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A Study on the Community of Wintering Waterbirds in Saemangeum (새만금에 도래.월동하는 수조류 군집에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Tae-Han;Yoo, Seung-Hwa;Yu, Jae-Pyoung;Lee, Han-Soo;Kim, In-Kyu
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.81-90
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    • 2011
  • One of the most important habitats of Waterbirds in the west coast of Korea is Saemangeum and its mudflat, located within the estuary of the Dongji and Mankyung River. This study was conducted to clarify the community characteristics of wintering waterbirds in Saemangeum from November 2008 to February 2009. Waterbirds and Raptor are 69 species and 409,044 individuals by the sum of peak counts were recorded. We classified the wintering waterbirds into 14 groups of taxa based on the similar ecological attributes. The dominant species were Baikal Teal Anas formosa, Mallard Anas platyrhynchos, Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons, Greater Scaup Aythya marila. Greater White-fronted Goose was significantly positive correlated with survey period. Baikal Teal, Greater White-fronted Goose, Bean Goose, Greater Scaup, Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna were increased when compared with last report but Mallard, Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha, Dunlin Calidris alpina were no difference.

Impacts on Residence Time and Water Quality of the Saemangeum Reservoir Caused by Inner Development (새만금 내부개발이 체류시간 및 수질변화에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoo, Sang-Cheol;Suh, Seung-Won;Lee, Hwa-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.186-197
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    • 2012
  • In order to understand hydrodynamic and water quality changes on the Saemangeum reservoir in accordance to inner development plan, intensive numerical simulations using EFDC have been done. Due to inner dike construction and proposed dredging plans, stratification might occur and yield flow field change. It should be noticed that very conditional gate operation schedule adjusting target water elevation of -1.5 meter causes severe stratification and hence plays an important role in poor water qualities. By using random walk particle tracking residence simulations, it is found that hydrodynamic characteristics depends greatly on riverine inflow conditions. It is also inferred that the northern part of the Mangyeong reservoir behaves as a dead zone and acts as major reasoning of water quality deterioration owing to benthic flux from long-term residing settled sediment.