• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.117-133
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• 2023

This study assessed the ecological health of border areas using the ecological health index and suggested Indicators for maintaining and promoting ecological values. We analyzed the change trends, pressures, and resilience of ecosystems and services in border areas, and identified their current status and sustainability. The main findings were: (1) ecological assets and ecosystem services in border areas could be compared through ecosystem health assessment; (2) it can be used to set priorities for management and conservation by identifying the relative importance and vulnerability of ecosystems and ecosystem services in each border area; and (3) the index presented in this study can be judged to have explanatory power for the characteristics of border areas and ecosystem health when compared to previous studies. Limitations of this study include the lack of literature and statistical data at the local government level and the resulting limited application of evaluation methods, which limited direct regional comparisons. To overcome the research limitations, further studies are needed, such as establishing ecological information in border areas, mapping and assessment of ecosystem services, and developing and applying assessments that reflect the opinions and participation of various stakeholders. This study was the first attempt to assess the health of ecosystems and ecosystem services in border areas and provided an important baseline for future changes in border areas. In the future, it will be helpful in national and local government policies and ecological assetecosystem management by supplementing insufficient information and presenting clear goals.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.653-662
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• 2003

Changes in the area of geo-ecosystem $(62^{\circ}09'S,\;58^{\circ}31'w)$ reflect climatic changes in the South Shetland Islands. Air temperature and deglaciation will increase. The ice-free space area at the SSSS 8- (ASPA 121) site has enlarged threefold during the last 21 years, thus creating conditions for inhabitation and succession. Wind, water and snow play important roles in transportation of geochemical components. They distribute nutrients, mineral substances, seeds, fragments of plants and animals, etc. Plant and animal colonization is patchy and it happens at random in an 'island' - like manner. The colonization pattern is dependant, to a high degree on physical factors. The newly uncovered ice-free areas are at first inhabited by a vascular plant known as the Deschampsia antarctica. The border of the land-oasis with Admiralty Bay is the place where the processes related to animal feeding at the sea and reproduction on the land take place. Bird colonies and pinniped lairs form centers of fertilization surrounded by high chemical gradients dependent on the direction of the flow of nutrients $(e.g.\;NH_4)$. During the last 25 years, the numbers of penguins in this region have decreased, and thus the amount of materials excreted on land has diminished. The numbers of fur seals change in multi-annual cycles, and their migration into this area is related to the E1 $Ni\~{n}o$ phenomenon. The numbers of elephant seals in the area did not change. Organic matter deposited by the sea onto the shore are a source of nutrients and deficient chemical elements on land. Mineral matter is washed out into the waters of Admiralty Bay. These processes change seasonally, and multi annually. Negative effects on the environment at Arctowski Station induced by man are slight, but noticeable nevertheless. Physical processes have the largest influence on the living conditions and distribution of plants and animals, and as a consequence, on the functioning of the geo-ecosystem in the coastal-shore zone of the Maritime Antarctic.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.237-247
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• 2002

Air pollution by acid pollutants is problematic in the whole world. Water acidification has already been deteriorating the forest ecosystem. This study was conducted to analyze the acidity and chemical composition of the open precipitation and throughfall at forests with various geographic locations in Korea. The results of this study are as follows; The open precipitation pH was lowest in Seochun. The throughfall pH showed some buffering capacity in only Quercus mongolica stands. In Pinus rigida(Shingal and Seochun) stands, there was little difference from the open precipitation. Chemical composition of the open precipitation for each sampling site showed that $Ca^{2+}$, N $H_{4}$$^{+}$ and S $O_{4}$$^{2-}$ concentrations had higher value than other ions, and except these ions, the small quantity of ions showed different properties to each site. Changes of ion concentrations in the throughfall showed a tendency to increase. ion concentrations of the throughfall increased with washout and nutrient leaching from the trees. In conclusion, the influence was extended to the pure zone, and the frequency of acid rain is increasing. But, if the deposition of pollutants exceeds the capacity of purification, it would damage forest ecosystem. Further investigations are necessary to identify tolerant tree species to acid pollutants.nts.

• Mycobiology
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• 제49권5호
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• pp.454-460
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• 2021

Daecheongdo and Socheongdo Islands are located in the West Sea of Korea, 210 km away from land, and are military border areas very close to North Korea, making them difficult to access. Although the ecosystem of the islands is relatively well preserved due to the lack of accessibility, research on fungi of the regions is insufficient. Therefore, we aimed to investigate indigenous fungi in these geographically and geopolitically constrained regions. A survey of the indigenous fungal diversity of the islands was conducted in 2018. All specimens were identified at the species level based on morphological and molecular analyses. Among them, six macrofungi-namely, Agaricus menieri, Crepidotus praecipuus, Dichomitus squalens, Hortiboletus amygdalinus, Melanoleuca friesii, and Trametes lactinea-were not previously reported in Korea. Considering that the proportion of unrecorded species is high in the survey area and period as well as the number of samples collected, similar research on adjacent islands may be necessary.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.268-287
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 서부 비무장지대-민간인 통제선 권역에서, 그동안 학계에 알려지지 않았던 산림습원 7곳을 발견, 정밀 조사하여 보전가치를 평가하였다. 최근 국립수목원에서 발표한 습지평가기준에 따라, 김포와 파주에 위치한 산림 습원 중 5곳은 묵논형, 2곳은 자연형으로 구분되었고, 양뿔사초(Carex capricornis Meinsh. ex Maxim.) 등 희귀식물 9종을 포함하여 식물 101과 283속 474종의 서식이 확인되었다. 국립수목원의 평가체계를 적용하여 식생 및 경관, 물질순환 및 수리·수문, 인문·사회경관, 교란정도 부문을 평가한 결과, A등급 산림습원 3개소, B등급 3개소, C등급 1개소로 분류되었다. 군사적 긴장이 지배하는 접경지역에 산재하는 산림습원을 모니터링하는 것이 쉽지는 않지만, 보전 가치가 높은 산림습원이 존재함이 확인된 만큼, 원격탐사 기법을 활용하고 유관기관과 협력하는 등의 방법을 통하여 지속적으로 생태계를 조사하고 연구할 필요가 있다.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2013

생태계는 다양한 환경 내에 다양한 생물종이 서로 상호작용하고 있는 복잡계이다. 이들 상호작용은 계층적 먹이그물 구조를 이루고 있는데, 많은 경우, 포식자-피식자-식물의 관계를 보여준다. 포식자-피식자 경쟁관계는 시공간적으로 일어나는 현상이기 때문에, 초기시점에서의 개체들 분포와 밀도가 어떠한가는 매우 중요한 정보를 담고 있다. 본 연구에서는, 이들 세 단계 계층구조의 생태계를 간단한 격자 모델로 구성하고 이 모델을 사용하여 각 종의 초기 개체군 밀도가 변함에 따라 생태계 안정성이 어떻게 변하는지를 연구하였다. 격자공간은 $L{\times}L$ 크기의 L(=100) 사각격자로 구성되었다. 식물의 초기 밀도는 0.2로 고정하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과는, 포식자의 밀도가 0.4이하, 피식자의 밀도가 0.5이하일 때 두 종이 공존하는 것을 보여 주었으며, 포식자 밀도가 0.5이상, 피식자 밀도가 0.6 이상의 조건에서는 두 종이 멸종하는 것을 보여 주었다. 공존과 멸종의 두 상태가 접하는 영역의 조건에서는 확률적으로 공존하기도하고 멸종하기도 하는 비선형성이 강한 행동을 보여 주었다. 본 연구를 통해 초기종의 밀도가 생태계 안정성에 매우 중요한 역할을 한다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• 영어영문학
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.237-264
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• 2011

Based on its geophysical feature, the island has long been recognized as a separate and self-sustaining space independent of neighboring continent or other islands. Literary tradition has used the island as a metaphor for a utopian alternative to mundane human society with its various kinds of wrongdoings. Recent nature writings have taken up this island metaphor to emphasize the wholeness of the ecosystem in specifically designated natural community or landscapes such as national parks or wilderness preservation areas. Human-nature relations as border-divided area is also recognized as the island. Modern island biogeography, however, has disproved such a concept of islands as autonomous, revealing the contrasting fact that the richness of species on an undisturbed island is determined largely by species immigration from and emigration to a source of colonists. This scientific finding has posited the island as the interconnected nature, but the public and metaphoric use of it still resorts to the old concept of it as isolated and autonomous nature, because this image has been ingrained deeply in our consciousness and culture. Considering the negative consequences from the recognition of nature and nature-humans as isolated space, we need a new nature metaphor that embodies interconnectedness in nature and of human-nature relations. Such feature of interconnectedness is best embedded in the concept of ecotone. Some ecotones are created and maintained through human participation in nature, and this human induced nature of ecotone denotes the possibilities of a constructive relation between them. The substitution of the island with the ecotone as the concept of nature and the image of human-nature relations is expected to correct ecocritical practices of reading of nature writing, which has been predominantly interpreted within the orientation of nature itself and nature-human relations as an isolated and self-autonomous island. Adopting the ecotone in literary study enables ecocriticism to dig out cultural elements embedded in nature writing and reveal socio-political, ideological factors hidden behind the writers' portrayal of nature as islands.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2002년도 창립 20주년기념 국제학술대회
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• pp.219-228
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• 2002

서해 연안의 개발은 갯벌의 감소로 해양생태계를 위협하고 있으며 산업화에 따른 대형 매립공사는 주변의 기상변화와 해상변화를 일으켜 해저지형 및 해안선에 많은 변화를 발생시키고 있다. 또한 선박의 안전한 입, 출항을 위한 항로에 영향을 주고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 해도에 나타난 기준선인 최저저조면의 해양 기준면을 기초 자료로 사용하여 육지부분의 해안선과 갯벌의 경계로 나타나는 0m경계선, 수심2m선을 수치화 하였으며, 수치화 된 도면을 4개의 구역으로 구분하여 분석함으로써 신공항건설과 신도시개발, 방조제공사 등의 서해 연안 개발에 따른 해안과 해저의 변화 정도를 알아보았다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.135-153
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• 2021

비무장지대는 한반도 동-서 248km를 횡단하는 군사분계선을 기준으로 남, 북 각각 2km씩 무장이 금지된 지역이다. 그 중 남쪽으로 2km 떨어진 경계를 남방한계선이라고 한다. 비무장지대는 정전협정 이후 자연천이과정을 거치며 독특한 생태계를 형성한 지역으로 보전가치가 높다. 그러나 남방한계선 철책주변과 일부 지역은 군작전수행을 위한 각종 시설이용과 제초작업으로 인한 훼손이 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 본 연구는 훼손된 불모지 식생복원을 위한 기초자료 마련을 목적으로 시행되었다. 불모지 식생구조 파악을 위해 지표종을 중심으로 식생군락을 분류한 결과 뱀딸기군락, 비비추군락, 기린초-돌나물군락, 가락지나물군락, 양지꽃군락, 꿀풀군락, 구절초-그늘사초군락, 산구절초군락, 질경이-토끼풀군락, 좀씀바귀-매듭풀군락 등 10개 군락으로 구분되었다. 남방한계선 내 불모지는 군사적 활동으로 인한 토양침식, 지형변화, 산불 등 인위적인 교란이 지속적으로 발생하기 때문에 교란된 환경에 대한 적응성이 높은 종을 중심으로 식생이 발달하는 특성을 나타냈다. 분류된 군락 내 우점종은 대부분 우리나라 전국에 분포하는 종으로 길 또는 길가, 나지, 훼손지, 초지 등 주변에서 흔히 볼 수 있는 식물로 구성되어 있다. 현재 비무장지대 불모지 식생은 나지에서 초본식생으로 발달하는 천이 초기의 형태를 보인다. 불모지 내 분포하는 우점종은 특별한 유지·관리 없이도 자생할 수 있으므로 향후 복원소재 개발에 활용하거나 복원 종 선정 등에 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다