Review on vegetation management in large-scale open spaces

Abstract

Recently, large-scale open spaces for recreational purpose have been constructed on suburban hills, covered mostly with artificially maintained secondary forests. These secondary forests such as Pinus densiftora forests and Quercus serrata forests had been maintained as coppice under the agricultural land management system. However, recent change in land use purpose from agriculture to recreation has brought the needs to establish the new management system of these forests with eco-engineering background. For this reason ecological vegetation management system is keenly requested. Both bio-physical and artificial characteristics supporting these secondary forests are to be equally evaluated for the methodological establishment of adequate vegetation management. This paper aims at overviewing the trends and problems inherent in the previous and recent studies on vegetation management from the view point of landscape architecture.