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A Study on Changes in Habitat Enviroment of Wild Birds in Urban Rivers according to Climate Change - A Case Study of Tancheon Ecological and Landscape Conservation Area - (기후변화에 따른 도시하천의 야생조류 서식환경 변화 연구 - 탄천 생태·경관보전지역를 사례로 -)

  • Han, Jeong-Hyeon;Han, Bong-Ho;Kwak, Jeong-In
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.52 no.2
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    • pp.79-95
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    • 2024
  • The purpose of this study was to find the changes in the habitat of wild birds caused by climate change in urban rivers and protected areas that greatly require ecological functions. In the future, this study can be used as a management index to protect the urban river ecosystem and maintain the health of sustainable urban rivers, thereby ensuring biodiversity. The Tancheon Ecological and Landscape Conservation Area, selected as a target site, has been affected by climate change. The four seasons of Korea have a distinct temperate climate, but the average annual temperature in Seoul has risen by 2.4-2.8℃ over the last 40 years. Winter temperatures tended to gradually increase. Precipitation, which was concentrated from June to August, is now changing into localized torrential rain and a uniform precipitation pattern of several months. Climate change causes irregular and unforeseen features. Climate change has been shown to have various effects on urban river ecosystems. The decrease in the area of water surface and sedimentary land impacted river shape change and has led to large-scale terrestrialization. Plants showed disturbance, and the vegetation was simplified. The emergence of national climate change indicator species, the development of foreign herbaceous plants, the change of dry land native herbaceous species, and wet intelligence vegetation were developed. Wild birds appeared in the territory of winter-summer migratory. In addition, species change and the populations of migratory birds also occurred. It was judged that fluctuations in temperature and precipitation and non-predictive characteristics affect the hydrological environment, plant ecology, and wild birds connecting with the river ecosystem. The results of this study were to analyze how climate change affects the habitat of wild birds and to develop a management index for river ecological and landscape conservation areas where environmental and ecological functions in cities operate. This study can serve as a basic study at the level of ecosystem services to improve the health of urban rivers and create a foundation for biodiversity.

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Low Impact Development Practices in an Urban Area: Non-point Pollutant Removal Measures using EPA-SWMM (EPA-SWMM을 이용한 LID 기법의 비점오염 저감효과 분석)

  • Cho, SeonJu;Kang, MinJi;Kwon, Hyeok;Lee, JaeWoon;Kim, Sangdan
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.466-475
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    • 2013
  • Non-point source pollution management is one of the most important issues in Korean water quality/watershed management. In recent years, Low Impact Development (LID) has emerged as an effective approach to control stormwater in an urban area. This study illustrates how to design and evaluate the effect of non-point pollutant management using EPA-SWMM LID module and suggests design parameters for modeling LID facilities. In addition, optimal installation locations of LID can be determined by a simple distributed hydrologic model by using SWMM for a long-term.

Ecological Planning Technique for Considering Biotope Evaluation of Housing Development Districts (택지개발지구에서의 비오톱 평가에 기초한 환경생태계획 기법 연구)

  • Lee, Soo-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.34 no.6 s.119
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    • pp.22-38
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    • 2007
  • Since 1990, urban areas have been expanded rapidly due to the concentration of the population and several development projects including large scale apartment complexes and residential developments. Due to these development projects, the quality and functions of ecosystems have been continuously degraded, regardless of public agencies' efforts introducing development index, guideline, and amendment of law for sustaining the quality of ecosystems. Substantial guideline and content cannot expect the sustainable maintenance of nation's natural resources. Recent improve this situation, ecological planning was introduced, but research data of environments and objective systems were not enough showing the limits. The purposes of this study were to reduce the urban sprawl caused by residential development plans for environment-friendly residential developments, to establish applicable ecological planning, and to suggest the land use plans that reduce adverse effects of developments to nature ecosystem.

A Modification of SWMM for a Groundwater Pumping Simulation (지하수 양수 모의를 위한 SWMM의 수정)

  • Lee, Sang-Ho;Lee, Jung-Min
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.628-635
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    • 2007
  • As the hydrologic cycle is transformed by the expansion of impermeable area as a result of the urbanization, the function of an ecosystem is deteriorated by the transformed hydrologic cycle. In this study, a SWMM code was modified to have a groundwater pumping option about rivers-aquifer interaction to be possible. The modified SWMM was applied to continuous simulations of urban runoff from Hakuicheon watershed and it was used to analyse the effect of a groundwater pumping. The modified SWMM overcame the limitation of the ground subroutine that it only simulate groundwater inflow from ground to rivers. The result of continuous simulation of groundwater pumping is that surface runoff, groundwater runoff and groundwater level are well simulated, and Modified SWMM expressed groundwater runoff by negative number (-) when groundwater level is less than river stage.

Biotop Design for an Urban Area Based on Citizen Input (참여형 도시 소생물권 설계)

  • Lee, Gwan-Gyu;Kim, Cheol-Min;Han, Seon-A
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.59-64
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    • 2005
  • This work was designed for the Green Fund Aid 2004 of Korea Forest Service. It won the prize and has been constructed. We can have an opportunity to play a leading role in improving partnership with participation of local communities, promoting environmental education, and enhancing the environmental quality by constructing biotops in urban areas where energy flow in the ecosystem is not balanced. This design includes 'citizen participation process' and 'local community partnership' that is expected to promote local community participation in the process of design. This work suggests that biotope construction with citizen involvement and community partnership plays an important role not only in design items but also in the revitalization of local community. This sort of design process could not be fully achieved without cooperation with stakeholders - environmental specialists, local authorities, relevant societies, schools, teachers, parents of students.

Energy Consumption and Carbon Release from Management of Urban Vegetation (도시식생의 관리에 의한 에너지소비 및 탄소방출)

  • 조현길
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.101-108
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    • 1999
  • 이산화탄소는 기후변화를 야기시키는 주요 온실가스이다. 본 연구는 춘천시, 강릉시, 서울시 강남구 및 중랑구를 대상으로 토지이용유형별 식생관리에 기인한 에너지소비 및 탄소방출을 잔디깎기, 전정, 관수, 시비, 살충제시용 등의 식생관리실태를 면담설문 및 일부 실측을 통해 파악하였다. 동일 토지이용유형 내 식생관리강도는 대체로 도시간 및 구간 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없었다. 수목관리에 의한 연간 총탄소방출량은 토지이용유형에 따라 단위피도면적당 36.0~209.7g/m2로서 교통용지에서 가장 많았다. 잔디관리에 의한 연간 총탄소방출량은 단위잔디면적당 7.4~69.3g/m2로서 공원에서 가장 많았다. 이들 총탄소방출량 중 수목의 경우 전정이 토지이용유형에 따라 96.8~99.7%를, 잔디의 경우 잔디깎기가 91.9~100%를 각각 차지하였다. 도시식생의 연간 순탄소흡수를 최대화하기 위해서 가로수의 전정과 공원 내 잔디깎기에 의한 탄소방출을 최소화할 식재계획 및 관리가 요구된다.

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A Study on the Urban Fringe Landscape Environment Model- The Analysis of Change in Forest Structure of Chonan city- (도농통합지역의 녹지환경정비모델에 관한 연구II -천안의 녹지구조변화를 중심으로-)

  • 심우경;이진희;김훈희
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.105-112
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    • 1999
  • Landcover change is an important factor that changes structure and function of regional ecosystem. As the rise of concern on environment quality, many studies are trying to quantify and evaluate the landsacpe in recent days. In this study, using landscape indices with RS(Remote Sensing) and GIS(Geographic Information System) technology, spatio-temporal variations of areas and distribution of forest patches were examined in the Chonan from 1985 to 1996. Fragstats 2.0 was employed to analyze and compute 31 landscape indices from 52 landcover maps. A result of this study showed that area of forest and paddy decreased as a result of urban sprawl. Especially from 1993 to 1996, the change of land use progressed rapidly because of merging a city and a country in Chonan. The size of patch in forest had been smaller and irregular form, heterogeneity of size of forest patches within sub-basin increased, and variety of patch types around forest patches increased from 1985 to 1996.

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HSP70 and HSC70 gene Expression in Chironomus Tentans (Diptera, Chironomidae) larvae Exposed to Various Environmental Pollutants: Potential Biomarker for Environmental Monitoring

  • Lee Sun Mi;Choi Jin Hee
    • Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2005
  • In order to identify potential biomarkers of environmental monitoring, we evaluated heat shock genes expressions as effects of various environmental pollutants (nonylphenol, bisphenol-A, 17a­ethynyl estradiol, bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, endosulfan, paraquat dichloride, chloropyriphos, fenitrothion, cadmium chloride, lead nitrate, potassium dichromate, benzo[a]pyrene and carbon tetrachloride) on larvae of aquatic midge Chironomus tentans (Diptera, Chironomidae). Heat shock protein 70 gene expression increased in most of chemicals treated larvae compared to control. The response was rapid and sensitive to low chemical concentrations but not stressor specific. In conjunction with stressor specific biomarkers, heat shock protein 70 gene expression in Chironomus might be developed for assessing exposure to environmental stressors in the fresh water ecosystem. Considering the potential of Chironomus larvae as biomonitoring species, heat shock gene expression has a considerable potential as a sensitive biomarker for environmental monitoring in Chironomus.

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Conversion Vertical Platform: Changdong·Sanggye Start-Up and Culture Industry Complex

  • Do Yong Um
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.263-272
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    • 2023
  • Role of architecture should not be limited to function of providing an inhabitable space but also include urban and social role of its impact to the public and surrounding area. Role of landmark building should be further expanded beyond and landmark building speaks out its aesthetics with mass form and/or with its appearance of façade. With study of this project, idea of landmark building is shifted from vertical extrusion of the land to horizontal extrusion of large space from the face of building. It is a double extrusion creating large assembly space up in the air linking surrounding masses.

Habitat Analysis Study of Honeybees(Apis mellifera) in Urban Area Using Species Distribution Modeling - Focused on Cheonan - (종분포모형을 이용한 도시 내 양봉꿀벌 서식환경 분석 연구 - 천안시를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Whee-Moon;Song, Won-Kyong;Kim, Seoung-Yeal;Hyung, Eun-Jeong;Lee, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2017
  • The problem of the population number of honeybees that is decreasing not only domestically but also globally, has a great influence on human beings and the entire ecosystem. The habitat of honeybees is recognized to be superior in urban environment rather than rural environment, and predicting for habitat assessment and conservation is necessary. Based on this, we targeted Cheonan City and neighboring administrative areas where the distribution of agricultural areas, urban areas, and forest areas is displayed equally. In order to predict the habitat preferred by honeybees, we apply the Maxent model what based on the presence information of the species. We also selected 10 environmental variables expected to influence honeybees habitat environment through literature survey. As a result of constructing the species distribution model using the Maxent model, 71.7% of the training data were shown on the AUC(Area Under Cover) basis, and it was be confirmed with an area of 20.73% in the whole target area, based on the 50% probability of presence of honeybees. It was confirmed that the contribution of the variable has influence on land covering, distance from the forest, altitude, aspect. Based on this, the possibility of honeybee's habitat characteristics were confirmed to be higher in wetland environment, in agricultural land, close to forest and lower elevation, southeast and west. The prediction of these habitat environments has significance as a lead research that presents the habitat of honeybees with high conservation value of ecosystems in terms of urban space, and it will be useful for future urban park planning and conservation area selection.