p>0.05).