• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.757-767
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• 2006

Biological assessments are the primary tool for evaluating the biological condition of a water body and makes it possible to understand accumulative and long-term effect of stressors. They also provide reliable biological information for which disturbed systems are to be restored. Sustainable water environment is not enough with attaining only the clean water, but it should sustain healthy and diverse aquatic life. Aquatic organisms are affected by various factors, including not only water quality but also habitat condition and stressors, and thus good condition of both physical and chemical water quality is prerequisite for sustaining healthy organisms. Therefore, biological assessment, along with other physical and chemical assessments, are crucial for evaluating the health of a water body. Overall, sustainability of water environment demands the attainment and maintenance of ecological integrity, which is resulted from the combination of physical, chemical and biological integrity. The biological criteria will play very important role in the water resource management and policy issues, and thus bioassessment program should be fully implemented and supported eventually by the law. To keep ecosystem health of water environment safely from the toxic pollutants and other stressors, the following suggestions need to be considered in environmental quality standards in Korea. For the first step, the biological indicators need to be introduced in evaluating river quality condition; they provide a qualitative description of biological condition of water body. Secondly, the biological water quality standards using biotic indices should be developed and implemented under the consideration of characteristics of Korean river systems. Lastly, the ecological status classification regime (ESCR) should be developed and introduced; it could be used in quality assessment of the water environment in general. In developing ESCR, integration of physico-chemical, biological, and habitat parameters should be taken into account.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제112권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2023

본 연구는 경북 일대 산지 아까시나무림의 자연성 회복을 위한 생태적 관리에 필요한 기초정보 제공을 위하여 총200개 임분에서 수집된 식생자료를 바탕으로 이원지표종분석법(TWINSPAN)으로 식생유형을 분류하고, DCA 분석으로 환경구배에 따른 그 공간배열 상태를 파악함과 아울러 식생유형별 군락적합도(Φ) 판정으로 결정된 진단종을 기준으로 군락조성요약표를 작성하였다. 식생유형은 신갈나무-둥굴레형, 밤나무-청미래덩굴형, 철쭉-인동덩굴형, 찔레꽃-쑥형, 감태나무-댕댕이덩굴형, 참느릅나무-팽나무형, 그리고 귀룽나무-푼지나무형 등 모두 7개 유형으로 분류되었으며, 대개 해발고도, 수분 체계, 천이 단계 및 교란 체제 등 복합적 요인의 차이를 반영하고 있었다. 구성종의 평균상대중요치는 아까시나무(39.7)가 단연 높게 나타났지만, 굴참나무, 졸참나무, 신갈나무, 상수리나무, 갈참나무 등 참나무류가 상위중요치 구성종으로 나타나고 있어 잠재천이경향을 가늠할 수 있었다. 또한, 식생유형별 구성종의 총피도, 생활형 조성, 종다양성 지수, 그리고 지표종 등도 비교하였다.