- 著者
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宮本 硬一
- 出版者
- The Society of Agricultural Meteorology of Japan
- 雑誌
- 農業気象 (ISSN:00218588)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.16, no.4, pp.145-148, 1961-03-30 (Released:2010-02-25)
- 参考文献数
- 15
- 被引用文献数
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1
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This investigation was made in 1958 to estimate the amount of damages to be done by the prevailing easterlies to the rice yield in the area at the leeward of the windbreak on the seashore near Yamoto Town, Miyagi Prefecture, as a result of the cutting-down of the forest for the purpose of enlarging the landing strip of Matsushima military air depot.The outline of the information I have obtained on the effective limits of the windbreak and the estimated distance distribution of decrease in rice crop, will be given below.(1) On the map I drew two lines (A) and (B), one on the paddy fields exposed to the breeze and the other on the paddy fields at the leeward of the shelter-belt of trees. The measuring spots were placed at every 100 meters on the lines. The comparison was made between the rice yields at the corresponding spots of each line, and the difference between them was considered being made by the shelter-belt of trees. The same comparison was made at the area on the other side of the air depot. For comparison at the measuring spots I used the average rice yield per 10 a figured out by the Yamoto Agricultural Insurance Association.(2) The effective zone of the windbreak on rice yield was found out having a radius of about 400 meters from the forest, in other words, a screen of trees gives useful shelter to about a distance of thirty times its height. This finding was in accord with the calming effect of the forest measured by the Sendai Meteorological Observatory.(3) In case when the windbreak is cut down, it can safely be guessed that between the distance of the forest and the rice yield will be formulated by the following equation (see Fig. 3):Y=0.07x+68 (σ=2.2)Therefore, after the windbreak has been destroyed, the paddy fields near the forest are supposed to show about 30 percent decrease in production as compared with the non-effective site. The decrease percentage increases with the distance—about 7 percent every 100 meters—and at a point 400 meters from the screen of trees, the rice production comes to be free from the influence of the forest.