• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.264-271
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• 2023

Environmental crises caused by climate change and human-induced disturbances have become urgent challenges to the sustainability of human beings. These issues can be addressed based on a data-driven understanding and forecasting of ecosystem responses to environmental changes. In this study, we introduce a long-term ecological monitoring system in Korean Long-Term Ecological Research (KLTER), and a plan for the Korean Ecological Observatory Network (KEON). KLTER has been conducted since 2004 and has yielded valuable scientific results. However, the KLTER approach has limitations in data integration and coordinated observations. To overcome these limitations, we developed a KEON plan focused on multidisciplinary monitoring of the physiochemical, meteorological, and biological components of ecosystems to deepen process-based understanding of ecosystem functions and detect changes. KEON aims to answer nationwide and long-term ecological questions by using a standardized monitoring approach. We are preparing three types of observatories: two supersites depending on the climate-vegetation zones, three local sites depending on the ecosystem types, and two mobile deployment platforms to act on urgent ecological issues. The main observation topics were species diversity, population dynamics, biogeochemistry (carbon, methane, and water cycles), phenology, and remote sensing. We believe that KEON can address environmental challenges and play an important role in ecological observations through partnerships with international observatories.

• 한국보육지원학회지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.55-72
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• 2015

본 연구는 어린이집 교사들의 생태소양인식과 행복감의 관계를 살펴보기 위해 실시되었다. 경기인천 지역 어린이집 교사 125명을 대상으로 생태소양과 행복감에 대한 설문지 조사를 실시하였다. 결과처리를 위해 F검증, t 검증, Pearson의 적률상관분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 경력에 따라 어린이집 교사들의 생태소양의 신념과 태도는 차이가 나타났지만, 학력에 따라서는 생태소양 태도 중 관계 실천에서만 차이가 나타났다. 개인경험 중 어린 시절에 자연 친숙한 환경에서 자란 어린이집 교사들인 경우 생태소양이 높았으며, 현직 교육에서 생태교육을 받은 경우, 생태소양의 태도 면에서 높은 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 생태소양이 높은 교사가 더 많은 행복감을 느끼고 있었다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 어린이집 교사들에게 생태교육을 제공하는 것이 이들의 행복감 증진시키는데 도움이 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.15-28
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• 2020

Urbanization and industrialization have caused increasing damage to national lands, and ecological restoration has proceeded without any specific assessment of this damage. The purpose of this study is to select indices to assess damaged areas through literature review and panel discussions, and to derive the importance of damaged area assessment indices by analyzing them through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). This study has derived, via literature review, six types of damage and a total of 18 related assessment indices. A total of 51 responses were collected from surveys and given to experts, and an AHP analysis conducted. As a result of the analysis, "Landform change (0.268)" was of the highest importance, with associated damage types as follows: "Soil contamination (0.193)", "Vegetation damaged (0.149)", "Surface soil loss (0.143)", "Change in soil physiochemical property (0.125)", and "Vegetation decline (0.122)". The analysis determined that the item of the highest importance in the overall assessment of damage was "Slope occurred area (0.100)", and that "Conductivity (0.022)" was of the lowest importance. This study can be presented as a criterion in determining the type and degree of damage in setting priorities for future ecological restoration projects.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.219-227
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• 2023

The US National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale program intended to provide open data, samples, and infrastructure to understand changing ecosystems for a period of 30 years. NEON collects co-located measurements of drivers of environmental change and biological responses, using standardized methods at 81 field sites to systematically sample variability and trends to enable inferences at regional to continental scales. Alongside key atmospheric and environmental variables, NEON measures the biodiversity of many taxa, including microbes, plants, and animals, and collects samples from these organisms for long-term archiving and research use. Here we review the composition and use of NEON resources to date as a whole and specific to biodiversity as an exemplar of the potential of national research infrastructure to contribute to globally relevant outcomes. Since NEON initiated full operations in 2019, NEON has produced, on average, 1.4 M records and over 32 TB of data per year across more than 180 data products, with 85 products that include taxonomic or other organismal information relevant to biodiversity science. NEON has also collected and curated more than 503,000 samples and specimens spanning all taxonomic domains of life, with up to 100,000 more to be added annually. Various metrics of use, including web portal visitation, data download and sample use requests, and scientific publications, reveal substantial interest from the global community in NEON. More than 47,000 unique IP addresses from around the world visit NEON's web portals each month, requesting on average 1.8 TB of data, and over 200 researchers have engaged in sample use requests from the NEON Biorepository. Through its many global partnerships, particularly with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, NEON resources have been used in more than 900 scientific publications to date, with many using biodiversity data and samples. These outcomes demonstrate that the data and samples provided by NEON, situated in a broader network of national research infrastructures, are critical to scientists, conservation practitioners, and policy makers. They enable effective approaches to meeting global targets, such as those captured in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

• Water Engineering Research
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.259-267
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• 2002

South Africa has developed a policy and law that calls and provides for the equitable and sustainable use of water resources. Sustainable resource use is dependent on effective resource protection. Rivers are the most important freshwater resources in the country, and there is a focus on developing and applying methods to quantify what rivers need in terms of flow and water quality. These quantified and descriptive objectives are then related to specified levels of ecological health in a classification system. This paper provides an overview of an integrated and systematic methodology, where, fer each river, and each river reach, the natural condition and the present ecological condition are described, and a level/class of ecosystem health is selected. The class will define long term management goals. This procedure requires each ecosystem component to be quantified, starting with the abiotic template. A modified flow regime is modelled for each ecosystem health class, and the resultant fluvial geomorphology and hydraulic habitats are described. Then the water chemistry is described, and the water quality changes that are likely to occur as a consequence of altered flows are predicted. Finally, the responses to the stress imposed on the biota (fish, invertebrates and vegetation) by modified flow and water quality are predicted. All of the predicted responses are translated into descriptive and/or quantitative management objectives. The paper concludes with the recognition of active method development, and the enormous challenge of applying the methods, implementing the law, and achieving river protection and sustainable resource-use.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.196-204
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• 2023

섬오갈피나무는 산림청 지정 희귀식물로 곶자왈에서 자생하는 낙엽활엽관목식물이다. 본 연구는 섬오갈피나무의 광, 수분, 유기물에 따른 생육 반응 분석과 생태 지위폭을 측정하고, 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 적합한 환경조건을 찾고자 시도되었다. 섬오갈피나무는 광량이 아주 많거나 적은 조건이 아닌 중간 조건(L3, 자연광의 50%)에서 지상부 길이, 엽면적, 식물체 잎 무게가 증가하였다. 수분 구배와 유기물 구배는 잎 수와 식물체 잎 무게에 대한 생육 차이가 있었으며 수분 구배에서는 중간 조건(M3, 240ml) 이하에서 생육이 좋았으며 유기물 구배에서는 중간 조건(N3, 12%) 이상에서 생육 반응이 좋았다. 또한 생태 지위폭은 수분(0.977) > 유기물함량(0.964) > 광(0.951) 순으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 섬오갈피나무가 선호하는 서식지는 다소 그늘지고 약간 건조하며 토양의 양분이 많은 곳이며, 생육에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 환경요인은 광량임을 뜻하는 것으로 자생지의 서식지 관리에 우선적 고려 사항이라 판단된다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.251-257
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the acclimation responses of Tamarix chinensis to cold stress. We evaluated the acclimation responses by measuring biomass, daily elongation rate, chlorophyll content, and total soluble carbohydrate content. The plant samples comprised leaves from seedlings of 2 different ages (8 and 12 weeks); the leaves were collected 0, 2, and 4 weeks after cold treatment. We found that the cold-treated samples showed reduced daily elongation rates and chlorophyll content. Further, these samples showed more than 8-fold increase in the total soluble carbohydrate content. However, the seedling ages did not have a significant influence on the growth of cold-treated seedlings. On the basis of these findings, we can conclude that T. chinensis seedlings aged less than 1 year old show acclimation to cold stress by accumulating soluble carbohydrates. This study may help us understand how T. chinensis seedlings acclimatize to their first cold season.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.169-180
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• 2012

단양쑥부쟁이(Aster altaicus var. uchiyamae)는 한국특산식물이자 환경부 지정 멸종위기식물 II급으로 하천변에 서식하는 식물이다. 본 연구는 지구온난화가 단양쑥부쟁이의 생태적 반응에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 $CO_2$농도와 온도가 상승된 처리구와 대조구에서 종자를 파종하고, 유식물을 키워 발아율, 식물계절학, 영양생장과 생식생장을 관찰하였다. 그 결과, 단양쑥부쟁이의 발아율은 대조구보다 처리구에서 더 낮았다. 처리구에서 살아있는 잎의 지속 시기는 대조구보다 더 길었다. 개화와 꽃의 지속 시기, 종자 성숙 시기는 처리구에서 더 느렸다. 지상부와 지하부 무게는 처리구에서 더 가벼웠다. 개체 당 꽃대 수와 꽃대 당 종자개수는 처리구에서 더 적었다. 개체 당 꽃대무게, 꽃대 당 종자무게 그리고 종자 한 개 무게는 처리구에서 더 가벼웠다. 이상으로 볼때, $CO_2$농도와 온도상승은 단양쑥부쟁이의 생태에 부정적인 영향을 준다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.419-429
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• 2022

American ginseng (Panax quinquefolium L.) is a perennial herbaceous plant widely cultivated in China, Korea, the United States, and Japan due to its multifunctional properties. In northwest China, transplanting after 2-3 years has become the main mode of artificial cultivation of American ginseng. However, the effects of the cultivation process on the chemical properties of the soil and bacterial community remain poorly understood. Hence, in the present study, high-throughput sequencing and soil chemical analyses were applied to investigate the differences between bacterial communities and nutrition driver factors in the soil during the cultivation of American ginseng. The responses of soil nutrition in different ecological niches were also determined with the results indicating that the cultivation of American ginseng significantly increased the soluble nutrients in the soil. Moreover, the bacterial diversity fluctuated with cultivation years, and 4-year-old ginseng roots had low bacterial diversity and evenness. In the first two years of cultivation, the bacterial community was more sensitive to soil nutrition compared to the last two years. Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Acidobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes dominated the bacterial community regardless of the cultivation year and ecological niche. With the increase of cultivation years, the assembly of bacterial communities changed from stochastic to deterministic processes. The high abundance of Sphingobium, Novosphingobium, and Rhizorhabdus enriched in 4-years-old ginseng roots was mainly associated with variations in the available potassium (AK), total phosphorus (TP), total potassium (TK), and organic matter (OM).

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.104-110
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• 2012

We studied the effects of elevated ozone ([$O_3$]) and $CO_2$ concentrations ([$CO_2$]) on the growth and photosynthesis of the hybrid larch $F_1(F_1)$ and on its parents (the Dahurian larch and Japanese larch). $F_1$ is a promising species for timber production in northeast Asia. Seedlings of the three species were grown in 16 open top chambers and were exposed to two levels of $O_3$ (<10 ppb and 60 ppb for 7 h per day) in combination with two levels of $CO_2$ (ambient and 600 ppm for daytime) over an entire growing season. Ozone reduced the growth as measured by height and diameter, and reduced the needle dry mass and net photosynthetic rate of $F_1$, but had almost no effect on the Dahurian larch or Japanese larch. There was a significant increase in whole-plant dry mass induced by elevated [$CO_2$] in $F_1$ but not in the other two species. Photosynthetic acclimation to elevated [$CO_2$] was observed in all species. The net photosynthetic rate measured at the growing [$CO_2$] (i.e. 380 ppm for ambient treatment and 600 ppm for elevated $CO_2$ treatment) was nevertheless greater in the seedlings of all species grown at elevated [$CO_2$]. The high [$CO_2$] partly compensated for the reduction of stem diameter growth of $F_1$ at high [$O_3$]; no similar trend was found in the other growth and photosynthetic parameters, or in the other species.