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[Richard Morris <webmaster AT pfaf.org>]

This was quite an interesting comment.

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Subject: COMMENT: Pinus densiflora
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:06:42 -0400
From: Nobody <nobody AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: webmaster AT pfaf.org

Sun-Kee Hong (landhong AT yahoo.co.kr) added the comment:

I would like to send one of important information about distribution of 
Pinus densiflora forest in Korea. Pinus densiflora is major vegetation 
of Korean pennisula. It is also mixed with Quercus mongolica and Quercus 
serrata in some place. Agriculture of Korean tradition had been related 
to use of this forest (timber and fertilizer) of rural landscape.
In current, pine forest in urbanized area in Korea including Japan is 
changed to other forest by natural succession.

Here I leave a important reference of Pinus densiflora in Korea.
This is my paper published in international journal. I wish your site 
can refer this paper as one of database of your site.

*Hong S-K (1998) Changes in landscape patterns and vegetation process in 
the Far-Eastern cultural landscapes: Human activity on pine-dominated 
secondary vegetations in Korea and Japan. Phytocoenologia 28(1): 45-66, 
Berlin-Stuttgart, 31 March