Suncheon Bay Ecological Park - Natural Environment of Suncheon Bay - Phragmites Communis Community

Phragmites Communis Community

At the beginning of Suncheon Bay, Phragmites communis community of approximately 300,000 pyeong is densely spread. It took more than 30 years to form this. In the past 10 years, it had been growing much faster. Other Phragmites communis community of Korea had been much destroyed, but the Phragmites communis community of Suncheon Bay is the widest and well preserved. Phragmites communis community has an outstanding purifying function and provides an environment for boleophthalmus pectinirostris, very sensitive to pollution, to inhabit. It plays a great role as a natural sanitation facility of Suncheon Bay and also controls flood. It blocks cold wind for fish and bring birds that eat these fish. Phragmites communis community is a reason that Suncheon Bay became an inhabitation of rare birds.

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