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Yakushima vertical distribution chart
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| YAKUSHIMADAKE |
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Mt.MIYANOURA1936 |
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| SHAKUNAGE |
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Mt.KUROMI |
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Subalpine |
| SUGI・MOMI |
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| YAMAGURUMA |
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temperate |
| HIMESYARA |
1500m |
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| YAMABOUSHI |
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| SUGI・TSUGA |
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| MOMI・YAMAGURUMA |
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JYOUMONSUGI● |
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Warm temperate |
| MIYAKODARA |
1000m |
●YAKUSUGI land |
Mt.aiko |
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| SHIRODAMO |
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SHIRATANI● |
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| ISUNOKI |
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Shift belt |
| BARIBARINOKI |
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| SUGI・TSUGA |
500m |
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| YAMAGURUMA |
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| TABUNOKI |
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| ISUNOKI |
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Warm temperate |
| URAJIROKASI |
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| KUROMATSU |
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| KUROMATSU |
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| Gajumal |
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What is the vertical distribution?
Yakushima and the charm of one of the World Heritage
Register greatly influenced by elements of the vertical distribution.
2000m near the top of the mountain, almost parallel Hokkaido climate and
the flat-reaching and subtropical plants such as
Yes, Yakushima is easy to say one of Japan's climate in conjunction with
the island's an exaggeration to say that it is not.
Japan is a vertical terrain, regardless of the season soon
goes to the transient feeling in the skin. Small island nation rich in culture have bred more.
Yakushima Island is a small, yet these with a variety of climate and
vegetation there is a habitat of many unique Yakushima, and the very
nature of the museum metaphor.
World Heritage Site area is how the island is 20 percent of the area.
Most of the land is state-owned, but some private land near the western road,
while the shoreline has designated World Heritage listing is the only Yakushima.
To the west of the island's western road from
Mountain slope to the sea to continue until bright green glamorous world heritage
(vertical distribution), we can see.
Yakushima, Japan's forests in the warm temperate zone hardwood forest zone's
southernmost its altitude 2000 m mountain near the island's natural conditions
for the vertical distribution of subalpine subtropical zone ranging from the
very large number of flora see .
Natural cedar is 600 to 1,800 m altitude near to the growth is
more than 1,000 years old Yakusugi giant trees and the altitude
1000m to 1300m concentrated in the area.
Vertical distribution
near the top of the mountain (the top of the mountain grassland zone),
Takashi Tatsuki Yakusugi's also lower the limit of the forest.
these trees in the area and called on Yakushima specific growth trees.
Subalpine zone altitude, but the scenery around is covered with alpine
forest zone called a glimpse into
This is YAKUSHIMASHAKUNAGE per cling to the rock-like and live in a
strong and beautiful
Around 900m to 1600m (Yaku cedar forest)
The per Yakusugi to come down and have provided a good eye.
Yak such as deer habitat and the food is rich
At the top of the beech and hardwood Yakusugi diverse and harmony.
Fir, hemlock fir and camellia to HAINOKI such as coniferous and broadleaf
evergreen, it is also growing. 1000m
1000m gradually from the near-zone beech forest transition is expected to be around this feature.
500m from near and cedar and hemlock fir softwood is seen as
the altitude of 600 m from the coastline until the SHII, oak,
laurel, including a beautiful chair.
Subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest close to the coast and subtropical
plants can flourish and the MEHIRUGI flat in the banyan, fig and tropical
plants are often given. the estuary of mangrove MEHIRUGI are kept.
NOTE: laurilignosa submontane
from the Himalayas in central Japan, East Asia from the warm
temperate to subtropical and the oak and SHII, camellia bush thick
and shiny leaves of evergreen broad-leaved forest.
Currently, many are still not in the Kanto region from the south of
the city's many low-lying farmland and forests of laurel made.
Registered as a World Natural Heritage "Yakushima's forests"
1992 (as of 4) in September is Japan's second World Heritage 126 treaty nations, and in 1993
(as of 5 years) December 11, "Yakushima" and "Shirakami Mountains", the first natural world
registered as a heritage. Yakushima World Heritage area, the Forestry Agency is set to
the "ecology of forest protected areas", "conservation district" has been centered.
World Natural Heritage (Yakushima region)
World Heritage Convention on the outstanding universal value for
the cultural heritage and natural heritage protection, international
cooperation, the aid effort will be based on the purpose of the 1972 (1972)
of 17 times UNESCO adopted by the General Assembly of the Convention.
Yakushima's forests, subalpine zone from the subtropical vegetation of
the vertical distribution is seen as notably, thousands of years old cedar
with the yak, and many unique plants, plants that grow wild in northern limit
that the unique ecology, etc. and that the system configuration, and the
red beard, and the extinction of endemic thrush, which is a wildlife habitat
on the grounds that it has been registered.
Yakushima forest ecosystem conservation area
protecte areas of forest ecosystem, the old growth forest-natural means to
save the forest ecosystem from maintenance of the natural environment,
protection of animals and plants, genetic resources conservation and
development of forest management control technology , and contribute
to the academic research with the goal of setting them.
Zone forest ecosystem classification of protected areas, Conservation
Reserve (core) and the use of the area (buffer) divided by two,
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