• 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.

• 환경생물
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2004

Ecological methods were reviewed through reports such as environmental impact assessment and damage effect of fishery in the Korean watershed. Survey items in marine ecological field were included: phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic animal, algae, adult fish, egg and juvenile of fish. A standardization of survey method in the field of community ecology was suggested to consider the convenience, Sequency in Use of device, accuracy of data collected from that. It is necessary that spatial data should be sufficiently acquired toy statistical analysis of biodiversity and spatial comparison. Quantitative sampling method must be inevitably adopted based nature of biota and geographical type of the survey area. The same sampling method can make the data compared spatially but can't be applicable in all area. Standardizing survey method should be by no means under certain restriction of study and would become different according to survey environments. The first thing is minutely understanding about ecological character of biota inhabiting in certain area, and then determining survey method.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.337-346
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• 2014

본 년도 동강 유역 주간 육상곤충 2013 조사 결과 총 16목 117과 455종 3,001개체가 조사되었다. 분류군별 출현한 종수는 딱정벌레목 166종(36.48%), 노린재목 11종(24.0%), 나비목 68종(14.95%), 파리목 40종(8.79%), 벌목 28종(6.15%), 메뚜기목 18종(3.96%), 잠자리목 7종(1.54%), 기타 3.74%, 개체수는 딱정벌레목 996개체(33.2%), 노린재목 951개체(31.7%), 나비목 662개체(20.7%), 메뚜기목 155개체(5.2%), 파리목 100개체(3.3%), 벌목 87개체(2.9%), 잠자리목 30개체(1.0%), 기타 (2.0%). 그 중 환경부 지정 멸종위기 II급 1종, 한국 적색목록 위급종(CR) 1종, 취약종(VU) 7종, 준위협종(NT) 2종이 조사되었다. 문헌에 비해 총 4목 33과 266종이 새로이 추가되어 동강의 주간 육상곤충은 총 17목 183과 1,737종을 보고한다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.403-414
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• 2023

본 연구는 강원도 강릉시에 위치한 하시동·안인사구 생태경관보전지역에서의 생태계서비스 평가와 증진방안 마련을 위하여 시행되었다. 연구방법으로 신속평가 도구를 이용한 생태계서비스 평가를 바탕으로 환경지속성지수 분석하였고, SWOT 분석을 통하여 생태계서비스 증진방안을 마련하였다. 하시동·안인사구 생태경관보전지역의 생태계서비스 평가 결과를 바탕으로 분석한 환경지속성지수는 조절서비스, 문화서비스, 지지서비스 모두 50% 미만으로 낮게 평가되었다. 특히 문화서비스, 지지서비스가 부족한 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 하시동·안인사구 생태경관보전지역의 생태계서비스 증진 방안을 마련하기 위하여 SWOT 분석을 시행하였다. 강점을 기회로 활용(SO전략), 강점을 이용한 위협요인 최소화(ST전략), 강점을 보완하기 위하여 기회를 활용(WO전략), 약점을 보완하고 위협을 최소화(WT전략)하는 생태계서비스 증진방안 6가지를 도출하였다. 향후 하시동·안인사구 생태경관보전지역에서 생태계서비스 증진사업을 추진할 때 현재 훼손된 지역의 복원과 향후 침식 등으로 인한 피해 방지 등 제시한 문제를 극복하고 이를 통하여 생태계서비스를 증진시켜 하시동·안인사구 생태경관보전지역의 가치를 높일 필요가 있다.

• Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.127-135
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• 2012

Urbanization has led to a reduction in green spaces and thus transformed the spatial pattern of urban land use. An increase in air temperature directly affects forest vegetation, phenology, and biodiversity in urban areas. In this paper, we analyze the changing land use patterns and urban heat distribution (UHD) in Seoul on the basis of a spatial assessment. It is necessary to monitor and assess the functions of green spaces in order to understand the changes in the green space. In addition, we estimated the influence of green space on urban temperature using Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) imagery and climatic data. Results of the assessment showed that UHD differences cause differences in temperature variation and the spatial extent of temperature reducing effects due to urban green space. The ratio of urban heat area to green space cooling area increases rapidly with increasing distance from a green space boundary. This shows that urban green space plays an important role for mitigating urban heating in central areas. This study demonstrated the importance of green space by characterizing the spatiotemporal variations in temperature associated with urban green spaces.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.357-366
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• 2008

It is certain that urbanization has transformed the ecological consequences severely, but urban ecosystem is not fully understood yet. Urban growth is not like a static form and it spreads spatially and temporally. Therefore in studying urban ecosystem, it is important to relate the spatial pattern of urbanization to ecological processes. Using gradient analysis, we attempted to quantify the urbanization's spatial impacts in Daejeon-city and Cheonan-city, Chungcheong-province, Korea. Because of Multifunctional Administrative City Planning (MACP), a lot of development projects are planned in Chungcheong-province, Korea. It's important to study about original cities' patterns and impacts. These results can be adopted to future city planning. So several measures such as fragmentation, vegetation index, surface temperature, population density, and income rate were computed along a 75km long and 3km wide transect. The results showed that Daejeon-city has a wider urban center, lower vegetation indexes, and higher surface temperature than Cheonan-city. Therefore in the perspective of urban environments and sustainable urbanism, it seems that Cheonan-city is better than Daejeon-city. The changes along the transect have important ecological implications, and quantifying the urbanization gradient is an important step in understanding urban ecology.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.948-953
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• 2010

In this study, degradation of estrone (E1) and $17{\alpha}$-ethynylestradiol (EE2) by gamma-irradiation and subsequent reduction of estrogenic activity as a function of absorbed dose were conducted using the yeast two-hybrid assay. Relative potency of E1 and EE2 compared to estrogenic activity of $17{\beta}$-estradiol (E2) was found to be 0.0144 and 0.1605, respectively. More than 90% of E1 and EE2 (both $5.0{\times}10^{-6}M$) was removed at an absorbed dose of 5 kGy, but more than 40% of estrogenic activity still remained. The addition of $TiO_2$ catalyst appeared to improve the removal efficiency of E1 and decrease estrogenic activity while there was no significant effect for EE2. Additionally, the calculated estrogenic activity of E1 and EE2 based on a regression model was well correlated with the observed activity.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.208-219
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• 2014

This work aims to establish the landscape ecological countermeasures to improve the sustainability of urban mountain forest and to enrich the biodiversity in twenty mountains of the Seoul Metropolitan City. Landscape ecological analysis was conducted based upon various criteria, such as area and elevation of mountains, flora, naturalized plants, vegetation, forest types, mountain trails, and public facilities. Various measures were suggested for the better maintenances of floristic diversity, introduced plants, vegetation and forest types of urban mountain forests. Sustainable recommendations for land use adminstration were developed for the preparations of a climate change-adapted urban mountain forests, as well as rational managements of ecosystem, walking trails, and public facilities within mountain forest. Rich and diverse natural vegetation as well as high floristic diversity were reported at mountains with higher elevations, larger area size, and rich landscape diversity. Mountains with low elevation, small size with easy public access, however, might require an urgent action to decrease the burdens by anthropogenic disturbances and urban development.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.74-82
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• 2020

Predictions of suitable habitat areas can provide important information pertaining to the risk assessment and management of alien plants at early stage of their establishment. Here, we predict the invasion potential of Muhlenbergia capillaris (pink muhly) in South Korea using five bioclimatic variables. We adopt four models (generalized linear model, generalized additive model, random forest (RF), and artificial neural network) for projection based on 630 presence and 600 pseudo-absence data points. The RF model yielded the highest performance. The presence probability of M. capillaris was highest within an annual temperature range of 12 to 24℃ and with precipitation from 800 to 1,300 mm. The occurrence of M. capillaris was positively associated with the precipitation of the driest quarter. The projection map showed that suitable areas for M. capillaris are mainly concentrated in the southern coastal regions of South Korea, where temperatures and precipitation are higher than in other regions, especially in the winter season. We can conclude that M. capillaris is not considered to be invasive based on a habitat suitability map. However, there is a possibility that rising temperatures and increasing precipitation levels in winter can accelerate the expansion of this plant on the Korean Peninsula.

• 대한지역사회영양학회지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.683-694
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• 2004

The objective of this study is to improve the health related quality of life through the efficient weight reduction by analyzing the ecological factors related to completion of weight reduction program in the obese premenopausal women aged 20-29 years. The factors influencing completion of obesity management programs in the obese women were the preferences of sweet and salt taste, health related quality of life (general health, role emotional), eating attitude scores, and regularity of mealtime scores. The finding that the completion of obese management programme were improved if the health-related quality of life was high and the physiological status related symptoms of stress, depress, and eating disorder were good has implications for the treatment of obesity. The questionnaire used this study can be available to develop the obesity assessment sheets which is required the exploration of the characteristics of obese women and the tailored multi-disciplinary obesity management program. Moreover, the obesity assessment sheets will make a contribution to determine types of the programs that is suitable for obesity women before starting an obesity management program.