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Wetlands Classifying Characteristics by Wetland Classifying Systems - Cases on the Tu-men River and Han River -  

Zhu, Weihong (Dept. of Geography, Yanbian University)
Koo, Bon-Hak (Dept. of Environmental Landscape Architecture, Sang-myung University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology / v.9, no.6, 2006 , pp. 152-161 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is the primary study for analyzing the classifying characteristics of river wetlands in Korea and China. It is the first step for constructing the wetlands inventories and establishing the wetland conservation strategies in North-Eastern Asia. The case study sites are Han-river which is the representative river of Korea and Tu-men river which is flowing on the borderline of 3 nations, China, North Korea and Russia. The results are as follows : 1. The types of wetlands of Han-river in Korea and Tumen-river in China were classified by the methods of Koo(2002) which is focused on the topography and hydrology and Zhu(2002) which is emphasized the vegetation and habitats. 2. There are three features which are hydrology, topography and soil cover, and vegetation to classify the wetlands into each types. 3. According to the two wetland types by Koo and Zhu, classification system, wetlands in the case study area(Han river and Duman river) were classified by types. 4. In Koo's classifying system(2002), lots of Riverine, Lacustrins and Flat wetlands are found because the topographical and hydrological features are emphasized. On the contrary in Zhu's system(2002), there are lots of Palustrine wetlands because of emphasizing the vegetation. 5. By the topographic and geological characteristics of each sites, there are more wetland types in the lower Tumen river.
Keywords
Duman River; Han River; Wetland type; Classifying system; Classifying characteristics; NWI;
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