• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2019

Daphne pseudomezereum var. koreana is an endangered deciduous shrub distributed in mountain areas that is vulnerable to climate change. The purpose of this study was to provide foundational data on the physical characteristics, soil environment, and vegetation structure of habitats of Daphne pseudomezereum var. koreana habitat in Korea in order to help with management decisions on ecosystem restoration. Rock exposure was 15 to 35%, with an average of 24%. The native habitat of D. pseudomezereum included 129 taxa consisting of 46 families and 95 genera. Two-way cluster analysis divided the habitat into three plant communities: Community I (dominaterd by Tilia amurensis and Quercus mongolica), Community II (dominaterd by Fraxinus rhynchophylla and Acer pseudosieboldianum), and Community III (dominaterd by Ulmus davidiana var. japonica). The diversity indices for Communities I, II, and III were 1.124, 1.047 and 0.932, respectively. The soils were loam or clay loam. Soil pH, organic matter content, and available phosphoric acid were 5.40, 14.38%, and 31.08 ppm, respectively. Ordination analysis resulted that most significant factors influencing D. pseudomezereum distribution were magnesium content of soil, shrub layer, and altitude.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.35-46
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• 2023

The purpose of this research is to provide characteristics and satisfaction of visitors for Deoksan Provincial Park in Chungcheongnam-do. This study conducted face-to-face interview during Oct. to Nov. in 2022. Total sample size of this study was 521. This study used to implement frequency analysis, cross analysis and logit analysis via SPSS 21.0 version. The results showed most of visitors were one day visitors and visited with family and relatives. Many visitors visited the Deoksan Provincial Park to climb the mountain and relaxing/healing with the nature. The satisfaction level of factors such as nature, facility, access to information of the park was high with about more than 4-point on Likert scale. This study would be useful to develop site-specific policies to the management of provincial parks as this study identified the characteristics and satisfaction level of the visitors.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.59-68
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• 2008

각종 개발사업은 사업 전, 사업 중 및 사업 후에 다양한 환경적, 수리학적 및 생태계적 변화를 초래한다. 그 동안의 국내 환경정책은 개발 사업 완료 이후 발생하는 각종 환경적 위해성에 대하여 관리를 하여왔으나, 수질오염총량관리제의 시행과 더불어 개정된 수질 및 수생태계 보전법률에서는 개발 과정 중의 환경적 위해성을 최소화하기 위하여 개발 사업에서의 토사유출 관리를 권고하고 있다. 하지만 현재 국내에는 각종 개발사업장별 토사유출에 대한 기초적인 자료의 해석과 토사유출 원단위 산정의 미흡으로 토사관리에 애로사항을 보이고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 우리나라의 기후학적, 토양학적, 지형적인 특성으로 인해 발생되는 토사유출량에 대하여 환경영향평가대상사업을 중심으로 분석하여 개발사업 면적당 토사유출량에 대한 원단위를 산정하고자 한다. 이러한 연구를 위하여 2000년에서 2005년까지 총 1,036개의 협의된 환경영향평가사업에 대하여 환경영향평가서와 관련 부처(환경부, 농림부, 산림청, 건교부 등)의 자료를 분석하였다. 또한 고랭지 밭의 토사유출량은 고령지 농업에 따른 오염물질 배출 특성조사 최종보고서와 환경부의 소양호 비점오염원 관리지역 관리대책자료를 이용하였다. 이러한 연구를 통한 결과, 각 개발 사업으로 인한 토사유출량에 관한 자료로부터 우선적으로 관리되어야 할 것은 개발 전에는 산지개발, 개발 중에는 체육시설, 개발 후에는 산지개발로 분석되었다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.94-106
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• 2008

As populations inhabiting in natural ecosystem are fragmented by artificial barriers and habitats are destructed by development, extinction possibility of species is getting higher. It is necessary to design and to manage conservation areas and corridors considering animals' movement and migration for sustainable species diversity in present circumstances. 'Least-cost modeling' is one commonly employed approach in which dispersal costs are assigned to distinct habitat types and the last-costly dispersal paths among habitat patches are calculated using a geographical information system (GIS). This study aims to design ecological corridor using least-cost path method and to apply it to a regional ecological network considering movability of medium-large size mammals. This study was carried out over the metropolitan area, which has been deforested by rapid urbanization. Nevertheless there is connected with Gangwon province, Baekdudaegan mountain range and DMZ, considered where many forest species can migrate to this region. This study employs such an approach to develop least-cost path models for medium-large size mammals, have inhabited for this entire region. Considering those species, two forest areas as a source of species supply and forest areas more than 1,000ha are selected as focal forest areas. Movement and migration paths from species supply sources to focal forest areas are calculated by applying landscape permeability theory using land cover map, road density map and land slope map. Results showed least-cost paths from species supply sources to focal forest areas on two species. Wildcat and roe deer are different in some least-cost paths caused by their landscape permeability but paths show generally same specifics. The result of considering regional distribution of expected movement and migration paths to regional ecological network, low altitude mountains of western metropolitan area are evaluated important area for species connectivity. In national or regional levels ecological connectivity is essential to promote species diversity and to preserve integrated ecosystem. This study concludes that developing least-cost models from similar empirical data could significantly improve the utility of these tools.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.704-715
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• 2006

Oil spill was found in 1999 from a diesel storage facility located near the top of Baekun Mountain in Uiwang City. Application of bioremediation techniques was very relevant in removing oil spills in this site, because the geological condition was not amenable for other onsite remediation techniques. For efficient bioremediation, bacterial communities of the contaminated site and the uncontaminated control site were compared using both molecular and cultivation techniques. Soil bacterial populations were observed to be stimulated to grow in the soils contaminated with diesel hydrocarbon, whereas fungal and actinomycetes populations were decreased by diesel contamination. Most of the dieseldegrading bacteria isolated from contaminated forest soils were strains of Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, and Rhodococcus species. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) analysis revealed that the profiles were different among the three contaminated sites, whereas those of the control sites were identical to each other. Analysis of 16S rDNA sequences of dominant isolates and clones showed that the bacterial community was less diverse in the oil-contaminated site than at the control site. Sequence analysis of the alkane hydroxylase genes cloned from soil microbial DNAs indicated that their diversity and distribution were different between the contaminated site and the control site. The results indicated that diesel contamination exerted a strong selection on the indigenous microbial community in the contaminated site, leading to predominance of well-adapted microorganisms in concurrence with decrease of microbial diversity.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.381-395
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• 2011

Present work aims to establish an integrated management system of environmental data base for nine typical wind holes or air holes in Korea. It basically deals with definition, geographical distribution, morphological pattern, physical characteristics and anthropogenic environments of wind hole to propose systematic preservation strategy of their periglacial landscape and flora, which are known to be sensitive to global warming. Wind hole, in which cool air blows out during the summer, but mild air comes out during the winter from a cave or hole, is frequently found on northwest- and north-facing slopes on the terminal point of steep talus, block field, and block stream, and can be categorized into three types, i.e., talus, cave and sink types. Environmental characteristics of nine wind holes are analyzed on the basis of their geology, landform, climate, soil, hydrology, vegetation, road, footpath, land-use, and management system, and relevant DB are prepared. Wind hole areas with unique landscape and ecological values need to be designated as a nature reserve, and zoning of core, buffer, and transitional zones are required for the multi-dimensional preservation of periglacial landscape and ecosystem. Phytogeographical values of glacial relict plants, including mountain cranberry(Vaccinium vitis-idaea) at its global southernmost limit at Bangnaeri wind hole, Hongchon County, Gangwon Province of Korea are discussed in detail as a floristic refugia in connection with climate change during the Pleistocene Epoch and potential in-situ and ex-situ preservation sites in the future.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.105-117
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• 2023

Climate change and invasive alien plant species (IAPs) are having a significant impact on mountain ecosystems. The combination of climate change and socio-economic development is exacerbating the invasion of IAPs, which are a major threat to biodiversity loss and ecosystem functioning. Species distribution modelling has become an important tool in predicting the invasion or suitability probability under climate change based on occurrence data and environmental variables. MaxEnt modelling was applied to predict the current suitable distribution of most noxious weed A. adenophora (Spreng) R. King and H. Robinson and analysed the changes in distribution with the use of current (year 2000) environmental variables and future (year 2050) climatic scenarios consisting of 3 representative concentration pathways (RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) in Bhutan. Species occurrence data was collected from the region of interest along the road side using GPS handset. The model performance of both current and future climatic scenario was moderate in performance with mean temperature of wettest quarter being the most important variable that contributed in model fit. The study shows that current climatic condition favours the A. adenophora for its invasion and RCP 2.6 climatic scenario would promote aggression of invasion as compared to RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 climatic scenarios. This can lead to characterization of the species as preferring moderate change in climatic conditions to be invasive, while extreme conditions can inhibit its invasiveness. This study can serve as reference point for the conservation and management strategies in control of this species and further research.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.264-274
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• 2020

Background: Climate change has altered the various ecosystem processes including forest ecosystem in Himalayan region. Although the high mountain natural forests including treelines in the Himalayan region are mainly reported to be temperature sensitive, the temperature-related water stress in an important growth-limiting factor for middle elevation mountains. And there are very few evidences on growth performance of planted forest in changing climate in the Himalayan region. A dendrochronological study was carried out to verify and record the impact of warming temperature tree growth by using the tree cores of Pinus roxburghii from Batase village of Dhulikhel in Central Nepal with sub-tropical climatic zone. For this total, 29 tree cores from 25 trees of P. roxburghii were measured and analyzed. Result: A 44-year long tree ring width chronology was constructed from the cores. The result showed that the radial growth of P. roxburghii was positively correlated with pre-monsoon (April) rainfall, although the correlation was not significant and negatively correlated with summer rainfall. The strongest negative correlation was found between radial growth and rainfall of June followed by the rainfall of January. Also, the radial growth showed significant positive correlation with that previous year August mean temperature and maximum temperature, and significant negative correlation between radial growth and maximum temperature (Tmax) of May and of spring season (March-May), indicating moisture as the key factor for radial growth. Despite the overall positive trend in the basal area increment (BAI), we have found the abrupt decline between 1995 and 2005 AD. Conclusion: The results indicated that chir pine planted population was moisture sensitive, and the negative impact of higher temperature during early growth season (March-May) was clearly seen on the radial growth. We emphasize that the forest would experience further moisture stress if the trend of warming temperatures continues. The unusual decreasing BAI trend might be associated with forest management processes including resin collection and other disturbances. Our results showed that the planted pine forest stand is sub-healthy due to major human intervention at times. Further exploration of growth climate response from different climatic zones and management regimes is important to improve our understanding on the growth performance of mid-hill pine forests in Nepal.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2021

본 논문의 목적은 그 동안 연구가 거의 진행되지 않았던 비수도권 지역의 거주자들을 대상으로 녹지공간 경제가치를 평가하는 것이다. 주거 공간의 특징이 명확하게 대비되는 비수도권 대도시와 농촌지역의 주민들이 가지는 어메니티 가치를 주택 유형별, 녹지 유형별로 비교하기 위해서 선택실험을 적용하였다. 연구 결과에 의하면, 전주시와 같은 비수도권 대도시뿐만 아니라 완주군과 같은 농촌지역에서도 녹지공간에 대한 명확한 선호가 있다는 것을 검증하였다. 아파트 거주자들의 경우 하천과 산림을 중심으로 조망의 가치는 서울시의 경우보다 작았지만, 접근성의 가치는 유사하거나 더 크게 추정되었다. 단독주택 거주자들의 경우 하천에 대한 접근성을 제외하고는 서울시보다 전주시가 월등하게 높은 어메니티 가치를 가지고 있어서, 녹지관리 정책에 있어서 그 원인과 대안의 제시가 필요해 보인다. 또한, 완주군과 같은 농촌지역에서도 녹지공간에 대한 접근성에 대한 전반적인 수요가 있어서 체계적인 관리정책이 요구된다.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2023

이상기상으로 인한 봄꽃 개화 시기의 변화는 식물의 생장기간 뿐 아니라 생물계절을 포함한 생태계의 모든 측면에 영향을 미친다. 따라서 봄꽃 개화 시기를 예측하는 것은 산림 생태계의 효과적인 관리에 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 464곳의 산림에서 수집된 날씨정보를 기반으로 대한민국 산림의 대표적인 5가지 수종(미선나무, 아까시나무, 철쭉, 산철쭉, 마가목)의 2023년 개화 시기를 예측하기 위해 과정 기반 모형을 사용하였다. 이를 위해 28개 지역의 9년간(2009-2017) 개화 시기 자료를 활용하여 모형을 개발하였다. 개화 시기는 식물의 세 개 이상의 위치에서 처음으로 꽃이 피는 것을 기준으로 측정되었다. 본 연구에서는 STDD와 GDD 과정 기반 모형을 사용하여 개화 시기를 예측하였으며, 두 모형 모두 일반적으로 우수한 성능을 보였다. 과정 기반 모형의 주요 입력변수인 날씨 자료는 산악기상관측시스템과 기상청에서 제공하는 기온 정보를 융합하여 1km의 공간 해상도로 일 단위 기온 자료를 생성하였다. 지역별 보정 계수를 생산하고 적용하기 위해 랜덤포레스트 기계 학습을 활용하여 STDD와 GDD 모형을 기반으로 예측 정확도를 개선하였다. 결과적으로 보정 계수가 적용될 때 대부분의 수종에서 개화 시기의 예측 오차가 작았으며, 특히, 미선나무, 아까시나무, 철쭉에서 평균제곱근오차가 각각 1.2, 0.6, 1.2일로 매우 낮았다. 모형 성능을 평가하기 위해 10회의 무작위 샘플링 테스트를 실시하고, 최적의 결정계수 값을 가진 모형을 선택하여 모형의 성능을 평가하였다. 그 결과, 마가목을 제외한 모든 수종에서 보정 계수가 적용된 모형에서 결정계수가 최소 0.07에서 최대 0.7 증가하였으며 최종적으로 75%에서 90%의 설명력을 가졌다. 이를 기반으로 수종별 보정 계수를 산출하였으며, 1km 해상도의 전국 단위 개화시기예측 지도를 제작하였다. 본 연구는 식물의 계절 변화에 대한 자료로 활용될 것으로 예상되며, 수종 및 지역별로 개화 시기를 상세히 설명하여 기후 변화로 인한 계절 변화를 연구하는 데에 유용할 것으로 기대된다. 또한 우리나라 산림의 주요 수종에 대한 정확도 높은 개화 시기 예측 서비스는 산림 방문객들의 산림 경험 만족도를 크게 높일 수 있으며, 양봉업 등 임업 종사자들의 경제적 향상에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.