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A Comparative study of Assessment Techniques for Soil Ecosystem Health: Focusing on Assessment Factors of Soil Health (토양생태계 건강성 평가기법 비교연구: 토양건강성 평가항목을 중심으로)

  • Chae, Yooeun;Kim, Shin Woong;Kwak, Jin Il;Yoon, Youngdae;Jeong, Seung-Woo;An, Youn-Joo
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2015
  • The soil ecosystem is a complex system performing particularly complicated and varied functions, such as providing a habitat for organisms, acting as a medium for plant cultivation and growth, and functioning as a buffer against external materials in the environment. To assess whether these important functions of the soil ecosystem are executed appropriately, the concept of soil ecosystem health has been introduced, which is defined as the ability to perform the specific functions of the soil ecosystem. Understanding soil properties and soil indicators related to soil functions is essential to assess the soil health. In this study, systems, the indicators, and evaluation factors for assessing soil ecosystem health employed in a number of countries were investigated and discussed. In particular, it is necessary to introduce a technique for the evaluation of soil ecosystem health in Korea and to develop techniques and indicators appropriate to the soil ecosystem and status in Korea.

A Study on Planning Aspects & Detailed Techniques in terms of Main Concept of Ecological Industrial Parks (생태산업단지 개념에서 본 계획측면과 세부수업에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Sook-Young;Oh, Deog-Seong
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.11-19
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    • 2002
  • This Study aims to find out the planning aspects and detailed techniques in terms of concept of the Ecological Industrial Parks. It consists of the three parts : Firstly, according to theoretical review, this study gives a definition of the concept of ecological industrial parks. Secondly, it institutes planning aspects of ecological industrial parks based on the main concept. Thirdly, 8 case studies show us analysis of detailed techniques used each planning aspects. Ecological industrial parks mean industrial systems which make energy and substance circulated in order to reduce environmental pollutions inside and outside of park like natural ecosystem. To actualize ecological industrial parks, we have to adopt 3 planning aspects which are energy and substance recycling system, environmentally-friendly site planning based on ecology concept, constructing of ecological production and management. In case study, detailed techniques from each planning aspects are shown in table 8. As a result of case study, detailed techniques about planning of energy and substance recycling system is accommodated most. On the other hand, environmentally-friendly site planning techniques based on ecological concept is used passively. And detailed techniques about constructing of ecological production and management are very various as each cases. Finally, in terms of analysis, this study shows us appliable planning when we develop domestic Ecological industrial parks.

Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Management in Korea (한국에서의 원격탐사와 생태계 관리)

  • Kim, Dae-Seon;Ryu, Cheol-Sang;Chun, Seung-Kyu
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 1994
  • A Nationwide survey of ecosystem in the Republic of Korea was accomplished from 1986 to 1990 and in that survey, GIS and remote sensing were used partially. This was done by the Ministry of Environment(MOE), which introduced remote sensing and GIS for environment management in late 1980's. Especially the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) are under the research on systematization of environmental information with an ultimate goal of application of GIS and remote sensing to environmental impact assessment. Although the Korean peninsula is in a non-tropical zone, we introduce two case studies on remote sensing applications to ecosystem managements in the Republic of Korea. One is a study on change detection in urban vegetation of Seoul with Landsat data and the other is a study on detection of insect damaged pine tree area using Landsat TM data. The techniques involved and the conclusion from these studies were relevant to vegetation studies in tropical ecosystem.

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Anomaly Detection Technique of Log Data Using Hadoop Ecosystem (하둡 에코시스템을 활용한 로그 데이터의 이상 탐지 기법)

  • Son, Siwoon;Gil, Myeong-Seon;Moon, Yang-Sae
    • KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.128-133
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    • 2017
  • In recent years, the number of systems for the analysis of large volumes of data is increasing. Hadoop, a representative big data system, stores and processes the large data in the distributed environment of multiple servers, where system-resource management is very important. The authors attempted to detect anomalies from the rapid changing of the log data that are collected from the multiple servers using simple but efficient anomaly-detection techniques. Accordingly, an Apache Hive storage architecture was designed to store the log data that were collected from the multiple servers in the Hadoop ecosystem. Also, three anomaly-detection techniques were designed based on the moving-average and 3-sigma concepts. It was finally confirmed that all three of the techniques detected the abnormal intervals correctly, while the weighted anomaly-detection technique is more precise than the basic techniques. These results show an excellent approach for the detection of log-data anomalies with the use of simple techniques in the Hadoop ecosystem.

A Study on development of Resourse - saving site Planning techniques based on utilization of Ecosystem - Focused on Housing site - (생태계를 이용한 자원절약형 단지계획기법 개발에 관한 연구 - 주거단지를 중심으로-)

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    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.111-125
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    • 1990
  • Korea is a nation with poor natural resources. There is a greats need to save resources that are running out in fast face. The purpose of this thesis is to bind the means to save rosources in housing site, especially in highrise apartment. The reason why the high-rise apartments are chosen as a case is 7hat the high-rise is becoming the major form of dwelling in most urban areas. As a tool of saving the ecological way is chosen because ecological energy is free, clean and unlimited. The resources to be saved are divided into two categories, namely energy and non - energy resources as water, land and food. The contents of the thesis are comprised of 4 chapters. The early chaspters are devoted to the understanding of the ecosystem and problems of current energy consumption in the apartment. It is fellowed by the introduction of the hypothesis that can possibly save reouruces. The hypothesis are then transformed into the actual theories through verification, to be established as the new techniques of the site planning. The ecosystem is the functional relationship between the living organisms and their physical surroundings. The living organisms are the plants that produce, animals that consume and bacterias that decompose. They live in the environment which consists of the three worlds of atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. The whole system is activated by the solar energy that turns the inorganic mallet- into the living organism and back to the inorganic. It is the recycling principle of the ecosystem. The elements of ecosystem that fan be unilimited as the tools of resources -saving are the sun, wind, water, soil, plant and waste. They are unlimited sources of energy. free of pollution and cheap in price. Each of these ecological elements Provide the opportunities that can save the heating fuel, air conditioning energy, water resource, land and food. The ecological approch should be pursued actively in this age of short resources and growing pollution. In the scale of total energy consumption the housing takes the second position next to the industrial use. It is followed by the transportation which shows for less consumption than former two.

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The Differentiation on the Plant Flora and Vegetation Caused by the Different Technique of Stream Restoration at the Seo-Ho Stream (하천 조성 기법에 따른 서호천 식생 및 식물상의 차이 비교)

  • Kim, Song-Yee;Kim, Hyea-Ju;Lee, Kyoo-Seock
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.26-34
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    • 2004
  • It is expected that the different techniques of stream restoration could be caused the different conditions of the stream ecosystem. The study was to investigate and compare plants and vegetation clusters of appearing plant species in the upper and lower section of the Seo-Ho stream, It was classified and listed all of the plants appeared in the upper and lower section of the stream, It was used the belt-transect method and Unweighted pair group method using arithmetic algorithm in order to examine and analyzed discover the vegetation clusters, In the result, 28 families and 114 species appeared in the upper section, In the other side, 26 families and 93 species appeared in the lower section of the steam. The naturalized index of the upper section was 21%, and that of the lower section was 27%. In addition, the upper section has more various geographical features than lower section of the stream. So that, consequently the study shows that the different techniques of stream restoration could be caused the different growth of the stream ecosystem.

Increasing Infiltration with Pervious Drainage facilities -The Effect of Simulation in Bun-Dang New town, Korea- (단지개발에 있어 강수량 지하침투 증대를 위한 침투시설의 도입가능성 연구 -분당신도시 사례를 중심으로-)

  • 김두하;박원규;안동만
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.62-72
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    • 1997
  • As a site is built up, runoff increases inevitably. This results in water deficit in the site and possible downstream flooding. It may cause irreversible site ecosystem disturbance. This study examined some techniques of increasing infiltration rates in a site development. The possible effects of applying such techniques at a new town development are calculated for four types of land uses-business area, low/high density residential areas, and park area- of Bun-Dang New Town. If the higher infiltration drainage systems are introduced, there may be additional infiltration of the precipitation as much as 59.8% in business area, 74.6% in low density residential area, 51.4% in high density residential area and 32.7% in park area. This much increase of infiltration, or decrease of runoff, may improve site water balance, and thus keep the site ecosystem much healthier.

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Cryopreservation of Forest Tree Seeds: A Mini-Review

  • Gantait, Saikat;Kundu, Suprabuddha;Wani, Shabir Hussain;Das, Prakash Kanti
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.311-322
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    • 2016
  • Since forest trees form the basis of forest ecosystem, their prolong subsistence is crucial for various flora and fauna. The foremost challenges to sustain the forest ecosystem comprise of the declining forest tree population accompanied with structural changes due to afforestation and exploitation of forest area, environment changes, pests, pollution, and introgressive hybridization. For ex situ conservation approach, in vitro techniques encompass basic role for conserving tree genetic resources, predominantly where natural propagules like recalcitrant seed might not be appropriate for long-term conservation. The practice includes restricted growth techniques, conventional micropropagation, production and storage of synthetic seeds, and cryopreservation. Even though these practices have been applied chiefly to herbaceous species, but recently, woody species were also focused upon. Key conceptions, challenges and techniques for forest tree seed conservation are discussed briefly in this review with special emphasis on some successful cryopreservation approaches for long-term storage.

Application of Recent DNA/RNA-based Techniques in Rumen Ecology

  • McSweeney, C.S.;Denman, S.E.;Wright, A.-D.G.;Yu, Z.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.283-294
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    • 2007
  • Conventional culture-based methods of enumerating rumen microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, protozoa, and fungi) are being rapidly replaced by nucleic acid-based techniques which can be used to characterise complex microbial communities without incubation. The foundation of these techniques is 16S/18S rDNA sequence analysis which has provided a phylogenetically based classification scheme for enumeration and identification of microbial community members. While these analyses are very informative for determining the composition of the microbial community and monitoring changes in population size, they can only infer function based on these observations. The next step in functional analysis of the ecosystem is to measure how specific and, or, predominant members of the ecosystem are operating and interacting with other groups. It is also apparent that techniques which optimise the analysis of complex microbial communities rather than the detection of single organisms will need to address the issues of high throughput analysis using many primers/probes in a single sample. Nearly all the molecular ecological techniques are dependant upon the efficient extraction of high quality DNA/RNA representing the diversity of ruminal microbial communities. Recent reviews and technical manuals written on the subject of molecular microbial ecology of animals provide a broad perspective of the variety of techniques available and their potential application in the field of animal science which is beyond the scope of this treatise. This paper will focus on nucleic acid based molecular methods which have recently been developed for studying major functional groups (cellulolytic bacteria, protozoa, fungi and methanogens) of microorganisms that are important in nutritional studies, as well as, novel methods for studying microbial diversity and function from a genomics perspective.