• 환경영향평가
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.37-46
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• 1995

This study was carried out to find the problems of assessment on terrestrial ecosystem part in environmental impact analysis(EIA) and to suggest the proper amelioration measures by analyzing 19 environmental impact statements(EIS) published during the period from 1991 to 1994. The results obtained from this study were as follows. Field survey for the investigation of fauna and flora in project areas should be conducted at least 3 times a year and name of investigator should be written on the EIS clearly. Increase or decrease in degree of green naturality and productivity cannot be an absolute criteria for expressing the amount of changes in ecosystem. Evaluation for the ecosystems and their composition in project area is more important than presenting merely the increase or decrease in degree of green naturality and productivity. Alleviation measures in 19 EISs analyzed in this study were summarized into 6 types: They are establishment of landscape plan, transplanting of useful trees preservation of big tree and protected species, restoration and preservation of existent vegetation, establishment of soil conservation measures and diminution of the impact on animal. However, they were somewhat insufficient because they wouldn't suggest the alleviation measures in detail. The more positive counter-proposals are needed to decrease the impact of the project on terrestrial ecosystem.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.177-194
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• 2011

In order to assess ecologically for the restored detention basin in Joogyo creek, this study carried out a monitoring on the ecosystem of the detention basin. The study site was a small detention basin with an area $6,350m^2$, which had been established in March, 2004. The monitoring started in August and November, 2007. Terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic plants species have increased about 2 times at detention basin compared to that of streamside. Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, aquatic insects and crustaceans were found more in species at detention basin, and especially there were a lot of more fish species. From the results, it seemed that various terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystem were made in the small detention basin.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.16-25
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• 2020

Background: To investigate radiological effects on biota, it is necessary to assess radiation dose for flora and fauna living in a terrestrial ecosystem. This paper presents a dynamic model to assess radioactivity concentration and radiation dose of terrestrial flora and fauna after a nuclear accident. Materials and Methods: Litter, organic soil, mineral soil, trees, wild crops, herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores are considered the major components of a terrestrial ecosystem. The model considers the physicochemical and biological processes of interception, weathering, decomposition of litter, percolation, root uptake, leaching, radioactive decay, and biological loss of animals. The predictive capability of the model was investigated by comparison of its predictions with field data for biota measured in the Fukushima forest area after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Results and Discussion: The predicted radioactive cesium inventories for trees agreed well with those for evergreens and deciduous trees sampled in the Fukushima area. The predicted temporal radioactivity concentrations for animals were within the range of the measured radioactivity concentrations of deer, wild boars, and black bears. The radiation dose for the animals were, for the whole simulation time, estimated to be much smaller than the lower limit (0.1 mGy·d^-1) of the derived consideration reference level given by the International Commission on Radiological Protection for terrestrial flora and fauna. This suggested that the radiation effect of the accident on the biota in the Fukushima forest would be insignificant. Conclusion: The present dynamic model can be used effectively to investigate the radiological risk to terrestrial ecosystems following a nuclear accident.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.58-67
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• 2020

Terrestrial ecosystems influence climate change via their climate regulation function, which is manifested within the carbon, water, and energy circulation between the atmosphere and surface. However, it has been challenging to quantify the climate regulation of terrestrial ecosystems and identify its regional distribution, which provides useful information for establishing regional climate-mitigation plans as well as facilitates better understanding of the interactions between the climate and land processes. In this study, a land surface model (LSM) that represents the land-atmosphere interactions and plant phenological variations was introduced to assess the contributions of terrestrial ecosystems to atmospheric warming or cooling effects over East Asia over the last half century. Three main climate-regulating components were simulated: net radiation flux, carbon exchange, and moisture flux at the surface. Then, the contribution of each component to the atmospheric warming or cooling (negative or positive feedback to the atmosphere, respectively) was investigated. The results showed that the terrestrial ecosystem over the Siberian region has shown a relatively large increase in positive feedback due to the enhancement of biogeochemical processes, indicating an offset effect to delay global warming. Meanwhile, the Gobi Desert shows different regional variations: increase in positive feedback in its southern part but increase in negative one in its eastern part, which implies the eastward movements of desert areas. As such, even though the LSM has limitations, this model approach to quantify the climate regulation is useful to extract the relevant characteristics in its spatio-temporal variations.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.113-127
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• 2009

This study was designed to present a river model with an aim at restoring the ecosystem and improving the landscape along the urban rivers on the basin of the Namhan river, a core life channel for the National Capital region. The revelation of botanical status, transition trend and correlation of plants might lead to providing the urban river restoration projects and ecological river formation projects with basic data for a model of ideal aquatic ecology and landscape. The outcomes of this study could be summed up as follows: 1. Communities of Juglans mandshurica, Cornus controversa and Fraxinus mandshurica constitute the main portion of flora at or around uppermost branch streams of the River Namhanis harbored mainly in and around small brooks 2. Typical terrestrial forest communities formed around the River Namhan are composed mainly of Larix leptolepis, Pinus rigida, planned forestation of Pinus koraiensis, Quercus acutissima, Quercus variabilis and Pinus densiflora. 3. The analysis into terrestrial environment of plant communities showed a high content of $P_2O_5$, typical communities found in the artificially disturbed land Finally, it seems also desirable to continue to make every exertion to explore the relationship between fluvial and terrestrial ecologies with a purport of building up a model of natural streams in urban area based on the surveyed factors for plant life, forest communities, soil and landscape and, moreover, on the forecasting for overall influences derived from the relation upon the ecosystem.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.204-204
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• 2021

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) includes all components of water (e.g., surface water, groundwater, snow and ice) over the land. So accurately predicting and estimating TWS is important in water resource management. Although many land surface models are used to predict the TWS, model output has errors and biases in comparison to the observation data due to the model deficiencies in the model structure, atmospheric forcing datasets, and parameters. In this study, Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satelite TWS data is assimilated in the Community Land Model version 5 with a biogeochemistry module (CLM5.0-BGC) over East Asia from 2003 to 2010 by employing the Ensemble Adjustment Kalman Filter (EAKF). Results showed that TWS over East Asia continued to decrease during the study period, and the ability to simulate the surface water storage, which is the component of the CLM derived TWS, was greatly improved. We further investigated the impact of assimilated TWS on the vegetated and carbon related variables, including the leaf area index and primary products of ecosystem. We also evaluated the simulated total ecosystem carbon and calculated its correlation with TWS. This study shows that how the better simulated TWS plays a role in capturing not only water but also carbon fluxes and states.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.98-106
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• 2002

This study was designed to present a river model with the aim of restoring the ecosystem and improving the landscape along the urban rivers on the basin of the Namhanl river, a core life channel for the National Capital regin. The revelation of botanical status, transition trend and correlation of plants might lead to providing the urban river restoration projects and ecological river formation projects with basic data for a model of ideal aquatic ecology and landscape. The outcomes of this study could be summed up as follows: 1. The plant communities of river flora found on the basin of the Namhan river could be categorized largely into 39 plant communities 2. Most diverse plants were distributed in the rivers lower reaches such as Unsim-ri where the protected zone of Paldang reservoir for city water borders the body of Jodae swamp where natural streams flow nearby. 3. One of the greatest threats to the biomass of the River Namhan is that the communities of such invasive alien plants as Panicum dichotomiflorum and Ambrosia artemisiifolia var. elatior dominate most parts of the area, a fact that has resulted in a reduced variety of plants and will, sooner or later, be likely to cause an ecological imbalance in the hitherto healthy Aquatic plant life. It is highly advisable to gradually diversify the species of trees and to return the plants bark to their original state since, besides the naturalized plants, plantations afforested with Erigeron canadensis and Erigeron annuus stocks in buckwheat field, Robinia Pseudo-accacia in riverside forest, Pinus rigida in terrestrial forest on the river basin and Larix leptolepis are anticipated to act as interceptors of normal migrations of the fluvial and terrestrial ecosystems. Finally, it seems also desirable to continue to explore the relationship between fluvial and terrestrial ecologies with the purpose of building up a model of natural streams in urban areas based on the surveyed factors for plant life, soil and landscape and, moreover, on the forecasting for overall influences derived from the rotation upon the ecosystem.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.408-416
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• 2023

IUCN 생태계 적색목록은 생물다양성의 감소 위험이 높은 생태계를 평가하고 식별하기 위한 글로벌 표준으로, 효과적인 생태계 관리 및 보전 정책 수립에 필요한 과학적 근거를 제공한다. IUCN 생태계 적색목록은 쿤밍-몬트리올 글로벌 생물다양성 프레임워크 목표 A의 핵심지표(A.1)로 지정하였다. 생태계 적색목록 평가는 특정 생태계 유형을 분포의 감소(기준 A), 제한된 분포(기준 B), 환경 황폐화(기준 C), 생물학적 상호작용의 변화(기준 D), 생태계 붕괴 위험의 정량적 추정(기준 E)으로 생태계 붕괴 징후를 판별한다. IUCN 생태계 적색목록은 2014년부터 110개 이상의 국가에서 평가를 진행하였다. 80% 이상이 육상 및 육상-담수 생태계에서 평가를 진행하였으며, 이중 열대림과 아열대림에 위협 받는 생태계가 집중 분포하고 있다. 평가 기준은 공간적 징후(기준 A 및 B)에서 68.8%로 집중되어 있다. 국내에서 생태계 적색목록을 평가를 적용하기 위한 고려사항은 크게 세가지로 나뉜다. 첫째, 국내 적용가 능한 지구 생태계 유형(GET)을 적립해야 한다. 둘째, 생태계 적색목록 범주·기준 중 공간적 징후 평가에서 국내의 소규모로 이루어진 다양한 생태계 유형에 적용 가능한지를 판단해야 한다. 마지막으로 평가를 위한 활용 가능한 시계열(50년) 데이터 수집을 고려해야 한다. 이러한 고려사항을 바탕으로 국내에 IUCN 생태계 적색목록 평가를 적용하면, 우리나라의 독특한 생태계 유형의 현재 상태를 정확하게 파악할 수 있을 것이며, 이는 세계적인 생태계 보전 및 복원 노력에 기여할 것이다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.228-240
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• 2023

Growing complexity in ecosystem structure and functions, under impacts of climate and land-use changes, requires interdisciplinary understandings of processes and the whole-system, and accurate estimates of the changing functions. In the last three decades, observation networks for biodiversity, ecosystems, and ecosystem functions under climate change, have been developed by interested scientists, research institutions and universities. In this paper we will review (1) the development and on-going activities of those observation networks, (2) some outcomes from forest carbon cycle studies at our super-site "Takayama site" in Japan, and (3) a few ideas how we connect in-situ and satellite observations as well as fill observation gaps in the Asia-Oceania region. There have been many intensive research and networking efforts to promote investigations for ecosystem change and functions (e.g., Long-Term Ecological Research Network), measurements of greenhouse gas, heat, and water fluxes (flux network), and biodiversity from genetic to ecosystem level (Biodiversity Observation Network). Combining those in-situ field research data with modeling analysis and satellite remote sensing allows the research communities to up-scale spatially from local to global, and temporally from the past to future. These observation networks oftern use different methodologies and target different scientific disciplines. However growing needs for comprehensive observations to understand the response of biodiversity and ecosystem functions to climate and societal changes at local, national, regional, and global scales are providing opportunities and expectations to network these networks. Among the challenges to produce and share integrated knowledge on climate, ecosystem functions and biodiversity, filling scale-gaps in space and time among the phenomena is crucial. To showcase such efforts, interdisciplinary research at 'Takayama super-site' was reviewed by focusing on studies on forest carbon cycle and phenology. A key approach to respond to multidisciplinary questions is to integrate in-situ field research, ecosystem modeling, and satellite remote sensing by developing cross-scale methodologies at long-term observation field sites called "super-sites". The research approach at 'Takayama site' in Japan showcases this response to the needs of multidisciplinary questions and further development of terrestrial ecosystem research to address environmental change issues from local to national, regional and global scales.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.209-220
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• 2023

인간 활동으로 광범위한 자연 생태계 변화로 지난 몇 세기 동안 전 세계적으로 생물다양성이 심각하게 위협받고 있다. 생태계의 변화 양상을 파악하는 것은 생물다양성 위협을 파악하고 관리하는 데 필수적이다. 이러한 필요성에 따라 IUCN 의회는 2019년에 생태계의 기능과 유형을 고려한 IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology(GET)를 구성했다. IUCN은 10개의 생태계 군계, 108개의 생태기능별 토지 유형(EFG; Ecological Functional Group)을 전 지구적 범위에서 지도로 제공하고 있다. IUCN GET 생태계의 유형 분류에 따르면 국내 생태계는 Realm (1수준)이 8개, Biome (2수준)이 18개, Group (3수준)은 41개 유형으로 분류된다. IUCN이 제공하는 GET의 경우 전 세계 규모로 제작되었기 때문에 해상도가 낮고 실질적인 토지 현황과 일치하지 않는 경우가 많다. 본 연구는 토지피복지도를 활용하여 국내 IUCN GET 유형 분류의 정확도를 높이고 실질적인 현황을 반영한 지도를 제작하고자 했다. 이를 위해 ① IUCN GET에서 제공하는 국내 GET 데이터 체계를 검토하고, ② 이를 국내 현황과 비교 분석하였다. 이 과정을 통해 GET의 한계와 활용 가능성을 평가하고 ③ 이후 국가자료를 최대한 활용하여 국내 현황을 반영한 국내 GET 유형 분류를 수행하였다. 본 연구는 토지피복지도와 기존 국가자료를 최대한 활용하여 국내 GET를 총 25개 유형으로 분류했다(Terrestrial Realm :9, Freshwater: 9 Marine-Terrestrial: 5, Terrestrial-Freshwater :1, Marine-Freshwater-Terrestrial:1). 기존 지도와 비교했을 때 수정된 국내 GET의 경우 'F3.2 Constructed lacustrine wetlands', 'F3.3 Rice paddies', 'F3.4 Freshwater aquafarms', 'T7.3 Plantations'가 면적이 가장 많이 축소되었다. 온대 산림(T2.2)의 면적이 가장 많이 늘어났고, 'MFT1.3 Coastal saltmarshes and reedbeds', 'F2.2 Small permanent freshwater lakes'등 3개 유형 또한 수정 후 GET 면적이 증가했다. 해당 과정을 통해 기존 GET에서 모든 EFG의 합이 국토 면적의 8.33배를 차지하던 기존의 지도를, 토지피복지도를 활용하여 총합이 국토 면적의 1.22 배가 되도록 수정하였다. 이를 통해 유형별 차이가 작고 정확성이 떨어진 기존의 EFG가 본 연구를 통해 개선 및 수정되었음을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 현장 요건을 반영한 데이터를 최대한 활용하여 GET 기준에 상응하는 한국의 GET 지도를 제작한 것에 그 의의가 있다.