• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.368-378
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• 2005

Inorganic matters originated from stone quarries and manufacturing plants could alter the ecological characteristics of adjacent aquatic systems, especially the structure and function of benthic macroinvertebrate community. In such situation, the locality of stone quarry and the quantity of inorganic matters would be important factors that determined the disturbing strength to the benthic macroinvertebrate community. Locality patterns of stone quarries were classified into 3 types in relation to the stream ecosystem; stream-proximity, upstream-inclusion and tributary-inclusion type. In the result of species:abundance analysis, stone quarry B (upstream-inclusion type) showed geometric distribution, while others showed broken-stick distribution pattern. The benthic macroinvertebrate communities closer to stone quarries showed smaller species numbers and standing crops among all types of stone quarries. However the values of species evenness index were not seriously different between controls and directly affected sites. These results indicated that the effect of inorganic disturbance would differ from those of organic pollution that induced the highly dominant state occupied by tolerant species. Number of occurred species, standing crops, community indices and biotic indices indicated that the community of upstream-inclusion type was the most seriously damaged from the inorganic disturbance, and the community would be very simple and unstable. Tributary-inclusion stone quarry heavily damaged to tributary system in biologically, but influence to the main stream seemed to be depended on the scale of main stream. Among 3 types of stone quarry localities, stream-proximity type induced the least damages to benthic macroinvertebrate community, though the degrees of damage were different along with distances between stream and stone quarry.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.784-795
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to assess biological river water quality by using epilithic diatoms at 40 selected sites in Geum, Youngsan, and Seomjin River systems. The sampling and analyses were performed during three seasons including January, April and June in 2005. Various water quality parameters also were analyzed. We attempted to classify the water quality condition by epilithic diatom indices (DAIpo and TDI) with the results of corresponding analyses of various chemical water quality parameters. A five class system was delivered to describe the water quality condition ranged from "very good" to "very poor." We also proposed a way of classifying water quality condition by combining two diatom indices of DAIpo and TDI. Our results showed that biomass of epilithic diatoms varied not only seasonally but spatially; it was not likely that winter diatoms represent average water quality condition, due to high concentration of nutrients. Water quality status assessed by diatom indices was generally worse than that assessed by BOD, indicating that BOD standard likely underestimates the biological condition of the water body. Importantly, nutrient-based diatom index (TDI) generally overestimated organic matter-based index (DAIpo) at most study sites, indicating that diatoms in studied rivers were likely more affected by nutrients than organic matter. Thus, management strategy to improve river water quality in Korea is suggested to emphasize more on the nutrients than organic matters.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.63-73
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• 2010

A comprehensive mapping project for agroclimatic zoning in South Korea will end by April 2010, which has required 4 years, a billion won (ca. 0.9 million US dollars) and 22 experts from 7 institutions to complete it. The map database from this project may be categorized into primary, secondary and analytical products. The primary products are called "high definition" digital climate maps (HD-DCMs) and available through the state of the art techniques in geospatial climatology. For example, daily minimum temperature surfaces were prepared by combining the climatic normals (1971-2000 and 1981-2008) of synoptic observations with the simulated thermodynamic nature of cold air by using the raster GIS and microwave temperature profiling which can quantify effects of cold air drainage on local temperature. The spatial resolution of the gridded climate data is 30m for temperature and solar irradiance, and 270m for precipitation. The secondary products are climatic indices produced by statistical analysis of the primary products and includes extremes, sums, and probabilities of climatic events relevant to farming activities at a given grid cell. The analytical products were prepared by driving agronomic models with the HD-DCMs and dates of full bloom, the risk of freezing damage, and the fruit quality are among the examples. Because the spatial resolution of local climate information for agronomic practices exceeds the current weather service scale, HD-DCMs and the value-added products are expected to supplement the insufficient spatial resolution of official climatology. In this lecture, state of the art techniques embedded in the products, how to combine the techniques with the existing geospatial information, and agroclimatic zoning for major crops and fruits in South Korea will be provided.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.43-58
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• 2017

This study aims to provide basic understanding for evaluating the quantitative and qualitative progress of national protected areas, through the theoretical review of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in order to comply with recommendations of international community and to conserve biodiversity. As a result of the study, Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 sets out the specific contents that the Parties should achieve for protected areas by identifying them as temporal and spatial goals. The temporal goal, the time schedule for achieving the goal, is 2020, and the spatial goal is divided into quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals. The quantitative expansion goals present the target coverage of protected areas separately terrestrial and marine. The qualitative improvement goals include the target areas for conservation and five conservation considerations. The conservation targets focus on the important areas with regard to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The five conservation considerations mean effective management, equitable management, ecological representativeness, connectivity, and integration into the landscape and seascape for protected areas. Finally, it suggests that two tracks of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures(OECMs) should be used as conservation measures to build an integrated system. The results of this study can be applied to quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for protected areas and it can contribute to achieve quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals for them.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2003

국내 과채류에 등록된 농약의 독성 및 토양잔류시험성적 등을 이용하여 포장에서 사용되는 농약에 대하여 환경영향 평가가 가능한 환경영향지수 모델을 만들고자 수행하였다 환경영향과 관련된 주요 평가 항목은 농작업자, 소비자, 생태계 및 환경영향항목으로 구성하였으며, 환경영향 평가는 rating 방식을 채택하여 환경영향지수 공식을 만들어서 사용하였다. 작물별 환경영향 지수는 참외에 등록된 농약이 농작업자, 소비자 및 환경에 대한 영향 지수가 다른 작물에 비하여 약간 높았고, 생태계에서는 고추에 등록된 농약이 가장 높았다. 또한 농약종류별 환경영향 지수를 비교한 결과는 살충제>상균제>제초제>생장조정제 순으로 높았으며, 전반적으로 과채류에 등록된 농약의 환경영향지수는 점차적으로 감소하는 추세였다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 Asia Navigation Conference
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• pp.157-165
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• 2006

In February,2004, at International Maritime Organization (IMO), LONDON, a new international convention 'International Convention fur the Control and Management of Ship's Ballast Water and Sediment 2004' was adopted. It is called 'Ballast Water Management Convention (BWM)'. Ballast water means charged seawater or fresh water in ship's special tanks (ballast tank) to keep safety navigation and ship's maneuverability. However, from 1980, it was point out the serious problem for marine ecosystem and human life that ballast water includes harmful marine species (and small organisms) and these species are also discharged along with ballast water. These species were released with discharged ballast water in water areas, where species are different from discharged ballast water. The problem is that released species increase when released species are more powerful than native species and consequently, marine ecological system is destroyed in released water area. Authors have inspected the validity of the ballast water exchange using pumping-through method that is one of the methods of ballast water management. In this paper, the numerical simulation of the motion and density of the fluid at the time of exchange of the fluid in a 2-dimensional tank using the pumping-through method was carried out by using two different type numerical methods. One method is MPS method that is one of the particle methods. Other one is Finite Different Method (FDM). Authors were compared with result of two numerical method calculations and experiment result and reported some knowledge from these results.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2016년도 학술발표회
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• pp.188-188
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• 2016

The Mekong which is one of the world's most significant rivers plays an extremely important role to South East Asia. Lying across six riparian countries including China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and being a greatly biological and ecological diversity of fishes, the river supports a huge population who living along Mekong Basin River. Therefore, much attention has been focused on the giant Mekong Basin River, particularly, the soil erosion and sedimentation problems which rise critical impacts on irrigation, agriculture, navigation, fisheries and aquatic ecosystem. In fact, there have been many methods to calculate these problems; however, in the case of Mekong, the available data have significant limitations because of large area (about 795 00 km2) and a failure by management agencies to analyze and publish of developing countries in Mekong Basin River. As a result, the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) model in a GIS (Geographic Information System) framework was applied in this study. The USLE factors contain the rainfall erosivity, soil erodibility, slope length, steepness, crop management and conservation practices which are represented by raster layers in GIS environment. In the final step, these factors were multiplied together to estimate the soil erosion rate in the study area by using spatial analyst tool in the ArcGIS 10.2 software. The spatial distribution of soil loss result will be used to support river basin management to find the subtainable management practices by showing the position and amount of soil erosion and sediment load in the dangerous areas during the selected 56- year period from 1952 to 2007.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.226-245
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• 2019

To understand the dynamics of radial growth of trees and micro-climate at a site of Korean fir (Abies koreana Wilson) forest on high-altitude area of Mt. Hallasan National Park, Jeju Island, Korea, high precision dendrometers were installed on the stems of Korean fir trees, and the sensors for measuring micro-climate of the forest at 10 minutes interval were also installed at the forest. Data from the sensors were sent to nodes, collected to a gateway wireless, and transmitted to a data server using mobile phone communication system. By analyzing the radial growth data for the trees during the growing season in 2016, we can estimate that the radial growth of Korean fir trees initiated in late April to early May and ceased in late August to early September, which indicates that period for the radial growth was about 4 months in 2016. It is interesting to observe that the daily ambient temperature and the daily soil temperature at the depth of 20 cm coincided with the values of about 10 ℃ when the radial growth of the trees initiated in 2016. When the radial growth ceased, the values of the ambient temperature went down below about 15 ℃ and 16 ℃, respectively. While the ambient temperature and the soil temperature are evaluated to be the good indicators for the initiation and the cessation of radial growth, it becomes clear that radii of tree stems showed diurnal growth patterns affected by diurnal change of ambient temperature. In addition, the wetting and drying of the surface of the tree stems affected by precipitation became the additional factors that affect the expansion and shrinkage of the tree stems at the forest site. While it is interesting to note that the interrelationships among the micro-climatic factors at the forest site were well explained through this study, it should be recognized that the precision monitoring made possible with the application of high resolution sensors in the measurement of the radial increment combined with the observation of 10 minutes interval with aids of information and communication technology in the ecosystem observation.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.374-383
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• 2019

왕포천은 충청남도 부여군에 위치하고 있는 하천으로 유로 연장이 길지 않고, 경작지 및 취락지를 통과하는 하천으로 수질이 불량하고, 수량이 부족한 하천이다. 따라서 부여 하수처리수와 왕포천의 비점오염원 1,500~7,000 ㎥/d를 처리 하고 생태계를 복원하고자 SSB (Sustainable Structured wetland Biotop) system의 처리습지를 적용한 결과는 다음과 같다. 왕포천 복원에 대한 설계 및 시공 완료후인 2016년부터 2018년까지 지속적인 관리와 모니터링을 실시한 결과 BOD₅ 평균 농도는 7.3 mg/L, 평균 유출농도는 2.1 mg/L로 71.2%의 개선 효율을 나타내었다. T-N은 평균 유입 농도가 7.953 mg/L, 평균 유출 농도가 3.379 mg/L로 57.5 %, T-P의 평균 유입 농도는 0.177 mg/L, 평균 유출 농도는 0.052 mg/L로 70.7 %의 개선효과를 나타냈다. 왕포천 수질정화시설을 통한 생태계복원에 대한 모니터링 결과는 복원 후 3년 동안 모니터링 된 왕포천 수질정화시스템의 식물상은 21과 41종으로 식재수종보다 자연유입된 식물종의 비율이 높게 나타났다. 동물상에 대한 모니터링 결과, 양서류와 파충류는 3과 6종, 조류는 15과 25종, 포유류는 5과 5종이 왕포천과 생태적수질정화시설을 이동하며 서식하는 것으로 확인되어, 생물다양성도 창출및 향상된 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.666-678
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• 2008

최근 한국에서는 각종 개발계획에서 자연환경과 생태계를 구체적으로 고려할 수 있는 실천방안으로서 비오톱에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 각 지자체마다 비오톱지도 작성에 대한 요구가 빠르게 확산되고 있다. 하지만, 아직 통일된 비오톱 유형 및 분류체계, 분류기준에 대한 표준안이 없으며, 지자체마다 서로 다른 방법론이 적용되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 문제의식 속에서 우선 지금까지 선행된 국내 외사례의 비오톱 유형 및 분류체계, 분류기준 등을 비교 검토하여, 비오톱 유형분류 및 분류체계의 초안을 작성하였다. 또한, 선정된 대표지역의 현장조사와 자문회의 등의 계속적인 피드백 과정을 통하여 한국에 적합한 비오톱 유형 및 분류체계를 개발하고자 하였다. 조사결과 국내사례의 비오톱 유형분류체계는 2단계나 3단계 분류체계가 혼합되어 있으며, 주로 대분류, 소분류의 2단구조로 구성되어있다. 또한, 일반적으로 적용되고 있는 비오톱 유형분류기준으로는 토지이용, 토양피복율, 녹피율, 식생 등 이었다. 본 연구에서는 비오톱 유형분류를 위해 대분류(biotope class), 중분류(biotore group), 소분류(biotope type), 세분류(sub-biotope type)의 4단계 분류체계를 제시하였으며, 대분류 13개 유형, 중분류 45개 유형, 소분류 127개 유형으로 비오톱유형을 분류하였다. 하지만, 비오톱 유형분류는 지역의 특성이 고려되어야 하므로, 본 연구에서 제안한 분류체계를 기반으로 하여 소분류 및 세분류 단계에서 새로운 유형들이 계속적으로 추가 보완되어야 할 것이다.