• 유기물자원화
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2015

기후변화 문제와 관련하여 탄소 격리와 토양 유기물의 중요성에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 토양 탄소 격리를 산정하기 위해서는 물 추출 토양 유기탄소(WESOC)와 토양 호흡에 의해 이산화탄소로 배출되는 탄소량과 같은 토양 유기탄소를 분석하는 것이 중요하다. 이러한 성분의 분석에는 시간이 많이 소요된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 분석시간이 짧게 소요되는 중적외선분광분석법으로 물 추출 유기탄소와 토양 호흡에 의한 이산화탄소량을 분석할 수 있는 가능성을 알아보았다. 토양을 $100^{\circ}C$와 $350^{\circ}C$ 건조오븐에서 처리하고 중적외선분광계로 분석하여 WESOC와 30일, 60일, 90일, 120일 간 토양호흡에 의해 발생하는 이산화탄소량과의 상관을 분석하였다. 물 추출 토양 유기탄소에 대한 예측 모델에서는 표준 일반 변수화(SNV) 전처리를 통해 0.6937의 결정 계수를 보였고 30일간의 토양 호흡 발생 이산화탄소 예측 모델에서는 $350^{\circ}C$ 건조 토양에 대해 1차 도함수 전처리를 통해 0.8933의 결정 계수를 보여 중적외선분광분석법을 사용하여 토양 중 유기탄소의 분획별 정량에 사용할 수 있는 가능성을 보였다.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.216-222
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• 2013

Fertilizer management has the potential to promote the storage of carbon and nitrogen in agricultural soils and thus may contribute to crop sustainability and mitigation of global warming. In this study, the effects of fertilizer practices [no fertilizer (Control), chemical fertilizer (NPK), Compost, and chemical fertilizer plus compost] on soil total carbon (TC) and total nitrogen (TN) contents in inner soil profiles of paddy soil at 0-60 cm depth were examined by using long-term field experimental site at $42^{nd}$ years after installation. TC and TN concentrations of the treatments which included N input (NPK, Compost, NPK+Compost) in plow layer (0-15 cm) ranged from 19.0 to 26.4 g $kg^{-1}$ and 2.15 to 2.53 g $kg^{-1}$, respectively. Compared with control treatment, SOC (soil organic C) and TN concentrations were increased by 24.1 and 31.0%, 57.6 and 49.7%, and 72.2 and 54.5% for NPK, Compost, and NPK+Compost, respectively. However, long term fertilization significantly influenced TC concentration and pools to 30 cm depth. TC and TN pools for NPK, Compost, NPK+Compost in 0-30 cm depth ranged from 44.8 to 56.8 Mg $ha^{-1}$ and 5.78 to 6.49 Mg $ha^{-1}$, respectively. TC and TN pools were greater by 10.5 and 21.4%, 30.3 and 29.6%, and 39.9 and 36.3% in N input treatments (NPK, Compost, NPK+Compost) than in control treatment. These resulted from the formation and stability of aggregate in paddy soil with continuous mono rice cultivation. Therefore, fertilization practice could contribute to the storage of C and N in paddy soil, especially, organic amendments with chemical fertilizers may be alternative practices to sequester carbon and nitrogen in agricultural soil.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.43-60
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• 2019

Background: Tropical montane forests played an important role in the provision of ecosystem services. The intense degradation and deforestation for the need of agricultural land expansion result in a significant decline of forest cover. However, the expansion of agricultural land did not completely destruct natural forests. There remain forests inaccessible for agricultural and grazing purpose. Studies on these forests remained scant, motivating to investigate biomass and soil carbon stocks. Data of biomass and soils were collected in 80 quadrats ($400m^2$) systematically in 5 forests. Biomass and disturbance gradients were determined using allometric equation and disturbance index, respectively. The regression modeling is employed to explore the spatial distribution of carbon stock along disturbance and environmental gradients. Correlation analysis is also employed to identify the relation between site factors and carbon stocks. Results: The result revealed that a total of 1655 individuals with a diameter of ${\geq}5cm$, representing 38 species, were measured in 5 forests. The mean aboveground biomass carbon stocks (AGB CS) and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at 5 forests were $191.6{\pm}19.7$ and $149.32{\pm}6.8Mg\;C\;ha^{-1}$, respectively. The AGB CS exhibited significant (P < 0.05) positive correlation with SOC and total nitrogen (TN) stocks, reflecting that biomass seems to be a general predictor of SOCs. AGB CS between highly and least-disturbed forests was significantly different (P < 0.05). This disturbance level equates to a decrease in AGB CS of 36.8% in the highly disturbed compared with the least-disturbed forest. In all forests, dominant species sequestrated more than 58% of carbon. The AGB CS in response to elevation and disturbance index and SOC stocks in response to soil pH attained unimodal pattern. The stand structures, such as canopy cover and basal area, had significant positive relation with AGB CS. Conclusions: Study results confirmed that carbon stocks of studied forests were comparable to carbon stocks of protected forests. The biotic, edaphic, topographic, and disturbance factors played a significant variation in carbon stocks of forests. Further study should be conducted to quantify carbon stocks of herbaceous, litter, and soil microbes to account the role of the whole forest ecosystem.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.282-291
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• 2022

Background: The Arctic permafrost stores enormous amount of carbon (C), about one third of global C stocks. However, drastically increasing temperature in the Arctic makes the stable frozen C stock vulnerable to microbial decomposition. The released carbon dioxide from permafrost can cause accelerating C feedback to the atmosphere. Soil organic matter (SOM) composition would be the basic information to project the trajectory of C under rapidly changing climate. However, not many studies on SOM characterization have been done compared to quantification of SOM stocks. Thus, the purpose of our study is to determine soil properties and molecular compositions of SOM in four different Arctic regions. We collected soils in different soil layers from 1) Cambridge Bay, Canada, 2) Council, Alaska, USA, 3) Svalbard, Norway, and 4) Zackenberg, Greenland. The basic soil properties were measured, and the molecular composition of SOM was analyzed through pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (py-GC/MS). Results: The Oi layer of soil in Council, Alaska showed the lowest soil pH and the highest electrical conductivity (EC) and SOM content. All soils in each site showed increasing pH and decreasing SOC and EC values with soil depth. Since the Council site was moist acidic tundra compared to other three dry tundra sites, soil properties were distinct from the others: high SOM and EC, and low pH. Through the py-GC/MS analysis, a total of 117 pyrolysis products were detected from 32 soil samples of four different Arctic soils. The first two-axis of the PCA explained 38% of sample variation. While short- and mid-hydrocarbons were associated with mineral layers, lignins and polysaccharides were linked to organic layers of Alaska and Cambridge Bay soil. Conclusions: We conclude that the py-GC/MS results separated soil samples mainly based on the origin of SOM (plants- or microbially-derived). This molecular characteristics of SOM can play a role of controlling SOM degradation to warming. Thus, it should be further investigated how the SOM molecular characteristics have impacts on SOM dynamics through additional laboratory incubation studies and microbial decomposition measurements in the field.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.5-11
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• 2024

유기질비료는 무기질비료와 달리 작물의 생산량뿐만 아니라 토양 비옥도 등을 향상시킨다고 알려져 있다. 그러나 유기질비료의 사용이 작물 생산성 및 토양특성뿐만 아니라 최근 이슈화 되고 있는 탄소 축적에 미치는 영향에 대해서는 연구가 미비한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 배추 재배시 유기질비료를 밑거름으로 사용하고 이때 작물의 생산성 및 토양 화학성의 변화와 작물 재배 후 토양의 탄소축적량에 대해 평가하고자 하였다. 본 시험은 무처리, NPK처리구(N-P₂O₅-K₂O : 32-7.8-12.8 kg 10a^-1), 유기질비료 처리구로 설정하였으며, 유기질비료 처리구는 질소 밑거름 시비량(11 kg 10a^-1)을 기준으로 50, 100 및 150%로 설정하였다. 배추의 생산량은 무처리구를 제외하고는 유의적인 차이가 없었으며 밑거름 비율에 따라서도 차이가 없었다. 토양의 화학성은 토양 유기물함량, 전기전도도 및 질산성질소의 함량은 유기질비료 사용에 따라 증가하는 경향이었으나 그 외 항목은 차이가 나지 않는 것으로 확인되었다. 유기질비료 사용에 따른 토양 유기탄소축적은 무기질비료에 비해 유기질비료 처리구에서 증가하는 경향이었으며 밑거름 사용량에 따라서는 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 이를 통해 농업에서 유기질비료의 밑거름 사용은 작물의 생산성뿐만 아니라 토양 유기탄소의 축적에 효과적이었으며 탄소중립을 위한 하나의 방법으로 판단된다.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2017

Soil erosion is often extreme in Korea due to high rainfall intensities and steep slopes, and climate change has also increased the risk of erosion. Despite its significane, erosion-induced soil organic carbon (SOC) emission and water resource loss are not well understood, along with the lack of an integrated surface soil erosion protection policy. Therefore, to design adequate protection policies, land users, scientists, engineers and decision makers need proper information about surface soil and watershed properties related to greenhouse gas emission potential and water conservation capability, respectively. Assuming the total soil erosion of $346Tg\;yr^{-1}$, soil organic matter (SOM) content of 2% (58% of SOM is SOC), and mineralization rate of 20% of the displaced carbon, erosion-induced carbon emission could reach $800Gg\;C\;yr^{-1}$. Also the available water capacity of the soil was estimated to be 15.8 billion tons, which was 14 times higher than the yearly water supply demand in Seoul, Korea. Therefore, in order to prevent of soil erosion, this study proposes a three-stage plan for surface soil erosion prevention: 1) classification of soil erosion risk and scoring of surface soil quality, 2) selection of priority areas for conservation and best management practices (BMP), and 3) application of BMP and post management.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.14-23
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• 2015

In this study, we investigated the effects of three land uses on soil properties in two soil layers; surface soil (0~15 cm) and subsoil (15~30 cm). Soil samples were collected from planted forest, barren lands and cultivated lands from different areas in Chittagong Cox's Bazar and analyzed for some physical and chemical properties. Results showed that soil textural class varied from sandy clay loam in planted forest and barren land site to sandy loam in cultivated soils. Maximum water holding capacity was higher in forest followed by barren land and the lowest in cultivated lands. At both soil depths, soils of cultivated land showed the highest values of bulk density (1.42 to $1.50g\;cm^{-3}$), followed by barren lands (1.37 to $1.46g\;cm^{-3}$) and the least (1.32 to $1.45g\;cm^{-3}$) in forest soils. Total porosity decreased with depth ranging from 40.24% to 41.53% in subsoils and from 42.04 to 43.23% in surface soil of cultivated and of planted forest sites respectively. The result further revealed that organic carbon (OC) and total nitrogen (TN) contents were higher in the planted forest soil than in other two land uses. The soils of all land uses under study are acidic in nature and the lowest pH was found in both surface and subsoils of barren land. Cultivated soil contained the highest amount of available P, Ca, Mg and K in both surface soil and subsoils. In contrast, barren site had the lowest contents of available P, Ca, Mg and K in both layers. The soil organic carbon (SOC) and total N storage were higher in planted forest than in barren and cultivated land uses.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.161-182
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• 2019

Quantifying the amount of carbon pools in forest ecosystems enables to understand about various carbon pools in the forest ecosystem. Therefore, this study was conducted in the Chilimo dry afromontane forest to estimate the amount of carbon stored. The natural forest was stratified into three forest patches based on species composition, diversity, and structure. A total of 50 permanent sample plots of 20 m × 20 m (400 ㎡ ) each were established, laid out on transects of altitudinal gradients with a distance of 100 m between plots. The plots were measured twice in 2012 and 2017. Tree, deadwood, mineral soil, forest floor, and stump data were collected in the main plots, while shrubs, saplings, herbaceous plants, and seedling data were sampled inside subplots. Soil organic carbon (SOC %) was analyzed following Walkely, while Black's procedure and bulk density were estimated following the procedure of Blake (Methods of soil analysis, 1965). Aboveground biomass was calculated using the equation of Chave et al. (Glob Chang Biol_20:3177-3190, 2014). Data analysis was made using RStudio software. To analyze equality of means, we used ANOVA for multiple comparisons among elevation classes at α = 0.05. The aboveground carbon of the natural forest ranged from 148.30 ± 115.02 for high altitude to 100.14 ± 39.93 for middle altitude, was highest at 151.35 ± 108.98 t C ha^-1 for gentle slope, and was lowest at 88.01 ± 49.72 t C ha^-1 for middle slope. The mean stump carbon density 2.33 ± 1.64 t C ha^-1 was the highest for the middle slope, and 1.68 ± 1.21 t C ha^-1 was the lowest for the steep slope range. The highest 1.44 ± 2.21 t C ha^-1 deadwood carbon density was found under the middle slope range, and the lowest 0.21 ± 0.20 t C ha^-1 was found under the lowest slope range. The SOCD up to 1 m depth was highest at 295.96 ± 80.45 t C ha^-1 under the middle altitudinal gradient; however, it was lowest at 206.40 ± 65.59 t C ha^-1 under the lower altitudinal gradient. The mean ecosystem carbon stock density of the sampled plots in natural forests ranged from 221.89 to 819.44 t C ha^-1. There was a temporal variation in carbon pools along environmental and social factors. The highest carbon pool was contributed by SOC. We recommend forest carbon-related awareness creation for local people, and promotion of the local knowledge can be regarded as a possible option for sustainable forest management.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.408-414
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• 2008

온실가스의 농도 증가에 따른 지구온난화로 기후변화 및 환경적 영향이 증가하고 있으며, 다른 산업 분야별 온실가스 저감 노력이 계속 되고 있다. 농경지에서 온실가스 배출 저감 및 탄소 수지 연구를 통하여 농업생산 활동이 온실가스를 배출 이외에도 탄소를 고정 또는 축적 기능이 있다는 것을 밝히고자 하였다. 먼저 작물 작부체계에 따른 탄소 수지를 평가하고자 대기 중 이산화탄소 자동측정 장치를 개발하여 $CO_2$ 함량 변화를 조사하였다. 이를 통해 작물 생태계 내에서 보리-콩 및 보리-고추 작부체계의 생태계 순 생산량이 화학비료를 사용한 NPK 처리구와 돈분 퇴비를 추가한 NPK+돈분 퇴비 처리구를 두고 $CO_2$ 함량을 조사하였다. 보리-콩 작부체계의 NPK 및 NPK+퇴비처리구는 각 $6.3,\;10.6ton\;CO_2\;ha^{-1}$ 그리고 보리-고추작부체계에서는 $12.0,\;13.2ton\;CO_2\;ha^{-1}$이 축적된 것 으로 나타났다. 토양 탄소수지 평가에서는 보리-콩 작부체계에서 토양 유기 탄소 축적은 $0.7ton\;C\;ha^{-1}$, 보리-고추에서 $0.5ton\;C\;ha^{-1}$이 토양 중에 저장하였다. 이로써 농경지가 탄소 저장원 역할을 하는 것으로 해석할 수 있다.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.168-181
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• 2024

인공습지는(CW)는 침투, 흡착, 저류, 식물과 미생물의 증발산 등과 같은 수문학적 및 생태학적 기작에 의하여 오염물질 제거, 탄소흡수 및 저장, 생물다양성 향상 등의 생태계서비스를 제공한다. 본 연구는 수평지하흐름 인공습지(HSSF CW)의 미생물 군집과 토양의 물리·화학적 특성 및 처리효율의 상관관계를 분석하기 위하여 수행되었다. 연구를 위한 모니터링은 강우시 수질특성, 토양특성, 미생물 분석이 수행되었다. 따뜻한 계절(>15℃) 에서 TSS, COD, TN, TP 및 중금속(Fe, Zn, Cd) 제거효율이33~74% 범위로 나타났다. 그러나 추운 계절(≤15℃)에서 TOC 35%로 가장 높은 제거 효율이 나타났다. 인공습지 내 토양은 인근에서 채취한 토양의 토양유기탄소(SOC) 함량보다 3.3배 더 높은 함량을 가지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 유입부와 유출부의 탄소(C), 질소(N) 및 인(P)의 화학양론비(C:N:P)는 각각 120:1.5:1 및 135.2:0.4:1로 나타났으며, 탄소에 비해 질소와 인의 비율이 매우 낮아 미생물 성장에 문제가 발생될 수 있다. 미생물 분석에서는 생물다양성 지수를 통해 미생물 군집의 풍부도, 다양성, 균질성 및 균일성이 따뜻한 계절이 추운 계절에 비해 높게 나타났다. 인공습지의 강우유출수 오염물질 중 질소고정 미생물인 Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes가 우점종으로 미생물 생장을 촉진하는 것으로 평가되었는데 이는 특정 토양특성 및 유입수 특성이 미생물 풍부도와 밀접한 관련이 있음을 의미한다.