• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.586-596
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• 1998

The relevance and importance of buffalo production under coconut plantations in the North Westen Province of Sri Lanka was studied in three districts (Bingiriya, Pannala, Kuliyapitiya). The objective of the study was to collect baseline information on socioeconomic and cultural aspects of buffalo production, with a view to promote and disseminate new technologies. The survey technique used consisted of a formal survey using a structured questionnaire (71 households) and rapid appraisal (55 households). The results indicate the existence of a wide stratification of dariy farmers which ranged from skilled dairy operators with high levels of production and management of efficiency to marginal subsistence farmers with low levels of productivity. The most frequent family size of households ranged from 4-5 members (58%), and the average family size was 4.7. The actual average land ownership accounts to 2.4 ha of upland and 0.5 ha of lowland, but when their accessibility to common property resources are taken into account, the land availability was assessed at 13 ha and 0.7 ha of upland and lowland, respectively. The highest average monthly income (Rs. 13,590) was received by farmers with off-farm employment (primary) who are also engaged in livestock production (secondary), and livestock contributed 43% of the total income. Livestock farmers who practised integrated crop farming as a secondary source of income received a monthly income of Rs. 10,843, and those involved in crop production as the primary source received the lowest average income (Rs. 7,295). The survey revealed a high investment cost on concentrate feeds (47%) for milk production. However some farmers obtained higher milk yields (11 litres/cow/day) at lower ration costs, and this could be attributed to the entrepreneurship skills and management efficiency. The study area had a well developed market infrastructure for fresh milk, principally due to the existence of the Nestle's company and the Coconut Triangle Milk Union. On an average the producer collected Rs. 10 per litre of milk marketed.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-23
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• 1999

경기도 화성군 안녕리 지역의 충적층 시추 시료로부터 화분분석이 처음으로 수행되었다. 그 결과 2개의 화분대: 제 1 화분대(Pollen Zone I : Ainus-Quercus-Pinus)와 제 2 화분대(Pollen Zone II : Pinus)가 설정되었다. 제 1 화분대는 약 3,500 yr. B.P.~2,000 yr. B.P.동안 침엽-낙엽 활엽수 혼합림(mixed coniferous and deciduous broadleaved vegetation), 제 2 화분대는 2,000 yr. B.P.이후의 침엽-상록활엽수림 (coniferous vegetation and evergreen broadleaved vegetation)으로 각각 특징지워진다. 제 1 화분대는 저지대 하호성(fluvio-lacustrine)환경으로 호수가 형성되기 시작하는 시기이며, 제 2 화분대는 완전한 호수 혹은 저수지환경이 형성된 시기이다. 화분 분석결과에 의하면 약 3,500 yr. B.P.부터 2,000 yr. B,P.까지는 식물의 서식분포는 주로 자연 환경조건에 지배를 받은 반면에, 2,000 yr. B.P.이후는 소나무림으로 특징지워지면서 인간의 정착생활 시작으로 농경지 확대와 자연림 파괴가 시작되어 자연림에서 인공림으로 바뀌어진 것으로 해석된다. 결과적으로, 화분분석을 통하여 이 연구지역의 고환경과 인간간섭시기를 밝힐 수가 있었으며, 또한 담수조류의 분석으로 과거 존재했던 호수의 규모를 규명할 수가 있었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2009

Avian embryos at high altitude are independent of maternal protection against hypoxia, which is contrary to mammals. It is well known that chronic hypoxic exposure at key points can significantly impact on avian development. Tibetan Chicken, a Chinese indigenous breed, living in Tibetan areas with an altitude of 2.2 to 4.1 thousand meters, has an adaptive mechanism to hypoxia. In the present study, fertilized eggs of Tibetan Chicken were incubated under 13% and 21% oxygen concentration. Two lowland chicken breeds, Shouguang Chicken, an indigenous chicken breed in Shandong Province of China, and Dwarf Recessive White Chicken, an imported breed in Beijing, were used as control groups. The embryo mass and some organs such as brain, heart, liver, stomach and eye weight in the three species were measured at Hamburger-Hamilton stage 39, 41, 43 and 45 under hypoxic and normal conditions. The results showed that in hypoxia Tibetan Chicken significantly differed from the two lowland chicken breeds in embryo mass at Hamburger-Hamilton stage 41, 43 and 45 (p<0.01). In particular, Dwarf Recessive White Chicken and Shouguang Chicken showed retarded growth in hypoxic incubation (p<0.01), whereas Tibetan Chicken showed no significant difference between hypoxic and normal conditions (p>0.05). In addition, heart and the other organs showed different susceptibility to hypoxia at the studied stages. In conclusion, chronic hypoxia induced a change in the embryo development of the three different species and Tibetan Chicken showed adaptation to hypoxia. Of note, the embryo developmental physiology of Tibetan Chicken in response to hypoxia will shed light on the process of physiological acclimation or evolutionary adaptation as well as the study of clinical disease.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.177-191
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• 2015

The effect of environmental variables on the presence and abundance of tree species in a tropical lowland undisturbed limestone and non-limestone forest in Ben En National Park, Vietnam was investigated. The relationships between 13 environmental variables and 29 tree species with a DBH ${\geq}10cm$, as well as between six 6 physical variables with 26 species of seedling and sapling communities were assessed by canonical correspondence analysis (CCA). Data concerning all tree species ${\geq}10cm$ DBH were collected from eighteen $400m^2$ sample plots, while the abundance of regeneration (all individuals ${\leq}5cm$ DBH) was counted in fifty $2{\times}20m$ strip-plots. The significance of species-environments correlations were tested by distribution-free Monte Carlo tests. The CCA of the 29 examined tree species and 13 environmental variables indicated that the presence and abundance of the tree species were closely related to topographic factors. We may confirm that soil properties including pH, soil moisture content, and soil textures, were the most crucial factor in tree species composition and their distribution. Several species including Pometia pinnata, Amesiodendron chinense, Gironniera cuspidate, Cinnamomum mairei, and Caryodaphnopsis tonkinensis were not controlled by soil properties and topographic variables. The CCA also indicated that the abundance of regeneration tree species at all sites had positive and significant correlations with soil depth, while the occurrence of several other tree species (such as Koilodepas longifolium and Aglaia dasyclada) was positively correlated with a higher slope and rocky outcrop.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.32-37
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• 1999

The experiment was conducted to investigate emergence response of lowland weeds at different soil moisture contents, burying depths and upon changes in soil moisture. Rice germination was over 50% at all burying depths under aerobic condition, but the emergence rate of the soil surface placed seeds in saturated and flooded conditions decreased by 19% and 29%, respectively, as compared with that of aerobic condition. Rice seeds at burying depth of over 3 cm did not emerge at all. The emergence rate of Echinochloa crus­galli (L.) Beauv. in aerobic condition was lower than 30%, but the emergence pattern of E. crus galli (L.) Beauv. at different soil moisture contents and seeding depths was similar to that of rice. Emergence behavior of lschaemum rugosum Salisb., Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) Raven and Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn. which are dominant lowland weed species in the Philippines also differed depending on soil moisture conditions and burying depths. lschaemum rugosum Salisb. emerged at all burying depths under aerobic condition, whereasLudwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) Raven emerged only at 0 cm deep under saturated and aerobic condition and Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn. at 0 cm deep under flooding condition. Weed seeds planted at 1, 3, and 5 cm deep in continuous flooded and saturated condition did not emerge at all, but upon a change of soil moisture condition from saturated to drainage (S$\rightarrow$D) and flooded to drainage (F$\rightarrow$D), grass weeds began to germinate again and the average emergence rate in S$\rightarrow$D and F$\rightarrow$D were 26% and 5% forE. crus­galIi (L.) Beauv., 9% and 8% forI. rugosum SaIisb., respectively. Weed seeds buried in soil in the pot showed great emergence at S$\rightarrow$D but did not emerge under continuous flooded condition. The diversity index accounting for dominance degree and occurrence aspect of weed, was the lowest at F$\rightarrow$D.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.977-986
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• 1996

The uncertainty of rains at the onset of wet season (WS) and the drought risk involved hinder growing more than one rainfed lwoland rice crop per year. Establishing transplanted rice well into the WS leaves insufficient moisture in the soil for subsequent crop. Rice establishment early in the season gives the farmer better opportunities to grow a crop after rice. An experiment was conducted startign in 1993 to evaluate dry seeding of rice through slit soil seeding. It is done utilizing the vertical metering slit seeder for conserving soil moisture coming from the first rains in the early WS to sustain germination and establishment of the seeding at least until the succeeding rains under therainfed lowland (RL) environment. The treatment consisted of slit-seeding the PSBRc 14 into the tilled and nontilled plots at 100kg/ha and at depths of <10 mm (shallow seeding) and 60-70m (deep seeding). The control treatment was broadcast seeded on tilled soil and harrow to cover the seeds The superior crop establishment observed in 1995 WS experiment on nontilled, slit-seeded plots confirmed the results observed in 1993 WS and 1994 WS experiments. Emergence in deep seeding was not significantly different from shallow seeding in nontilled plots giving an average yield of 2.1 t/ha in all slit-seeded plots. This offers an advantage of reduced energy in put in nontilled shallow seeding. However, heavy weed infestation has to be addressed at the early stage of rice in nontilled soil to get the full advantage from slit seeding. The consistently better crop establishment observed in slit seeding over that of broadcast seeding in the WS of 1993, 1994 and 1995 also demonstrates that the slit seeding technology can be adopted with confidence in the rainfed lowland field condition to reduce the risks involved in broadcast seeding.

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 1995

GIS의 농업분야 이용으로서는 농작물 적지선정, 토양비옥도 지도작성, 병충해 발생양상 및 확산예측, 잡초분포현황, 주요 농작물의 작황 및 수량예측, 농업환경 영향평가, 기후변동과 농작물생육 등 활용도가 매우 높은 편이다. 1992년 농촌진흥청이 주관하여 우리 나라 전국 논 잡초조사(총 2459개 지점)를 9개도에 걸쳐 121시군의 벼 재배포장에서 논 특성, 작부양식, 재배양식, 이앙시기, 경운 방법별로 구분하여 벼 파종후 60일 (직파재배)및 40-5-(이앙재배)에 초종별 발생본수 및 검물중등을 각각 조사하였다. SPANS(Spatial Anyalysis System)를 이용 Vector, Quadtree, Provincial map을 기본으로 하여 절대 미 상대밀도, 절대 및 상대빈도, 중요도, Simpson's Index, 종합우점도에서 주요 우점 초종중 가장 우점도가 높았던 올방개의 전국적인 분포지도를 작성하였다. 생태학적 분석에 으한 종합우점도, 중요값, Simpon's Index에서는 올방개의 발생이 전국에 걸쳐 가장 높게 나타나 전 농가에서 이 잡초의 효과적인 방제가 요구되었지만 GIS 이용 전국적인 지도작성에서는 가장 극심한 지역으로서 경기남부지역으로 나타나 이 지역 농가에서 특히 체계적, 중점적 방제가 요구되어 방제전략을 제시해주었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture International Edition
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• 제1호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2001

Recently there have been increasing demands and desire for the urban open space due to urban development or environmental deterioration. Urban natural parks in Seoul provide citizens with comfortable open space and thus play an important role as learning spaces to experience nature and understand the environment. Accordingly, this study aims to analyze existing vegetation and provide basic data for the conservation and management plans of urban natural parks and education programs. The contents of the study encompass natural environment such as topography, altitude, slope and aspect and botanical ecosystem including the structure of plant communities and tree growth. According to the result of topography analysis, the overall altitude was not high but the slope was relative steep. Vegetation of Seoo Royal Tomb, a urban natural park has been classified into 12 types, and they include; Quercus acutissima community(lowland type), Quercus acutissima community(valley type), quercus variabilis community, Quercus mongolica community, Castanea crenata community, Capinus laxiflora community, Pinus densiflora community(lowland type), Pinus densiflora community(slope type), Robinia pseudo-acacia community, Populos$\times$albaglandulosa community, Pinus rigida community, and Pinus koraiensis community. Based on the survey and analysis results, we have classified the study area into conservation, buffer, and utilization zones for the effective management. This study provides basic data to support the establishment of master plans for urban natural parks by analyzing vegetation conditions at Seoo Royal Tomb, an urban natural park, Based on the results presented in the study, consistent monitoring work needs to be conducted, and elaborate management plans also should be prepared.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.496-507
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• 2006

본 연구는 고해상도 자료와 하이퍼스펙트럴 자료를 혼용하여 하와이 화산 국립공원 내 해안 지역의 식생을 분류하고자 하였다. 연구지역에 주로 나타나는 식생은 3종의 초본(broomsedge, natal redtop, and pili)과 작은 관목 등으로 대표되는 비초본으로 구분된다. 분류 기법으로는 unsupervised classification과 supervised classification을 결합한 하이브리드법을 이용하여 전체적으로 3단계 분류과정을 적용하였다. 첫째로는, IKONOS 고해상 위성자료를 이용하여, 식생 및 비식생지역을 unsupervised classification법을 통해 분류하였다. 두 번째로는, minimum noise fraction(MNF) transformation을 이용하여 AVIRIS하이퍼스펙트럴 자료로부터 주성분을 추출하여 자료를 압축하는 과정을 거쳤다. 20미터 해상도를 가진 AVIRIS 픽셀들은 대부분 용암면과 식생면으로부터 반사된 복사신호가 혼합되어 있기때문에, 용암과 식생의 지표피복 비율에 따른 선형모형을 적용하여 용암면이 갖는 반사 신호를 각 픽셀로부터 제거하였다. 최종적으로, 각 픽셀에 대하여, 식생피복 비율에 비례하는 AVIRIS 하이퍼스펙트럴 자료의 식생성분을 토대로 maximum likelihood algorithm에 따라 supervised classification법을 적용하여 초지 및 관목으로 대표되는 지표식생을 분류하였다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2020

In this study, we 1) identified the damaged areas along the south limit line (SLL) of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) by the military's 'DMZ barren land campaign', and 2) categorized the identified damaged areas into a few ecological types. Using high-resolution satellite images, we delineated the total damaged areas to be 1,183.2 ha, which accounted for 50.1% of the 100-m northern buffer regions from the SLL. Of the total damaged areas, 16% were severely damaged, i.e., they had been damaged until recently and so remained barren without vegetation cover. In other areas, the levels of damage were either moderate (59.9%) or slight (24.1%), due to natural succession that turned those areas to grassland or forest. Using satellite image-derived land cover maps and climatic and topographic data, we categorized the damaged areas into seven types: lowland grassland (19.8%), western lowland forest (21.4%), low-altitude forest (25.5%), mid-altitude forest (18.4%), high-altitude forest (6.8%), vicinity in east coast (7.9%), and waterbody (0.2%). These types can be used to identify proper measures to restore ecosystems in the DMZ for now and after Korean reunification.