• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.75-81
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• 2000

This paper was prepared to have an overview of the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER ) activities in Korea in order to facilitate further development of Korea LTER Network in the coming 21th century. After the background for the development of the Korea LTER network was reviewed, the network activities of Korea as well as of the world were introduced for sound management and conservation of ecosystems, which can be ultimately carried out by the long-term ecological researches whose results can secure comparability in the dimension of time and space.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2000

The Government of Mongolia approved establishment of the Mongolian LTER network in December 1997. In June 1998, a seminar was organized by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences to initiate the program. Dr. James Gosz of the US LTER program keynoted the seminar. A Mongolian LTER Steering Committee was established to organize the network and to develop guidelines for its management. This Committee designated Hovsgol National Park in northern Mongolia as the first Mongolian LTER network site. Other potential sites are presently being considered. including study sites in steppe grassland and desert locations. The primary goals of the Mongolian LTER Network are to study human impacts on Mongolia's environment; with a focus on short-term impacts of nomadic grazing on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and long-term climate change impacts on more pristine environments in the protected areas. There are at least two additional goals: to provide information and advice on how best to protect Mongolia's pristine environments, and to train Mongolian students to work on environmental problems to encourage the growth of expertise for making sound environmental decisions.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.9-21
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• 2020

Ecological communities adapt the concept of informatics in the late 20 century and develop rapidly in the early 21 century to form Ecoinformatics as the new approach of ecological research. The new approach takes into account the data-intensive nature of ecology, the precious information content of ecological data, and the growing capacity of computational technology to leverage complex data as well as the critical need for informing sustainable management of complex ecosystems. It comprehends techniques for data management, data analysis, synthesis, and forecasting on ecological research. The present paper attempts to review the development history, studies and application cases of ecoinformatics in ecological research especially on Long Term Ecological Research (LTER). From the applications show that the ecoinformatics approach and management system have formed a new paradigm in ecological research.

• 생태와환경
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.476-486
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• 2009

Major objective of our study was to introduce initial researches of national long-term ecological monitoring studies on Daechung Reservoir, as one of the representative lentic reservoir ecosystems in Korea. For the long-term ecological research (LTER), we conducted preliminary field monitoring during 2008~2009 and analyzed biological parameters such as phytoplankton, zooplankton, and freshwater fish along with chemical water quality and empirical model analysis. According to phytoplankton surveys, major taxa have varied largely depending on seasons and sites sampled. Overall phytoplankton data showed that cyanophyta dominated in the summer period and diatoms dominated in the winter. In zooplankton analysis, 25 species including 20 rotifers, 3 cladocerans and 2 copepods were collected during the survey. The relative abundance of rotifers (86.5%) was always greater than that of cladocerans (6.3%) or copepods (5.1%). There were distinct spatial and inter-annual changes in the abundance of zooplankton in the reservoir, displaying similar patterns in three sites with the exception of S3 during the study. According to fish surveys, 8 families and 39 species were observed during 2008~2009. The most dominant fish was an exotic species of Lepomis macrochirus (23%), indicating an severe influence of exotic species to the ecosystem. TP averaged $17.9\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$ ($6{\sim}80\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$), which was judged as a mesotrophy, and showed a distinct longitudinal gradients. TN averaged $1.585\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$ during the study and judged as hypereutrophic condition. Unlike TP, TN didn't show any large seasonal and spatial variations. Under the circumstances, nitrogen limitation may not happen in this system, indicating that nitrogen control is not effective in the watershed managements. These data generated in the LTER station will provide key information on long-term biological and water quality changes in relation to global warming and some clues for efficient reservoir ecosystem managements.

• 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.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제102권2호
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• pp.210-215
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• 2013

산림생태계 낙엽낙지량에 대한 정량적 평가는 장기생태 연구의 물질순환 기작 해석에 중요한 요인이다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라 남부지방에 위치한 금산 장기생태연구 조사지의 낙엽활엽수림을 대상으로 2004년부터 2010년 사이에 낙엽낙지량의 계절적 연년 변화를 조사하였다. 낙엽낙지량중 낙엽 및 생식기관(숫꽃)은 계절적 변동을 보였으나, 침엽, 수피, 가지, 기타 물질 등은 계절별 변화가 뚜렷하지 않았다. 낙엽량의 경우 졸참나무와 서어나무는 유의적인 연변화가 있었으나, 까치박달, 편백, 곰솔의 낙엽량은 차이가 없었다. 조사기간 동안 낙엽낙지량은 2004년 4,110 kg/ha/yr로 가장 낮은 값을 보였으며, 최대 생산량은 2007년 6,002 kg/ha/yr로 2004년 기준 46% 차이가 있었고 7년 동안의 평균낙엽낙지량은 5,223 kg/ha/yr이였다. 낙엽량은 졸참나무 2,323 kg/ha/yr, 서어나무 442 kg/ha/yr, 까치박달 157 kg/ha/yr, 당단풍나무 131 kg/ha/yr, 기타 활엽수 390 kg/ha/yr, 곰솔 74 kg/ha/yr, 편백 37 kg/ha/yr 순으로 나타났다. 7년 평균 가지, 기타 물질, 생식기관, 수피는 각각 672, 515, 44, 54 kg/ha/yr로 조사되었다. 본 연구 결과에 따르면 금산 장기생태연구 조사구의 낙엽낙지량은 유의적인 연변화가 발생하였으며 태풍 같은 교란이 발생하지 않을 경우 연평균 온도와 유의적인 선형관계가 있었다. 또한 금산 장기생태연구 조사지의 낙엽낙지량은 타 장기생태연구 조사지에 비해 낮게 나타났다.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2013

본 연구는 복잡한 산악지형에서 바람장 변화를 해석하고, 산불발생시 확산방향을 예측하여 산불방지 전략에 활용하기 위해서 수행되었다. 연구 대상지는 2000년 4월 7일 산불이 발생하여 10일간 진행되었던 삼척지역을 대상으로 하였다. 삼척 산불피해지는 복잡한 산악구조를 가지고 있는데 먼저 중규모 기상 모델인 WRF를 사용하여 대상지에 설치한 AWS(4 지점)의 관측결과와 비교하였다. WRF 모의 결과, 4개 지점의 풍속은 AWS 관측지점의 풍속에 비해 5~8m/s(200% 과대평가) 강하였으며, 관측된 풍향은 지점마다 다양하게 나타난 것에 비해 모의된 풍향은 모든 지점에서 서풍계열로 나타났다. 결과적으로 WRF와 같은 중규모 기상모델은 복잡한 산악지형에서의 바람장 변화를 잘 모의하지 못하였다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 미기상 대기유동장 수치모형인 ENVI-met 프로그램을 이용하여 지표면 높이에서 삼척 LTER 지역의 국지규모 바람장을 모의하였다. 지형효과에 의한 모델의 민감도를 위해 다양한 초기 조건(기류, 온 습도, 대기난류, 토양 및 식생 모형)들을 고려하여 분석하였다. ENVI-met 모의결과, 풍속은 실측과 비교할 때 약 70%의 정확도를 보였으며, 풍향은 계곡부와 능선부에서 지형효과로 인한 변화를 잘 반영하였다. 향후 ENVI-met은 산불확산예측 및 산불방지전략 수립을 위해 미기상 대기유동장 수치모형을 이용하여 산악지역의 미기상 해석에 관한 연구가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제38권spc호
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• pp.54-57
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• 2005

It is important to assess the change of water environment in the present and past. In this study, present-day water quality standards are applied to the expressions in literary works to reconstruct the historical water environment including the quality. As the result, the historical reconstruction of water quality has been made distribution of water quality from 1905 to 1935 for the Sumida River in Tokyo.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.2274-2281
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• 2016

장기생태연구 커뮤니티에서 개인정보는 국가단위 뿐만 아니라 국제장기생태연구의 데이터 관리, 데이터 활용에서 협업을 위한 중요한 요소이다. 개인정보를 많은 부분 공개를 하면 협업 연구자에게 데이터 접근 측면에서 유용하지만, 정보 제공자에게는 공개에 대한 부담이 되기도 한다. 개인의 정보보호 관련 법률에서는 개인정보의 수집범위와 유통측면에서 많은 제약 요소가 존재하여 장기생태정보시스템에서도 장기생태연구 협업에 필요한 최대의 개인정보와 비 관련자에게 제공하는 최소의 개인정보 제공이 고려되어야 한다. 본 연구는 국내외 데이터 교류를 위해 관련 법률의 해석을 기반으로 국제 메타데이터 표준인 EML과 국제 장기생태 플랫폼의 개인정보 관리에 대한 동향을 분석하고 개인정보 관리를 위한 시스템 모델을 설계 및 구현을 통해 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2007

After introducing various aspects of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) being planned and established in the US, the author tries to suggest the future direction for the development of similar activities of the NEON to be carried out in the region of East Asia including Korea. A review was carried out in terms of the challenges, major questions, missions, developmental history, and some other specifics of the NEON design. It was further extended to the discussion of the issues for the regional construction of the Ecological Observatory Network (EON) in East Asia. The author hopes that this review could be used as a preliminary guide in ultimately promoting and advancing research, science and technology in conservation and preservation of ecosystems being degraded due to anthropogenic disturbances in the region of East Asia.