• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2016

Background: Little is known about how chemical water quality is associated with ecological stream health in relation to landuse patterns in a watershed. We evaluated spatial characteristics of water quality characteristics and the ecological health of Dongjin-River basin, Korea in relation to regional landuse pattern. The ecological health was assessed by the multi-metric model of Index of Biological Integrity (IBI), and the water chemistry data were compared with values obtained from the health model. Results: Nutrient and organic matter pollution in Dongjin-River basin, Korea was influenced by land use pattern and the major point sources, so nutrients of TN and TP increased abruptly in Site 4 (Jeongeup Stream), which is directly influenced by wastewater treatment plants along with values of electric conductivity (EC), bacterial number, and sestonic chlorophyll-a. Similar results are shown in the downstream (S7) of Dongjin River. The degradation of chemical water quality in the downstream resulted in greater impairment of the ecological health, and these were also closely associated with the landuse pattern. Forest region had low nutrients (N, P), organic matter, and ionic content (as the EC), whereas urban and agricultural regions had opposite in the parameters. Linear regression analysis of the landuse (arable land; $A_L$) on chemicals indicated that values of $A_L$ had positive linear relations with TP ($R^2=0.643$, p < 0.01), TN ($R^2=0.502$, p < 0.05), BOD ($R^2=0.739$, p < 0.01), and suspended solids (SS; ($R^2=0.866$, p < 0.01), and a negative relation with TDN:TDP ratios ($R^2=0.719$, p < 0.01). Conclusions: Chemical factors were closely associated with land use pattern in the watershed, and these factors influenced the ecological health, based on the multimetric fish IBI model. Overall, the impairments of water chemistry and the ecological health in Dongjin-River basin were mainly attributes to point-sources and land-use patterns.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.55-72
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• 2015

본 연구는 어린이집 교사들의 생태소양인식과 행복감의 관계를 살펴보기 위해 실시되었다. 경기인천 지역 어린이집 교사 125명을 대상으로 생태소양과 행복감에 대한 설문지 조사를 실시하였다. 결과처리를 위해 F검증, t 검증, Pearson의 적률상관분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 경력에 따라 어린이집 교사들의 생태소양의 신념과 태도는 차이가 나타났지만, 학력에 따라서는 생태소양 태도 중 관계 실천에서만 차이가 나타났다. 개인경험 중 어린 시절에 자연 친숙한 환경에서 자란 어린이집 교사들인 경우 생태소양이 높았으며, 현직 교육에서 생태교육을 받은 경우, 생태소양의 태도 면에서 높은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 생태소양이 높은 교사가 더 많은 행복감을 느끼고 있었다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 어린이집 교사들에게 생태교육을 제공하는 것이 이들의 행복감 증진시키는데 도움이 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 환경생물
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2016

환경생태 자료 분석에 사용된 많은 자료가 시간에 따라 얻어지고 있다. 조사된 시점의 수가 적은 경우에는 자료가 충분한 정보를 주지 않기 때문에 반복 측정하거나 여러 지점을 조사하여 종합적인 분석을 수행하게 된다. 이때 사용하는 방법이 경시적 자료 분석(longitudinal data analysis) 또는 혼합모형(mixed model) 분석이다. 그러나 시점의 수가 많아 정보의 양이 충분하다면 반복적인 자료가 필요하지 않으며 이러한 자료는 시계열 분석 기법을 이용하여 분석하게 된다. 특히 현재와 같이 다수의 시점에서 얻어진 자료의 수가 많아지고 있는 상항에서 각 변수 간에 서로 어떤 영향을 주는지 또는 향후 어떤 경향을 띠게 되는지 예측을 원한다면 시계열 분석 기법을 사용하여 자료를 분석해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 단변량 시계열 분석(univariate time series analysis), 개입 분석(intervention time series model), 전이함수 모형 분석(transfer function model), 다변량 시계열 분석(multivariate time series model) 기법을 소개하고 현재까지 진행된 국내외 연구 논문을 살펴보았다. 또한 향후 환경생태 자료 분석에서 중요하게 사용될 수 있는 오차수정 모형(error correction model)을 소개하였다.

• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.220-227
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• 2012

After The Ramsar Convention took place in Korea in 2008, public interest in environment heightened, and the government has been allocating its budget for conserving our environment. Therefore, the present study focuses on eco-friendly spatial images particularly shown in ecological museums in Korea which recognizes the value of the environment and the ecology and tries to both protect them and alert people about it. The purpose of this study is proving what consist of eco-friendly spatial images by analyzing the expressive word of eco-friendly images and the image of space, providing a basic data for future space planning of ecological museums. To do this, the present study proceeds in three steps. First of all, the base of research in analyzing stage is firmly established by grasping general theories and terms regarding spatial image. As a second step, the composition and the characteristics of exhibition is clarified through on-spot investigation to provide comparative data for spatial image assessment in the future. Also through this step, we could understand how the exhibits are designed currently. In the last stage of research, expressive words regarding eco-friendly spatial images are extracted and used to analyze the spatial image of ecological museums. And the following three conclusions is deduced. First, the expressive words of eco-friendly spatial image that are extracted are as following: "healthy", "coexisting", "clean", "blending", "warm", "soft", "lively", "pure", "cool", "fresh ", "comfortable", "relaxed", "mild", "free", "harmonious", and "healing". As the second conclusion, color, and material, the formation which is an architectural factor did not have a great impact on forming eco-friendly image, but the color and the material did. The third conclusion was that the display with natural aspects actively utilized increased eco-friendly spatial image.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.189-200
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• 2008

As a transition zone between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, riparian areas of rivers and streams play significant roles in production and decomposition for river and stream systems. Understanding of the physical and ecological characteristics of riparian areas are, therefore, important for the management of river and stream systems. It is especially important to understand the characteristics of riparian areas for the Nakdong River in Korea which has a large watershed area and diverse land uses. This study aimed at collecting field data, according to stream types, which are essential for the management of riparian areas of the middle and lower reaches of the Nakdong River, Korea. Most riparian areas surveyed in this study had roads within 100 meters from river edges. Distances from water edge to banks were less than 1m for most riparian areas neighboring agricultural lands, indicating that those areas might be very vulnerable to pollutant inputs from non-point sources. Water quality data indicated that soil erosion in the riparian areas could be a major source of phosphorus input to the Nakdong River and land use patters might have a significant influence on nitrogen concentration in the river. Heavy metal concentrations in soils of the riparian areas of the river were below soil quality standards, except arsenic and chromium. Vegetation surveys showed that therophytes were the most frequently occurred riparian plants in the Nakdong River. Number of aquatic plant species increased downstream, with the most diverse aquatic plants observed in wetlands and irrigation canals of the West Nakdong River. Occurrence rate of naturalized plants and urbanization index were high in the survey sites adjacent to urban and agricultural areas.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.307-318
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• 2012

To understand forest structures, the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument have been employed to measure and monitor forest canopy with feasibility of acquiring three dimensional canopy structure information. This study tried to examine the potential of GLAS dataset in measuring forest canopy structures, particularly maximum canopy height estimation. To estimate maximum canopy height using feasible GLAS dataset, we simply used difference between signal start and ground peak derived from Gaussian decomposition method. After estimation procedure, maximum canopy height was derived from airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and it was applied to evaluate the accuracy of that of GLAS estimation. In addition, several influences, such as topographical and biophysical factors, were analyzed and discussed to explain error sources of direct maximum canopy height estimation using GLAS data. In the result of estimation using direct method, a root mean square error (RMSE) was estimated at 8.15 m. The estimation tended to be overestimated when comparing to derivations of airborne LiDAR. According to the result of error occurrences analysis, we need to consider these error sources, particularly terrain slope within GLAS footprint, and to apply statistical regression approach based on various parameters from a Gaussian decomposition for accurate and reliable maximum canopy height estimation.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.24-34
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• 2002

본 연구의 목적은 DMZ 지역의 개발과 보전적 전략에서 생태적 평가를 수행하는데 있다. 군사적인 이유에 의해 연구지역을 현장조사하고 이를 바탕으로 생태적인 평가를 수행하기 어렵다. 때문에 본 연구에서는 Landsat ETM+ 위성영상 자료와 수치지도의 보조 자료를 이용하여 DMZ의 생태적 평가를 수행하였다. 생태적 영향권 조사를 위해 식생지수 가운데 하나인 NDVI값을 이용하였으며, 본 연구시점의 DMZ는 DMZ 내부를 제외하고는 식생활력도가 군사적 교란, 민간인의 영농활동 등으로 매우 낮은 값으로 나타났다. 또한 DMZ을 기준으로 설정한 거리별 식생지수값의 변화는 로지스틱한 형태로 표현되지 않고 있다. 이는 서부 및 중부지역의 평야지대의 경우 개발압력이 민통선지역에까지 이르렀으며, 동부지역의 경우 정기적인 사계청소의 영향이라 판단된다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.280-291
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• 2021

The study examined the influence of climate and soil dynamics on vegetation health across the ecological zones in Rivers State, Nigeria. MODIS imagery was used to assess the vegetation health through NDVI and point grid pattern of meteorological data for total precipitation (TP), air temperature (AT), soil moisture (SM) and soil temperature (ST) of 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 were used for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Findings showed that NDVI ranged between 0.420 and 0.612 in the freshwater swamp (FWS) while between 0.465 and 0.611 in the rainforest and the NDVI in the mangrove was generally low. The highest mean AT was experienced in the mangrove ecological zone and the least was experienced in the rainforest. The mean SM was generally highest in the rainforest with highest value in 2000 (774.44 m³/m³). The ST was highest in the mangrove and the least was experienced in the rainforest while the TP was highest in the mangrove. NDVI correlated significantly with SM (r=0.720; p<0.05) and ST (r= -0.493; p<0.05). NDVI, SM, TP and ST significantly varied among the ecological zones. Regression analysis showed that vegetation health was significantly related to the combination of soil temperature and soil moisture (R²=0.641; p=0.000). Thus, monitoring the factors that affect vegetation health in a changing climate and soil environments is highly required.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.131-134
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• 2000

Forest vegetation in Korea can be largely divided into warm temperate, cool temperate and frigid forest zone. The cool temperate forest zone of them occupies the largest part of the Korean peninsula and it is generally divided into three subdivisions such as northern, central and southern subzone. The Forestry Research Institute established three long-term ecological research sites at Kwangnung Experiment Forest in the central subzone of the cool temperate forest zone, at the Mt. Kyebangsan Forest in the northern subzone of the cool temperate forest zone. and at the Mt. Keumsan Forest in the warm temperate forest zone. The objectives of long-term ecological research in the Forestry Research Institute, Korea are to study long-term changes of the forest ecosystems in energy fluxes, water and nutrient cycling, forest stand structure, biological diversity, to quantify nutrient budgets and fluxes among forest ecosystem compartments and to integrate ecological data with a GIS - assisted model. To achieve the objectives, forest stand dynamics. environmental changes in soil properties, stream water quality, nutrient cycling, air pollution and biological diversity have been investigated and plant phonology as an indicator of climate change has been monitored in the LTER sites.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.71-83
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore ecological concepts, epistemological reasoning and reasoning processes through constructing 'food web and food pyramid' in ecology. We conducted classes which involved a 'food web and food pyramid' for $6^{th}$ grade students. Each class is constructed of small groups to do modeling and epistemological reasoning through communication. The researcher had videotaped and recorded each class and have made transcription about classes. We analysed patterns of 'food web and food pyramid models' and reasoning processes according to scientific epistemology using transcription data and student outputs. As a result, students represented phenomenon-based reasoning, relation-based reasoning and model-based reasoning in scientific epistemology from their modeling. Students usually did relation-based reasoning and model-based reasoning in food web which explains ecological phenonenon, while they usually did model-based reasoning in food pyramid which expects ecological phenomenon. Student's reasoning can be limited when they have misconception of scientific knowledge and are limited by fragmentary knowledge. This represents that students has to do relation-based reasoning and model-based reasoning is beneficial in their ecological model. It also suggests that students need to define correct-conception related to ecological modeling(food web, food pyramid).