• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.461-476
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• 2015

Global warming has accelerated glacial retreat in the high Arctic. The exposed glacier foreland is an ideal place to study chronosequential changes in ecosystems. Although vegetation succession in the glacier forelands has been studied intensively, little is known about the microbial community structure in these environments. Therefore, this study focused on how glacial retreat influences the bacterial community structure and its relationship with soil properties. This study was conducted in the foreland of the Midtre Lovénbreen glacier in Svalbard (78.9°N). Seven soil samples of different ages were collected and analyzed for moisture content, pH, soil organic carbon and total nitrogen contents, and soil organic matter fractionation. In addition, the structure of the bacterial community was determined via pyrosequencing analysis of 16S rRNA genes. The physical and chemical properties of soil varied significantly along the distance from the glacier; with increasing distance, more amounts of clay and soil organic carbon contents were observed. In addition, Cyanobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria were dominant in soil samples taken close to the glacier, whereas Acidobacteria were abundant further away from the glacier. Diversity indices indicated that the bacterial community changed from homogeneous to heterogeneous structure along the glacier chronosequence/distance from the glacier. Although the bacterial community structure differed on basis of the presence or absence of plants, the soil properties varied depending on soil age. These findings suggest that bacterial succession occurs over time in glacier forelands but on a timescale that is different from that of soil development.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.888-897
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• 2009

Lipase diversity in glacier soil was assessed by culture-independent metagenomic DNA fragment screening and confirmed by cell culture experiments. A set of degenerate PCR primers specific for lipases of the hormone-sensitive lipase family was designed based on conserved motifs and used to directly PCR amplify metagenomic DNA from glacier soil. These products were used to construct a lipase fragment clone library. Among the 300 clones sequenced for the analysis, 201 clones encoding partiallipases shared 51-82% identity to known lipases in GenBank. Based on a phylogenetic analysis, five divergent clusters were established, one of which may represent a previously unidentified lipase subfamily. In the culture study, 11 lipase-producing bacteria were selectively isolated and characterized by 16S rDNA sequences. Using the above-mentioned degenerate primers, seven lipase gene fragments were cloned, but not all of them could be accounted for by the clones in the library. Two full-length lipase genes obtained by TAIL-PCR were expressed in Pichia pastoris and characterized. Both were authentic lipases with optimum temperatures of ${\le}40^{\circ}C$. Our study indicates the abundant lipase diversity in glacier soil as well as the feasibility of sequence-based screening in discovering new lipase genes from complex environmental samples.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2014

Soil organic carbon (SOC) in the Arctic is vulnerable to climate change. However, research on SOC stored in the high Arctic regions is currently very limited. Thus, this study was aimed at understanding the distribution and characteristics of SOC with respect to geomorphology and vegetation in Svalbard. In August 2011, soil samples were collected near the Vestre Lov$\acute{e}$nbreen moraine. Sampling sites were chosen according to altitude (High, Mid, and Low) and differences in levels of vegetation establishment. Vegetation coverage, aboveground biomass, and SOC contents were measured, and density-size fractionation of SOC was conducted. The SOC content was the highest in the Mid site ($126.9mg\;g^{-1}$) and the lowest in the High site ($32.1mg\;g^{-1}$), although aboveground biomass and vegetation coverage were not different between these two sites. The low SOC content measured at the High site could be related to a slower soil development following glacial retreat. On the other hand, the Low site contained a high amount of SOC despite having low vegetative cover and a high ratio of sand particles. These incompatible relationships between SOC and vegetation in the Low site might be associated with past site disturbances such as runoff from snow/glacier melting. This study showed that geomorphological features combined with glacier retreat or melting snow/glacier effects could have affected the SOC distribution and vegetation establishment in the high Arctic.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.171-179
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• 2016

최근 빙하의 융해로 인해 빙하 해안지역에 다양한 토양 미생물과 초목들이 드러나고있다. 본 연구에서는 북극 스발바르 군도 중앙로벤 빙하 해안 지역으로부터 Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine(PGM)을 활용한 메타지놈 분석을 통해 세균(bacteria), 고균(archaea), 및 진핵생물(eukaryotes)를 포함하는 다양한 미생물 군집을 분석하였다. 연구에 사용된 토양시료는 빙하 후퇴에 따른 토양의 노출 시기에 따라 2개 지역(ML4 및 ML7)으로부터 수집하였다. ML4 및 ML7 시료의 메타지놈 염기서열을 기반으로 총 2,798,108 및 1,691,859 reads가 각각 미생물 군집 분석에 활용되었다. Domain (계) 수준에서 미생물 군집의 상대 빈도를 분석한 결과 2개 시료 모두 세균(86−87%)이 높은 반면 고균과 진핵생물은 1% 미만으로 존재하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 약 12%의 염기서열은 기존에 분류되지 않은(unclassified) 서열로 분석되었다. 세균의 경우 Proteobacteria(40.3% for ML4 and 43.3% for ML7)와 Actinobacteria(22.9% and 24.9%)가 우점하는 것으로 분석되었다. 고균의 경우에는 Euryarchaeota(84.4% and 81.1%) 및 Crenarchaeota(10.6% and 13.1%), 그리고 진핵생물의 경우에는 Ascomycota(33.8% and 45.0%)가 우점하는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구를 통해 Ion Torrent PGM 플랫폼을 활용한 메타지놈 분석이 북극의 중앙로벤 빙하 해안 지역의 전체 미생물 군집 구조를 파악하는데 충분히 적용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.137-137
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• 2021

In this study we aimed to enhance streamflow prediction skill of a land-surface hydrological model, WRF-Hydro, over one of the snow dominated catchments lies in Himalayan mountainous range, Astore. To assess the response of the Himalayan river flows to climate change is complex due to multiple contributors: precipitation, snow, and glacier melt. WRF-Hydro model with default glacier module lacks generating streamflow in summer period but recently developed WRF-Hydro-CROCUS model overcomes this issue by melting snow/ice from the glaciers. We showed that by implementing WRF-Hydro-CROCUS model over Astore the results were significantly improved in comparison to WRF-Hydro with default glacier module. To constraint the model with the observed streamflow we chose 17 sensitive parameters of WRF-Hydro, which include groundwater parameters, surface runoff parameters, channel parameters, soil parameters, vegetation parameters and snowmelt parameters. We used Dynamically Dimensioned Search (DDS) method to calibrate the daily streamflow with the Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) being greater than 0.7 both in calibration (2009-2010) and validation (2011-2013) period. Based on the number of iterations per parameter, we found that the parameters related to channel and runoff process are most sensitive to streamflow. The attempts to address the responses of the streamflows to climate change are still very weak and vague especially northwest Himalayan Part of Pakistan and this study is one of a few successful applications of process-based land-surface hydrologic model over this mountainous region of UIB that can be utilized to have an in-depth understanding of hydrological responses of climate change.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.289-296
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• 2019

We investigated the mortality and the oxidative damages of Deschampsia antarctica in response to waterlogging stress. In field, we compared the changes in the density of D. antarctica tuft at the two different sites over 3 years. The soil water content at site 2 was 6-fold higher than that of site 1, and the density of D. antarctica tuft decreased significantly by 55.4% at site 2 for 3 years, but there was no significant change at site 1. Experimental results in growth chamber showed that the $H_2O_2$ and malondialdehyde content increased under root-flooding treatment (hypoxic conditions-deficiency of $O_2$), but any significant change was not perceptible under the shoot-flooding treatment (anoxic condition-absence of $O_2$). However, total chlorophyll, soluble sugar, protein content, and phenolic compound decreased under the shoot-flooding treatment. In addition, the catalase activity increased significantly on the 1st day of flooding. These results indicate that hypoxic conditions may lead to the overproduction of reactive oxygen species, and anoxic conditions can deplete primary metabolites such as sugars and protein in the leaf tissues of D. antarctica. Under present warming trend in Antarctic Peninsula, D. antarctica tuft growing near the shoreline might more frequently experience flooding due to glacier melting and inundation of seawater, which can enhance the risk of this plant mortality.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.29-39
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• 2005

실크로드는 모든 동-서 교통로를 일컫는 포괄적인 용어이며, 고대의 한국 문화는 실크로드를 통하여 세계화 되어 갔다. 본 논문에서는 실크로드를 통하여 우리나라로 전래된 서역문화를 보다 잘 이해하기 위한 기반자료로써 실크로드의 자연적 환경을 고찰하였다. 실크로드 지역은 황토고원지역과 건조분지지역 및 고산지역으로 구분된다. 하서회랑은 점이지대로서, 대체로 건조지역에 속하며 오초령 이동 지역은 황토고원 지역에 속한다. 황토고원지역은 등질의 세립물질로 이루어져 있기 때문에 농지개간에 따른 토양유실이 극심하다. 최근에는 이를 극복하기 위하여 많은 숲을 가꾸고 많은 check-dam을 건설하였다. 건조분지지역은 중위도에 위치하지만 바다로부터 멀고 산지들로 둘러싸여 고립되어 있기 때문에 사막기후를 나타낸다. 하서회랑의 오아시스는 연속적으로 나타나는데 반하여, 건조분지의 오아시스는 단속적으로 발달한다. 하밀, 투루판에서는 카리즈를 이용한 과수재배가 성하다. 그리고 텐산산맥과 치렌산맥의 만년설은 건조분지에 용수를 공급해주기 때문에 매우 중요하다. 만년설 주변의 툰드라 지대에는 솔리플럭션 로브와 유상구조토가 분포한다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.150-167
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• 2006

이 연구는 미국 위스콘신 남부지방의 뢰스(loess)로 덮여있는 빙퇴석평야상의 소규모 저습지와 산록부에서 관찰되는 치밀차표층(dense subsurface horizons)의 형성원인과 형성과정을 설명하기 위한 것이다. 연구대상이 된 치밀차표층은 Bd 혹은 Bx층으로 명명될 수 있는 토양층이다. 일부 치밀차표층은 형태적으로 이쇄반층(fragipan, Bx)과 매우 유사한 특징을 보이지만, 아직까지 주변지역에서 이쇄반층의 존재가 보고된 바는 없다. 이 연구에서는 치밀차표층과 이쇄반층의 상대적인 분포의 차이를 지형기복과의 관계를 통해 관찰하였으며, 그 형성원인을 파악하기 위해 물리 화학적 분석과 더불어 토양구조의 현미경 관찰을 실시하였다. 그 결과 이쇄반층의 형성은 토양구조의 물리적인 숙성과정(physical ripening)과 그에 이은 콜로이드물질의 집적과정을 거치면서 형성된 것으로 결론을 내렸다. 치밀차표층에서 관찰되는 높은 밀도의 토양매질은 빙하가 물러나면서 형성된 소규모 빙하호수와 범람원에 퇴적된 뢰스물질들이 물리적인 숙성과정(physical ripening)을 거치면서 형성된 것으로 보이며, 그 결과 대규모의 주상구조(prismatic structure)가 형성되었다. 이후 지속적인 토양화과정을 거치면서 Si를 포함하는 콜로이드 물질의 집적에 의해 토양매질이 더욱 단단해지는 과정을 거치게 되면서 이쇄반층으로 발전하게 되었다. Si의 집적정도는 지형적인 특성과 물의 흐름에 의해 결정되게 된다. 물과 물질의 집적이 주로 나타나는 소규모의 저습지에서는 Si의 집적으로 인해 잘 발달된 이쇄반층(Bx)이 발달하게 된다. 반면, Si의 제거가 비교적 활발하게 이루어지는 산록부에서는 이쇄반층의 단계로 발전하지 못하고 치밀층(Bd)에 머물고 있는 것으로 판단된다. 이쇄반층이 만들어진 경우에는 그 상부에 불투수층이 형성되어, 물리적 숙성과정으로 형성된 주상구조의 상부가 서서히 파괴되는 현상을 보기에 된다. 이 경우에는 이쇄반층 상부에 용탈이쇄반층 (eluvial fragic horizon, Ex)이 나타나게 된다.