• 환경생물
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.98-106
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• 2011

마산만의 수질변화와 chlorophyll-$a$의 관계를 밝히고자 이 해역을 대표할 수 있는 4개 정점에서 2010년 2월부터 2010년 11월까지 강우와 기온을 포함한 기후학적 요인, 물리 화학적 요인, 그리고 chlorophyll-$a$의 변화를 집중 조사하였다. 그 결과, 수온, 염분, SS, 규산염은 정점별 차이를 보이지 않았으며, COD 및 DIN은 마산만 내만으로 갈수록 증가하였다. 시계열적으로는 여름철 집중 강우 시 마산만 지류 하천 및 낙동강을 통해 담수가 유입되면서 염분의 급강하 및 SS량과 COD의 증가가 나타났다. 영양염류 중 DIN은 여름철 집중강우 시 일시적으로 증가하는 양상을 제외하고는 낮은 농도를 보였고 DIP와 규산염 또한 DIN과 유사한 양상을 보였다. 마산만에서 식물플랑크톤 성장에 영향을 주는 영양염류는 봄철 중반까지 규소와 인이 성장제한인자로 작용하고, 늦봄부터 가을까지는 질소원이 주 성장제한요인으로 작용할 것으로 판단된다. 다중회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 늦겨울부터 봄철까지 chlorophyll-$a$ 농도는 수온, 염분, COD, DIP의 변화에 의해 영향을 받고 있었다. 여름철에는 봄철과 달리, 염분 및 COD, 강수량이 영향을 주고 있어, 여름철 집중강우에 따른 영향인자들에 의해 chlorophyll-$a$가 빠르게 변화됨을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 마산만 해역의 chlorophyll-$a$의 변화는 영양염류와 같은 화학적 인자의 영향과 함께, 수온 및 강수와 같은 물리적 인자에 의해 크게 영향을 받고 있다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.130-141
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• 2016

This study was conducted to elucidate the structure of river ecosystem in the watershed of the Seom River and Hoengseong Reservoir located in Hoengseong of Kangwon Province from February to October 2007. Topics of the survey were mainly rainfall, discharge, water quality in abiotic factors and attached algae, benthic macroinvertebrates, fish, birds and mammals of flora and fauna in a biotic factors, respectively. Specifically, the Seom River could be seen as a typical flow rate of the stream is controlled to the effect of the dam. Basic water qualities were great to seasonal effects, it was relatively clean. Diatom Achnanthes, Cymbella, Gomphonema, and Navicula were distributed predominantly in the periphytic algae. Benthic macroinvertebrates were mostly aquatic insects and freshwater shellfish, the aquatic insects were abundant Ephemeroptera and Trichoptera. Freshwater fish was the dominant Zacco platypus, fish species varied toward the downstream. Birds were mainly observed in four species, and species Egretta garzetta, which was distributed in a wide area of the Seom River. In mammals, Lutra lutra of Mustelidae was identified that the number of inhabit widely. In aspects of the ecological trophic level, the Seom River was maintained at a relatively stable state in the producer and the consumer relationship. The results of this study will expected to be utilized as a useful data for understanding the structure and function of the lotic and lentic ecosystems.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.399-410
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• 2020

The United Nations project the world population to reach 10 billion by the year 2057. To increase the food of the ever-increasing world population, agrochemicals are indispensable tools to the boon in agriculture production. These agrochemicals are a serious threat to the health of humans, plants, and animals. Agrochemicals are ultimately reached to the main reservoir/sink such as soil and contaminating the groundwater, disturb the soil health and in turn a serious threat to biogeochemical cycling and the entire biosphere. Among agrochemicals, quinalphosis one of the most repeatedly and widely used insecticides in the control of a wide range of pests that attack various crops. Quinalphos is shown to be primarily toxic in organisms by acetylcholinesterase enzyme action. Hydrolysis of quinalphos produces amajor metabolite 2-hydroxyquinoxaline (2-HQ), which has shown secondary toxicity in organisms. 2-HQ is reported to be mutagenic, carcinogenic, growth inhibition and induce oxidative stress in organisms. Quinoline is a heterocyclic compound and structural resemblance of 2-HQ with minor changes, but its degradation studies are enormous compared to the 2-HQ compound. Biotic factors in fate and behavior of 2-HQ in the environment are least studied. 2-HQ interactions with soil enzymes are vary from soil to soil. Based on the toxicity of 2-HQ in our stockpile we need to isolate a handful of microorganisms to treat this persistent metabolite and also other metabolites/compounds.This brief review will be significant from the point of biological and environmental safety.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.214-224
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• 2015

The economy of India and so also of many Asian countries depends on bamboos and their uses are not only in domestic items but also in rural housing and raw materials to several industries and germplasm characterization is an important link between the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources. Classical taxonomic studies of the bamboos are based on floral morphology and growth habit, which can cause problems in identification due to erratic flowering coupled with different biotic agencies and environmental factors. Identification and genetic relationships among accessions of Thamnocalamus falconeri were investigated using morphology and random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPD) technique. Analysis started by using 51 vegetative characters and forty two 10-mer primers that allowed us to distinguish different genotypes hailing from different eco- zones of Garhwal Himalayas (India). The selected primers (12) were used for identification and for establishing a profiling system to estimate genetic diversity. A total of 79.33% polymorphism was estimated by using 12 selected primers. The genetic similar analysis was conducted based on binary digits i.e. presence (1) or absence (0) of bands, which revealed a wide range of variability among the species whereas genetic relatedness was quite high based on vegetative characters. Cluster analysis clearly showed two major clusters for both of the markers viz. morphology and RAPD belonging to 10 accessions of T. falconeri. Two major clusters were further divided into minor clusters. Cluster based on RAPD marker showed grouping of accessions of closed locality whereas analogy was reported for vegetative traits. The RAPD technique has the potential for use in species identification and genetic relationships studies of bamboo for breeding program.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2015

Because an ecological community consists of diverse species that vary nonlinearly with environmental variability, its dynamics are complex and difficult to analyze. To investigate temporal variations of benthic macroinvertebrate community, we used the community data that were collected at the sampling site in Baenae Stream near Busan, Korea, which is a clean stream with minimum pollution, from July 2006 to July 2013. First, we used a self-organizing map (SOM) to heuristically derive the states that characterizes the biotic condition of the benthic macroinvertebrate communities in forms of time series data. Next, we applied the hidden Markov model (HMM) to fine-tune the states objectively and to obtain the transition probabilities between the states and the emission probabilities that show the connection of the states with observable events such as the number of species, the diversity measured by Shannon entropy, and the biological water quality index (BMWP). While the number of species apparently addressed the state of the community, the diversity reflected the state changes after the HMM training along with seasonal variations in cyclic manners. The BMWP showed clear characterization of events that correspond to the different states based on the emission probabilities. The environmental factors such as temperature and precipitation also indicated the seasonal and cyclic changes according to the HMM. Though the usage of the HMM alone can guarantee the convergence of the training or the precision of the derived states based on field data in this study, the derivation of the states by the SOM that followed the fine-tuning by the HMM well elucidated the states of the community and could serve as an alternative reference system to reveal the ecological structures in stream communities.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.131-136
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• 1998

Attached algal community and several physico-chemicai characters were investigated at Seokjong hot spring in Chollabukdo in February and in April, 1997. The results of physico-chemicai factors are as follows : water temperatures were varied from 6.5$^{\circ}$C to 32.0$^{\circ}$C; pH range was 6.9 to 7.7; The levels of electric conductivity were 105 $\mu$mhos/cm to 477 $\mu$mhos/cm; chemical oxygen demand(COD) range was 1.5 mg/l to 21.2 mg/l; ammonia concentration was 0.20 mg/l to 8.74 mg/l; nitrate concentrations were 0.36 mg/l to 2.43 mg/l; phosphate concentration was N.D. to 0.52 mg/l; sulfur concentration was 14.6 mg/l to 66.1 mg/l. Attacched algal species were identified. Totally, 63 taxa were classified and composed of 4 phylum, 4 class, 10 order, 17 family and 31 genera. The total biomass of attacched algae was $1.036 \times 10^{7}$ cells/l that composed of $5.39 \times 10^{6}$ cells/l of blue-green algae, $4.05 \times 10^{6}$ cells/l of diatom and $0.93 \times 10^{6}$ cells/l of green algae. The succession of dominant species was Synechocystis thermalis. This could be due to the thermal wastewaters. in biotic indices tests, the values of dominance index(DI) were 0.33 to 0.67 in winter, 0.18 to 0.68 in spring. The values of diversity index(H') were 1.44 to 2.69 in winter, 1.62 to 2.89 in spring. And the values of eveness index (J) were 0.31 to 0.61 in winter, 0.37 to 0.65 in spring.

• 생태와환경
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.205-211
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 다른 환경에서 채집된 윤충류 개체의 체장을 측정하고 기존에 제시된 윤충류 생체량 측정 방법에 적용하여, 생체량 값의 분포 검증 및 비교를 실시하였다. 이를 바탕으로 적절한 윤충류 생체량 계산 방법에 대해 고찰하고, 체장 측정 없이 종별 생체량의 대푯값을 사용하는 것이 가능한지에 대한 여부를 판단했다. 검증을 위한 대상으로 국내외적으로 우점하고 단순한 형태를 가지는 Polyarthra 속을 선정, 한강, 낙동강 및 팔당호에서 시료를 채집, 분석하였다. 지점에 따른 Polyarthra spp. 개체의 체장은 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 나타내어, 지점별 체장의 차이가 생체량 대푯값을 이용하는데 발생하는 오차의 원인이 될 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 보다 정확한 생체량 계산을 위해 윤충류 개체의 체장 측정은 필수적인 것으로 판단되며, 생체량 계산 시 오차가 5% 이하일 확률을 99% 이상으로 높이기 위해서는 44개체 이상의 체장을 측정해야 하는 것으로 나타났다. 측정한 체장을 이용한 생체량 계산에는 EPA 계산식 대비 McCauley (1984)의 계산식을 사용하는 것이 보다 적합할 것으로 보이지만, 기술 검증이 어려운 항목이기 때문에 향후 본 조사에서 보여진 지점 간 변이 이외에 윤충류의 복잡한 형태 및 다양한 부속지의 변화 등을 고려하여 다양한 종을 대상으로 한 추가적인 분석이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.632-640
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• 2017

울산만에서 강우에 의한 염분구배 및 환경요인이 분변계 대장균의 계절적, 지역적 분포에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위해, 2013년 2월부터 2015년 11월까지 계절 조사를 총 12회 수행하였다. 아울러 울산만 내측과 외측의 염분구배 및 지리학적 특성을 기반으로 13개 정점을 3개의 구역(I, II, III)으로 나누어 평가하였다. 조사기간 중 수온과 염분은 각각 $8.5-26.1^{\circ}C$와 13.5-34.4 psu의 범위, 엽록소-a는 $0.4-74.0{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$, 투명도는 0.5-10.0 m로 변화하였다. 특히 염분농도는 2014년 춘계, 하계, 추계 울산만 내측의 구역 I에서 낮은 농도로 관찰되었고, 만 외측의 구역 III으로 갈수록 증가하였다 (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.05). 아울러, 해역의 염분구배는 대장균의 분포에도 영향을 미쳤고, 특히 태화강의 영향을 강하게 받는 구역 I에서 가장 높게 관찰되었고, 다음으로 구역 II, 구역 III순으로 나타났다. 대장균 개체수는 투명도(r = -0.36; p < 0.05)와 더불어 염분과 음의 상관성(r = -0.53; p < 0.01)이 확인되었고, 이는 육상기원의 대장균이 해역으로 유입될 경우 염분이 낮은 환경에서 보다 유리하게 증식한다는 것을 의미한다. 결과적으로 울산만 내만에서는 잦은 집중강우(< 50 mm)로 인한 육상기원 오염원이 하천 및 태화강으로 유입되어 울산만 최내측인 구역 I에서 현저하게 영향을 미쳤고, 염분구배에 따라서 대장균 개체수도 희석되어 만 외측으로 향할수록 낮게 나타나는 것을 파악하였다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.757-767
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• 2006

Biological assessments are the primary tool for evaluating the biological condition of a water body and makes it possible to understand accumulative and long-term effect of stressors. They also provide reliable biological information for which disturbed systems are to be restored. Sustainable water environment is not enough with attaining only the clean water, but it should sustain healthy and diverse aquatic life. Aquatic organisms are affected by various factors, including not only water quality but also habitat condition and stressors, and thus good condition of both physical and chemical water quality is prerequisite for sustaining healthy organisms. Therefore, biological assessment, along with other physical and chemical assessments, are crucial for evaluating the health of a water body. Overall, sustainability of water environment demands the attainment and maintenance of ecological integrity, which is resulted from the combination of physical, chemical and biological integrity. The biological criteria will play very important role in the water resource management and policy issues, and thus bioassessment program should be fully implemented and supported eventually by the law. To keep ecosystem health of water environment safely from the toxic pollutants and other stressors, the following suggestions need to be considered in environmental quality standards in Korea. For the first step, the biological indicators need to be introduced in evaluating river quality condition; they provide a qualitative description of biological condition of water body. Secondly, the biological water quality standards using biotic indices should be developed and implemented under the consideration of characteristics of Korean river systems. Lastly, the ecological status classification regime (ESCR) should be developed and introduced; it could be used in quality assessment of the water environment in general. In developing ESCR, integration of physico-chemical, biological, and habitat parameters should be taken into account.

• 생태와환경
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.431-440
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• 2008

Turbid water or suspended sediment is associated with negative effects on aquatic organisms; fish, aquatic invertebrate, and periphyton. Effects of turbid water on fish differ depending on their developmental stage and a level of turbidity. Low turbid water may cause feeding and predation rates, reaction distance, and avoidance in fish, and it could make fish to die under high turbidity and long period. Therefore, it is very important to find out how turbid water or suspended sediment can affect fish in domestic watersheds. The objectives of this study were 1) to introduce international case studies and their standards to deal with suspended sediment, 2) to determine acute toxicity in 4 major freshwater fishes, and 3) to determine in relation to adverse effect of macroinvertebrates and fish. Impacts of turbid water on fish can be categorized into direct and indirect effects, and some factors such as duration and frequency of exposure, toxicity, temperature, life stage of fish, size of particle, time of occurrence, availability of and access to refugia, etc, play important role to decide magnitude of effect. A review of turbidity standard in USA, Canada, and Europe indicated that each standard varied with natural condition, and Alaska allowed liberal increase of turbidity over natural conditions in streams. Even though acute toxicity with four different species did not show any fatal effect, it should be considered to conduct a chronic test (long-term) for more detailed assessment. Compared to the control, dominance index of macroinvertebrates was greater in the turbid site, whereas biotic index, species diversity index, species richness index, and ecological score were smaller in the turbid site. According to histopathological analysis with gills of macroinvertebrate and fishes, morphological and physiological modification of gills due to suspended sediments can cause disturbance of respiration, excretion and secretion. In conclusion, in order to maintain good and healthy aquatic ecosystem, it is the best to minimize or prevent impact by occurrence of turbid water in stream and reservoir. We must make every effort to maintain and manage healthy aquatic ecosystem with additional investigation using various assessment tools and periodic biomonitoring of fish.