Relationships between Remnant forms or processes of Ulmaceae and Land use in an Urban area

Abstract

The remnant forms of Ulmaceae woods and trees in the north-eastern part of Kyoto city area had been reported last year by authors. In this time, authors investigated the distribution and tree size of Ulmaceae in the broader area in Kyoto city and studied the relationships between the remnant forms or processes of Ulmaceae and the land use.
The results were obtained as follows; Ulmaceae woods and trees have been left at the sites of old temples or shrines, and the Ulmaceae tree landscape has simbolized such a historical area. Some classifications of the process of remnant were obtained, such as the cases in which
(1) Ulmaceae woods at the sites of temples decreased into isolated trees,
(2) Ulmaceae invaded into bamboo forest and left dominantly as an isolated tree.