Dispersal potential mediates effects of local and landscape factors on plant species richness in <i>maeulsoop</i> forests of Korea

Koh, Insu; Reineking, Björn; Park, Chan‐Ryul; Lee, Dowon

doi:10.1111/jvs.12271

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“…In the twentieth century, these changes acted as critical issues, to which previous forest management practices had to adapt. Korean peninsula [31]; and protect plant diversity-one of the strategies for improving landscape connectivity [33]. Due to the reevaluation of traditional ecological knowledge and practices, the Korea Forest Service has restored more than 70 Maeulsoop since 2003, which are principally used for recreation, education, and tourism [62].…”

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“…Monitoring studies have detected higher biodiversity and habitat connectivity in traditionally protected forests than in disturbed forests [33,42,54]. Such traditionally protected forests also appear to enhance village microclimates by controlling wind speed and air humidity [25,31].…”

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“…These forests were important for livelihoods in ancient Northeast Asia because they controlled village microclimates by preventing flooding [3,26], acting as windbreaks [25,28,31], and connecting forest patches [32,33]. controlled village microclimates by preventing flooding [3,26], acting as windbreaks [25,28,31], and connecting forest patches [32,33]. …”

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“…The structure of Songgye in the twentieth century was analyzed to find factors leading to the decline of Songgye and assess the potential applicability of traditional community forestry in current societies [39]. In addition, ecological monitoring found that conservation of Maulsoop could be applicable to reduce wind speed and evaporation; contribute to water conservation during spring, a dry season of the Korean peninsula [31]; and protect plant diversity-one of the strategies for improving landscape connectivity [33].…”

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The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

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2017

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This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshui (an old Chinese concept regarding the flow of vital forces), with which forests were managed under community forestry. However, these traditional systems diminished in the twentieth century owing to the decline of traditional livelihood systems and extreme deforestation. Recently, legacies from traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry have been revisited and incorporated into forest policies, laws, and management practices because of growing needs for sustainable forest use in China, Japan, and Korea. This reevaluation of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry has provided empirical data to help improve forestry systems. Although traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia have been scarcely theorized, they play a significant role in modifying forest management practices in the face of socioeconomic changes.

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2017

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“…Summary the main results of Koh et al. (, this issue). The different geographic (forest cover at four different radii) and local (fragment area and disturbance) filters acting upon the forest fragment richness in long distance dispersal ( LDD ) species, short distance dispersal ( SDD ) species, and on seed trapped species ( LDD seeds) are indicated.…”

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Mind the gap: scale‐dependent and dispersal‐mediated response to forest fragmentation

Honnay

2015

J Vegetation Science

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Species richness of habitat fragments is affected by spatial isolation. However, the scale of this phenomenon, and its interactions with the species' seed dispersal potential has remained underexplored. By integrating seed trap and species distribution data, Koh et al., in this issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science, make a compelling case for scale-dependent species' responses to forest fragmentation.It has been almost half a century now since Robert MacArthur and Edward Wilson suggested that the same principles that govern the species richness of oceanic islands also apply to formerly continuous terrestrial habitats that are broken up by encroaching civilization. Their ideas resulted in an avalanche of research papers studying fragmented ecosystems across all biomes, and have greatly contributed to the maturing of the discipline we know as conservation biology. Especially in the highly fragmented agricultural landscapes of Europe, where species-rich semi-natural grasslands and forests typically occur as islands in a hostile landscape matrix, a wealth of studies of increasing sophistication has been produced since the 1990s, basically building on the island theory. As a result, we have acquired profound insights not only into the landscape and fragment characteristics that affect plant species richness and community and functional trait composition of habitat fragments (e.g. Marini et al. 2012;Wulf & Kolk 2014), but also into the genetic and demographic processes that drive small and isolated plant populations towards extinction (e.g. Vandepitte et al. 2007). Although it is known that well-connected habitat fragments, ceteris paribus, contain more plant species than more isolated ones, the scale at which the surrounding landscape mediates this phenomenon, and how scale interacts with the ability of seeds to disperse across large distances has remained largely unexplored. Koh et al. (2015) elegantly shed light on this scale issue (Fig. 1). The authors studied plant species richness of small traditional Korean village forests (maeulsoops), which occur as isolated patches in the agricultural landscape matrix in the valleys between mountain forests. Instead of simply adding the connectivity of the study fragments at different spatial scales as explanatory variables for species richness to their models, they evaluated model performance at 13 different landscape buffer sectors, ranging in size from a 50-m to a 3500-m radius. The authors show that species that have seeds that are specifically adapted for long distance dispersal (LDD) positively responded to deciduous forest cover in a radius of 3000 m around the target fragment, whereas species with no such adaptations (short distance dispersal (SDD) species), positively responded to total forest cover in a 150-m radius. For both species groups, the main share of the variation in species richness across forest fragments was explained by the degree of anthropogenic disturbance of the maeulsoops, suggesting an important role for recruitment limitation as wel...

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Korean traditional village forest (Ma-Eul-Soop) and potential natural vegetation: A case study on the Sachon-Ri Garo-Soop in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

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Dispersal potential mediates effects of local and landscape factors on plant species richness in maeulsoop forests of Korea

Cited by 9 publications

References 60 publications

The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

The Contribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Practices to Forest Management: The Case of Northeast Asia

Mind the gap: scale‐dependent and dispersal‐mediated response to forest fragmentation

Korean traditional village forest (Ma-Eul-Soop) and potential natural vegetation: A case study on the Sachon-Ri Garo-Soop in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

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