Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment (한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경)

Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment (한국지하수토양환경학회)
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Ecosystem Risk Assessment Using the Indicator Species

지표종을 이용한 생태계 위해성평가

  • Chang, Jin-Soo (Arsenic Geoenvironment Laboratory (NRL), Department of Environment Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)) ;
  • Kim, Kyoung-Woong (Arsenic Geoenvironment Laboratory (NRL), Department of Environment Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST))
  • 장진수 (광주과학기술원 환경공학과 지질환경 비소제어 연구실) ;
  • 김경웅 (광주과학기술원 환경공학과 지질환경 비소제어 연구실)
  • Published : 2007.02.28
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Abstract

Risk assessment by living indicator species provides the information about the ecosystem disturbance, disapperance of symbiosis and change of living group. In the initial stage of this kind research, the degree of contamination was reported using the level of simple number, but simple number may not represent the risk itself which can be casued in the living organisms. Risk assessment using various indicator species overcomes these limitations and can be expanded to the DNA level. In many developed counties, the government has supervised the researches about the indicator species for the monitoring and its application to ecosystem restoration. Several living indicator species found in the vicinity of the abandoned Au mines such as fern, earthworm, bacteria, rhizosphere-rhizoplane, salamamdor and DNA change of these species are described in this paper.

생태계 위해성평가는 유해물질의 노출로 인한 생태계 교란, 생물 공생의 파괴 및 부적합한 서식조건에 의한 생물집단구조의 문제를 적절히 평가할 수 있어야 한다. 초기의 위해성 평가는 오염의 수준을 숫자로 표기하여 단일된 공식으로 평가하였으나, 현재 이러한 평가는 실제로 생태계에 미치는 위해성을 평가하는데는 부적합하다. 따라서 지표종을 이용한 생태 위해성평가는 이러한 단점을 극복하며 육안적 지표의 변화 뿐만 아니라 유전자 수준에서의 변화까지도 감지함으로써 위해성 평가의 폭을 넓힐 수 있게 한다. 국외의 경우 오염의 평가 및 오염 지역 복원의 평가기준으로 여러 지표종을 이용하고 있으며, 여러 지표종을 국가 차원에서 종합적으로 관리하며 오염으로 인한 변화를 유전자 돌연변이 및 암발생 수준까지 연구함으로써 생태계 위해성 평가를 하는 추세이다. 국내의 경우에도 점차 지표종을 이용한 유해성 평가 연구가 진행되고 있으며, 오염물질의 인체에서의 발암 메커니즘, 동물실험을 통한 발암 메커니즘에까지 그 영역이 확대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 현재까지 이용되는 여러 지표종을 개략적으로 살펴보고, 중금속으로 오염된 폐광산에서 발견된 생지표종인 고사리, 지렁이, 미생물 및 도룡뇽의 변화를 생태계 위해성 평가에 활용되어진 다양한 예가 소개되어 질 것이다.

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