• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.223-227
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• 2007

Crop loss and damage by wildlife are becoming more serious to residents inside and around National Parks of Korea annually. It could be caused by small size of Parks, which is couples of ten $km^2$ only, and more than a third of total parks' areas are belonging to privates. Wild boar (Sus scrofa) is one of the most harmful pests in nationwide. Treading down crop field using as bedding or resting site are major damaged types and foraging behavior is following. Besides of boars, Korean water deer (Hydropotes inermis), racoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), and badger (Meles meles) are another serious pests. Mainly, farm products planted in upland, such as corns, sweet potatoes, cabbages, etc. are harmed easily, a rate reaches up to 76.9% of whole losses. 92.4% (n=187) of interviewees, who are mostly seniors, cultivate small crop fields smaller than 1 ha. Crop damage would be started from June to late November, time differences are happened due to latitude, climate condition, and crop differences of National Parks. Dusting animal repellents are easier and widespread methods to prevent animal foraging to crop fields and installing noisy makers using gun powder and setting up scarecrows are traditional methods for repelling animals. Nevertheless, effects of these self-defence are turned out to be useful soon after labors done only. Since legal compensation for crop damages by wildlife are not prepared systematically so far, crop loss are rarely reported to local government by most farmers. Systematic and objective methods for quantifying of crop loss by wildlife and population managements system should be offered urgently to well-managed animals habitat and residents' living inside National Parks.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.287-298
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• 2019

This study found that wildlife crossing created through environmental impact assessments didn't reduce the number of wildlife accidents on the road by review of "A Study on the Legal and Institutional Review for Reproving Bio-Mobile in Environmental Impact Assessment(2018)". Specific considerations to be reviewed at each stage of the environmental impact assessment consultation were presented for practical site application. Therefore, in this study, the consultation steps for environmental impact assessment were presented in five stages, including planning, design, construction, monitoring, maintenance and management, and detail of the items to be reviewed by public officer. It will be able to prevent loss of habitats and improve biodiversity by improving the practice and institutional problems that were planned and designed at the time of construction.

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.14-14
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• 2003

• Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.447-452
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• 2018

Water is an important component in the production of fresh produce. It is mainly used for irrigation and application of pesticides and fertilizers. Several outbreaks cases related to fresh produce have been reported and water has been identified as the most likely source. On the other hand, wildlife has been identified as a possible source of the waterborne pathogens. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of wildlife access on irrigation water used in the cultivation of Chinese cabbage in Goesan. The frequency of wild animals access to upstream water source and the contamination level of bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Enterococci of irrigation water used in Chinese cabbage farm was examined. A total of 37 wildlife including the wild bear and water deer were observed in upstream of water source during the cultivation of Chinese cabbage. The result indicated the presence of hygienic indicator bacteria from the upstream where there is no human access. The contamination range of coliforms, E. coli, and Enterococcus spp. Detected in the irrigation water were 2.13~4.32 log MPN / 100 mL, 0.26~2.03 log MPN / 100 mL, and 1.43~3.49 log MPN / 100 mL, respectively. Due to low water temperatures, the contamination levels of coliform bacteria and E. coli in the irrigation water during harvesting time was lower compared to those recorded during transplanting of Chinese cabbage. However, no significant difference was detected in the number of Enterococci during the cultivation of Chinese cabbage. The results indicated the need to manage the microbial risk in irrigation water to enhance safety in cultivation of Chinese cabbage.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.233-243
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• 2015

The ecosystem fragmentation due to transportation infrastructure causes road-kill phenomenon. When making policy for reducing road-kill it is important to select target-species in order to enhance its efficiency. However, many corridors installed in Korea have been raised issues about their effectiveness due to lack of considerations such as target-species selection, site selection, and management, etc. In this study, we are to grasp relationship between road-kill area and habitat patches and suggest that spatial location of habitat patches should be considered as one of the important factors when making policy for reducing road-kill. Habitat patches were presumed from overlying suitability index that chosen by literature review and road-kill hotspot was determined by Getis-Ord $G_i^*$ analysis. Afterwards, we performed a correlation analysis between $G_i$ Z-score and the distance from habitat patches to the roads. As a result, there is a negative correlation between two variables, It affects the $G_i^*$ Z-score going up if the habitat patches and the roads become closer.

• The Science & Technology
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• no.11 s.414
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• pp.8-10
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• 2003

동물원 야생동물 이상행동 관찰돼/ 동전 크기 칩에 인간유전자 집적/ 흉터 없는 초고속 상처치료 물질 발견/ 글리백, 알츠하이머 병에도 효과/ CERN, 12개국 참여 차세대 컴퓨터망 구축/ 적색육, 인체에 해로운 면역반응 유발/ 스트레스 비만과 각종 성인병 유발/ '푸들'종 개 게놈지도 작성/ 줄기세포, 난자에서도 추출 가능/ 첫 육지식물 4억7천500만년 전 출현/ 고대 그리스數체계는 이집트에서 차용

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.10a
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• pp.839-841
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• 2018

인공지능 기술을 활용하여 동물 소리를 분석하고 그 종을 구별하는 기술은 지역의 야생동물 현황 파악이나 생태계 조사 등에 효과적으로 사용될 수 있다. 인공지능 기술을 활용하기 위해서는 많은 동물 소리 샘플이 필요하지만, 현재 그러한 데이터는 녹음 환경이 고도화되어 있는 상용 DB나 전문가 DB 형태로 존재한다. 이러한 데이터만을 학습한 인공지능의 경우 실제 환경에서 녹음된 동물 소리를 식별하는 데 많은 어려움이 예상된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 다양한 동물 소리를 수집하기 위해 동물 관련 전문가나 일반 사용자 모두 자유롭게 사용할 수 있는 동물 울음소리 수집과 분류를 위한 오픈 플랫폼을 제안한다. 플랫폼에 업로드된 소리 파일은 인공지능의 학습 데이터로 사용하며, 이 인공지능은 사용자에게 소리 파일을 분석한 결과로 해당 동물종과 그에 대한 다양한 생태정보를 제공하고 부가적으로 지역별 동물 통계 및 소리 파일에서의 소리 구간 추출, 소리 파일 공유 등 다양한 기능을 제공한다.

• 공원문화
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• s.29
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• pp.33-38
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• 1985

• The Korean Publising Journal, Monthly
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• s.320
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• pp.8-9
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• 2002

• KOREAN POULTRY JOURNAL
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• v.37 no.12 s.434
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• pp.124-125
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• 2005