• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2020

Many areas of vegetation in the British uplands have reduced species diversity as a result of sheep overgrazing. It has been suggested that abandonment or re-wilding strategies might be used to reverse this. A likely first step would be the removal or reduction of grazing livestock from upland areas, with a presumption that this would lead to a recovery in species richness. However, we do not know if this would work, or the timescales involved. One of the important areas where more knowledge is needed is information on the size and composition of soil seedbanks as regeneration from zseed is a likely pathway of recovery. Here, we compared seedbanks in both grazed and ungrazed plots in five experiments at Moor House NNR in the northern Pennines; these sheep grazing exclusion experiments were started 52 and 63/64 years ago. Soil samples (n=10) were collected from both grazed and ungrazed plots in each experiment, and seed emergence counted in glasshouse trials. We detected only seeds of common species and very few dicotyledonous species. This suggests that the soil seedbank is unlikely to be a reliable source of the less common species for ecological restoration in these upland communities, suggesting an extinction debt. Therefore, seed addition and the creation of suitable safe-sites for germination may be needed in conjunction with grazing controls to allow the establishment of plants that will increase the species richness of the vegetation. However, this interventionist restoration approach remains to be tested.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2019

생태계는 우리의 생존과 삶의 질을 유지할 수 있게 하여 인간 복지에 직, 간접적으로 기여하고 있다. 그래서 생태적 기능의 계량화 방법이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 응용생태공학에 생태계서비스를 도입하고 적용하는 것에 대하여 논의하였다. 하천의 경제적 가치, 도시 블루-그린-화이트 네트워크 구축, 생태복원 및 통합 물관리에 생태계서비스 개념 및 평가체계를 적용할 수 있는 방안을 모색하였다. 생태계서비스 개념 틀과 평가는 이해해당사자의 생태계 혜택 이해에 도움을 주고 응용생태공학 적용을 증가시켜 생태적 보호와 복원 가치의 증진에 이용될 수 있다.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.78-89
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• 2024

하구역은 담수와 해수가 섞여 염분 농도와 퇴적물 변화 양상이 특이한 환경 조건을 제공하며, 이와 같은 환경 조건은 타 생태계에서 볼 수 없는 생물다양성을 보유하게 된다. 본 연구는 기수역인 곤양천하구습지를 대상으로 식생의 분포 특성과 생물상을 조사·분석하여, 하구습지의 보전 및 지속가능한 이용을 위한 기초자료를 마련하려는 목적으로 수행되었다. 정수 및 유수역 다년생 초본식생, 염습지식생, 경작지식생, 대상식생 등 총 6개 상관식생형의 25개 식물군락으로 분류되었다. 특히, 하류부에 넓게 분포하는 갯잔디군락이 전형적인 만조 염습지의 특성을 나타내며, 이로 인해 보전 가치가 더욱 높아지고 있습니다. 생물다양성 측면에서는 2012년에 비해 53종이 증가하여 총 1,067종의 생물이 확인되었으며, 멸종위기 야생생물은 15종이 확인되었다. 열린 하구로서 생태적 연결성이 우수하며, 논, 산림, 염습지 등 다양한 지형과 경관이 유기적으로 발달 및 분포하여 기수성 생물 포함 생물다양성 증진에 긍정적으로 역할을 하고 있었다. 따라서 곤양천하구습지의 체계적 보전은 연안까지 연결되는 습지 생태축을 확보하여 생물의 이동 경로를 보호하고 생태적 안정성을 증진시키는 데 기여할 것이다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.67-87
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• 2021

Provisioning service, which is one of the ecosystem service functions, means goods and services such as food and fuel that people get from ecosystem. Provisioning functions are closely related to the primary industry, a sector of economy. Excessive demand and use of human society can cause trade-offs among regulation, cultural, and supporting services. Therefore, it is important to perform evaluation ecosystem services periodically and to monitor the time series fluctuations to identify the impact of provisioning services on other ecosystem services (trade-off) and to maintain sustainable provisioning service. When it comes to the precise assessment of provisioning service, it is necessary to get the statistical data and standardize indicators and methods. In this study, indicators and methods, which are applicable to the spatial level of national-local-protected areas, were derived through literature analysis and expert survey. The result of this study implies that provisioning services measurement by spatial level improve the efficiency of the establishment of environmental conservation plans by whose purpose.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.165-177
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• 2023

Field surveys were conducted at a total of 50 locations targeting naturalized plants on Ulleung-do. A total of 109 taxa were identified, including the list of naturalized plants in the preceding literature. The naturalized plants of Ulleung-do had a high proportion of Asteraceae, which appeared frequently in the habitat of the ruderal type. There were no naturalized plants that settled only on Ulleung-do, and all naturalized plants found on Ulleung-do first settled on the Korean Peninsula. This was proved by the high rates of epecophyten (90.8%) and the introduction period 2nd (70.6%). On the other hand, among ecosystem-disturbing species that have a great influence in the inland of the Korean Peninsula, Hypochaeris radicata and Rumex acetosella appeared in a limited area in Ulleung-do. On the other hand, Lapsana communis appeared in high density along the forest edge, requiring management of naturalized plants different from those in the Korean Peninsula. Naturalized plants on Ulleung-do showed a rapid increase in the 1990s after increased academic research, coastal road development, and other development projects. This highlights the necessity for continuous research on the pattern of naturalized plant occurrence after the completion of the Ulleung Airport, which is currently under construction.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2017

The objective of this study is to seek for improvement measures to make the Ecosystem and Nature Map by analyzing causes for grade changes and distributional characteristics of areas with public objections to the Ecosystem and Nature Map notified by e-official gazette from 2014 to June 2016. The receipt of public appeals has been recently increased from average 23 cases a year(2007-2013) to average 33 cases a year(2014-June 2016) while there were 42 areas with public appeals for less than the minimum area($62,500m^2$) for the evaluation of grade of the Ecosystem and Nature Map. Most of the public appeals focused on the 1st grade zone of the Ecosystem and Nature Map. Before grade changes by public appeals, the 1st grade zone of the Ecosystem and Nature Map were 76.0% of the whole areas with public appeals. However, after grade changes by public appeals, it was rapidly decreased to 25.2%, which means that a lot of the 1st grade zone with public appeals were lowered. In the results of analyzing the distributional characteristics of areas with public appeals, they were mostly distributed in lowland(less than 250m altitude), section with $10{\sim}20^{\circ}$ slope, and areas close to or within 100m from built-up area. Regarding areas with public appeals, the biggest time difference between the period of the existing research by National Ecosystem Survey and the period of notice after completing the treatment of public appeals was 18 years while areas showing 6-15 years of time difference were about 70%. Thus, there were huge differences in time of research and notice. Also, the biggest causes for grade changes were boundary errors caused by small-scale survey, and then followed by changes in evaluation of endangered species and occurrence of built-up area and damaged land. Analyzing areas with public appeals in each evaluation item of the Ecosystem and Nature Map, vegetation part was 73.0%, and endangered species area was 23.1% while topography and wetland was less.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.12-25
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• 2004

경관의 보전과 복원, 계획은 생태계내의 다양성을 보전하고 유지하기위한 전반적인 통합관리 체계하에서 조직적인 운영이 요구되는 사항이다. 유전자수준에서부터 서식지, 생태계 및 경관수준에 이르기까지 생물의 다양성을 유지하고 개체군을 보전하며, 관리하기 위한 세계 여러 국가들의 전략과 노력은 주요거점서식지를 서로 연결하는 서식지 네트워크를 비롯하여 주요 동물이동통로에 대한 생태통로의 설치 및 훼손된 지역에 대한 복원에 초점을 두고 있다. 최근에는 유럽에서는 이러한 서식지 수준의 네트워크를 인접 국가간에 공동으로 조직하여 관리하는 국가간 생태네트워크를 서두르고 있다. 경관수준의 서식지 및 생태계의 보전과 관리에 있어 핵심적 개념으로 떠오르고 있는 경관생태학 및 보전생태학적인 이론은 생태네트워크 개념에서도 그 중요한 원리가 활용된다. 본 서술형논문에서는 유럽의 생태네트워크의 운영활동을 참고하여 한국의 서식지 보전 및 관리를 위한 생태네트 현황에 참고하고 하였으며, 여기에 개괄적이며 필수적인 경관생태학적 고려사향을 논하였다. 우리나라의 서식지 및 경관 수준의 네트워크전략과 환경정책의 수립에 있어 고려되어야 할 사항을 서식지 보호, 법적 접근 그리고 생태네트워크 프로그램을 중심으로 기술하였다. 향후 통일을 대비하면서 통일 이후의 남북간의 접경지역을 포함한 자연보전지역과 특수한 경관지역을 관리하고 보전하는데 유럽외 국가간 생태네트워크 프로그램은 주요한 우리 환경정책에 주요한 메시지를 주고 있다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2020

The most important thing to successfully restore an oak forest is finding suitable climatic conditions and topographic factors for the oak species to be introduced. In this study, in order to find suitable environmental conditions for the five dominant oak trees on the Korean Peninsula, we carried out analysing the information on the location of forest vegetation on the Korean Peninsula. The range of annual mean temperature of the five oak trees was narrow in the order of Q. mongolica (7.7~14.3℃), Q. variabilis (9.2~13.8℃), Q. acutissima (10.5~14.3℃), Q. serrata (11.4~13.7℃), Q. aliena (11.0~12.9℃). The range of annual precipitation of oaks was narrow in order of Q. mongolica (1072.7~1780.9 mm), Q. variablis (1066.6~1554.9 mm), Q. acustissima (1036.5~1504.8 mm), Q. serrata (1062.6~1504.7 mm). The range of altitude was in order of Q. mongolica (147~1388m), Q. serrata (93~950m), Q. variabilis(90~913m), Q. acustissima (60~516m), Q. aliena (55~465 m). The range of slope was in the order of Q. mongolica (8~56°), Q. variabilis(5~52°), Q. serrata (11~45°), Q. aliena (15~38°), Q. acustissima (16~37°). These results are considered to be very useful in the case of ecological restoration using deciduous oak trees on the Korean Peninsula.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2021

Distribution of fish community depends largely on environmental disturbance such as habitat change. In this study, we evaluated the impact of environmental variables and microhabitat patch types on fish distribution in Yudeung Stream at 15 sites between early May and late June 2019. We used non-metric multidimensional scaling to examine the distribution patterns of fish in each site. Gnathopogon strigatus, Squalidus gracilis majimae, Zacco koreanus, and Zacco platypus were associated with riffle and boulder areas, whereas Iksookimia koreensis, Acheilognathus koreensis, Coreoleuciscus splendidus, Sarcocheilichthys nigripinnis morii, and Odontobutis interrupta were associated with large shallow areas. In contrast, Cyprinus carpio, Carassius auratus, Lepomis macrochirus, and Micropterus salmoides were found at downstream sites associated with large pool areas, sandy/clay-bottomed areas, and vegetated areas. On the basis of these results, we suggest that microhabitat patch types are important in determining the diversity and abundance of fish communities, since a mosaic of different microhabitats supports diverse fish species. As such, microhabitat patches are key components of freshwater stream ecosystem heterogeneity, and a suitable patch composition in stream construction or restoration schemes will support ecologically healthy food webs.

• 한국환경생태학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경생태학회 2008년도 정기총회 및 학술논문발표회
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• pp.65-67
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• 2008