• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제52권9호
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• pp.637-645
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• 2019

본 연구는 유역에서 제공하는 다양한 생태서비스 가운데 네팔의 Bagmati 유역의 물생산량(Water yield)을 산정하였다. 물 공급, 관개 수력 등 다양한 시설에 사용되는 물생산량 지도는 계획 및 관리에 도움이 되며 생태서비스의 공급과 생산에 의도하지 않은 부정적 영향을 줄일 수 있다. 여러 문헌들은 네팔 Bagmati유역에 대한 탄소저장과 식수공급과 같은 생태서비스 제공 연구에 중점을 두었으나 토양피복별 혹은 소유역별 물 생산량에 대한 연구는 매우 미흡했다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 네팔 바그 마티 유역에서 소유역 규모와 함께 유역의 총 물생산량을 계산하고 유역의 토지피복 유형별로 물생산량을 산정하기 위해 시작되었다. 이를 위해, 생태서비스 평가를 위해 가장 많이 사용되는 Budyko 수문학적 방법에 바탕을 둔 ArcGIS기반 InVEST Water Yield 모형이 사용되었다. 본 연구로부터의 결과는 단위면적(ha)e당 물 생산량이 소유역 5 ($15216.32m^3/ha$)에서 가장 높았으며 소유역 6 ($10847.15m^3/ha$)에서 가장 낮았다. 토지피복별 물생산량은 도시화지역에서 가장 높게 산정되었으며, 초원과 농경지가 도시화지역 다음으로 높게 산정되었다. 본 연구에서 산정된 소유역별, 토지피복별 물생산량은 지역 규모의 상호 관련 서비스 개발을 위한 효율적인 시나리오를 제공하고 지속 가능한 토지 이용 정책 및 상호 관련된 물 관리 서비스를 촉진시킬 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2017

Recently, due to worldwide industralization and urbanization, natural environment has been severly damaged and global warning is worsening. Heat wave, torrential rainfall, typhoon and other natural disasters continuously occur due to global warming. Policies such as carbon emission regulation are taken into effect to solve such problems. Such global trend has affected interest to natural ecosystem and developed as a concept of ecosystem-services. This study particularly focused on ground water storage capacity among various ecosystem-services such as climate control and soil formation. It is because Korea suffers from drought and flood every year. Therefore, this study aims to understand objective numerical value of ecosystem-services value regarding ground water storage capacity of biotop classes based on relationship among precipitation, amount of evapotranspiration, and runoff of 7 regions of Chilgok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do and to convert the value into economic value. The study calculated ground water storage capacity based on relationship among precipitation, amount of evapotranspiration, and run off. Calculated amount of each capacity was 29.26 million ton($30.2mm/m^2$), 430.46 million ton($140.4mm/m^2$), 11.30 million ton($150.1.0mm/m^2$), 33 milion ton($3.0mm/m^2$). Economical value of ecosystem-service by each biotop classes appeared 4,128,800 thousand KRW ($21.32KRW/m^2$) for agricultural biotop, and 60,403,600 thousand KRW ($98.52KRW/m^2$) for forest biotop, 1,572,800 thousand KRW ($104.4KRW/m^2$) for grassland biotop, and 47,600 thousand KRW ($2.18KRW/m^2$) for bare ground biotop. The result of this study like above, it will be used as important evidentiary material to preserve natural resource effectively from various development business and policies that damages natural eco-system. Also, it is judged that ecosystem-service value by each land coverage will be used as important material for preparing legalistic institution such as establishing natural environment preservation plan, budget for alternative forest resource creation cost.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.319-326
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• 2007

Coastal marine ecosystems continue to suffer unrelenting pressures from human population growth, increased development, and climate change. Moreover, these systems' capacity for self-repair is declining with such increases in anthropogenic production of various pollutants. What is the present health status or condition of the coastal ecosystem? If our coastal areas are unhealthy, which conditions are considered serious? To answer such questions, the United States, Canada, and Australia are currently assessing coastal ecosystem health using systematic monitoring programs as well as identifying and implementing management plans to improve the health of degraded coastal ecosystems. To evaluate marine environments, Korea is currently using a limited number of factors to estimate water quality. In fact, we are ill-prepared for assessing coastal ecosystem health because no biologically specific criteria are in place to measure the responses to various pollutants. We should select ecosystem-specific indicators from physicochemical stressors and evaluate the subsequent biological responses within each ecosystem. Furthermore, a set of practical indicators should be generated by considering the characteristics and uses of a local coastal area and the key issues at hand. The values of indicators should be presented as indices that allow understanding by the general public as well as by practitioners, policy makers, environmental managers and other stakeholders.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.61-68
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• 1997

Due to its lack of wave action and tide ecosystem in Inchon dock lacks in marine characteristics. Structural condition in the dock is artificially similar to that of lake. The purposes of this study was to clarify the water quality, to provide the basic physicochemical data and tl resolve the causation of ？미 blooming. Samples were obtained monthly from four stations in Inchon dock during January to December, 1991. Water temperature ranged from $2.7^{\circ}C$ to $27.6^{\circ}C$ under the strong influence of air temperature. Salinity varied between 24.7%-30.4% thus being influenced by freshwater discharged from a spring. Dissolved oxygen was concentrated from 0.1-13.92 mg/l and suspended solids were 6.9-231.0 mg/l. The physicochemical factors were similar to those investigated 10 years ago. However, increased concentration of nitrogenous nutrients initiated ？미 blooming and its process was accelerated to reach eutrophication. Algal blooming was proceeded in March and August.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.919-927
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• 2011

A ecosystem model was applied for understanding of circulation process of state variables in marine ecosystem. A mass balance was conducted by calculating the physical process. The sensitivity analysis was conducted to know which coefficient is the most effective factor to the state variables in the model. The results of the mass balance indicate that the primary production was 58.6 ton C/day in the case of mass flux. DIN and DIP in nutrient ingestion of phytoplankton were each 7.9 ton N/day, 1.1 ton P/day. POC and DOC in mineralization of organic matter were each 10.8 ton C/day, 40.6 ton C/day. The results of sensitivity analysis showed that the maximum growth rate of phytoplankton was the most important factor for overall state variables. In the case of nutrients, Half saturation constant of DIN, and mineralization rate of DOM for COD were important factor.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.305-313
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• 2005

In these days, water environment is getting threatened by a variety of toxic pollutants discharged from industries. However, environmental standards and regulations in Korea may be in straitened circumstances to protect the water environment from it. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to compare the management state of the toxic substances in water environment and to present the framework for deriving water quality criteria in USA and Japan. To conserve the water environment from the toxic pollutants more efficiently, the following considerations could be suggested in standards and regulation in Korea. Firstly, there should be consistency of regulated pollutants in drinking water quality standard, water quality standards and permissible wastewater discharge standards. Secondly, in case of deriving the water quality standards, it is required to consider the conservation of the aquatic ecosystem as well as the protection of human health. Finally, it is indispensable to make risk-based approach in management of toxic pollutants in water environment.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.208-214
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• 2010

This study aimed at the introduction of desktop method for assessment of environmental flows developed by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) recently and its application to Geum river basin. This scheme simulated the influence on aquatic ecosystem caused by watershed development and in turn the decrease of water quantity keeping the river's own flow regime. It was found to be as very effective method although it had simple structure. Flow duration curves for different environmental classes at Sutong and Gongjoo sites were estimated according to the natural conditional scenario of Geum river basin and the results were relatively compared well with the previous studies. The behaviors of monthly average runoff time series of both sites showed the level of A class. The results of this study would provide the fundamental data to establish the future plans of monitoring or management for aquatic ecosystem of Geum river basin.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2011

To protect water pollution and scarcity in lake and river, water quality monitoring applications have become important tools to understand the change of aquatic ecosystem. KLEON (Korean Lake Ecological Observatory Network) is designed to manage and share the ecological observations. The various kinds of water quality and phytoplankton observations are collected from the selected observatories such as seven lakes/rivers/wetlands. To deeply understand the collected observations with weather, KLEON also manages the observatory information such as lake, dam, floodgate, and weather. The accumulated observation and analyzed results are used to improve the water quality index of the observatories and encourage the ecologists' cooperation.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.444-452
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• 2012

This study aims at assessing vulnerability of water quality and aquatic ecosystem to climate change by using proxy variables. Vulnerability to climate change is defined as a function of exposure to climate, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Detailed proxy variables were selected considering availability and then standardized by re-scaling concept. After adequate weights were assigned to standardized proxy variables by Delphi technique, vulnerability index was calculated. As results, vulnerability of adjacent regions to coastal areas include water quality and aquatic ecosystem is relatively higher than that of inland areas, and especially adjacent region to the western and southeast seas, and Jeju show high vulnerabilities. Vulnerability in the future was performed based on A1B scenario (IPCC, 2000). Temporally, the increase of vulnerability from 2050s to 2100s may be larger than the increase from 2000s to 2050s. Because vulnerability index was estimated through the relationship among various proxy variables, it is important to consider characteristics of local region with measurements and policies for reduction of sensitivity and enhancement of adaptive capacity on climate change. This study is expected to be useful in planning adaptation measures and selecting priority to the policy on climate change.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

자연 하천과 연계된 지하수 종속 생태환경은 지하수와 지표수의 화학적, 수리적 구배차이에 의해 혼합이 활발히 일어나는 지역이다. 지표수와 지하수 사이의 상호작용은 지하수 종속 생태 환경에서의 생지화학 과정에 중요한 역할뿐만 아니라 이 지역을 수리생태학적 열점으로 만든다. 이 연구의 목적은 질산성 질소로 오염된 자연하천과 연계된 지하수 종속 생태환경의 특성을 수리지질학적, 화학적, 생물학적 방법을 이용하여 특성을 평가하는 것이다. 지하수 종속 생태환경에서 일어나는 지표수와 지하수 사이의 수직교환률은 현장에 다양한 깊이로 설치한 소형관정에서 측정한 수두구배를 근거하여 계산하였다. 본 연구에서는 생물학적 자연저감 퍼텐셜을 조사하기 위해 연쇄중합반응 및 클로닝 방법이 수행되었다. 연구 결과, 지하수 종속 생태환경의 혼합수 유동률은 다소 미생물의 활동, 그리고 질산성 질소의 농도에 영향을 미치고 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 지표수-지하수 혼합구간의 토양에서 분리된 탈질미생물은 특정조건하에서 지하수 종속 생태환경에서의 생분해능력을 고무할 수 있다.