• 대기
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.483-498
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• 2017

Sky view factor can quantify the influence of complex obstructions. This study aims to evaluate the best available SVF method that represents an urban thermal condition with land cover in complex city of Korea and also to quantify a correlation between SVF and mean air temperature; the results are as follows. First, three SVF methods comparison result shows that urban thermal study should consider forest canopy induced effects because the forest canopy test (on/off) on SVF reveals significant difference range (0.8, between maximum value and minimum value) in comparison with the range (0.1~0.3) of SVFs (Fisheye, SOLWEIG and 3DPC) difference. The significance is bigger as a forest cover proportion become larger. Second, R-square between SVF methods and urban local mean air temperature seems more reliable at night than a day. And as the value of SVF increased, it showed a positive slope in summer day and a negative slope in winter night. In the SVF calculation method, Fisheye SVF, which is the observed value, is close to the 3DPC SVF, but the grid-based SWG SVF is higher in correlation with the temperature. However, both urban climate monitoring and model/analysis study need more development because of the different between SVF and mean air temperature correlation results in the summer night period, which imply other major factors such as cooling air by the forest canopy, warming air by anthropogenic heat emitted from fuel oil combustion and so forth.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.397-408
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• 1995

This study was conducted to analyze the breeding bird community by using guild concept in Mt. Baekwoon Research Forest of Seoul National University. Bird Community was studied by line transect method during the breeding seasons of birds in 1982 and its results were compared and analyzed with the Park et al. Work in 1993. Guilds were characterized by nesting and foraging sites as follows: nesting guild - (H) hole, (C) canopy, (B) bush, (E) edge; and foraging guild - (o) outside, (c) canopy, (b) bush. Bush-nesting guilds such as Tricolor Flycatcher (Ficedula zanthopygia), Blue-and-White Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana), Stonechat (Saxicola torquata), Bush Warbler (cettia diphone) and Skylark (Alauda arvensis) had disappeared after ten years. Outside-foraging guilds such as Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo), sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus) and Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) also were not observed. There was a sharp decrease of species richness of bush-nesting guild, canopy-foraging guild and bush-foraging guild compared to ten years ago. These decreases indicate that forest environment of this area has been changed for the ten years, and guild concept in this study can be used usefully to elucidate the change of bird community according to the change in forest environment.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제100권3호
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• pp.359-366
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• 2011

본 연구의 목적은 숲가꾸기 사업이 소나무림의 수관연료특성에 미치는 영향에 대하여 분석하고자 하였다. 연구대상지는 숲가꾸기 사업이 실시된 경북 영주지역 소나무림(Pinus densiflora)과 천연림 상태의 봉화지역 소나무림을 대상으로 조사하였으며, 각 지역마다 10본의 표본목을 벌채하여 수관층 연료특성을 비교 분석하였다. 영주지역의 수관층 수분함량은 103.6%, 봉화지역은 104.4%로 나타났으며, 총 수관층 연료에서 수관화 확산 시 연소될 수 있는 이용 가능한 연료의 비율은 영주지역 50.3%, 봉화지역 62.0%로 나타났다. 숲가꾸기 사업이 실시된 영주지역 소나무림의 수관연료밀도는 천연림 상태의 봉화지역 소나무림에 비해 평균 $0.11kg/m^3$ 낮았으며, 지하고는 평균 1.3 m 높은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 숲가꾸기 사업이 실시된 영주지역 소나무림이 천연림 상태인 봉화지역 소나무림에 비해 산불 발생 시 수관화로의 전이 가능성이 매우 낮은 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국농림기상학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.45-62
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• 2010

영면변위(d)는 거친 식생군락에 의해 운동량이 모두 흡수되어 군락 내의 대수적 풍속 프로파일이 0이 되는 높이를 말한다. 군락의 표면 거칠기의 구조를 나타내는 영면변위는 군락난류의 분석과 지표 스칼라 플럭스의 계산에 매우 중요하다. 본 단보에서는 Monin-Obukhov 상사이론에 기반을 두고 단일층에서 관측된 평균수평풍속 자료를 사용하는 두 가지 다른 방법을 사용하여 광릉침엽수림에서 d 값을 추정하였다. 관측지의 비균질성과 복잡성을 고려해서, 표면거칠기와 바람체계가 d에 미칠수 있는 영향을 살펴보기 위해, 자료를 매 $30^{\circ}$ 간격의 풍향별로 나누었다. 전반적으로 두 방법을 사용한 결과는 서로 비슷했는데, $d/h_c$ (여기서 $h_c$는 군락의 높이로서 약 ~23m)는 풍향에 따라 0.51~0.97의 범위를 보였다. 이러한 $d/h_c$의 값의 범위는 문헌에 보고되어 있는 범위(0.64~0.94)와 크게 다르지 않았으나, 다소 높은 쪽에 분포되어 있었다. 이러한 원인의 하나로는 관측이 두 방법의 전제인 Monin-Obukhov 상사이론이 성립하지 않는 거칠기아층에서 이루어졌기 때문인 것으로 사료된다. 따라서 관측높이가 거칠기 아층에 존재할 경우에는 단일층 풍속으로부터 영면변위를 추정하는 방법을 적용하고 그 결과를 해석하는 데에 세심한 주의가 필요하다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.67-77
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• 2018

The objective of this study is to extract the shape of the slope from the images acquired using UAV and evaluate its suitability and reliability when applied to slope stability analysis. UAV is relatively inexpensive and simple, and it is possible to make terrain survey by generating point clouds. However, the image acquired from UAV can not be directly photographed by the forest canopy due to the influence of trees, resulting in severe distortion of the terrain. In this study, therefore, the effects of forest canopy were verified and the slope stability analysis was performed. Images acquired in winter and summer were used, because summer images are heavily influenced by the forest canopy and winter images are not. As a result of the study, the winter image is suitable for the extraction of slope shape, but severe terrain distortion occurs in the summer image. Therefore, slope stability analysis using slope shape extracted from summer image is impossible, so it should be modified for slope stability analysis. The modified slope did not completely eliminate the distortion of the terrain, but it could express the approximate shape of the slope. As a result of the slope stability analysis, the location and shape of the failure surface are the same, and the error of the safety factor is less than 0.2, which is close to the actual slope.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제94권5호통권162호
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• pp.321-329
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• 2005

Based on the data representing four typical Korean pine forest types, the age structure, DBH distribution, species composition, and forking rule were systemically analyzed for old-growth Korean pine forest in Liangshui Nature Reserve, northeast China. The age structure of Korean pine trees was strongly uneven-aged with one dominated peak following normal distribution, and age of trees varied from 100 to 180 years within a stand. The DBH and height differences in same age class (20 years) varied from 28 cm~64 cm and 5 to 20 m, respectively. Many conifer and hard wood species, such as spruce, fir, costata birch, basswood, oak, and elm, were mixed with dominated trees of Korean pine. The canopy of the old-growth Korean pine forest can be divided into two layers, and differences of mean age and height between Layer I and Layer II were ranged 80~150 years and 7~13 m, respectively. The Weibull function was used to model the diameter distribution and performed well to describe size-class distribution either with a single peak in over-story canopy and inverse J-shape in under-story canopy for old-growth Korean pine stands. The forking height of Korean pine trees ranged from 16m to 24 m (mean 19.4 m) and tree age about 120 to 160 years old. The results will provide a scientific basis to protect and recover the ecosystem of natural old-growth Korean pine and also provide the model in management of Korean pine plantation.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제88권1호
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• pp.86-92
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• 1999

증발산량은 산원 수자원의 제한 요인이며, 한편으로는 임목의 생장, 분포에 관여하는 중요한 생태계의 요인으로 인식되고 있다. 식생에 의한 증산은 주로 기상학적 요인에 의하여 좌우된다. 조사 유역의 하부는 수고 8m의 소나무로 밀생되어 있으며, 상부는 생장이 불량한 소나무와 참나무류가 산생하고 있다. 1993년도 강수, 유출 조사 자료를 이용하여 증발산량을 구하고, Penman-Monteith 모델의 수관저항을 정하여, 이 모델에 의한 산림지역의 일 증발산량의 계절적 변이를 추정하고자 하였다. 연간 증발산량은 590.3mm이었으며 수관저항값은 99s/m로 결정되었다. 연간 증발산량 중에서 5월의 증발산량이 106.4mm로 가장 큰 값을 나타내며 이는 식생에 의한 수관차단 및 증산의 영향을 반영하고 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.173-180
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• 2008

Diurnal variation of the flow over a forest canopy on a mountain slope is simulated numerically. In the daytime, the earth surface is heated by the solar radiation and the flow goes up the mountain due to the buoyancy force, and during the night, the air is drained downward along the slope owing to the cooling of the surface by radiation. In this flow process the forest canopy that consists of leaf region and the trunk region plays a dominant role as a momentum sink to the flow, thus the modeling of the leaf area region and trunk region is critical to the successful flow simulation. In the present study, a field measurement in an experimental forest in the State of Oregon in the United States is numerically analyzed. The resistance to the flow in the leaf region is directly related to the leaf area density (LAD), and the trunk is modeled as a cylinder.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Background: Though the biomass of floral vegetation in understory plant communities in a forested ecosystem only accounts for less than 1% of the total biomass of a forest, they contain most of the floral resources of a forest. The diversity of understory honey plants determines visitation rate of pollinators such as honey bee (Apis mellifera) as they provide rich food resources. Since the flower visitation and foraging activity of pollinators lead to the provision of pollination service, it also means the enhancement of plant-pollinator relationship. Therefore, an appropriate management scheme for understory vegetation is essential in order to conserve pollinator population that is decreasing due to habitat destruction and disease infection. This research examined the diversity of understory honey plant and studied how it is related to environmental variables such as (1) canopy density, (2) horizontal heterogeneity of canopy surface height, (3) slope gradient, and (4) distance from roads. Vegetation survey data of 39 plots of mixed forests in Chuncheon, Korea, were used, and possible management practices for understory vegetation were suggested. Results: This study found that 113 species among 141 species of honey plant of the forests were classified as understory vegetation. Also, the understory honey plant diversity is significantly positively correlated with distance from the nearest road and horizontal heterogeneity of canopy surface height and negatively correlated with canopy density. Conclusions: The diversity of understory honey plant vegetation is correlated to vegetation structure and human impact. In order to enhance the diversity of understory honey plant, management of density and height of canopy is necessary. This study suggests that improved diversity of canopy cover through thinning of overstory vegetation can increase the diversity of understory honey plant species.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.98-105
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• 2009

The objective of this study is to develop numerical simulation model for analysing the wind speed reduction effect by coastal forest belts. The horizontally homogeneous turbulent flow equations, which are derived from the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes method, both above the tree canopy and within the canopy were first formulated, and a first-order closure scheme with the capability of accounting the bulk momentum transport term within the canopy was employed. The averaged equations were solved numerically by finite difference method, FTCS (forward time centered space) scheme. The proposed model was also used to numerically investigate the effects of structural characteristic of forest belt on the wind speed. The effects of maximum leaf area density were evaluated, with the leaf area density of $1.0m^2/m^3$, $2.0m^2/m^3$, $3.0m^2/m^3$, and $4.0m^2/m^3$. Vertical distributions of leaf area, both uniform and varied distribution with a height, were also considered. A comparison of wind profile indicated that there was in good agreements between simulated and measured wind speed. Also, the results showed horizontal wind speed decreased under a height of the tree with increasing maximum leaf area density. In conclusion, in applications where computational efficiency and simplicity are desirable, the proposed numerical model has of great capability to determine the vertical turbulent momentum transport and wind profile in the costal forest belt.