• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.207-211
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• 2020

Adult land crabs generally live on land while their larvae live in the sea. In the case of Sesarma haematoche, female crabs migrate from land to sea to release the larvae at the high tide of syzygy night. Artificial structures along coastal areas are being obstacles for the migration of land crabs and causing synchronized roadkills on coastal roads during breeding migration. In this research, we compared the sex ratios of crab populations in coastal areas with coastal roads and uninhabited island areas with no road. The proportion of females in inland habitats with coastal roads was significantly smaller than island habitats. In particular, females are exposed to the risk of annually repeated roadkills, and the proportion of females decreases rapidly with their growth. If this tendency is general for land crab populations in the coastal areas with roads, significant road mortality of female land crabs during breeding migration can lead to severe population decline in coastal areas. Therefore, it is necessary to take an action to save land crabs crossing coastal roads.

• 충청수학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.181-188
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• 2021

Let X be a nondegenerate reduced closed subscheme in ℙⁿ. Assume that π_q : X → Y = π_q(X) ⊂ ℙ^n-1 is a generic projection from the center q ∈ Sec(X) \ X where Sec(X) = ℙⁿ. Let Z be the singular locus of the projection π_q(X) ⊂ ℙ^n-1. Suppose that I_X has the almost minimal presentation, which is of the form R(-3)^β_2,1 ⊕ R(-4) → R(-2)^β_1,1 → I_X → 0. In this paper, we prove the followings: (a) Z is either a linear space or a quadric hypersurface in a linear subspace; (b) $H^1({\mathcal{I}_X(k)})=H^1({\mathcal{I}_Y(k)})$ for all k ∈ ℤ; (c) reg(Y) ≤ max{reg(X), 4}; (d) Y is cut out by at most quartic hypersurfaces.