Delineation of Provenance Regions of Forests Based on Climate Factors in Korea

기상인자(氣象因子)에 의한 우리 나라 산림(山林)의 산지구분(産地區分)

As a first step for delineating the provenance regions of the forest trees in Korea, horizontal zones have been deduced primarily from the various climatic factors such as annual mean temperature, extremely low temperature, relative humidity, annual gum of possible growing days, duration of sunshine and dry index. The basic concept to the delineation of the provenance regions was based on the ecological regions, which was likely to be more practical than that on the basis of the typical provenance regions at the species level. Primary classification of the regions has been based on the forest zones(sub-tropical, warm-temperate, mid-temperate and cool-temperate) as a broad geographic region. Further classification has been carried out using cluster analyses among the basic regions within forest zone. On the basis of clustering, a total of 19 regions including 3 from sub-tropical, 6 from warm-temperate, 8 from mid-temperate and 2 from cool-temperate was horizontally delineated. Of the mean values of 6 climate factors at the broad geographic region level, three factors such as annual mean temperature, extremely low temperature, annual growing days showed directional tendencies from subtropical to cool-temperate, while the others didn't. The values of relative humidity, duration of sunshine and dry index varied among the provenance regions within forest zone. These three factors might he more sensitive by the micro-environment condition than by the macro-environment condition. Present study aimed to delineate the primary provenance regions for tentative application to forest practices. These will be stepwise revised through the supplement using accumulated information regard to genecological data.

우리 나라에 적용할 산림용 종자 산지구분(塵地區分)의 첫 단계로 임목집단의 유전생태적 분화에 영향이 큰 연평균 온도, 극한 최저온도, 생육기간중 상대습도, 일조량, 건조지수 등 기상인자를 척도로 수평적 산지를 구분하였다. 적용한 산지구분의 개념은 전형적인 산지구분 형태인 수종별 구분법보다는 전 수종을 포함한 생태지역 개념의 산지구분법에 따랐다. 산림대를 대구분 단위로 하여 산림대별(난대, 온대남부, 온대중부, 온대북부)로 기본구역을 설정하여 유집분석을 근거로 난대 3, 온대남부 6, 온대중부 8, 온대북부 2로 총 19개의 수평적 산지로 구분하였다. 적용한 6개의 척도중 연평균 온도, 극한 최저온도, 생장일수는 산림대별로 난대에서 온대북부 방향으로 일정한 경향을 보였으며 상대습도, 일조량 및 건조지수에서는 일정한 경향을 보이지는 않았으나 산지간에는 많은 차이를 보여 이들 인자는 미세 환경인자에 민감한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에 의해 구분된 산지는 구획 초기단계로 잠정적인 산지로 활용하면서 금후 생물기후도, 산지시험, 유전생태 자료 등이 축적되면 보완해 나갈 것이다.