• 환경생물
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.158-163
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• 2003

유기주석화합물은 독성이 강하고 잔존력이 감하여 수계환경으로 유입되면 해양생태계에 오랫동안 영향을 미친다 이들 화합물이 해양생불에 미치는 영향에 관해서는 어류나 패류 등의 산업적 가치가 큰 생물종을 대상으로 한 연구는 적지 않지만, 해양생태계에서 먹이사슬의 가장 하부에 위치하며 기초생산을 담당하는 플랑크톤류에 미치는 영향에 관해서는 잘 알려져 있지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 TBT류의 TBTC, TBTO, TBTA, TBTB를 비롯하여 TPT류의 TPTC, TPTF, TPTH가 기수산 rotifer의 생존에 미치는 독성(96 hr-LC$_{50}$)을 조사.비교하였다. 그 결과, TBT류에서는 TBTA(1.1 ppb)가 가장 강하였고 TBTC (2.0), TBTB (3.3), TBTO (5.6)의 순이었으며, TPT류에서는 TPTF (1.0), TPTC (1.1), TPTH(1.6)의 순이었다. 이 결과는 TPT류가 전반적으로 TBT류에 비해 독성이 강하다는 것을 보여준다.다.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2004

Benthic pollution assessment based on macrobenthic community structure with environmental variables was carried out at twelve stations during two periods on a presumed pollution gradient in Gamak Bay. Univariate and multivariate methods were applied to investigate structural changes in the benthic communities. A clear gradient of pollution effects on the macrobenthic community was observed from the interior to the exterior of the bay. The community on the northwestern basin was severely disturbed due to a low level of hydrodynamics and a large amount of pollutant input from nearby cities. Exterior regions on the southern basin appeared to have the best benthic environmental characteristics among all stations according to most methods of analysis. Central ridge regions and two stations around the islets in the mouth of the bay exhibited intermediate levels of perturbation when compared to the more disturbed interior and undisturbed exterior regions. Pollution effects on the communities were attenuated at the southern area of the central ridge during spring compared to those of summer, where aquacultural farming was densely distributed. The environmental variables primarily correlated to the macrobenthic community structure were total organic carbon (C), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), and tributyltins (TBTs), contents found on the surface sediment, as anthropogenic variables indicating organic materials.