• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.109-114
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• 2003

To investigate ecophysiological characteristics of plants species adapted to moor habitat, we selected 22 species plants and analyzed inorganic cations (K, Ca, Mg), heavy metals (Al, Fe, Mn) and total nitrogen and phosphorus quantitatively. Moojechi moor indicated typical acidic and oligotrophic conditions with pH of 5.0∼5.6 (pH 4.3∼5.1 in soil) and EC of 15∼30μ S/cm, and contained very low contents of soil divalent cation such as Ca and Mg but high contents of heavy metals (esp. Al). With respect to inorganic cation contents, investigated plants species showed remarkable interspecific difference. Plant species belonging to J. effusus var. decipiens, M. japonica, I. globosa, M. sacchariflorus, R. mucronulatum, R. yedoense var. poukhanense, H. micrantha, D. rotundifolia showed very low contents of inorganic cation below 400 μ M/g DW, but plant species of C. palustris var. spontanea, L. sessilifolia, P. mandarinorum, C. lineare, S. austriaca sub. glabra, V. mandshurica, A. decursiva showed high cation contents in leaves. Especially, S. austriaca sub. glabra (Compositae) and V. mandshurica (Violaceae) showed pattern accumulating Ca and Mg with plant growth, but I. ensata var. spontanea (Iridaceae) and S. officinalis (Rosaceae) showed decreasing tendency. Meanwhile, most plant species showed low contents of soluble metal ions in leaves in spite of high heavy metal contents on soil, and indicated remarkable interspecific differences in the total contents and composition of heavy metals accumulated. Despite low contents of N and P on soil, most plant species indicated relatively high contents of N and P in leaves at the early stage of growth, and showed slowly decreasing pattern according to growth. Consequently, it seems that plant species inhabited on Moojechi moor cope with acidic-oligotrophic conditions, accumulating inorganic cations and nitrogen at the early growing stage and reutilizing them in the course of growth, and developing heavy metal excluding mechanism.

• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.63 no.2
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• pp.161-168
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• 2020

It is known that different plant species have ability to deposit different amounts of particulate matter (PM) on their leaves and plants can absorb heavy metals in PM through their leaves. Heavy metals in PM can have toxic effect on human body and plants. Therefore, PM on different roadside trees at Chungbuk national University including box tree (Buxus koreana), yew (Taxus cuspidate), royal azalea (Rhododendron yedoense), and retusa fringetree (Chionanthus retusa) was quantified based on particle size (PM_>10 and PM_2.5-10). The metal concentration in PM accumulated on leaves was analyzed using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectroscopy. In this study, the mass of PM_>10 deposited on the surface of the tree leaves ranged from 6.11 to 32.7 ㎍/㎠, while the mass of PM_2.5-10 ranged from 0 to 14.8 ㎍/㎠. The royal azaleas with grooves and hair on the leaf surface retained PM particles for longer time, while the yews and box trees with wax on leaf surfaces accumulated more PM. The PM contained elements in crustal material such as Al, Ca, Mg, and Fe and heavy metals including Cu, Pb and Zn. The concentration of elements in crustal material was higher in the coarser size, while heavy metal concentration was relatively higher in the finer size fraction. The Mn, Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Zn concentrations of leaves and PM_2.5-10 were significantly correlated indicating that PM was taken up through tree leaves.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.35-43
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• 2001

Accumulation, elimination and subcellular distribution of heavy metals in Littorina brevicula exposed to cadmium and zinc separately and concurrently were investigated. When the winkles had been exposed to 400 ㎍/L CdCl₂ and 3000 ㎍/l ZnSO₄ separately for 90 days, each of the metal body burden in the whole sofl parts increased in proportion to time of exposure until 70 days. But it didn't increase after 70 days. But when the winkles had been exposed to cadmium and zinc simultaneously, cadmium body burden decreased but zinc body burden increased as compared to the winkles exposed to each of the metal. We also found that cadmium accumulated in the winkles was not depurated for 42 days, but zinc accumulated in them was depurated. Especially, zinc was depurated faster when they had been exposed to mixture of cadmium and zinc. After the winkles had been exposed to cadmium and zinc separately for 70 days, about 60% cadmium of the total body burden was associated with the soluble fraction, while about 75% zinc of the total body burden was associated with insoluble fraction. And these trends of metal partitioning did not alter when the winkles had been exposed to metal mixture. After the soluble fraction applied to gel-filtration chromatography column, the distribution patterns of cadmium and zinc associated with proteins or ligands were different each other. Most of cadmium (＞90%) in the soluble fraction was bound to MBP-1 (Metal-binding protein-1), about 6.5 kDa), while zinc was distributed evenly to HMW (High molecular weight fraction, >60 kDa), MBP-1, MBP-2 (about 5 kDa), LMW (Low molecular weight fraction, <1 kDa).

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.496-496
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• 2022

차량 운행이 많은 고속도로, 주차장, 교량 등의 불투수 면적에서 발생하는 비점오염 물질은 차량에서 발생하는 배기가스와 연료, 부품 등이 비강우시 노면에 축적된 후 강우시 유출되는 특징을 가진다. 고속도로 휴게소의 경우 넓은 부지에 주차장이 위치하고, 대부분 불투수면으로 설계되었으며 차량이용대수에 따라 수질오염물질, 중금속 등이 축적되어 강우시 초기에 다량의 오염물질이 유출되는 특징을 가진다. 특히, 휴게소 노면 배출지점에서 강우시 약간의 탁수 유입과 함께 유기물, 영양염류의 농도가 다소 높았으며, 중금속은 주로 Pb, Cu, Zn의 농도가 높게 나타나는 것으로 연구 되었다. 본 연구는 고속도로 휴게소에서 발생하는 오염물질의 특성을 파악하기 위해 실시하였다. 휴게소 및 고속도로 인근에서 평시 발생하는 오염원의 차량 기인 여부를 판단하기 위해 비강우시 고속도로 노면 및 휴게소 오염원 배출 지점에서 토사 및 입자 샘플링을 실시하였으며, 이를 통해 입자에 흡착된 중금속 오염도 및 차량기인 여부를 판단하였다. 본 연구를 통해 고속도로 휴게소에서의 초기강우시 오염물질 처리방안 계획 수립시 기초자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.358-363
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• 2005

A large amount of oyster-shell waste has been illegally disposed at oyster farm sites along the southern coast of Korea, which already created serious environmental problems. Therefore, the study was undertaken to increase the consumption of oyster shell meal as a soil amendment. The effects of oyster shell meal on dynamics of heavy metals and uptake of heavy metals by spring Chinese cabbage were evaluated in silt loam soil (in Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Gyeongnam-do, Korea), where 0, 4, 8, 12 and 16 Mg $ha^{-1}$ oyster-shell meal fertilizer were added. Lime treatment (2 Mg $ha^{-1}$) was selected as a control. In the results of this study, cabbage yields were increased by increasing levels of oyster-shell meal fertilizer. With increasing levels of oyster-shell meal fertilizer, total heavy metals concentrations were not significant among treatments. However, 0.1N HCl extractable heavy metals concentration was significantly reduced due to increasing of soil pH. A lot of portion (ca. $80{\sim}90%$) heavy metals fraction of all fractions was residual phase in soil after harvesting. The contents of Cu, Mo, Zn in cabbage were slightly increased by increasing levels of oyster shell meal fertilizer. However, there were no toxic symptoms of heavy metals during cultivation. Conclusively, it was estimated that oyster shell fertilizer could be a good amendment to increase productivity of crop and reduce uptake of heavy metals by crop and mobility of heavy metals in soil.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.331-338
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• 2006

Coal combustion fly ash, which has a high available Si content and alkaline pH, was selected as a potential source of soil amendment in this study. Two field experiments were carried out to evaluate the possibility of heavy metal accumulation in silt loam (Pyeongtaeg series) and loamy sand (Nagdong series) of rice (Oryza sativa) paddy soils to which 0, 40, 80, and $120Mg\;ha^{-1}$ of fly ash were added. Rice yields increased significantly with fly ash application and the highest rice yields were achieved following the addition of around $90Mg\;ha^{-1}$ fly ash. Fly ash increased the soil pH but did not increase heavy metal uptakes of rice and heavy metal concentration in soils, due to very low concentration of heavy metals in the selected fly ash. Labile fraction of heavy metals (exchangeable + acidic fraction) was scarcely contained and most of them were stable and unavailable form (oxidizable and residual fraction). In conclusion fly ash could be a good supplement to an inorganic soil amendments without heavy metal contamination in paddy soils.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.215-222
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• 1999

It is well known to use scalp hair as a signal of strengths of heavy metals contamination. In this paper, using the multivariate methods we examine the relationship between strengths of cadmium and mercury in scalp hair and cerebellum, cerebrum, heart, kidney, liver, lung and spleen from 61 korean autopsy subjects. As a result, there is statistically singnificant relationship between strengths of mercury contamination in scalp hair and secondary contaminated organs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.619-619
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Malacological Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.5-5
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.195-200
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• 2000

Chitin과 탈아세틸화된 chitosan은 중금속 제거에 효과적인 생물흡착제로 잘 알려져 있다. 그러나 본 연구의 결과 crab shell에 있어서의 중금속 제거효율이 순수 chitin과 chitosan에서 보다 더 뛰어남을 알 수가 있었다. 납, 카드뮴, 망간이온 제거실험에서 crab shell은 초기 2시간 이내에 모두 제거되었으나, chitin과 chitosan의 흡착 실험에선 14시간이 경과되어도 이들 중금속의 대부분 수용액 내에서 거의 제거되지 않았다. 구리의 경우 염의 형태에 따른 흡착의 영향을 chitosan에선 제거된 량이 Cu($SO_{4})_{2}$ > Cu($NO_{3})_{2}$ > Cu($Cl_{2}$)의 순으로 나타났으나 chitin에선 모두 흡착이 거의 안된 상태로 나타났다. 주사현미경 분석 결과 crab shell의 표면에 납이 축적되어 있는 상태를 확인하였다.