• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.66-74
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• 2016

Background: When developing water quality improvement strategies for eutrophic lakes, questions may arise about the relative importance of point sources and nonpoint sources of phosphorus. For example, there is some skepticism regarding the effectiveness of partial reductions in phosphorus loading; because phosphorus concentrations are too high in hypertrophic lakes, in-lake phosphorus concentrations might still remain within typical range for eutrophic lakes even after the reduction of phosphorus loading. For this study, water quality and the phytoplankton and zooplankton communities were monitored in a hypertrophic reservoir (Lake Wangsong) before and after the reduction of phosphorus loading from a point source (a sewage treatment plant) by the installation of a chemical phosphorus-removal process. Results: Before phosphorus removal, Lake Wangsong was classified as hypertrophic with a median phosphorus concentration of $0.232mg\;L^{-1}$ and a median chlorophyll-a concentration of $112mg\;L^{-1}$. The dominant phytoplankton were filamentous cyanobacteria for the most of the ice-free season. Following the installation of the advanced treatment process, phosphorus concentrations were reduced to $81mg\;L^{-1}$, and the N/P atomic ratio increased from 42 to 102. Chlorophyll-a concentrations decreased to $42{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$, and the duration of cyanobacterial dominance was confined to the summer season. Cyanobacteria in spring and autumn were replaced by diatoms and cryptomonads. Filamentous cyanobacteria in summer were replaced by colony-forming unicellular Microcystis spp. It was remarkable that zooplankton biomass increased despite the decrease in phytoplankton biomass, and especially cladoceran zooplankton which increased drastically. These responses to the reduction of point source P loading to Lake Wangsong imply that reducing the point source P loading can have a big impact even when nonpoint sources account for a large fraction of the total annual phosphorus loading. Conclusions: Our results also show that the phytoplankton community can shift to decreased cyanobacterial dominance and the zooplankton community can shift to higher cladoceran dominance, even when phosphorus concentrations remain within the typical range for eutrophic lakes following the reduction of phosphorus loading.

• ALGAE
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2006

Cyanobacteria regulate their buoyancy in response to changing environmental conditions. This process is essential for cyanobacterial development and can account for their dominance in eutrophic waters in summer. The present investigation was conducted to understand the 24-hour vertical distribution of cyanobacteria and water quality characteristics in Lake Daecheong. Water samples were collected and analyzed at depth intervals of 2 or 3 m and at an interval of three hours for a day on August 28, 2001 and September 24, 2002. In 2001 the accumulated standing crop of Microcystis spp. from surface to a depth of 6 m was 94.9%. Microcystis spp. showed no vertical migration below the thermocline. Microcystis spp. had maximum density near the surface, but shifted to 2 m depth at 2 p.m. A dense population of Anabaena spp. accumulated near the surface from 2 to 5 p.m. in 2002.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.615-624
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• 2004

The distribution pattern of water quality parameters and phytoplankton biomass in upper inflow rivers of lake Paldang had surveyed. In North-Han river system, nutrient concentrations and algal biomass was below the standard of mesoand oligotrophy from lake Soyang to lake Paldang, maintaining good water quality, except the N5 site located near the Chuncheon-Si, showing high nutrients concentrations and algal biomass. The algal biomass of the South-Han river system showed oligotrophic level in the upstream near the lake Chungju, and increased along the flow direction showing eutrophic level in the downstream within the lake Paldang area. On the other hand, the highest concentrations of nutrients were detected in the middle stream near the Yeoju-Si and Yangpyung-Gun rather than in the downstream suggesting algal biomass in lake Paldang would not come from the upper river area but come from the growth within the lake area using nutrients from the upper inflow river.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.897-904
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• 2007

The aim of this paper is to discuss the methodology of our investigation of the dynamics of protein degradation and the total in situ protealytic activity in meso/eutrophic, eutrophic, and hypereutrophic freshwater environments. Analysis of the kinetics and rates of enzymatic release of amino acids in water samples preserved with sodium azide allows determination of the concentrations of labile proteins $(C_{LAB})$, and their half-life time $(T_{1/2})$. Moreover, it gives more realistic information on resultant activity in situ $(V_{T1/2})$ of ecto- and extracellular proteases that are responsible for the biological degradation of these compounds. Although the results provided by the proposed method are general y well correlated with those obtained by classical procedures, they better characterize the dynamics of protein degradation processes, especially in eutrophic or hypereutrophic lakes. In these environments, processes of protein decomposition occur mainly on the particles and depend primarily on a metabolic activity of seston-attached bacteria. The method was tested in three lakes. The different degree of eutrophication of these lakes was clearly demonstrated by the measured real proteolytic pattern and confirmed by conventional trophic state determinants.

• Journal of Plant Biology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.135-138
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• 1975

The process of eutrophication was studied in the lake Changja from November in 1974 to May in 1975. The stratification of water temperature was going to be formed in April and the content of dissolved oxygen varied a little but it was almost zero from January. Total phosphorus was increased very rapidly in February but total nitrogen and carbohydrate-like substances were increased a little during the experimental period. The amount of chlorophyll-$\alpha$ varied from 127mg/$m^2$ to 717 mg/$m^2$ with maximum value occuring in January. This phenomenon was an evidence that chlorophyll-$m^2$ and total phosphorus were correlated each other. The numbers of colony of the coliform bacteria in point A was 10 times more than in point B. In conclcesions, the lake Changja is a very eutrophic and the ecological equilibrium of the lake can not be recovered as far as origin of pollution is erased out.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.673-680
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• 2010

Environmental factors and phytoplankton community in Lake Doam were monthly investigated at 3 stations from April 2009 to November 2009. During the study period, the concentrated rainfalls occurred at between July and August and then the TP and turbidity were sharply increased in in-lake. A total of 91 phytoplankton species was classified and these were consisted of 38 Bacillariophyceae, 35 Chlorophyceae, 10 Cyanophyceae, and 8 other species. Bacillariophyceae and Chlorophyceae were dominated during the seasonal succession of phytoplankton community, especially summer season. Bacillariophyceae was dominated from spring season to summer season and Chlorophyceae was dominated at summer season and autumn season. However, the dominance of Cyanophyceae generally developed at summer season in eutrophic water was not observed. From the analysis of correlation coefficient between environmental factors and phytoplankton cell number, we confirmed that there was a negative correlation between turbidity and cyanobacteria cell number (P<0.01). This result indicated that turbid water acts as the inhibitor of the cyanobacteria growth than other phytoplankton community.

• ALGAE
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.135-143
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• 2003

The seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton and trophic state were evaluated weekly at three sites in the Lake Unmoon from May to November 2001. The seasonal succession pattern of phytoplankton community in the Lake Unmoon showed that the dominant species were; i) diatoms during the late spring, ii) dinoflagellates in June, iii) blue green algae, diatoms and dinoflagellates in July, iv) green algae and blue green algae in August, v) blue green algae in September and early November, and vi) diatoms in November. Members of Microcystis were dominant from middle August to late October and members of Aulocoseira appeared as important species in autumn in the Lake Unmoon. The concentration of chlorophyll-a ranged from 2.4 to 23.0 mg ${\cdot}m^{-3}$ (average: 8.6 mg ${\cdot}m^{-3}$) during the study period. Concentrations of total phosphorus were high during the period from July to November with the maximum of 0.028 mg ${\cdot} l^{-1}$. The average N/P ratio was 121, indicating that concentrations of phosphorus may determine the high algal biomass in the Lake Unmoon. Concentrations of silicate were higher in the Lake Unmoon (average value: 10.016 mg ${\cdot}$ l-) than in other lakes (average values: 1.074-4.408 mg ${\cdot}$ l-), suggesting high potential of diatom growth. The average trophic state index in the Lake Unmoon was 52, which was close to eutrophic state, and the trophic state trend was increasing steadily since 1999.

• 생태와환경
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.116-127
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• 2013

본 연구는 2011년 3월부터 2012년 5월까지 부영양수계에 네 가지 여재(스펀지, 화산석, 활성탄, 수산화마그네슘)를 사용한 부유습지를 설치하여 장기적인 수질변화를 조사하였다. 또한 부유습지에 유입되는 유입수와 네 가지 여재를 거쳐 최종적으로 통과된 유출수내의 식물플랑크톤과 동물플랑크톤 군집을 분석하였다. 실험기간 동안 탁도(66%), SS (79%), Chl-a (80%), COD (24%)의 농도는 유입수에 비해 유출수에서 뚜렷하게 높은 감소율을 나타냈다(p<0.001). $NO_2-N$와 $NH_3-N$은 각각 24%, 20%로 유의한 감소를 나타냈으나(p<0.05), $NO_3-N$와 TN은 평균 10% 미만의 제거율을 나타내었다(p>0.05). 한편 $PO_4-P$와 TP는 모두 평균 65% 이상의 제거율을 나타냈다(p<0.01). 또한 식물플랑크톤밀도는 유출수에서 유입수보다 2.6배 정도 낮게 나타낸 반면, 동물플랑크톤은 유입수보다 유출수에서 평균 3.5배 이상 높은 밀도를 나타내었다. 본 연구에서 네 가지 여재를 이용한 수질개선용 부유습지는 특히, 입자성 물질(SS, Chl-a, COD, TP)과 용존성 영양염($NO_2-N$, $NH_3-N$, $PO_4-P$)에 대하여 높은 제거율을 나타내어, 결과적으로 부영양 호소에서 수질개선 및 조류 저감에 대한 적용가능성을 보여주었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.85-92
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• 1993

팔당호의 부영양화 진행과 오염특징을 관찰하기 위해 1986년 7월 부터 1987년 6월까지 팔당호수질의 미생물학적 화학적 분석을 실시하였다. 팔당호 수질의 투명도와 엽록소-a 의 양은 각각 0.5~3 m, 3~17 ${\mu}gI^{-1}$ 의 분포를 보였고 용존산소 및 생화학적 산소요구량은 각각 7~12 ppm, 약 0.5~2.3 ppm 사이에서 변화를 나타냈다. 팔당호 종속영양세균의 계절적 분포는 수층의 경우 $3.0{\times}10^{3}-5.0{\times}10^{5}/ml$, 최적토의 경우 $2{\times}10^{6}-1{\times}10^{8}/g$ dry sediment 의 범위를 나타냈다. 수리학적 체류시간이 약 5일 정도로 매우 짧은 팔당호의 경우 물의 유동과 상류수 수질이 호소내수질은 결정짓는 중요한 요인 중 하나로 사료된다. 호소수질 영양상태 기준에 의하면 팔당호의 수질은 중영양 상태에서 부영양 상태입을 나타내었다. 또한 대장균 분포 결과는 이와 같은 팔당호의 오염이 주변 지역의 인간 활동에 기인되로 있다는 것을 시사하고 있으며 이에 대한 향후 대책이 요구된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.4649-4655
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• 2010

본 논문은 A 시의 산업단지 종말처리장의 방류수 유입에 따른 K 소류지의 녹조 제어 가능성을 평가하고자 하였다. 완전혼합연속반응기로 모형화한 호소를 총인과 엽록소-a의 농도를 예측하였다. 정상상태일 때 총인과 엽록소-a 농도는 각각 $0.29\;/m^3$과 $4.0\;g/m^3$를 나타났고 실측치와 유사한 결과를 보였다. 비정상상태에서 종말폐수방류수가 최소유량 또는 최대유량으로 소류지로 유입될 때 시간경과에 따른 총인과 엽록소-a 농도 변화를 예측하였다. 또한, 현재 심각한 부영양화 단계에 있는 소류지를 중영양 또는 빈영양 단계로 전환하기 위해 소류지로 유입되는 총인부하량 ($L_p$)과 호소깊이/체류시간 ($H/{\tau}w$)값의 변화를 통해 현실적으로 적용 가능한 제어방법을 제안하였다. 이와 같은 분석기법이 소류지내 총인농도의 제어전략을 수립하기에 적합한 도구로 사용될 수 있음을 확인하였다.