• 한국토양동물학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2000

영국의 고원지대 (Moorland)의 이탄토양 (blanket bog peat soil에 서식하는 애지렁이 정량조사를 위한 수분갈때기추출법의 효율에 미치는 수온, 물의 량, 추출시간의 복합적인 효과를 조사하였다. 이탄 토양에서 애지렁이 추출을 위한 최적조건은 물의 양과 초기 수온에 관계없이 표면수의 최종 온도는 35$^{\circ}C$이고, 추출시간은 6시간이었다. O'Connor의 방법 (최종 온도 40-45$^{\circ}C$,열의 점진적인 증가, 3시간 추출)은 비교적 늪은 온도와 짧은 추출시간으로 인해, 추출효율에 변이가 심하였다. 열을 가하지 않고 장시간 추출하는 방식은 열을 가하는 방식에 비해 추출효율이 현저히 낮았다.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2020

Many areas of vegetation in the British uplands have reduced species diversity as a result of sheep overgrazing. It has been suggested that abandonment or re-wilding strategies might be used to reverse this. A likely first step would be the removal or reduction of grazing livestock from upland areas, with a presumption that this would lead to a recovery in species richness. However, we do not know if this would work, or the timescales involved. One of the important areas where more knowledge is needed is information on the size and composition of soil seedbanks as regeneration from zseed is a likely pathway of recovery. Here, we compared seedbanks in both grazed and ungrazed plots in five experiments at Moor House NNR in the northern Pennines; these sheep grazing exclusion experiments were started 52 and 63/64 years ago. Soil samples (n=10) were collected from both grazed and ungrazed plots in each experiment, and seed emergence counted in glasshouse trials. We detected only seeds of common species and very few dicotyledonous species. This suggests that the soil seedbank is unlikely to be a reliable source of the less common species for ecological restoration in these upland communities, suggesting an extinction debt. Therefore, seed addition and the creation of suitable safe-sites for germination may be needed in conjunction with grazing controls to allow the establishment of plants that will increase the species richness of the vegetation. However, this interventionist restoration approach remains to be tested.