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Habitat Characteristics of Anuran Species Inhabiting Rice Fields of Western Mid-South Korea - In the Case of Daeho Reclamation Agricultural Land by Farming Practices - (우리나라 중서부지역 논 습지에 서식하는 무미 양서류의 서식처 특성 - 대호간척농지의 영농방법 중심으로 -)

  • Yoo, Nakyung;Do, Min Seock;Nam, Hyung-Kyu;Choi, Green;Son, Seock-Jun;Yoo, Jeong-Chil
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.52 no.4
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    • pp.366-377
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    • 2019
  • Paddy wetlands are a critical habitat for a variety of wild animals, and their rapid development and environmental changes pose a threat to the conservation of agrobiodiversity. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the habitat characteristics of anuran inhabiting paddy wetlands and identify major environmental variables affecting their distributions. The study was conducted in the Daeho reclaimed area in Dangjin, from March to October 2018. In this study, we found three anuran species (Pelophylax nigromaculatus, Hyla japonica and Pelophylax chosenicus). The environmental factors affecting the three species were identified as air temperature, humidity, water-depth, and micro-habitats. H. japonica were affected by water temperature, and P. chosenicus were affected by rice height and types of farming practices. All the three species richness was correlated with air temperature, humidity, and water-depth positively, and the three species used rice transplanted paddy fields the most. It was also found that paddy is the most preferred of the micro-habitats during the breeding season, so the survey area is considered to be used as the major breeding sites for the three species. P. chosenicus were more observed on environmental-friendly paddy fields than conventional paddy fields, which appears to be differences in their surroundings environment caused by predators and weeding. It will be needed to identify their relationship with predators, their preferred food resources and the richness and diversity of wild vegetation around paddy wetlands.

Species Composition and Seasonal Variations of Fishes in Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Bed in Kwangyang Bay (광양만 잘피밭에 서식하는 어류의 종조성 및 계절 변동)

  • Huh, Sung-Hoi;Kwak, Seok-Nam
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.202-220
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    • 1997
  • A total of 57 species of fish species was collected by a trawl from the eelgrass bed in Kwangyang Bay. The dominant species were Pholis nebulosa, Syngnathus schlegeli, Leiognathus nuchalis, Pseudoblennius cottoides, Sebastes inermis, Favonigobius gymnauchen, which accounted for 69.9% of the total numbers of fish collected. Fish collected in the study area were primarily small fish species or early juveniles of large fish species. Only about 10% of fishes which were collected in the eelgrass bed exceeded 15cm in standard length. Seasonal variations in both species composition and abundance were major characteristics in the study area. The peak abundance occurred in spring, while the number of species was the highest in fall. However, both the number of species and abundance of fishes showed the lowest values in winter. High species diversity indices were observed in fall. Temperature, eelgrass standing crop and abundance of food organisms influenced seasonal changes of the fish community in the study area. More abundant and more diverse fishes were collected during nighttime than daytime.

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A Field Application Feasibility of Biologically Derived Substances (Naphthoquinone Derivate: NQ 2-0) for the Mitigation of Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms (유해 남조류 제어를 위한 생물유래 살조물질 Naphthoquinone 유도체 (NQ 2-0)의 현장 적용 가능성)

  • Joo, Jae-Hyoung;Park, Chong-Sung;Choi, Hye Jeong;Lee, Heon Woo;Han, Myung-Soo
    • Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.130-141
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    • 2017
  • We evaluated the field application feasibility that biologically derived substances (Naphthoquinone derivate: NQ 2-0) can be used for the eco-friendly mitigation of natural harmful cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater. We conducted a 30 ton scale mesocosm experiment to investigate the effects of NQ 2-0 on biotic and abiotic factors in water collected from Gi-heung reservoir. In the mesocosm experiments, the abundance of Microcystis sp. was continuously increased in the control. However, the Microcystis sp. cell density was sharply decreased on the $10^{th}$ day. In the treatment, NQ 2-0 showed the strong and selective algicidal activity toward the target cyanobacteria (Microcystis sp.). Accordingly, the algicidal activity of NQ 2-0 compound increased gradually until $10^{th}$, $15^{th}$ days and algal biomass was decreased to 99.4 and 100 %, respectively. NQ 2-0 compound was not only selective algicidal activity but also the growth of other phytoplankton and increased the Shannon-Wiener diversity index of phytoplankton. In the mesocosm experiments, the dynamics of biotic (bacteria, heterotrophic nanoflagellate, ciliates, zooplankton) and abiotic (water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, nutrients) factors remained unaffected. These results suggest that NQ 2-0 could be a selective and ecologically safe algicide to mitigate harmful cyanobacterial blooms. In addition, it is believed that NQ 2-0 will play a major role in forming a healthy aquatic ecosystem by facilitating habitat and food supply of aquatic organisms.

Korean World Cup soccer event sporting character of the preference factor analysis (한국인의 월드컵 축구 이벤트 스포츠 캐릭터 선호요인 분석)

  • Son, Jeoung-A;Kim, Heun-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.2477-2488
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    • 2011
  • The study of the Korean World Cup soccer event sports what is the character's preference factors were analyzed inductively. For this purpose the following research methods were used. First, the target for the study of the D City 10, 20, 30, 40 respectively 30 patients were sampled. World Cup soccer event of the 12 sports chosen for frequency analysis of characters, the final four characters for the analysis of qualitative data were collected from questionnaires 'What aspect of your character do you like this?' that consists of an open survey conducted by Was. As a result, about World Cup chukguk character of the sports people have a preference factors were altered by age, by comprehensively, the Korean people in terms of the five characters and related factors that have in common, which prefer oehyeongseong, internality, Meaningfulness, diversity, and specificity was. Specifically, the 'oehyeongseong' the cute look or exercise (soccer) would be good to see such a varied and colorful, with friendly materials, including a preference factor, and 'internality' and the friendly and patriotic images, meaning Star 'in football and that implies a special meaning was preferred. Finally, the specificity due to the food culture in Korea prefer rooting factors were analyzed.

A report on 57 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea in the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria

  • Kim, Hyun Sik;Cha, Chang-Jun;Cho, Jang-Cheon;Im, Wan-Taek;Jahng, Kwang Yeop;Jeon, Che Ok;Joh, Kiseong;Kim, Seung Bum;Seong, Chi Nam;Kim, Wonyong;Yi, Hana;Lee, Soon Dong;Yoon, Jung-Hoon;Bae, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of Species Research
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.101-118
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    • 2017
  • In an investigation of indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea, a total of 57 bacterial strains assigned to the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria were isolated from diverse environments. Samples were collected from fresh water, natural caves, soil, paddy fields, lakes, sea water, jeotgal (fermented seafood), salt flats, soil from abandoned mines, plant roots, digestive organs of both Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) and Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) and tidal flats. From the high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (>98.7%) and formation of robust phylogenetic clades with closely related species, it was determined that each strain belonged to an independent and predefined bacterial species within either the Betaproteobacteria or Gammaproteobacteria. There is no official report or publication that describes these 57 proteobacterial species in Korea. Overall, in the class Betaproteobacteria there were 16 species in 12 genera of 4 families in the order Burkholderiales and two species in two genera of one family in the order Neisseriales. Within the class Gammaproteobacteia, there were five species in four genera of four families in the order Alteromonadales, 12 species in 11 genera of one family in the order Enterobacteriales, four species in four genera of three families in the order Oceanospirillales, 11 species in four genera of two families in the order Pseudomonadales, two species in the order Vibrionales and five species in five genera of one family in the order Xanthomonadales. Gram reaction, colony and cell morphology, basic biochemical characteristics, isolation source and strain IDs are described in the species description section.

The Study on Evaluating Value for Developing Traditional Agriculture Technology (고농서에 나타난 전통농업기술의 개발가치 평가)

  • Rhee, Sang Young;Kim, Mi Heui;Choi, Jai Ung
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.243-269
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    • 2014
  • Traditional agriculture technology is absolutely valuable not only to preserve biological diversity but construct an eco-friendly agricultural system. As the awareness of food safety has been growing, traditional technologies in the past agriculture literatures have obtained more attention sine chemical or synthesized fertilizer and agricultural pesticide were not used in these traditional agriculture ways. This study aims to evaluate development values on six kinds of agriculture literatures published before initial 1970s using Delphi technique and Correspondence analysis. The domains of assesment are include livestock sanitation, breeding management, feeding program and an extra part which 261 traditional agriculture technologies were first extracted from. From these technologies, livestock experts deducted 228 items and selected items more than 3.0 from all three areas including usefulness, scientific characteristic and economical efficiency utilizing Delphi technique.: 35 items from usefulness, 31 items from scientific characteristic, and 18 items from economical efficiency. The 23 technology items were finalized after adding five modern feasibility items recommended by experts to 18 items gaining more than 3.0 in at least three areas. The agriculture technologies were categorized into four areas where were analyzed using Correspondence analysis. The results revealed that 'sustainable farming technology', 'scientific character verification', ' modernized technology development', and 'intellectual property right' were placed closely one another except 'economy efficiency'. The result implicated that scientific verification and economy efficiency should be considered in order to sustain traditional agriculture technology into a modernized way and to protect intellectual property right of these technologies.

Wintering Bird Community in Cheonsu Bay and the Relationship with Food Resources (천수만에서 월동하는 조류군집과 먹이 자원과의 관계)

  • Yoo, Seung-Hwa;Kim, In-Kyu;Kang, Tae-Han;Jo, Hae-Jin;Yu, Jae-Pyoung;Lee, Si-Wan;Lee, Han-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.301-308
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    • 2008
  • We conducted the survey about the avian fauna, population, community and correlation between avian population and densities of the fallen rice grain in Cheonsu reclaimed area(Ganwol and Bunam Lake and reclaimed land) from Oct. 2006 to Mar. 2007. Total surveyed species number was 142 species, sum of maximum count of each species was 362,797 individuals, sum of average count of each species was 84,818 individuals. Comparing with early and late wintering season, number of species was stable in each survey time, but total population was decreased as the season progressed. Dominant species were Bean Geese Anser fabalis, Baikal Teals Anas formosa, White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons, Mallards Anas platyrhynchos and Pintails Anas acuta. Population fluctuation of the Bean Geese Anser fabalis, Baikal Teals Anas formosa, Mallards Anas platyrhynchos, PintailsAnas acuta was decreasing, but population of the White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons was stable. Number of species, total population were not significantly different among Ganwol, Bunam and Cheonsu Bay. Survey period was significantly correlated with species diversity and population in each area, and most community indices of each area were shown significant correlation. The density of the fallen rice grain was significantly different between the harvested rice paddy by big harvesting machine and small harvesting machine. Density of the fallen rice grain in stubble collected area was significantly different with area of stubble not collected. Density of the fallen rice grain was drastically decreased in the middle of wintering season, but not significantly different between Dec. 2006 and Feb. 2007. Avian population was strongly correlated with number of fallen rice grain in the same period.

A Study on SNS Reviews Analysis based on Deep Learning for User Tendency (개인 성향 추출을 위한 딥러닝 기반 SNS 리뷰 분석 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Woo-Jin;Lee, Ju-Oh;Lee, Hyung-Geol;Kim, Ah-Yeon;Heo, Seung-Yeon;Ahn, Yong-Hak
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we proposed an SNS review analysis method based on deep learning for user tendency. The existing SNS review analysis method has a problem that does not reflect a variety of opinions on various interests because most are processed based on the highest weight. To solve this problem, the proposed method is to extract the user's personal tendency from the SNS review for food. It performs classification using the YOLOv3 model, and after performing a sentiment analysis through the BiLSTM model, it extracts various personal tendencies through a set algorithm. Experiments showed that the performance of Top-1 accuracy 88.61% and Top-5 90.13% for the YOLOv3 model, and 90.99% accuracy for the BiLSTM model. Also, it was shown that diversity of the individual tendencies in the SNS review classification through the heat map. In the future, it is expected to extract personal tendencies from various fields and be used for customized service or marketing.

Development of a Microsatellite Marker Set for the Individual Identification and Parentage Verification of Korean Native Black Goats (재래흑염소 개체식별과 친자확인을 위한 Microsatellite Marker Set 개발)

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon;Kang, Ho-Chan;Lee, Sung-Soo;Lee, Jinwook;Kim, Eun-Ho;Myung, Hyun-Cheol;Kim, Kwan-Woo;Lim, Hyun-Tae
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.912-918
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    • 2020
  • The Korean native black goat (Capra hircus coreanae) is the goat species to be officially registered in Korea under the Food and Agriculture Organization. The object of this study is to establish a set of microsatellite (MS) markers for the individual identification and parentage verification of goats. In this study, we analyzed alleles of MS markers in crosses between Korean native black goats and crossbred goats (n=304 animals), and, based on the diversity of alleles for each marker, we selected 11 MS markers for individual identification and parentage verification. Using these 11 MS markers, the probabilities of different individuals with the same genotype being found within random and half-sib mating populations were 5.58×10-10 and 1.15×10-7, respectively. The parentage verification accuracy was 0.999996 when information about the parents was available and 0.999833 with no information. Thus, even given the total rearing population of 576,150 animals in South Korea, we concluded that these markers could be used for the individual identification and parentage verification of goats. Moreover, by analyzing the genetic relationships between the four lines of Korean native black goats and the crossbred goats, we verified the genetic characteristics of Korean native black goats, confirming their conservation value as a unique genetic resource.

Habitat Characteristics of Myotis ikonnikovi (쇠큰수염박쥐(Myotis ikonnikovi)의 서식지 특성)

  • Kim, Sun-Sook;Fukui, Dai;Han, Sang-Hoon;Hur, Wee-Haeng;Oh, Dae-Shik
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.47 no.1
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 2014
  • Little is known about foraging and roosting habitat of tree-roosting bats in Korea. In the present study, we studied on characteristics of foraging and roosting habitats by Ikonnikov's whiskered bats (Myotis ikonnikovi) in the South Korea, using trapping and radiotelemetry. We captured the bats at 15 sites during nights (foraging times) using mist-nets. Based on characteristic analyses of forests within a radius 500 m from each capture site, forests of M. ikonnikovi habitat are similar characteristics to the old-growth forests. They foraged at forests dominated by boradleaf stands which are older than than 30-year-old and thicker than 20 cm in diameter at breast height (DBH). We used radio-transmitters to locate and characterize day-roosts of Myotis ikonnikovi, and totally the roost use patterns of three bats were surveyed. They roosted in trees (both live and dead) with exfoliating bark, extensive vertical cracks, or cavities, and thier roosting sites were located about 500 m from the initial capture location. The bats had a number of roost in a short-distance, some used new roost every day and the same roost sometimes were used repeatedly. To increase the diversity of the tree-dwelling bats including Myotis ikonnikovi, management practices that the higher food and roost availablility can be sustained in forests are needed.