Environmental characteristics of giant trees of Japanese horse chestnut in Kutsuki area, Shiga

Koki TESHIROGI; Yuichiro FUJIOKA; Yoshihiko IIDA; Physical Geography Study group of

doi:10.14866/ajg.2012s.0_100186

Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2012

Session ID : P1206

DOI https://doi.org/10.14866/ajg.2012s.0_100186

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Environmental characteristics of giant trees of Japanese horse chestnut in Kutsuki area, Shiga

*Koki TESHIROGI, Yuichiro FUJIOKA, Yoshihiko IIDA, Physical Geography Study group of

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Keywords: Japanese horse chestnut tree, Mountainous headwaters area, Vegetation, Forest use

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Abstract

Giant trees of Japanese horse chestnut (Aesculus turbinata) exist in Kutsuki area, northwestern Shiga Pref. We conducted the reserch about vegetation structure and environmental characteristics of giant trees. Giant trees of Japanese horse chestnut only distributed at headwaters area, and it was related for forest use of local people.

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