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KMID : 1024520110200121561
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Journal of the Environmental Sciences
2011 Volume.20 No. 12 p.1561 ~ p.1584
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Influences of Global Warming and Succession Possibility through Vertical Distribution of Communities in Ecotone, Wolchulsan National Park
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Lee Sung-Je
Ahn Young-Hee
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Abstract
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This study aims at classifying and interpreting on the vegetation structure and analyzing the correlationship between communities and environmental conditions in Mt. Wolchulsan. We also predicted the succession possibility and the vertical distribution change of vegetations according to the global warming, through the pioneer species of a forest change and dominant species of canopy vegetations. We also analyzed the Raunkiaer's life-form. The communities in this ecotone are distributed vertically in the order of a Quercus acuta community, a Q. serrata-Q. variabilis community and a Q. serrata community. A Pinus densiflora community appears on the most of altitudes. The distribution of communities correlates highly with an altitude. The Q. serrata-Q. variabilis community will be succession to the Q. acuta community, and the Q. variabilis will be under natural selection gradually or remain locally. The Q. serrata community will possibly maintain as it is, and the P. densiflora community will be also under natural selection gradually. The valuable quantitative and numerical life-forms are confirmed and the layer structure of present vegetation will not be changed
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KEYWORD
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Vegetation change, Climate change, Ecotone, Pioneer species, Evergreen broad-leaved forest
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