• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.4 no.1_2
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• pp.1-7
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• 1981

Montane grassland at the summit of Mt. Soback, Korea, was studied to verify the relationships between environmental factors and vegetations on the different slopes. The contents of total nitrogen and excangeable cation and thickness of A-layer of soil in the east slope were greater and thicker than those of the northwest one. Two different community types were observed one, on the east slope, was a grass community and the other, on the northwest, was a grass community. Plant height and annual production of the forb community were taller and greater than those of the grass community. These differences might be correlated with the different of snow depth between two slopes caused by wind in witner. It is clear that the formation of the montane grassland at the study area is mainly caused by fire, wind and topography at the summit.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.243-253
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• 2005

In agricultural ecosystem, soils which play important roles of storage and cycling of substances become a crtitical social problem due to rapid increase of contaminants with respect to our health. Soil as productivity should be interpreted as soil quality, that is important criteria in maintaining sustainable agriculture for production of safe food. Therefore, it needs to set the criteria of soil quality by considering environmental factors including relevant parameters which are involved in soil quality soil health because soils are widely distributed and have various characteristics such as physical, chemical, and biological propevties. Therefore, it requires intensive investigation of evaluation methods and development of related parameters for environmentally sound agriculture and safe soil management.

• Cross-Cultural Studies
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• v.42
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• pp.47-68
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• 2016

This paper closely examines Popol Vuh, regarded as the Bible of the Mayans, from the perspective of the Deep Ecology. Deep ecology is a concept born out of the criticisms on the existing environmental movements as superficial, and encourages the moral and ethical change of the man's attitude towards the nature, inevitably becoming "metaphysical" in character. As such the Deep ecology advocates the break away from the anthropocentricism, the dichotomous thinking and the rationalism of the modern times. Popol Vuh is a text that contains such concepts and it requires an analysis from the Deep ecological perspective beyond the existing framework of the study that simply focuses on mythological elements.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2015

하천은 인간의 활동과 산업화에 의해 많은 인위적인 교란을 받고 있다. 대표적으로 댐과 저수지는 수자원의 이용, 발전, 그리고 다양한 산업화를 위하여 건설되었다. 이는 경제발전과 함께 인간의 생명과 용수 공급 및 홍수 예방의 차원에서 많은 역할을 해오고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 댐과 저수지는 하류 하천에 서식하는 생물들에 대한 영향을 거의 고려하지 않고 건설되는 실정이다. 특히 발전방류와 같은 급격한 유량의 변화는 하류 하천에 서식하는 생물들의 서식처에 직접적으로 영향을 미치고 있다. 하류 하천에 서식하는 생물들은 인간의 인위적 교란에도 영향뿐만 아니라 유속, 수심, 기층, 영양물질, 수질, 온도 등과 같은 서식처 요소에도 영향을 받는다. 따라서 서식처 요소들에 대한 연구는 하천 생태계의 변화 또는 영향을 주는 인자에 대해 평가하고 분석하는데 유용하게 사용된다. 본 연구에서는 댐 발전방류로 인한 수온 차이가 하류 하천에 미치는 영향을 파악하였다. 발전방류로 인한 하류 하천의 수온 변화를 모의하기 위하여 미공병단에서 개발된 CE-QUAL-W2 모형을 사용하였다. 대상구간은 괴산댐 하류에 위치한 달천이며 2.5 km구간을 선정하였고, 달천 상류에 위치한 괴산댐은 빈번하게 발전방류를 발생시키고 있다. 발전방류로 인한 하류하천의 수온 변화를 살펴보기 위하여, 여름과 겨울 두 계절의 상반된 경우에 대하여 모의를 수행하였다. 괴산댐의 경우, 중층 및 하층방류를 실시하므로 상대적으로 온도 차이가 심한 발전방류가 하류 하천으로 유입이 된다. 실측된 자료를 살펴보면, 괴산댐에서 발전방류는 하류 하천과의 온도 차이가 약 $10^{\circ}C{\sim}19^{\circ}C$ 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통하여 댐 발전방류로 인한 하류 하천의 수온 변화를 분석함으로써, 댐 하류 하천에서 서식하는 생물들을 고려한 댐 운용 계획을 수립하는데 중요한 기초자료가 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.208-209
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• 2001

이매패류는 해수 중의 유기물과 식물플랑크톤을 지속적으로 여과하여 소비하고(Carlson et al., 1984; Cohen et al., 1984; Frechette ＆ Bourget, 1985' Smaal et al., 1986; Hily, 1991), 생물 대사 활동에 의해 배설되는 입자 유기물 (biodeposit)은 퇴적물에 축적되어 (Verwey, 1952; Haven ＆ Morales-Alamo, 1972) 해수 중으로 다시 영양염을 공급하는 등 생태계 내의 영양염 및 에너지 순환에 많은 영향 (Boynton et al., 1980; Dame et al., 1980; Prince ＆ Smaal, 1990)을 미치고 있기 때문에, 생태계 구성요소들 중에서 매우 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있는 것으로 알려져 있다(Gosling, 1992; Dame, 1996). (중략)

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.170-184
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• 2022

The Riparian Buffer Zone(RBZ) is a sustainable social-ecological system created in the middle zone between water and land. For the RBZ, close communication with the local community is important, and it is necessary to promote it as a communicative environmental planning process. In this study, for the RBZ project, three strategies are presented as a communicative act to understand and implement planning. First, government-led projects were avoided and improved to a process in which citizens and stakeholders participated together, centered on local partnership. Second, it was intended to introduce design criterias in terms of enhancing the function of ecosystem services that citizens can sympathize with, and to increase acceptance and awareness through the planning of preferred spaces and facilities. Third, after a balanced plan for habitats, water cycle-based ecological environment, ecological experience and open space, citizens felt the restoration effect and value as an ecological resources, and a system was prepared to participate in the operation and management. This study will work as a process model based on citizens's participation. In addition, it will be possible to provide lessons for the change of the policy paradigm for the RBZ and the implementation of similar projects in the future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.32-44
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• 2019

Based on the characteristics of cultural expressions, this paper compares and analyzes the cases of representative commercial architectural spaces of six largest cities in China.In order to promoting the sustainable development of the indoor space culture of modern commercial buildings in China.Six cases were analyzed from the viewpoints of cultural tradition, locality, popularity, technology, and ecology. The results are as follows. First, the tradition of culture requires the emphasis on the traditional elements of specific areas in the interior space of commercial architecture.Second, the regional character of culture is closely related to the social and natural environment factors such as the economic development of the interior space of commercial architecture, historical intrinsic space, geographical environmental conditions, and climate.Fourth, the technicality of culture is to integrate construction method, structure form, and material with local culture into commercial architecture interior space.Fifth, cultural ecology places attention to placing plants in the interior space of commercial architecture and creating a healthy, pleasant and safe environment.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.604-614
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• 2022

This study analyzed habitat status of barn swallows within 800 m and changes in potential food resource occurrence for 63 nests (Seocheon 23, Sejong 40) where barn swallows breeding was confirmed in Seocheon and Sejong in 2019 and 2020. As a result of checking habitat compositions of barn swallows in the study area, Sejong showed more varieties of habitat types than Seocheon, showing a larger number of dominant groups. Such large number of dominant groups was found to be an advantageous habitat factor for producing flying insects as potential food resources for barn swallows. As for the production of potential food resources, Seocheon had the highest production in dwelling and stream and Sejong had the highest production in the stream. The production of potential food resources differed in production season by habitat type. This study analyzed compositions of the habitat around the breeding site of swallows. It provides basic data necessary for protecting barn swallow habitats by comparing the production timing and production volume of potential food resources occurring in the habitat.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.769-778
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• 2014

The rapid urbanization and increase in population due to industrialization have led to the extension of cities and the reduction in naturality as a necessity. Now, it is the biggest threat to virtuous circle of ecosystem. With the expansion of common recognition that this ecological crisis would be accompanied by the crisis of mankind, many countries all around the world are conducting researches to indicate the optimum consumption level of individual as an index in addition to cross-national environmental indicators such as ESI, EPI and SDI, by measuring environmental consumption of state, local government or individual, and comparing each region. Based on this background, this research was carried out to estimate the environmental capacity of 23 local government in Gyeongsangbuk-do. The result of EF estimation showed that EF value necessary for life per head in Gyeongsangbuk-do was 0.9534, and it showed an ecological deficit of 25.3 percent when analyzing it in consideration of the ecological capacity. Also, among the local governments in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Youngduk-gun displayed the highest EF, and Ulleung-gun displayed the lowest EF. But when analyzing the ecological deficit in consideration of the ecological capacity of each region, Gumi-city showed the greatest ecological deficit, and Youngyang-gun showed the biggest ecological capacity. The environmental capacity estimated in this study is to digitize the ecological capacity and ecological deficit of each local government in Gyeongsangbuk-do. The estimated optimum environmental capacity of each local government suggests the scale of environmental preservation and proper development and furthermore, could be used as fundamental data for persuading members of each local government when selecting a location of development facility or preservation area.

• Journal of Wetlands Research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.432-445
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• 2018

Vegetation and water characteristics of an eco-technological water purifying biotope were investigated at five years after the wetland construction. A total of 91 vascular plant species in 36 families were recorded. Initially planted emergent macrophytes such as Phragmites australis, P. japonicus, Zizania latifolia, Typha latifolia, and T. angustifolia mainly comprised the vegetational components of the wetland. The effect of water purification was observed markedly in most indicators such as electric conductivity (P < 0.01), $NO_3-N$ (P < 0.05), $NH_4-N$ (P < 0.001), $K^+$ (P < 0.05), $Na^+$ (P < 0.01), and $Mg^{2+}$ (P < 0.01). In particular, $NO_3-N$ and $NH_4-N$ concentrations decreased to about 60% and 30%, respectively, via the purification process of the wetland. Separativeness and curvature from the meandering structure of 15 units (multi-cell wetland system) seemed likely to make the wetland continuously play a role as an eco-technological water purifying biotope. We recommend that eco-technological design factors should be included in wetland constructions for efficient and continuous functioning, thus enhancing ecological values of wetlands.