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Relationships between Geographical Conditions and Distribution Pattern of Plant Species on Uninhabited Islands in Korea

우리나라 無人島嶼의 地理的 還境과 植物의 分布 pattern 사이의 相關性 分析

  • 정재민 (임업연구원 산림유전자원부 유전자원과) ;
  • 홍경낙 (임업연구원 산림유전자원부 유전자원과)
  • Published : 2002.10.01

Abstract

Correlations among the island area, distance to mainland, latitude, longitude, human impacts, diversity and composition of vascular plants were investigated by analyzing data on 261 islands(10.3% of total number of islands in Korea) selected from the annual reports for 'the natural evironment survey of the uninhabited islands in Korea' published by 'Ministry of Environment' during three years from 1999. The area of surveyed 261 islands ranged 1,100 to 961,000㎡(average of 75,000㎡), and the distance to mainland ranged 0.15 to 51.5km (average of 14.9km). Total number of plant species recorded in those islands was 1,109 species throughout 30 families, and mean mumber of plant species of each island was 98.7 species. Native species were 1,003 species (90.4%), and exotic species were 106 species(9.6%). The families with the largest number of species was the Compositae with 114 species, and followed in the order of Gramineae(90), Leguminosae(54), and Rosaceae(53). The result of multi-dimensional scaling analysis based on the plant species composition showed that 261 islands were distinctly divided into two groups, western sea group(131 islands) and southern sea group(130 islands). The islands of western sea group(average area of 93,000㎡) had greatly larger area than them of southern sea group(average area of 57,000㎡), but the average number of species (average species of 192) per island were less than in southern sea group (average species of 233). And, the partitioning into two groups was responsible for the species restricted to southern than to western sea group. Therefore, this results suggest that the distribution pattern and the composition of plant species could be also affected by the latitude of the island. When the species-area model was applied to total island and plant species, these results indicate that the island area was the most significant predictor of plant species diversity, and the distance to mainland and the human impacts were also shown to be significant predictors of plant species richness. But when applied to both groups of islands by the stepwise selection method, the result showed that islands of southern sea group were greatly affected by the factors such as human impacts, distance to mainland and longitude than western sea group. For the purpose of conservation of natural ecosystem on the uninhabited islands in Korea, we will also examine how the human impacts and the invasion of exotic plant species will disturb the native species diversity.

본 연구는 환경부의 '전국 무인도서 자연환경조사 보고서(1999년∼2001년)'에서 발췌한 261개의 무인 도서를 대상으로 섬의 지리적 환경과 섬에 분포하는 관속식물의 종수 및 분포사이의 상관성을 구명하고자 수행하였다. 261개 도서의 평균 면적은 75,000㎡이며, 면적의 분포범위는 최소 1,l00㎡에서 최대 961,200㎡였다. 육지와의 최단거리 평균은 14.9km(150m∼51.4km)이었다. 261개 도서에서 관찰된 전체 종수는 30과 1,109 종으로, 각 도서당 관찰된 종수의 평균은 98.7종이었다. 자생식물은 1,003종(90.4%)이었으며, 귀화식물은 106종(9.6%)로 조사되었다. 그리고 조사된 전체 종수 중에서 국화과가 114종으로 가장 많았으며, 벼과 (90종), 콩과(54종), 장미과(53종) 순으로 나타났다. 261개 섬은 출현한 식물종의 구성에 근거하여 다차원척도분석을 실시한 결과 '남해그룹(130개 섬)'과 '서해그룹(131개 섬)'의 두 지역으로 뚜렷이 구분할 수 있었다. 서해그룹에 속하는 섬들은 남해그룹의 섬들에 비해 면적이 더 넓었으나(서해그룹 평균=93,000㎡, 남해그룹 평균=57,000㎡), 도서당 출현 종수는 적었다(서해그룹 평균=192, 남해그룹 평균=233). 또한 서해그룹보다는 남해그룹에만 한정적으로 분포하는 종들이 두 그룹을 구분하는데 더욱 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타나서, 위도에 따른 식물 분포를 반영하고 있다. 출현하는 식물 종수에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 인자는 섬의 면적이었으며, 육지와의 최단거리와 인간의 간섭 인자 순으로 나타났다. 식물종수에 미치는 환경인자들은 서해그룹과 남해그룹에서 각기 다르게 나타났으며, 남해그룹의 섬들이 서해그룹의 섬들에 비하여 육지와의 거리가 가깝고 단위면적당 출현 종수가 많았기 때문에 보다 다양한 환경인자들에 의해 민감하게 영향을 받는 것으로 생각된다. 따라서 이상의 결과들은 무인도서 생태계 보존을 위해 중요하게 활용될 것으로 기대되며, 앞으로 인간간섭과 귀화식물종이 무인도서 생태계에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구가 계속적으로 이루어질 것이다.

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