• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.38-51
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to analyze of biotope types and to develop assessment for forest ecosystem evaluation method. Vegetation types divided into 27 types. Considering the vegetation types, vegetation structures, DBH, potentials, and disturbance, it was decided to apply 58 biotope types and survey site's biotopes were divided into 24 biotope types. Assessment indicators were naturaliness, diversity, rarity, stability, potential, and disturbance. The areas given the first grade in ecological value included 9.2% of the site's total land. Areas with the second grade accounted for 43.0% of the total land. Areas with the third grade made up 47.8% of the site and mostly they were areas with dominance of fired area and artificial forest. To plan to build naturally-development for Site, there should be plans to conserve areas with the first grades. For the areas with the second, and third grades, plans for ecological land use based on conservation and restoration in terms of securing biodiversity are needed.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2016

An invasive disturbance species has caused harm to biodiversity and ecosystem. To address the issue, identifying the characteristics of a habitat for invasive disturbance species is considered for forest management. This study analyzed a status of plant species by field survey based on belt transect method in the capital areas and established a predictive model for invasive disturbance species by logistic regression. As results of the study, the number of herb, vine, and invasive disturbance species and a canopy cover of tree would decrease from the forest edge to core areas (p<0.001). The predictive model was derived with variables of altitude, Topographic Wetness Index, distance to forest edge, and canopy cover of tree. It can be useful in estimating the presence or absence of species and predicting its spatial distribution. Further studies are needed to identify the pathway of introduction, spread, and possibility of germination for understanding the status of invasive disturbance species in more depth.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제36권5_1호
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• pp.835-846
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• 2020

최근 기후변화가 심각해지고 이상기상 현상이 빈번해짐에 따라 산불, 산사태 이외에도 우박, 매미나방과 같은 흔치 않은 형태의 산림생태계교란이 발생하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 RapidEye와 Sentinel-2 영상에 ISODATA(Iterative Self-organizing Data Analysis Technique Algorithm)를 적용하여, 2017년 화순의 우박 피해지와 2020년 치악산의 매미나방 피해지를 분석하였다. 우박 피해지의 경우, 본연구의 6월 영상분석과 선행연구의 7월 현장조사를 종합해볼 때, 우박에 의해 수목에 외상이 생긴 후에 가뭄이 겹치면서 6월에서 7월로 갈수록 피해의 심각성이 보다 더 증가한 것으로 분석되었다. 2020년 치악산의 매미나방 피해지에서는 6월 영상에서 상당한 나뭇잎 피해가 발견되었으며, 원주시에 인접한 낮은 고도의 사면에서 주로 피해가 발생한 것으로 나타났다. 기후변화에 의해 유발된 다양하고 특이한 산림생태계교란을 탐지함에 있어 위성원격탐사는 매우 효과적인 방법임에 틀림없으며, 우리나라에서 2024년 발사 예정인 농림업중형위성은 이와 같은 산림생태계교란을 감시하는 데 적극적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.66-70
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• 2018

Preliminary investigation and analysis of the effectiveness of controlling the number of ecosystem disturbance fishes residing in Togyo reservoir using the native carnivorous fish species were performed. The data were collected from August 2011 to November 2016. The release of native carnivorous fish species was carried out from the end of May, 2012 to the end of July, 2016, considering fishing ban period of Siniperca scherzeri. The comparative abundance of Lepomis macrochirus was found to be 12.8% in the first year and increased a little bit after releasing the native carnivorous fish. However, it decreased to 3.9% in the last year showing a value of less than 5%. On the other hand, the Micropterus salmoides populations tended to increase after the release of native carnivorous fish species. This seems to be the result of the segregation of habitat by interspecific competition with S. scherzeri. The M. salmoides moved from inside of the lake to edges, and to influent tributaries. Stable isotope analysis showed that Channa argus had the highest levels of nutrition, S. scherzeri and M. salmoides were in competition, and L. macrochirus was used as a feed source for released species. Changes of the fish community in the Togyo reservoir was represented by the rank abundance curves based on the results of the fish fauna. As a result, the fish group in incoming tributaries are somewhat disturbed after the release of the native carnivorous species. Similarly, the fish group in the reservoir were disturbed as well but it's gradually stabilizing afterwards. Therefore, the control of the ecosystem disturbance species using the native carnivorous fish of Korea is effective and helps to stabilize the fish community in the lake.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.114-123
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• 2018

생물다양성을 보전하기 위하여 생물의 서식처가 되는 주요 지역을 생태계 보호지역으로 지정하여 관리하고 있다. 보호지역의 생물다양성의 보존 및 확보 전략 수립에 타당성을 부여하기 위해서 보호지역간 생물다양성을 상대적으로 평가할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 산림생태계에 해당하는 보호지역의 생물다양성을 객관적으로 비교할 수 있는 평가지표를 선정하였고, 이를 지리산 국립공원과 북한산 국립공원의 생물다양성 비교에 적용하였다. 평가지표를 선정하기 위해서 문헌 조사를 실시하였다. 언급된 빈도가 높은 지표들과 산림 생물다양성에서 중요한 역할을 하는 산림구조를 평가지표로 선정하였다. 이를 통해 선정된 평가지표는 총 7개로 종다양도, 종풍부도, 균등도, 희귀성, 교란종, 고유생물자원 및 산림구조이다. 지리산 국립공원과 북한산 국립공원에서 종다양도는 3.492와 2.943, 종풍부도는 8.998과 9.793, 균등도는 0.849와 0.680, 희귀성지수는 11.976과 10.783, 교란종지수는 0.214과 0.357으로 나타났다. 두 국립공원 모두에서 고유생물자원은 풍부하게 나타났다. 산림구조는 다양한 임상을 보이고 안정적인 4층 구조를 이루고 있으며 수관울폐도는 지리산 국립공원에서 더 높게 나타났다. 대부분의 평가지표에서 지리산 국립공원의 생물다양성이 북한산 국립공원보다 높은 것으로 평가되었다.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.359-375
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• 2018

The long term ecological effects have been reported in natural forest ecosystem due to various anthropogenic disturbances, especially in tropics of the world. The present study was carried out in the sanctuary area of central India to assess the changes on litter biomass, litterfall pattern and soil attributes under different disturbance regimes. The study area includes three forest circles i.e., Bhoramdeo, Jamunpani and Salehwara each comprising three disturbances regimes viz., high, medium and low severity of biotic pressure. A noticeable variation and impact were recorded in different sites. The impact varies significantly from least disturbed sites to highly disturbed sites across the circle and among different disturbances level. The seasonal mean total forest floor biomass across the forest circles varied from 2.18 to $3.30t\;ha^{-1}$. It was found highest under lightly disturbed site and lowest under heavily disturbed site. Total litterfall varied from 5.11 to $7.06t\;ha^{-1}\;yr^{-1}$ across the forest circle. Lowest litterfall was recorded at heavily disturbed site while highest in lightly disturbed site. Annual turnover of litter varied from 69-73% and the turnover time ranged between 1.37-1.45 years. The turn over time was higher for heavily disturbed site and lower for lightly disturbed site. The heavily disturbed site of all the circle showed the sandy loam soil texture, whereas moderately and lightly disturbed site comprised of sandy loam, sandy clay loam and clay soil texture, respectively. The bulk density decreases from heavily disturbed site to lightly disturbed site and the pH of soils ranged from 5.57-6.89 across the circle. Across the circle the total soil nitrogen ranged from 0.12-0.21%, phosphorus from 10.03-24.00 kg and Potassium from $139.88-448.35kg\;ha^{-1}$, respectively. Our results demonstrate that anthropogenic disturbances regime significantly influences forest floors in terms of mass, composition and dynamics along with litterfall rate and soil properties.

• 환경생물
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.287-294
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• 2004

Pits and mounds created by windthrow have significant impacts on forest ecosystem. In order to establish initial data base, 80 pits and mounds were sampled and surveyed in 5 fir forests in Nae-Sorak Mountain. Characteristics and forms were surveyed and frequency of tree species appearance were surveyed as well. 4.9％ of surveyed area (0.4 ha) was pits and mounds in El and E2 areas except old areas where survey was done by estimation. E3 area showed the highest proportion, 11.7％ of 0.1 ha of sampling area.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.43-60
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• 2019

Background: Tropical montane forests played an important role in the provision of ecosystem services. The intense degradation and deforestation for the need of agricultural land expansion result in a significant decline of forest cover. However, the expansion of agricultural land did not completely destruct natural forests. There remain forests inaccessible for agricultural and grazing purpose. Studies on these forests remained scant, motivating to investigate biomass and soil carbon stocks. Data of biomass and soils were collected in 80 quadrats ($400m^2$) systematically in 5 forests. Biomass and disturbance gradients were determined using allometric equation and disturbance index, respectively. The regression modeling is employed to explore the spatial distribution of carbon stock along disturbance and environmental gradients. Correlation analysis is also employed to identify the relation between site factors and carbon stocks. Results: The result revealed that a total of 1655 individuals with a diameter of ${\geq}5cm$, representing 38 species, were measured in 5 forests. The mean aboveground biomass carbon stocks (AGB CS) and soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at 5 forests were $191.6{\pm}19.7$ and $149.32{\pm}6.8Mg\;C\;ha^{-1}$, respectively. The AGB CS exhibited significant (P < 0.05) positive correlation with SOC and total nitrogen (TN) stocks, reflecting that biomass seems to be a general predictor of SOCs. AGB CS between highly and least-disturbed forests was significantly different (P < 0.05). This disturbance level equates to a decrease in AGB CS of 36.8% in the highly disturbed compared with the least-disturbed forest. In all forests, dominant species sequestrated more than 58% of carbon. The AGB CS in response to elevation and disturbance index and SOC stocks in response to soil pH attained unimodal pattern. The stand structures, such as canopy cover and basal area, had significant positive relation with AGB CS. Conclusions: Study results confirmed that carbon stocks of studied forests were comparable to carbon stocks of protected forests. The biotic, edaphic, topographic, and disturbance factors played a significant variation in carbon stocks of forests. Further study should be conducted to quantify carbon stocks of herbaceous, litter, and soil microbes to account the role of the whole forest ecosystem.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.73-85
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• 2005

Natural disturbance and environmental pressure on natural ecosystems are gradually increasing, and the cause is significantly related to large-scale environmental pollution, global warming, decreasing biodiversity and habitat fragmentation. Environmental impact assessment(EIA) in Korea has been focused on distribution and composition of fauna and flora as major evaluation aspects in ecosystem assessment. It is well known that those characteristics of flora and fauna strongly depend on characteristics and quality of habitat and ecosystem. However, there is no items to assess habitat and ecosystems of spatial ecological system in EIA. Many countries are trying to develop the EIA items to consider the spatial characteristics of habitat and ecosystem and those ecological dynamics as well as species level. In this stream, landscape ecology is emerging discipline to examine spatial pattern and ecological process within/between habitats and ecosystems. Landscape ecological analysis, as a special tool for ecosystem evaluation, has been appropriately adopted to the EIA system in the advanced countries. This review paper tries to introducing the possibilities of landscape ecological concept into the Korean EIA system.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.907-916
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 인공조림된 편백림을 대상으로 식생구조 및 식생천이, 종다양성의 특성을 밝히고자 전남지역의 8곳에 편백림을 대상으로 식생조사를 실시하였다. 이 식생조사 데이터를 활용하여 군집분석 및 서열분석을 실시한 결과 5개 군락으로 단순화되었다. 군락I은 다른 군락에 비해 종다양성지수가 상당히 낮았는데 이는 교목층에 우점한 편백의 수관이 울폐되어 하층식생이 발달하지 않았거나 잡초목(경쟁 자생수종) 제거로 하층식생이 거의 남아있지 않았기 때문이었다. 반면, 군락 II~IV는 하층에 다양한 자생수종이 유입되어 아교목층과 관목층에서 서로 경쟁하여 어느 정도 안정되거나 식생발달 초기라서 종다양성지수가 높은 편이었다. 마지막, 군락 V는 휴양림으로서 이용강도가 높아 식생구조가 단순하였다. 또한, 임상에 유입되는 광합성유효광과 출현종수 종다양성지수 사이에는 정의 상관관계를 보였다. 이러한 편백림의 식생구조 특성은 과거 개벌 이후 묘목심기, 솎아베기, 풀베기 등의 산림시업과 밀접하게 관련된다. 편백림의 산림시업에 의한 교란빈도와 함께 식생천이프로세스 회전시간에 따라 군락별 식생구조와 종다양성은 약간의 차이를 보였지만, 천연림에 비해 편백림은 단순한 식생구조를 보였다. 인공림은 생물다양성이 낮고 생태계 서비스가 취약하기 때문에 공익적 기능을 발휘할 수 있는 인공림으로 전환하는 한 가지 수단으로써 생태적 관리가 필요할 것이다.