• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.339-347
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• 2007

Zooplankton community dynamics were studied after establishment of an artificial vegetation island (AVI) in Lake Paldang, from April 2005 to November 2006. There were distinct seasonal and inter-annual changes of total zooplankton abundance at the survey site. Total zooplankton abundance rapidly increased in spring and fall, while it remained low throughout winter. During summer, the dynamics of zooplankton community seemed to be largely affected by hydrological parameters such as, precipitation and inflow. Total zooplankton abundance and biomass below AVI was much higher than that of pelagic zone (L1) in Lake Paldang. Copepoda and cladocera represented the main bulk of the zooplankton community from summer to fall at the both sites. Copepods were more dominant at AVI area, while cladocera were more dominant at pelagic zone (L1). Water quality, prey and habitat condition, species competition between zooplankton seemed to play important roles in dominance of the copepoda and cladocera in zooplankton community at AVI area. Our results conclude that artificial vegetation island provide the stable habitat and besides phytoplankton, diverse food to zooplankton, and consequently influence the diversity and richness of zooplankton community.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2018

Compared to yellow dust coming from China or particulate matter created naturally in spring due to Total Suspended Particulate(TSP), particulate matter in winter season have much more serious effect on human body as they penetrate cell membranes. Although such particulate matter are becoming a social issue, there are no concrete plans on how to reduce them. Air-purifying plants are limited in maintaining the indoor air quality of large area because it is usually difficult to quantify their performance. In order to improve this, a bio-filter that can be connected to air conditioner is suggested as an option. This study seeks to improve air conditioning model-based monitoring method for bio-filters from prior studies and objectify correlations between applied vegetation and growing environment into quantitative indicators. By doing so, this study seeks to provide criteria on plants applied to artificial soil-based vegetation bio-filters and basic information to set air-conditioning features. The study results confirmed significant tendency on the growing stability of each purifying plant in mechanical air-conditioning environment. Among three models selected for bio-filter vegetation models, epipremnum aureum showed high performance in quantitative indicators, including soil moisture, EC, and leaf temperature, etc., indicating that it would assure the highest growing stability in this test air-conditioning environment.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.29-45
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• 2022

For biodiversity conservation, the importance of beta-diversity which is changes in the composition of species according to environmental changes has become emphasized. However, given the systematic investigation of species distribution and the accumulation of large amounts of data in the Republic of Korea(ROK), research on the spatialization of beta-diversity using them is insufficient. Accordingly, this research investigated the applicability of the Generalized Dissimilarity Modeling(GDM) to ROK, which can predict and map the similarity of compositional turnover (beta-diversity) based on environmental variables. A brief overview of the statistical description on using GDM was presented, and a model was fitted using the flora distribution data(410,621points) from the National Ecosystem Survey and various environmental spatial data including climate, soil, topography, and land cover. Procedures and appropriated spatial units required to improve the explanatory power of the model were presented. As a result, it was found that geographical distance, temperature annual range, summer temperature, winter precipitation, and soil factors affect the dissimilarity of the vegetation community composition. In addition, as a result of predicting the similarity of vegetation composition across the nation, and classifying them into 20 and 100 zones, the similarity was high mainly in the central inland area, and tends to decrease toward the mountainous areas, southern coastal regions, and island including Jeju island, which means the composition of the vegetation community is unique and beta diversity is high. In addition, it was identified that the number of common species between zones decreased as the geographic distance between zones increased. It classified the spatial distribution of plant community composition in a quantitative and objective way, but additional research and verification are needed for practical application. It is expected that research on community-level biodiversity modeling in the ROK will be conducted more actively based on this study.

• 지적과 국토정보
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.15-26
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• 2017

도시화에 따른 녹지의 감소로 서식처 피괴, 대기오염, 열섬효과 등 많은 환경문제들이 발생하고 있다. 최근에는 자연경관에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 겨울철에도 서식하는 상록수의 적정 관리가 중요하게 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 UAV 기반 식생지수를 이용하여 상록수 분포면적을 분석하였다. 먼저 고정익 UAV에 RGB와 NIR+RG 카메라를 탑재하였으며 Pix4D SW 기반 GCP점을 활용하여 영상접합을 수행하였다. 그리고 취득한 정사영상으로부터 밴드계산 기능을 통해 NDVI와 SAVI 식생지수를 계산하였다. 식생지수 구간별 상록수 분포의 정확도를 평가하기 위해 검정점을 이용하였으며, 분석 결과 "NDVI > 0.5"와 "SAVI > 0.7" 구간에서 Kappa 계수가 각각 0.822와 0.816로 가장 높게 나타났다. GIS 공간분석을 통해 계산한 "NDVI > 0.5"와 "SAVI > 0.7" 구간에서의 상록수 분포면적은 각각 $11,824m^2$와 $15,648m^2$로 계산되었으며 이는 전체면적 대비 4.8%와 6.3%에 해당되는 비율이다. 이와 같이 도심지 환경, 대기오염, 기후변화, 열섬효과 등과 관련하여 식생을 분석하는 업무에서 UAV가 최신의 고해상도 정보를 제공해 줄 수 있으리라 판단된다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.111-124
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• 2008

서울 남동부에 위치한 도시하천인 양재천의 복원구간에서 7년간 식물상과 식생 분포 및 구조의 변화를 모니터링하였다. 1998년 가을부터 1999년 봄까지 복원구간에서 다양한 친자연 하천복원기법이 채택되어 시공되었다. 복원시공 7년후에 복원구간의 식물종수와 다양도지수는 비복원구간보다 높았다. 그러나 1999-2001년 사이의 복원후 초기단계로부터 복원후 7년까지는 다양도지수는 감소하였다. 우점종은 황무지식물인 환삼덩굴로부터 다년생인 갈대로 변화하였다. 복원공사에 의하여 새로 형성된 교란지에 식재되거나 도입된 종과 외래 혹은 황무지 식물이 복원공사 후 감소됨에 따라서 주요인분석의 결과에서 복원후 초기와 7년후 식물상 구조가 뚜렷이 구분되었다. 복원 시공 후에 시간이 경과함에 따라서 환삼덩굴과 망초 군집의 분포면적은 감소하였고 갈대와 물억새 군집의 면적이 증가하였다. 식물 군집의 DCA(detrended correspondence analysis) 결과에서 복원공사후 교란된 식생에서 안정된 자연식생으로 변화하였다. 복원구간에서 총 7종의 버드나무가 발견되었는데, 이중 2종은 식재된 것이고 나머지는 자연적으로 유입된 것이었다. 모니터링 결과로부터 양재천 복원구간에서 식물상과 식생구조는 성공적으로 회복이 되었으며 이 구간이 도시하천에서 하천복원의 모델 장소가 될 수 있다고 판단되었다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2016

This study's purpose was to provide basic data for the monitoring of ecological changes caused by change of vegetation structure of Abies koreana forest in a study site susceptible to climatic change in Yeongsil area of Hallasan Mountain, Jeju Island. Surveys revealed this: in Yeongsil area of Hallasan Mountain, per 1 ha of A. koreana forests, total number 1,781, and A. koreana number 989, accounting for 55.5% of the total number of trees. 190 A. koreana or 19.2% were found to be dead. For the number of individual trees by DBH, trees standing 5 cm - 10 cm tall formed the largest portion at 39.9%, and in the case of other trees except A. koreana, the number of individual trees below 5 cm accounted for 23.5% of the total number of trees. The survey of importance by height revealed this: at the top level, the importance of A. koreana was the highest at 106.23, but the sum of importance of temperate deciduous broad-leaved trees (Prunus maximowiczii, Quercus mongolica, and Taxus cuspidata) was higher at 142.84 than that of A. koreana. The analysis of species diversity revealed 0.645 species diversity for the tree layer and 0.817 for the shrub layer; for evenness, 0.549 for the tree layer and 0.664 for the shrub layer; for dominance value; 0.451 for the tree layer and 0.336 for the shrub layer. The analysis of tree vitality revealed that for the A. koreana forests in Yeongsil, the composition ratio of A. koreana by type is AS type>AL type>DS type>DB type, and that of the other trees is AL type>AS type>AF type>AB type. Compared with the forests in other areas, the A. koreana forests in the Yeongsil area have a very high occurrence rate of dead trees, and a high importance of trees is shown in the deciduous broad-leaved tree forests. Compared with the A. koreana forests in the Jindallaebat area, with the same level above sea, the vegetation structures are fast changing. Also, due to dryness and other non-physical environmental changes caused by a lack of rainwater and dry winds in winter, dead trees are fast increasing in number. Environmental changes such as climate change diversely affect the maintenance of A. koreana in individual areas, and if environmental changes are fast and continue long, of the A. koreana forest areas in the Hallasan Mountain, the A. koreana forests in the Yeongsil area will decrease fastest in number and will experience changes in the vegetation structure. Thus, it is necessary to survey the vegetation changes in A. koreana forests, which are distributed in all directions but are centered on Hallasan Mountain, and to thus conduct long-term monitoring and research.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.503-512
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• 1995

The present paper describes partial results of the study on the activities of microbes in the soil of Quercus mongolica forest from July, 1994 to April, 1995. To determine the relationship between structure and function of soil microbial ecosystem, the author investigated the seasonal change of physical environmental factors, microbial population and soil enzyme activities. The changes of pH was not significant and the temperature of surface soil was 2℃ higher than lower soil through out the year. Moisture contents (％) of soil samples ranged from 7.64％ to 42.11％. However, soils of site 3 at Mt. Komdan in which vegetation is successional have higher moisture content than the others. The bacterial population increased in summer, but continuously decreased in autumn and winter, and then reincreased again in spring. Bacterial population of surface soil was higher than those of 30 cm depth all the year round. Dehydrogenase activity (DHA) was about two-fold higher throughout in surface soil compared to those of lower soil. And the correlation coefficient between DHA and bacterial population size was 0,713, It was suggested that DHA could be used as a primary index of soil microbial population and activity in soil ecosystem.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.127-137
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• 2022

Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect has been widely studied as a global concern of the 21st century. Heat generation from urban built-up structures and anthropogenic heat sources are the main factors to create UHIs. Unfortunately, both factors are expanding rapidly in Lahore and accelerating UHI effects. The effects of UHI are expanding with the expansion of impermeable surfaces towards urban green areas. Therefore, this study was arranged to analyze the role of urban cooling intensity in reducing urban heat island effects. For this purpose, 15 parks were selected to analyze their effects on the land surface temperature (LST) of Lahore. The study obtained two images of Landsat-8 based on seasons: the first of June-2018 for summer and the second of November-2018 for winter. The LST of the study area was calculated using the radiative transfer equation (RTE) method. The results show that the theme parks have the largest cooling effect while the linear parks have the lowest. The mean park LST and PCI of the samples are also positively correlated with the fractional vegetation cover (FVC) and normalized difference water index (NDWI). So, it is concluded that urban parks play a positive role in reducing and mitigating LST and UHI effects. Therefore, it is suggested that the increase of vegetation cover should be used to develop impervious surfaces and sustainable landscape planning.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.228-236
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• 2021

Background: A review of the literature was carried out to study dust and sandstorm (DSS) in terms of its ecosystem processes and relationship to other dryland disasters in Northeast Asia. Drylands are ecosystems that include grasslands, semi-deserts, and deserts, and these types of ecosystems are vulnerable due to their low primary productivity that depends on a small amount of precipitation. Results: Drought, dust, desertification, and winter livestock disasters (called dzud) are unique natural disasters that affect the region. These disasters are related in that they share major causes, such as dryness and low vegetation cover that combine with other conditions, wind, cold waves, livestock, and land-surface energy, to dramatically impact the ecosystem. Conclusions: The literature review in this study illustrates the macroscopic context of the spatial and temporal patterns of DSS according to geography, climate, and vegetation growth in the drylands of Northeast Asia. The effects of ocean climates and human activities were discussed to infer a possible teleconnection effect of DSS and its relations to desertification and dzud.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.153-165
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• 2003

만경강 본류를 대상으로 수질을 개선하기 위한 일환으로 하천식생의 종구성, 하천형태에 따른 군락의 구조, 단면분석을 통한 현존식생의 분포 등을 종합적으로 분석하여 하천 생태계에 대한 종합적 해석과 식생에 의한 자연정화능 활용방안을 평가하고자 2001년 6월부터 2002년 3월까지 수질 및 식생에 관한 자연정화능을 조사, 평가하였다. 만경강 본류 수질중 T-N의 농도는 갈수기인 겨울철이 17.23 mg/L로 가장 높았으며, 여름철이 8.59 mg/L로 낮았고, 상류보다는 하류에서 그 농도가 높았다. 또한 평균 T-P의 농도는 여름철과 가을철에 각각 0.45, 0.47 mg/L로 비슷하였으나 겨울철에 1.79 mg/L로 농도가 높아졌다. BOD의 농도는 상류유역에서 $0.95{\sim}2.57\;mg/L$로 $I{\sim}II$급수 수질를 나타내었으나 하류유역에서는 $6.87{\sim}9.72\;mg/L$로 V급수에 가까운 수질이었다. 만경강 상류의 식물상은 73과 134속 218종 33변종으로 총 251종류가 조사되었으며, 중류 일대에서 조사된 식물은 33과 69속 82종 16변종으로 총 98종류가 조사되었다. 그리고 만경강 하류 일대에서 관찰된 식물은 27과 58속 %종 14변종으로 총 85종류가 조사되었다. 만경강 유역에서 자연정화능에 의한 수질개선을 도모하기 위해 식물 생활형별로 하천 정화능이 뛰어난 식물을 조사 분석한 결과 침수식물은 붕어마름, 검정말, 부엽식물은 어리연꽃, 왜개연꽃, 추수식물은 갈대, 줄, 부들, 습생식물은 큰황새 냉이, 고마리 등이 질소 인 흡수능이 우수한 식물이었다.