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Importance and Priority of Indicators for Selection of Plant Species for Ecological Restoration

생태복원용 식물종 선정을 위한 지표의 중요도·우선순위

  • 성정원 (국립한국농수산대학교 조경학과) ;
  • 신현탁 (국립수목원 연구기획팀) ;
  • 유승봉 (수원시 화랑조경공사) ;
  • 박석곤 (국립순천대학교 산림자원.조경학부)
  • Received : 2022.02.28
  • Accepted : 2022.05.16
  • Published : 2022.06.30
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Abstract

Ecological restoration is considered a good means to prevent biodiversity loss in terms of the ecosystem's health and sustainability. However, there are difficulties in putting it into practice as there is no comprehensive and objective standard for the selection of plant species, such as environmental, ecological factors, and restoration goal setting. Therefore, this study developed an evaluation index necessary for selecting plant species for restoration using the Delphi method that synthesizes the opinions of the expert group. A survey with 38 questionnaires was conducted twice for experts in ecological restoration, etc., and the importance and priority of evaluation indicators were analyzed by dividing the restoration targets into inland and island regions. The result of the importance analysis showed that "native plants" had the highest average of 4.9 among the evaluation indices in both inland and island regions, followed by "seed security", "propagation", and "root growth rate". In the inland region, the index priority was analyzed in the order of "native plants", "appearance frequency", "root growth rate", "distribution range", and "seed security" in the island region, it was analyzed in the order of "native plants", "root growth rate", "appearance frequency", "distribution range", and "tolerance", showing slight differences between the two indicators. As a result of the importance and priority indicator analysis, we set the mean importance and priority of 4.1 and 2.9, respectively, in the inland region and 4.2 and 2.9, respectively, in the island region. As for the criteria of selecting plant species for ecological restoration, the "native plants" had the highest importance and priority. "Seed securing", 'viability", "topography", "proliferation", "tolerance", "soil conditions", "growth characteristics", "early succession", "distribution range", "appearance frequency", and "germination rate" were classified into subgroups of low importance and priority. The lowest indicators were "final stage of succession", "transition period", 'transition stage", "root", "reproduction", "soil", "appearance", "technology", "landscape", "climate", and "germination rate". We expected that the findings through objective verification in this study would be used as evaluation indicators for selecting native plant species for ecological restoration.

생태복원은 생태계의 건강성과 지속성에 있어 생물다양성의 손실을 막을 수 있는 좋은 수단으로 인식되어 있으나 식물종 선정에 관한 환경, 생리·생태요인, 복원목표 설정 등 종합이고 객관적인 기준점이 없어 실행에 옮기는데 애로사항이 있다. 이에 전문가 그룹의 의견을 종합하는 델파이 기법을 활용하여 생태복원용 식물종을 선정하는데 필요한 평가지표를 개발하였다. 생태복원 등의 전문가를 대상으로 2회에 걸쳐 38부의 설문조사를 시행하여, 복원 대상지를 내륙과 도서 지역으로 나눠 평가지표의 중요도와 우선순위를 분석했다. 중요도 분석 결과, '자생식물'이라는 평가지표가 내륙과 도서 지역에서 모두 평균 4.9로 가장 높았다. 다음 '종자확보', '증식', 활착률' 순으로 높았다. 내륙의 지표우선순위는 '자생식물', '출현빈도', '활착율', '분포범위', '종자확보'로 도서 지역은 '자생식물', '활착율', '출현빈도', '분포범위', '내성' 순으로 나타났다. 중요도와 우선순위 분석을 수행한 결과 '내륙의 중요도 평균값은 4.1, 우선순위 2.9로 도서지역은 중요도 평균값은 4.2, 우선순위 2.9로 기준을 설정하였다. 생태복원용 식물종 선정의 중요도와 우선순위는 '자생식물'이 중요도와 우선순위가 가장 높은 것으로 나타났다. 다음은 '종자확보', '활착율', '지형', '증식', '내성', '토양조건', '생육특성', '천이초기', '분포범위', '출현빈도', '발아율'이 중요도와 우선순위가 낮은 하위 그룹으로 분류되었다. 가장 낮은 지표는 '천이 최종단계', '천이장기', '천이중기', '뿌리', '번식', '토양', '성상', '기술', '경관', '기후', '발아율'로 구분되었다. 이에, 생태복원용 식물종 선정을 위해 객관적 검증을 통한 생태복원용 자생식물 종 선정을 위한 평가지표로 복원사업에 활용되기를 기대한다.

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Acknowledgement

본 논문은 산림청(한국임업진흥원) 산림과학기술 연구개발사업(2020206A00-2022-BA01)의 지원으로 이루어졌음

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