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Change of Plant Community after Road construction -Case Study on Seongsamjae Road in Chirisan National Park- (도로건설이 식물생태계에 미치는 영향 -지리산국립공원 성삼재관통도로를 사례로-)

  • 김보현
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.127-138
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    • 2000
  • 도로건설에 의한 식물생태계 영향을 종합적으로 고찰하기 위하여 도로로부터 산림 내부에 이르는 거리에 따른 식물군집구조의 변화, 비탈면에 도입한 외래종의 식생천이 및 확산현황, 귀화식물의 분포현황을 파악하였다 도로로부터 거리에 따른 식물군집구조 분석결가 도로건설로 인해 발생된 비탈면과 비탈면 끝지점에서 산림방향으로 10~20m 구간까지 종구성의 변화가 나타났다. 절개비탈면 급속녹화용으로 도입된 큰김의털(Tall Fescue) 경관 및 식물생태계에 악영향을 미치고 있었다 성토비탈면에 파종된 외래종들은 빗물이나 바람을 따라 산림 내부로 유입되어 햇빛이 잘 드는 계곡부나 산림 내부에 잔조하고 있어 식물생태계에 영향을 미치고 있는 것으로 판단되었다 성삼재관통도로변에서 조사된 귀화식물은 총 13과 35속 44종 1변종으로 45종류이었고 도로건설로 나지가 넓게 분포하는 곳이나 이용객이 집중되는 지역에서 출현종수 및 빈도가 높았다.

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Assessing Compliance with the Wildlife Crossing Guideline in South Korea

  • Woo, Donggul;Park, Heebok;Seo, Hyeong-Soo;Moon, Ho-Gyeong;Song, Euigun;Lim, Anya;Choi, Tae-Young
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.176-179
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    • 2018
  • To restore the connectivity of fragmented habitats, 415 wildlife crossings have been built between 1998 and 2014 in South Korea. However, their effect on wildlife conservation is still in doubt. As a first step to examine the effectiveness, our study aims to assess compliance with the guideline for wildlife crossing construction and management, developed by the Ministry of Environment Korea that provides fundamental information to understand the status and the problem of wildlife crossings in Korea and thus to provide practical guidance for the improvement. According to our survey, the Korea National Park Service complied with the guideline best (62.5%) while local government followed the guideline least (46.1%). In addition, the compliance rate was the highest for wildlife crossings in national roads (53.6%) followed by highways (53.2%) and local and municipal roads (52.2%). For the overpass wildlife crossings, the compliance rates for installation of an escaping facility in the drainage and prevention of pedestrian and vehicle access were particularly low. In case of underpass wildlife crossings, small ditches for amphibians and reptiles were not sufficient, and the linkage between wildlife fences and underpass were weak. In order to ensure the effectiveness of wildlife crossings, the effort to increase the compliance rate with the guideline is critical, and mandating the guideline could be a practical way to enforce the compliance.

Landscape Changes Assessment of the National Road-Focused on the National Road in Suburb Areas- (국도의 경관변화 평가-교외지역 국도를 중심으로-)

  • 홍영록;권상준;조태동
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.92-102
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    • 2004
  • In this study, landscape changes were examined by periods through the analysis of visual quantity on the landscape components of national road including the mountains, the sky, road pavements, street trees, paddy fields and dry fields, billboard, telegraph pole, building, structure, slope, guard fence, soundproof wall, and median strip etc. For this, subject national road in suburb arreas was selected to grasp its landscape characteristics, and divisional criteria of landscape type of the national road were suggested to look into the trend of landscape changes by periods. Findings of this study are as follows:1.Divisional criteria of landscape type of the national road include location and geometry, structure, land use, perspective, and surrounding buildings of the national road. 2.The highest visual quantity was found in road pavements by periods among landscape components of the national road. It was found that this result has a thread of connection with previous study emphasizing the importance of road geometry as one of landscape components, and road geometry shall be regarded as a visually significant component in analyzing and evaluating landscape of the national road. 3.Most distinguished factors of landscape changes of the national road by periods were median strip(F=33.296) and street tree(F=32.881), and then the sky(F=24.735) and mountain(F=23.477) showed similar level of statistically significant difference. However, statistically significance difference was not found in buildings and structures. 4.It was shown that natural elements decreased gradually but structural landscape made of artificial elements became the main in construction of the national road. This result implies that although the scenic and ecological soundness is recognized in construction of the national road, it is not out of the limitation of functionalities that is, access and mobility.

Distribution Aspects of the wintering Red-crowned Crane and White-naped Crane according to the Anthropogenic Factors in the Cheorwon, Korea (철원지역에서 월동하는 두루미와 재두루미의 인위적 요인에 의한 분포양상)

  • Yoo, Seung-Hwa;Kim, Jin-Han;Lee, Ki-Sup
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.516-522
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    • 2014
  • This study was conducted to investigate the impact of the anthropogenic factors affecting distribution of the Red-crowned Crane and White-naped Crane wintering in Cheorwon, Korea. Especially, it was investigated that the impact power and its range of the anthropogenic effect to the feeding flock density in cranes due to the paved road, residential area, military facilities and greenhouse density. The Red-crowned Crane and the White-naped Crane showed the similar preference and sensitivity against anthropogenic factors, because correlation of feeding flock density of the Red-crowned Crane and White-naped Crane was similar in the same site. The feeding flock density of the cranes near the residential area was lower than that of area far from the area, and tended to increase within 2.5 km distance. The increasing tendencies of feeding flock density from military facilities and high traffic volume road were similar, but the density in military facilities increased within 0.8 km, and the density from high traffic volume road increased within 2 km. This results suggested that military facilities and the road with high traffic volume made significant influence on foraging densities to the certain range. As the distance from the road with low traffic volume increased, feeding flock density tended to decrease. The area near the low traffic volume road had high feeding flock density because remaining rice grains were preserved by intermittent disturbances in that area. If the density of greenhouse is lower than $40/km^2$, feeding flock density in the low greenhouses density area was higher than high greenhouses density area. However, there was no difference in the feeding flock density if the density of the green houses is higher than $40/km^2$.