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Development of an Approach for Analysing Vegetation Community Mosaic Using Landscape Metrics

경관지수를 활용한 식생군락 모자이크화 분석법

  • Received : 2017.04.28
  • Accepted : 2017.06.20
  • Published : 2017.06.30

Abstract

Whereas the demand for development of forested areas covering more than 60% of Korean territory, permission on the forest development has been still given from the perspective of effective land utilization rather than conservation. As the assessment of large forested areas usually focuses more on forest structure, it has its limitation of observing and analyzing the interior change in forest in this way. This study was aimed at computing landscape metrics using a presence vegetation map and FRAGTSTATS 4.2 and analyzing vegetation mosaics. Colonies in native vegetation were classified into a series of major groups and sub-groups based on the native species within the colonies. The colonies were investigated by analyzing a suite of landscape metrics - Core Area, Percentage of Landscape, Number of Patches, Patch Density, Largest Patch Index, Total Edge, Edge Density, Landscape Shape Index, Mean Patch Area, Euclidean Nearest Neighbor. In the Chungnam province major groups and sub-groups of colonies classified based on the proportion of pine and oak species, and pine species was the principal one in terms of distribution area. As for the competition between pines and oaks, while the coverage of pine-centered colonies were three times larger than those of oak-centered ones, pine colonies showed the greater number of patches and therefore higher fragmentation than oaks at the major group level. For the sub-groups, the largest coverage colonies were not only indicated by Pinus densiflora-Quesrcus mongolica colonies among P. densiflora-centered colonies, Q. accutissima colonies among Q. accutissima-centered ones, Q. accutissima-P. densiflora colonies among Q. accutissima-centered ones, Q. mongolica colonies among Q. mongolica-centered ones, P. thumbergii colonies among P. thumbergii-centered ones, and Q. serrata-Q. acutissima colonies among Q. serrata-centered ones, but also revealed more severely mosaicked than other smaller colonies. The overall mosaicking degree estimated by landscape metrics was considered useful for monitoring and investigating vegetation. However, in order to develop management strategy based on analyzing the reason for the mosaicking process and anticipating a trend in vegetation succession, it is essential to further study about ecological characteristics of each colony in the vegetation.

한국 국토의 60% 이상을 차지하고 있는 산림지역에 대한 개발과 이용의 수요가 증가하고 있지만, 개발사업의 허가는 산림생태계의 보전보다는 국토 이용 중심의 평가로 이루어지고 있다. 대규모 산림지역을 평가할 경우 산림의 구조를 중심으로 분석하기 때문에 산림 내부의 변화를 관찰하고 분석하는데 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 충청남도 식생군락의 현존식생도와 FRAGSTATS 4.2를 이용하여 경관지수를 산출하고 식생 모자이크를 분석해 보았다. 식생 군락은 주요 자생 수종을 중심으로 대표군락과 세부군락으로 구분하였고, 군락별 차이를 분석하기 위해 분포면적(CA), 분포면적비율(PLAND), 패치개수(NP) 등의 10가지 경관지수가 선택되었다. 충청남도 식생의 대표군락과 세부군락은 소나무군락, 상수리나무군락 및 소나무와 참나무류 수종의 조합이 우세하게 나타났으며, 소나무군락의 면적이 상당히 높게 나타났다. 소나무군락과 참나무류군락의 경쟁의 경우, 대표군락의 경우 소나무군락이 전체 분포면적은 3배 가량 넓으나 작은 패치로 나뉘어져 모자이크화 정도는 참나무류 군락이 작은 것으로 판단되었다. 세부군락의 경우에는 소나무 중심의 군락에서는 소나무-신갈나무군락이, 상수리나무 중심 군락에서는 상수리나무군락이, 굴참나무 중심의 군락에서는 굴참나무-소나무군락이, 신갈나무 중심의 군락에서는 신갈나무군락이, 곰솔 중심의 군락에서는 곰솔군락이, 졸참나무 중심의 군락에서는 졸참나무-상수리나무군락이 넓은 분포면적과 동시에 모자이크화도 심한 것으로 나타났다. 전체적인 모자이크화 양상은 수치로 표현될 수 있어 모니터링 단계에서 문제가 있는 식생군락을 판별할 때 유용할 것으로 판단되었다. 모자이크화의 원인과 천이의 방향성 예측을 통한 관리 방안 마련을 위해서는 각 군락의 생태적인 특성에 대한 연구가 추가적으로 필요할 것으로 판단되었다.

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