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A Preliminary Verification of the Influences of Hydrologic Regime Change and Nutrients Influx on Vegetation Recruitment on Riparian Bars

하천식생 이입 현상에 대한 수문현상 변화와 영양염류 영향의 예비 검증

  • Woo, Hyoseop (College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)) ;
  • Kang, Joon-goo (River Experimentation Center, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT)) ;
  • Cho, Hyung-Jin (ECOnGEO) ;
  • Choi, Yi-song (Department of Environmental Science, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Park, Moon-hyeong (Department of Water Resources and River Engineering Research, KICT)
  • 우효섭 (광주과학기술원 환경공학부) ;
  • 강준구 (한국건설기술연구원 수자원하천연구소 하천실험센터) ;
  • 조형진 (수생태공간 정보연구소) ;
  • 최이송 (경희대학교 환경학과) ;
  • 박문형 (한국건설기술연구원 수자원하천연구소)
  • Received : 2015.11.30
  • Accepted : 2015.12.20
  • Published : 2015.12.30

Abstract

In this study, two hypotheses were examined to preliminarily verify for the vegetation recruitment and establishment on riparian bars in unregulated rivers; hydrologic regime change and nutrients influx into streams. In order to preliminarily verify the first hypothesis, precipitation patterns were analyzed during a period from March through to May when reeds, the most common riparian vegetation in Korea, germinate and start to grow in riparian areas. The results show that during the last 35 years, the total precipitation during the three-month period decreased by about 15 %, while the total annual one increased by about 15% in Korea. In order to verify the second hypothesis, a preliminary experiment was conducted with a set of two-vegetative flumes for one year. In this experiment, a stream flow with reeds on the riparian sand bars was simulated with a flume with reeds planted on the sand bed and water with a concentration of 3.5 mg of N flowing in the flume for four hours. For comparison, clean water was circulated in the same way in another flume for simulating a stream flow without N. The experimental results show that the growth rate of reeds in N-mixed flow exceeds that in clean water flow by about 30%. The above two results could explain the phenomenon of change in unregulated rivers from white river to green river in Korea, although they were obtained through limited extents of analysis and experiment.

본 연구는 비 조절하천에서 식생 이입 및 활착 현상에 대해 봄철 강수특성 변화에 따른 식생영향 가설과 질소화합물의 하천유입에 따른 식생영향 가설을 일차적으로 검증하는 것이다. 첫 번째 가설을 검증하기 위해 국내하천에 대해 갈대와 달뿌리풀의 발아기, 유식물기인 3-5월의 강우특성 변화를 분석하였다. 그 결과 최근 35년 동안 연 총 강수량은 약 15% 늘어난 반면에 3-5월의 강수량은 오히려 약 15% 이상 감소한 것으로 나타나서 이러한 가설을 부분적으로 뒷받침하였다. 두 번째 가설을 검증하기 위해 한 쌍의 실험수로에 갈대를 식재 하고 여름 기간 동안 갈대성장을 관찰한 결과 질소화합물이 3.5 mg/L 정도 함유된 오염수를 주기적으로 흘린 수로의 경우 그렇지 않은 경우보다 약 30% 이상 갈대성장이 높은 것을 확인하였다. 비록 강우량 분석 결과와 식생수로 실험결과는 제한된 범위 내에서 수행된 것이지만 국내 비 조절 중소하천의 초본류 번무현상을 일부 설명할 수 있을 것이다.

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