Jong-Won Lee‡, Ho-Geun Yun§, Tae Young Hwang§, Kyungmin Kim|, Se-Hoon Jung|, Jong Bin An§Corresponding author: Jong-Won Lee ( ljw1323@naver.com ) Corresponding author: Jong Bin An ( ajb8825@korea.kr ) © Jong-Won Lee, Ho-Geun Yun, Tae Young Hwang, Kyungmin Kim, Se-Hoon Jung, Jong Bin An. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Lee J-W, Yun H-G, Hwang TY, Kim K, Jung S-H, An JB (2023) Floristic inventory and distribution characteristics of algific talus slopes in a specific area of forest biodiversity in South Korea. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e113970 |  |
This study conducted a survey for establishing in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures for northern linage plants that are vulnerable to climate change and for designating Forest Genetic Resource Reserve for 25 algific talus slope sites, which are specific areas of forest biodiversity. The survey was conducted in South Korea within a distance of 50 m to the east, west, north, and south from the core area where wind blows to the algific talus slopes. The study was conducted once or twice per season from April 2016 to November 2021.
Vascular plants of 25 algific talus slope sites in South Korea included a total of 1,052 taxa of 125 families, 486 genera, 947 species, 23 subsp., 75 var., and 7 f. The maximum surveyed area was 0.09 km2, accounting for only 0.00014% of the 62,860 km2 forest area in Korea, but comprise 22.27% of the 4,724 species of vascular plants in Korea. The algific talus slopes are areas rich in forest biodiversity. Six taxa were categorized as endangered, including Paeonia obovata Maxim. Sixty-seven taxa, including Astilboides tabularis (Hemsl.) Engl.; 58 taxa endemic to the Korean Peninsula, including Weigela subsessilis (Nakai) L.H. Bailey; and 317 taxa of floristic target plants were categorized as rare plants in the Red list. Further, 181 taxa were identified as northern linage plants and 32 taxa, including Sillaphyton podagraria (H. Boissieu) Pimenov, were limestone area plants. Regarding alien plants, 75 taxa, including Oenothera biennis L., were identified, and the naturalization and urbanization rates were 7.13% and 12.12%, respectively. Plants specific to the phytogeography of the 25 algific talus slope sites in this study were Vaccinium vitis-idaea L., Rosa koreana Kom., Syringa villosa Vahl subsp. wolfii (C.K. Schneid.) Y. Chen & D.Y. Hong, Lonicera chrysantha Turcz. ex Ledeb., Tephroseris flammea (Turcz. ex DC.) Holub, among others.