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The Effect on the Forest Temperature by Reduced Biomass Caused by Natural Forest Thinning

천연림 간벌에 기인한 산림생물량 감소가 산림 내부 온도에 미치는 영향 연구

  • Kang, Rae-Yeol (Graduate School, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National Univ.) ;
  • Hong, Suk-Hwan (Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Pusan National Univ.)
  • 강래열 (부산대학교 대학원 조경학과) ;
  • 홍석환 (부산대학교 조경학과)
  • Received : 2017.11.30
  • Accepted : 2018.05.01
  • Published : 2018.06.30
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Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the decrease of forest biomass by forest thinning and the change of temperature in the natural forest by measuring forest biomass and temperature before and after forest thinning in the Pusan National University forest where afforestation had been carried out. We intended to investigate the relationship between the forest biomass, estimated by calculating the Basal area, Crown area and Crown volume using the same formula to the same quadrat before and after forest thinning, and the forest temperature. Temperature measurement was carried out on April 20, 2016 through 28 before forest thinning, July 26, 2016 through November 4 around the time of forest thinning, and April 15, 2017 through May 8 after forest thinning. A temperature data logger was installed to point north at the height of 2.0 m above the ground in the center of the quadrat to record data every 10 minutes during the measurement periods. We used the AWS (Automatic Weather Station) data of the Dongnae-gu area located in the nearby city because it was difficult to set the control group since the whole forest was the subject to the forest thinning. The analysis of the relationship between forest biomass change and temperature showed that the change in temperature inside the forest was the greatest in the midday (12:00 - 15: 00) and was highly correlated with the Crown volume in the forest biomass. The temperature increase was much larger (average $1.91^{\circ}C$) 1 year after forest thinning than immediately after forest thinning (average $0.74^{\circ}C$). The comparison of the decrease rate of Crown volume and the increase in temperature showed that the Pitch pine community, which showed the highest decrease of Crown volume by 15.4%, recorded the highest temperature rise of $1.06^{\circ}C$ immediately after forest thinning and $2.49^{\circ}C$ 1 year after forest thinning. The Pitch pine-Korean red pine community, which showed the lowest Crown volume reduction rates with 5.0%, recorded no significant difference immediately after forest thinning but a temperature rise of $0.92^{\circ}C$ 1 year after forest thinning. The results confirmed that the decrease of forest biomass caused by forest thinning led to a rapid increase of the internal temperature. The fact that the temperature increase was more severe after 1 year than immediately after forest thinning confirmed that the microclimate changes due to the removed biomass cannot be recovered in a short time.

본 연구는 숲가꾸기가 시행된 부산대학교 제1학술림을 대상으로 간벌 전 후의 산림생물량 및 온도를 실측하여 천연림에서 간벌에 따른 산림생물량 감소와 산림 내부 온도변화의 관계를 확인하고자 하였다. 산림생물량은 간벌 전 후 동일 조사구에 흉고단면적, 수관단면적, 수관체적을 각각 동일한 도출식을 적용하여 도출하였으며, 산림 온도와의 관계성을 파악하고자 하였다. 온도측정은 간벌 이전인 2016년 04월 20일~28일, 간벌 전후인 2016년 07월 26일~11월 04일, 간벌 이듬해인 2017년 04월 15일~05월 08일에 각각 실시하였으며 온도데이터로거를 방형구 내 중앙에 위치한 수목의 지상 2.0m 높이에 북향으로 설치하여 동일기간동안 각 10분마다 데이터가 기록되도록 설치하였다. 간벌이 산림 전역에 진행되어 산림 내 대조구 설정이 어려워 인근 도시에 위치한 동래구 지역별상세관측자료(AWS)를 대조구로 활용하였다. 산림생물량의 변화와 온도와의 관계성을 분석한 결과, 산림 내부 온도 변화는 한낮 시간대(PM12:00~15:00)에 가장 큰 변화를 보였으며, 산림생물량 중 수관체적과 깊은 관계성을 가지고 있었다. 간벌 직후(평균 $0.74^{\circ}C$)보다 간벌 후 1년이 경과한 시점(평균$1.91^{\circ}C$)에서 훨씬 높은 온도 상승을 보였다. 조사구별 수관체적 감소비율과 온도 상승정도를 비교한 결과, 수관체적 감소량이 15.4%로 가장 높았던 리기다소나무군락에서 간벌 직후와 1년 후 분석에서 각각 $1.06^{\circ}C$, $2.49^{\circ}C$로 가장 높은 온도 상승을 나타냈다. 수관체적 감소비율이 5.0%로 가장 적었던 리기다소나무-소나무군락에서 간벌 직후는 그 차이가 없었으며 1년 후 분석에서는 $0.92^{\circ}C$가 상승하였다. 천연림에서 간벌로 인한 산림생물량 감소는 산림내부 온도를 급격히 상승시키는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며 특히, 간벌 직후보다는 이듬해에 더 극심하게 나타나고 있어 제거된 산림생물량에 의한 미기후 변화는 단기간에 회복될 수 없음을 확인할 수 있었다.

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