Plant community structure, soil environment, nutrient contents of plant, and the correlation between soil environments and nutrient contents of plant were investigated from July to August in 1991 in the wetland around the Nam - River, Gyeongsangnam-do...
Plant community structure, soil environment, nutrient contents of plant, and the correlation between soil environments and nutrient contents of plant were investigated from July to August in 1991 in the wetland around the Nam - River, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea.
1. The flora of the investigated area was composed of 38 families, 93 genera, 108 species, 15 varieties and 1 form or total 124 taxa of hygrophytes. Among them, dominant species was Persicaria thunbergii.
2. Importance value of Persicaria thunbergii was 57.9, and those of Humulus japonicus, Miscanthus sacchariflorus and Persicaria hydropiper were 20.5, 15.8 and 12.6, respectively.
3. As the result of the association analysis, Humulus japonicus showed positive correlation with Persicaria thunbergii, Miscanthus sacchariflorus and Artemisia princeps, and the negative correlation with Persicaria hydropiper, Echinochloa crus-galli and Bidens frondosa. And Persicaria thunbergii showed the negative correlation with Persicaria hydropiper and Artemisia princeps.
4. Ranges of species diversity indices were 0.694 ∼ 1.284. Number of species and species diversity indices were positively correlated.
5. Ranges of soil environment such as pH, conductivity, organic matter, total nitrogen and total phosphorus were 5.9 ∼ 6.8, 25.8 ∼ 164.3 ㎛ho ㎝^-1, 1.16 ∼ 6.28 %, 0.35 ∼ 1.68 ㎎ g^-1, and 0.068 ∼ 0.446 ㎎ g^-1, respectively.
6. Ranges of total nitrogen and total phosphorus contents of Persicaria thunbergii were 1.426 ∼ 2.560 % and 1.712 ∼ 2.295 ㎎ g^-1.
7. As the result of the correlation analysis among soil environmental factors and nutrient contents of Persicaria thunbergii, soil factors except pH showed the positive correlation with one another. Total nitrogen content of Persicaria thunbergii showed the positive correlation with soil factors such as conductivity, organic matter, total nitrogen and total phosphorus, suggesting that these nutrients were absorbed and accumulated by the plant.