• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.169-172
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• 2008

Sequences of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome b gene (1,140 bp) and control region (803 bp) of Siberian flying squirrels from Korea (Pteromys volans aluco) and Mt. Changbai of northeast China (P. v. arsenjevi) were obtained to reexamine the taxonomic status of the Korean subspecies. In the cytochrome b gene, six haplotypes of P. v. aluco formed a clade with six haplotypes of P. v. arsenjevi, and in control region, seven haplotypes of P. v. aluco formed a clade with six haplotypes of P. v. arsenjevi. Furthermore, six haplotypes of cytochrome b gene of P. v. aluco from this study formed a clade with four haplotypes of P. v. arsenjevi in far-east Russia obtained from GenBank. We also investigated the research papers previously published that reported the length of tail vertebrae of P. volans, and found that the length was not sufficiently large as to be a key character of P. v. aluco. This result is not consistent with morphological description for its haplotype. Therefore, we conclude that P. v. aluco from Korea might possibly be a synonym of P. v. arsenjevi from northeast China and nearby Russia.

• 한국기후변화학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.235-243
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• 2018

Loss of favorable habitats for species due to temperature increase is one of the main concerns of climate change on the ecosystem, and endangered species might be much more sensitive to such unfavorable changes. This study aimed to analyze the impact of future climate change on endangered wild animals in South Korea by investigating thermal sensitivity and vulnerability to temperature increase. We determined thermal sensitivity by testing normality in species distribution according to temperature. Then, we defined the vulnerability when the future temperature range of South Korea completely deviate from the current temperature range of species distribution. We identified 13 species with higher thermal sensitivity. Based on IPCC future scenarios RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5, the number of species vulnerable to future warming doubled from 3 under RCP4.5 to 7 under the RCP8.5 scenario. The species anticipated to be at risk under RCP 8.5 are flying squirrel (Pteromys volans aluco), ural owl (Pteromys volans aluco), black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius), tawny owl (Strix aluco), watercock (Gallicrex cinerea), schrenck?s bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus), and fairy pitta (Pitta nympha). The other 10 species showing very narrow temperature ranges even without normal distributions and out of the future temperature range may also need to be treated as vulnerable species, considering the inevitable observation scarcity of such endangered species.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.111-122
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• 2014

The provided habitat of many services from natural capital is important. But because most ecosystem services tools qualitatively evaluated biodiversity or habitat quality, this study quantitatively analyzed those aspects using the species distribution model (MaxEnt). This study used location point data of the goat(Naemorhedus caudatus), marten(Martes flavigula), leopard cat(Prionailurus bengalensis), flying squirrel(Pteromys volans aluco) and otter(Lutra lutra) from the 3rd National Ecosystem Survey. Input data utilized DEM, landcover classification maps, Forest-types map and digital topographic maps. This study generated the MaxEnt model, randomly setting 70% of the presences as training data, with the remaining 30% used as test data, and ran five cross-validated replicates for each model. The threshold indicating maximum training sensitivity plus specificity was considered as a more robust approach, so this study used it to conduct the distribution into presence(1)-absence(0) predictions and totalled up a value of 5 times for uncertainty reduction. The test data's ROC curve of endangered mammals was as follows: growing down goat(0.896), otter(0.857), flying squirrel(0.738), marten(0.725), and leopard cat(0.629). This study was divided into two groups based on habitat: the first group consisted of the goat, marten, leopard cat and flying squirrel in the forest; and the second group consisted of the otter in the river. More than 60 percent of endangered mammals' distribution probability were 56.9% in the forest and 12.7% in the river. A future study is needed to conduct other species' distribution modeling exclusive of mammals and to develop a collection method of field survey data.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 2018년 1월과 8월에 촬영된 VIIRS(Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) DNB(Day and Night Band) 야간 위성 영상에서 추출한 야간 빛방사량을 이용하여, 덕유산국립공원 지역 빛공해의 공간적·계절적 특성을 파악하고. 이를 바탕으로 빛공해가 덕유산국립공원 생태계에 미치는 잠재적 영향을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 공원 내 주요 빛공해원 중 무주덕유산리조트의 빛방사량이 가장 높았고, 특히 8월에 비해 1월의 빛방사량이 월등히 높은 것으로 조사되어, 겨울철 스키 슬로프와 부대시설 조명이 덕유산국립공원 빛공해의 주요 원인임을 알 수 있었다. 공원 인근 도시지역에서 공원 내부로 이어지는 도시-자연 빛공해 경사(gradient)를 분석한 결과, 빛공해원에서 방사된 빛이 인접 지역으로 최대 1km까지 침투하여 공원 경계 지역을 빛공해로 오염시키는 것으로 조사되었다. 문헌 조사를 통해 덕유산국립공원 내 공간적 분포가 알려진 법정 보호종 중 포유류 4종(담비, 무산쇠족제비, 삵, 하늘다람쥐), 조류 2종(새호리기, 황조롱이), 양서파충류 9종(꼬리치레도롱뇽, 도롱뇽, 이끼도롱뇽, 북방산개구리, 계곡산개구리, 누룩뱀, 유혈목이, 쇠살모사, 까치살모사), 어류(감돌고기, 돌상어)가 빛공해가 심각한 지역에 서식하고 있었다. 이 중 삵과 하늘다람쥐 등 야행성 종의 서식환경이 특히 나빠진 것으로 보인다. 이 결과는 빛공해로부터 국립공원과 같은 보호지역 생태계를 보호하기 위해서는, 공원 내부뿐 아니라 인접 지역의 야간조명을 관리하여야 하며, 야생동식물의 생태적 특성을 고려한 야간 조명 관리가 필요하다는 것을 시사해 주는 결과이다.