Climate–growth relationships of relict Picea jezoensis at Mt. Gyebang, South Korea

Woongsoon Jang; Christopher R. Keyes; Steven W. Running; Jong Hwan Lim; Pil Sun Park

doi:10.1080/21580103.2014.940001

Climate–growth relationships of relict Picea jezoensis at Mt. Gyebang, South Korea

Woongsoon Jang
, Christopher R. Keyes
, Steven W. Running
, Jong Hwan Lim
, Pil Sun Park

W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation

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Abstract

A study was conducted to evaluate climatic variation at Mt. Gyebang, South Korea, and its influence on the modelled and observed growth of its relict Picea jezoensis population. Using the MT-CLIM and Biome-BGC models, year-to-year meteorological variation and subsequent changes in growing season, primary productivity and water balance were simulated. These were compared with the observed growth of sample P. jezoensis trees at the site. According to weather data and model calculations, the P. jezoensis stand at Mt. Gyebang was exposed to significant climate variations affecting growing season, carbon balance, and water balance. Although the length of growing season showed an increasing trend over time, the observed growth of P. jezoensis was unaffected by the length of growing season. Probably due to the site's shallow soil depths and species’ shallow rooting depth, the modelled increase in productivity caused by climate variation was not manifested in an increase in growth of P. jezoensis. These findings imply that the competitiveness of P. jezoensis at this site has declined over time and that an active approach to conservation planning for this species and site is warranted.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-26
Number of pages	8
Journal	Forest Science and Technology
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/21580103.2014.940001
State	Published - Jan 2 2015

Funding

This study was made possible in part by the Applied Forest Management Program at the University of Montana, a research and outreach unit of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station, and was supported by the “Long-Term Ecological Research on Forest Ecosystems” project of the Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI) and Forest Science and Technology Project No. 210707L1010 of the Korea Forest Service, and by Korea Science Foundation Project No. 951-0504-027-2. We thank Jared Oyler and Ryan Anderson for help with model simulation, Dr. David Affleck for advice on statistical analyses and Ahreum Han and Kyungyoon Kim for field assistance.

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210707L1010
951-0504-027-2

Keywords

Yezo spruce
carbon cycle
primary production
radial growth

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