Table 1. Temporal changes in vegetation composition for major species observed in the study sites before (2022) and after harvesting. The importance value (IV) was calculated as the averaging of relative density (RD) and relative coverage (RC).

Site Species IV RD RC
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Hongcheon Pinus koraiensis 80.6 68.5 67.9 74.7 48.2 47.3 86.5 88.7 88.5
Larix kaempferi 24.2 41.6 37.1 15.8 19.8 14.7 32.6 63.4 59.4
Quercus mongolica 23.3 100.0 74.4 24.3 100.0 50.0 22.2 100.0 2.7
Lindera obtusiloba - 25.1 26.2 - 48.1 49.7 - 2.1 98.7
Quercus variabilis 17.3 41.7 16.4 17.2 23.1 18.6 17.4 60.4 22.0
Chungju Quercus variabilis 42.6 45.7 56.5 38.1 30.7 43.0 47.2 60.7 70.1
Quercus aliena 17.5 27.6 24.2 17.9 37.0 32.3 17.1 18.2 16.1
Quercus acutissima 24.5 10.3 25.2 21.5 8.0 15.6 27.5 12.6 34.8
Castanea creanta 13.4 11.3 7.8 10.5 8.0 6.7 16.3 14.7 8.8
Zelkova serrata 7.0 14.1 15.6 11.9 25.0 26.7 1.9 3.2 4.6