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Distribution of plant communities in relation to hydrological condition of Furen mire, northern Japan.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10680557
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 環境保全
Research InstitutionSAPPORO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Principal Investigator

YABE Kazuo  Sapporo School of the Arts, Department of Industrial Design, Associate Professor, インダストリアルデザイン学科, 助教授 (80290683)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KURAMOCHI Kanta  Graduate School of Agriculture, Hakkaido University, Instructor, 大学院・農学研究科, 助手 (00225252)
HARAGUCHI Akira  Niigata University, Faculty of Science, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (50271630)
URANO Shin-ichi  Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Professor, 大学院・農学研究科, 教授 (40096780)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1999)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
KeywordsWater budget / Sphagnum fuscum / Electric conductivity / Hummock / Flooding / Mixed mire / Mineral ions / 流出機構 / 酸性度 / 水位 / スゲ群落 / ミズゴケ群落
Research Abstract

We studied the mechanism of the establishment of the mixed mire, which is a minerotrophic fen with many ombrotrophic hummocks of Sphagnum fuscum by examining the distribution of plant communities in relation of hydrological and chemical variables. The area we studied was 1400 m wide wetland distributed on a extremely gentle slope going downward from a hill margin to Furen river. The mixed mire was adjacent to a margin of the hill with 200 m wide, and the minetrophic fen was distributed in a lower part.
Analysis of water budget showed that surface water in the mixed mire began to flow out just after each rainfall whereas surface water flowing stopped within a short period, maintaining in a stable water level. When the water level increases to more than 2 cm above a wetland surface, waters in shallow and isolated pools become to connect into one and flow downward along a gentle slope.
At the time of the highest water level within 1998 to 1999, the flooding river-water indicating water chemistries, high EC and much minerals and nutrients, flowed into the fen area of the lower part. The area of the mixed mire, however, was free from the supply of minerals and nutrients in flooding water. Water in the mixed mire, however, also showed high EC value because mineral-rich water was supplied from pasturage lands on the hill into the mixed mire through the run-off mechanism before mentioned. As a result, both ends of the wetland area keep higher EC values than middle part.
Since hummocks in the mixed mire are 50 cm or more higher than the wetland surface, an underlying stable water table does not carry minerals and nutrients into middle to upper part of hummocks. Accordingly, hummocks growing on the minerotrophic water can keep the ombrotrophic condition as it is under the constant water level.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1999 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All Other

All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 矢部和夫: "排水路と国道がミズゴケ湿原に与えた影響"ランドスケープ研究. 62(5). 557-560 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Haraguchi, Akira: "Effects of nutrient loadings from catchments on Asajino mire, a small coastal ombrotrophic mire in northernmost Japan"Ecological Research. 15. 107-112 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kazuo Yabe: "Anthropogenic disturbances of an ombrotrophic mire owing to constructions of road and drainage channel."Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture. 557-560 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Akira Haraguchi: "Effects of nutrient loadings from catchments on Asajino mire, a small coastal ombrotrophic mire in northernmost Japan"Ecological Research. 107-112 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1999 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 矢部和夫: "排水路と国道がミズゴケ湿原に与えた影響"ランドスケープ研究. 62(5). 557-560 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Haraguchi, Akira: "Effects of nutrient loadings from the catchment of a dairy tarm on Asajino mire, a small coastal ombrotrophic mire in northernmost Japan"Ecological Research. 15(1). (2000)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1998-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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