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Long-term Variation and Flux of Organic Carbon in the Human-disturbed Yeongsan River, Korea

영산강의 유기물 플럭스와 장기변동에 대한 연구

  • CHO, HYEONG-CHAN (Department of Marine Resources, Mokpo National University) ;
  • CHO, YEONG-GIL (Department of Marine Resources, Mokpo National University)
  • 조형찬 (목포대학교 해양자원학과) ;
  • 조영길 (목포대학교 해양자원학과)
  • Received : 2017.09.20
  • Accepted : 2017.11.22
  • Published : 2017.11.30
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Abstract

Dissolved and particulate organic carbon concentrations and fluxes were measured and estimated for the Yeongsan River during 2006~2015. The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations ranged from 2.49 to $4.39mg{\cdot}C/L$ with a variance of 30.1% (${\sigma}_x/\bar{x}$), and showed a simple correlation to algal bloom and precipitation. The particulate organic carbon (POC) concentrations had gradually decreased from 6.68 to $0.19mg{\cdot}C/L$ for 10 years, and changed definitely with weir construction in 2011. Based on the relationships between POC and suspended particulate matters and between POC and chlorophyll-a, we found out that the distinct variation of the origin and composition of POC was caused by stagnation and screening effect of the dammed river. The total organic carbon (TOC) concentrations dropped to 52.3% (from 8.26 to $3.94mg{\cdot}C/L$) as the POC concentrations diminished to more than 94.8% after weir construction, in which the DOC forms up to 90.9%. The fluxes of TOC, based on the relationship between the annual TOC concentration and the discharge of Yeongsan dike sluice, were $2.56{\sim}19.41{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C/yr$, and showed a great deal of variability in 2011. Since then the TOC flux dropped to $5.40{\times}10^9$ (2011~2015) from $14.54{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C/yr$ (2006~2010). These results suggest that the weirs trapped annually $1.83{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C$ on a river bed, but released in great levels of dissolved organic form at their exits.

영산강의 유기물 농도와 플럭스를 파악하기 위하여 2006~2015년까지 10년 동안 약 2주 간격으로 영본D 지점에서 강물을 채취하여 유기물(DOC, POC)을 분석하였다. DOC 농도는 연평균 $2.49{\sim}4.39mg{\cdot}C/L$ 범위로 연중 중영양상태가 유지되었고, 조류증식 및 강수에 의한 증감에 따라 30.1% (${\sigma}_x/\bar{x}$) 변동하였다. POC는 2006년 $6.68({\pm}2.80)mg{\cdot}C/L$에서 2015년 $0.19({\pm}0.14)mg{\cdot}C/L$로 10년간 점진적으로 무려 97% 감소하였으며, 2011년 보건설을 기점으로 극적인 변화를 보였다. 이는 보에 의한 정체와 거름망 효과에 기인한 것으로서 보건설 전후로 POC와 SPM 관계의 상이함, 보건설 이후 POC와 chlorophyll-a의 관계로부터 POC의 기원 및 조성의 극명한 변화가 유도된 사실을 파악하였다. TOC 농도는 POC 감소효과로 보건설 이후 52.3% 줄었고 POC:DOC 존재형태 비 또한 DOC가 90.9%에 달하는 압도적 우위를 차지하였다. 하구언 배수량을 이용해 계산된 TOC 플럭스는 $2.56{\sim}19.41{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C/yr$ 범위에서 점진적 감소가 뚜렷하였으며, 2011년을 기점으로 전후 5년 평균 $14.54{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C/yr$에서 $5.40{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C/yr$로 62.9% 줄었다. 따라서 보건설 이후 2015년까지 $9.14{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C$, 즉 매년 약 $1.83{\times}10^9g{\cdot}C$의 유기물이 하상에 축적되었을 것으로 추정된다.

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