마산봉 일대 식생에 관한 식물 사회학적 연구

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to classify and describe the vegetation around Mt. masan, Gangwon province, South Korea by methods of the ZM school of phytosociology. As a result the vegetation was divided into six associations. Reflecting various human impacts in the past, the associations and communities of the Artemisietea principis were most plentiful there. The vegetation units obtained in the present study were as follow: Forest vegetation: Quercus mongolica community, Pinus densiflora community, Larix leptolepis community, Betula costata community, Fraxinus rhynchophylla community, Juglans mandshurica community. It was inferred that the endemic vegetation units in the vegetation of Korea are very rare, because most of the vegetation units obtained in the present study were common with those of Japan. On the other hand, the associations and communities of classes characterizing the vegetation increased with a decreased of human impacts from the down to the up in Mt. Masan, while the number of the naturalized plants was the reverse.