A long term monitoring was carried out to compare altitudinal effects on insect community structures on high mountains and evaluate responses the monitoring and changed of insect communities induced by the climate change. These mountains were choose for Mt. Jeombong for northern part, Mt. Ilwol for middle and Mt. Beakun for southern. Each mountain was divided into three altitudinal gradients. They were collected three times a season from spring to autumn, using pitfall traps for ground beetles and UV light trap for moths. The present study presents preliminary results of analysis for the first year monitoring. In total 41beetle species and 326 moths were collected from the monitoring sites in 2012. abundance of ground beetles and moths were the highest in Mt. Baekun followed by Mt. Ilwol and lowest in Mt. Jeombong. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) results showed statistically significant differences among sampling area, species evenness and Shannon’s diversity index with altitude in species abundance as a response variable. Also we found statistically significant differences to three species of ground beetle and six species of moths with altitude. Although we expected a distinct cluster with the difference of altitude at each study site. one of ordination analysis, nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS), showed distinct clusters with the ground beetles assemblage at some altitude and moths assemblage at sampling date.

백운산의 산림군락과 환경 요인과의 관계를 구명하기 위하여 TWINSPAN과 CCA Ordination을 이용분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. TWINSPAN에 의해서 서어나무 군락, 고로쇠나무 군락, 신갈나무 군락 및 굴참나무 군락의 4 group으로 구분되었다. 주요 군락과 환경 용인과의 상관을 보면 서어나무 군락과 굴참나무 군락은 해발고가 중간이고 유기물 함량과 유효인산의 양료가 중간인 곳에 주로 분포하고 신갈나무 군락은 해발고가 높고 유기물 함량과 유효인산의 양료가 많은 곳에 주로 분포하며 고로쇠나무 군락은 해발고가 낮고 K+,Ca++,및 Mg++등의 양료가 많은 곳에 주로 분포하고 있다 주요 수종과 환경과의 상관관계를 보면 해발고가 높고 유기물 함량과 P2O5 많은 곳에 신갈나무, 노리재나무, 물푸레나무, 해발고가 중간기고 양료가 중간인 곳에 서어나무, 비목, 단당풍 졸참나무, 쪽동백나무, 때죽나무, 해발고가 낮고, 습하며K+,Ca++,및 Mg++ 등의 양료가 많은 계곡부타 까치박달나무 층층나무, 느티나무, 고로쇠나무, 들메나무, 나도밤나무 및 산뽕나무가 분포하고 있다.