• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.124-137
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• 2010

This study was started with the objective of restoring abandoned embanked farms, which are recently increasing, to mud flat by putting in least amount of energy in the aspect of environmental restoration. For the direction and establishment of the proposal for the restoration of mud flat using embanked farms, a case of Maipo Wetland in Hongkong was analyzed, and a proposal was prepared considering the condition of mud flat in Gochang. The restoration of mud flat in Gochang is intended to create various wetland ecological spaces as well as to provide opportunities for experience, education, recreation, and tourism. Effort was made to development an environment closest to the local ecological environment considering the shape and topographical condition of existing abandoned farms. For construction of the habitat, a target species was chosen and the plan for selection, planting, and management of species of trees suitable for the target species was established. In addition, the water level will be controlled by water gates to conform to the resting, spawning, breeding, and migration period considering the behavioral pattern of waders, the target species. The research on the restoration of mud flat in Korea is in incipient stage and this study provided an opportunity to review the possibility of restoration of abandoned embanked farms to mud flat. For the success of mud flat restoration from a long-term perspective, development of acclimating design infrastructure, technology improvement for mud flat restoration, and basis of partnership for the maintenance should be prepared in a systematical way.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.185-201
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• 2014

The Yong-neup of Mt. Daeam, which was designated as Korea's National Monument No.246 in 1973, is a high moor, and it has been managed with the designation as an ecosystem conservation area, Ramsar wetlands, and wetland conservation area. With the closing of the officially announced 5-year period for 'No-Trespassing' on the ecosystem conservation area starting August, 2010, it becomes necessary to arrange a systematic management and conservation scheme in consideration of the access & use of the visitors and Yong-neup's potential change into land consequent on making it open to the public. This study thinks that in order to preserve the Yong-neup, it's necessary to prepare the conservation plan for the program operation for exterminating exotic species, development of replacement wetlands and nurseries, access limit through zone categorization, establishment of environment-monitoring system, institutional management support, and establishment of managing facilities, etc., and to make scientific approaches, such as survey on wetland ecosystem, establishment of inventories, wetland monitoring, and drawing up of wetland ecology maps, etc. In addition, it is required that there should be adequate considerations of restoration of slope faces, drains, artificial embankment, water-collecting wells, roads for military operations, and wild-boar-stricken areas, etc., and should be continuous and systematic management of Yong-neup through the wise use of residents' participation-style maintenance, organization of a consultative body, introduction of CEPA programs, and introduction of visiting facilities and alternative transportation system, etc.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.167-168
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• 2003

The Upo wetland, the largest natural wetland in Korea, is located in Changnyeong-gun, Gyeongsannam Province ($35^{\circ}33'$ N, $128^{\circ}25'$ E), and 70 km upstream from the Nakdong River estuary. Unlike most other Korean wetlands that have been destroyed under the name of economic development, the Upo wetland has been able to preserve its precious ecosystem throughout the years. Thanks to increased public awareness about natural wetlands and environmental conservation, the Korean Ministry of Environment designated the Upo wetland an 'Ecological Conservation Area' on July 26th, 1997. On March 2nd of the following year, the Upo wetland (8.54 $\textrm{km}^2$) was designated a 'Protected Wetland' in accordance with the international Ramsar Treaty. A 4.49m long (from 9.73 to 5.24 m in altitude) UP-1 core ($35^{\circ}33'05"N$, $128^{\circ}25'17"E$), recovered in the marginal part of the Upo wetland, is divided into eight buried paleosol units of different ages on the basis of the abundance of color mottles and vertical color variations (Aslan et al., 1998). Radiocarbon datings suggested that the paleosol profile represent the last 5700 years. The entire section of the core was more or less subjected to pedogenetic processes, and shows very weak to moderate soil profile development. These Holocene paleosols are therefore regarded as synsedimentary soils of deluvium (deposits formed by floods) origin (Sycheva et al., 2003). Unit 1 to 5 paleosols are generally silt-rich and exhibit moderate profile development. The boundaries between the units are somewhat distinguishable, but not so clear cut. This is due to variable repeated combination of accumulation, denudation and soil forming processes within various periods. Mottle textures gradually decrease in abundance with increasing clay content in Unit 6, which results in weak profile development. The lower boundary of Unit 6 lies around about 2000 yrBP, the beginning of Subatlantic in Korea (Kim et al., 2001). Abrupt sediment textural change is detected in Unit 7, which is interpreted to indicate the human activities on the Upo wetland. Unit 8 represents the recent soil forming processes. The preliminary results of this ongoing study imply the primary factor for pedogenetic processes is the water table fluctuations related to the sedimentary textures like grain size distributions, and the geomorphological stability of the Upo wetland.o wetland.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.245-250
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• 2015

지방자치단체 수준에서의 습지 보전 현황을 파악하기 위해 경상남도를 대상으로 실행계획과 과제현황을 분석하였다. 습지보전실천계획은 기반체계(습지조사, 습지보호지역 람사르습지 관리, 습지관리전략 수립), 습지보전 및 현명한 이용(습지복원, 생물관리, 이용시설조성), 교육 및 인식증진, 협력체계구축(국내외 습지보전기관과의 협력)으로 구분하였다. 2010년부터 2013년 까지 총 42개 과제(145건)가 수행되었고 총 88,899백만원이 경상남도의 14개 기관에서 수행된 것으로 분석되었다. 과제의 규모와 예산은 점차 감소하는 추세에 있지만 지속적으로 추진되는 과제가 많으며, 수행 주체는 일부 지방자치단체에 집중되어 있는 양상을 보였다. 각 과제가 얼마나 많은 성과를 만들었는가를 판단하기에 앞서, 전통적인 습지관리방법이나 행정적 법적 지원이 충분하지 않은 상황에서 여러 가지 시도를 통해 지방정부 차원에서 습지를 관리하고 이를 조례로 입법화한 것은 지방자치단체 수준의 습지보전에 높은 의미를 가지는 것으로 평가할 수 있었다. 단일 지방자치단체의 역량만으로 국가 네트워크를 통한 자료 공유 또는 법적 제제는 무리가 따르므로 이를 위한 중앙정부차원의 법적 근거 마련과 타 지방자치단체와의 협력체계 구축이 시급한 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.997-1007
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• 2012

This study was performed to assess functions of 10 man-made wetlands in Gunsan City, Jeollabuk Province by means of RAM (Rapid Assessment Method), a technique recommended by Ramsar Convention to appraise wetlands. The assessment of the wetlands value found Gunsan reservoir to have the highest function points while Bukchosan reservoir was estimated to have the lowest function among the wetlands surveyed. By detailed factors of valued 10 man-made wetland, the wetlands were found to function most favorably in terms of vegetational variety and as habitat for wild animals. They need to have more improved functions as habitats for fish and amphibians reptiles, for preservation and betterment of water quality as well as for supplement of underground water, though. From the assessment of vegetational naturalness of the surveyed reservoirs, Gunsan reservoir turned out to be the most favorable wetland from the viewpoint of vegetation science whereas, however, Anjeong wetland was rated as the lowest in the assessment of vegetational value due to simplicity in its vegetation and lots of dangers in its neighborhood threatening its vegetation and ecology. The assessment of vegetational values for Gunsan, Gongchang, Daewi, Bukchosan, Anjeong, Geumgul, Changan and Chuksan reservoirs showed the same orextremely similar results as RAM function assessment. Geumsan reservoir only, however, featured the opposite result.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2007

Human activities have enhanced the influx of heavy metals to aquatic ecosystem and hanged the abiotic environment such as the sediments supporting benthic organisms. The levels of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn) in the benthic gastropod Oxyloma hirasei and the sediments around their habitat were investigated to examine heavy metal levels and the potential of the gastropod as a bioindicator. We detected different levels of heavy metals in the sediments of two wetland areas, Upo and Mokpo, in the relatively well-conserved Upo wetland, Ramsar Convention Area. Oxyloma hirasei had higher concentrations of heavy metals except Cr and Ni in their soft tissues than in their shells (Cd: $2.10{\sim}3.16$, Cu: $19.73{\sim}28.66$, Pb: $0.67{\sim}1.17$, Zn: $216.1{\sim}285.7\;{\mu}g/g$ dry weight in the soft tissues; Cr: $1.19{\sim}2.58$, Ni: $0.47{\sim}1.16\;{\mu}g/g$ dry weight in the shells). Differences in the Cd, Cu, Ni and Pb concentrations in O. hirasei soft tissues reflected differences in heavy metal concentrations in the sediments at the sampling sites. The coefficients of variation for Cd, Cu and Pb were lower than those for other metals in the soft tissues. Levels of Cd in the tissues of O. hirasei were the highest among the metals examined in this study. Therefore, the soft tissue of O. hirasei appears to be a promising bioindicator particularly for Cd.

• 한국습지학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2009

람사르 습지로 지정된 오대산 습지 중 소황병산늪의 보존가치를 찾기 위해 생태특성을 조사하였다. 소황병산늪의 퇴적토 깊이는 최대 86cm이었으며 중간부에서 평균 53cm로 나타났다. 물의 pH는 평균 5.8로 산성이 탄습지와 이탄습지의 중간정도를 나타내었다. 전기전도도는 $11{\mu}S$/cm로 우리나라 습지 중 가장 낮게 나타났으며, 양이온, 질산, 암모니아, 인산 분석 결과 수질은 매우 양호하였다. 유출수량은 3일간 누적 강수량과 양의 상관관계를 보였으며 연중 지속적으로 물이 유출되었다. 주변토양은 사양토로 토양 양분은 매우 적었으며, 산성도는 높았다. 유관속 식물은 45과 95속 121종, 2아종, 16변종, 4품종으로 총 121종류로 조사되었으며, 하부의 물이끼를 바탕으로 삿갓사초, 꿩고비, 산사초 군락이 넓게 분포하였다. 조사결과 소황병산늪은 우리나라에서 가장 온전한 이탄습지로 그 보존 가치가 뛰어나며, 수질, 토양 분석 결과 빈영양상태를 나타내고 위협요인 또한 거의 없으므로 이탄습지가 지속적으로 발달할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.512-527
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• 2012

다도해해상국립공원의 서단(西端)에 위치하는 장도(면적 $1.54km^2$)는 고층습원의 발달과 국가적 생물다양성 중점지역(hotspot)으로 주목받고 있는 생태지역(ecoregion)이다. 본 연구는 장도에 발달하고 있는 식물군락의 다양성을 규명하고, 보전생태학적 식생관리전략을 제안하고자 진행되었다. 장도 식생은 10개 상관형(physiognomic types)에 총 22개 단위식생(syntaxa: 3개 군집, 15개 군락, 4개 하위군락)으로 구분되었다. 현존 습지식생(actual wetland vegetation)은 갈대군강(Phragmitetea)과 벼군강(Orizetea)에 귀속되는 비교적 낮은 자연도(naturalness)의 식물군락들로 이루어져 있었으며, 고층습원이 아닌 것으로 밝혀졌다. 동백나무군강(Camellietea japonicae)의 난온대 상록활엽수림 가운데 구실잣밤나무-가는쇠고사리군집은 장도가 새로운 최북단 분포지(northernmost distribution site)인 것으로 확인되었다. 지역 및 국가 특산식생형(regional and nation-wide endemic vegetation type)으로 소사나무-흑산비비추군락을 특기하였으며, 토지적 지역식생형(regional edaphic vegetation type)으로 해안 절벽에서 섬향나무-밀사초군락이 기재되었다. 장도는 험준한 섬 지형에도 불구하고 집약적인 인간간섭(방목, 벌채, 산불, 개간 등)이 대부분의 식생형에서 종조성으로부터 밝혀졌다. 그러나 장도는 난온대 속에서의 높은 무상일수와 연평균 최대 안개 일수를 가지고 있는 지역생물기후 특성, 차별침식에 의하여 형성된 함몰 분지에서의 대수층 발달과 같은 토지적 수리수문체계를 반영하는 독특한 식생자원이 보존되어 있는 것으로 평가되었다. 특히 장도습지는 보전생태학적 관점에서 그 존재의 가치가 지대한 것으로 평가되었다. 하지만 장도습지는 습지 지표면의 근본적인 수리수문 체계의 변질을 야기하는 인간간섭에 노출되어 있음으로써 이에 대한 즉각적인 습지생태계관리 매뉴얼 구축이 요구되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제12권8호
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• pp.1324-1331
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• 1999

The aim of this paper is to propose the preservation of buffaloes not only as productive livestock, but also as a part of the biodiversity of wetlands and especially of the Greek wetlands. The water buffalo used to be an integral part of the biodiversity of many Greek wetland ecosystems, enriched their landscape, and provided invaluable services and products to the rural people and to the economy in general. Its total population before the 1950s was over 100,000 animals. Presently, it is found only in four wetland sites in Macedonia and Thrace and in the estuaries of Rivers Gallikos and Axios, with a total population of a few hundred animals. These wetlands are Ramsar Sites. Even this small population is threatened with immediate extinction because of the rapidly changing rural socio-economic conditions and the expansion of cultivated fields into wet meadows. Farmers and consumers are rapidly losing contact with this mammal and its products. This species possesses minimum requirements for treatment and is characterized by the ability of utilizing roughage of variable nutritional value. These factors are promising to render buffalo breeding a valuable branch of the Greek livestock sector, which can also contribute to the maintenance of the wetlands.

• 식물분류학회지
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.370-382
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• 2011

람사르 습지 지역인 무제치늪의 식물다양성을 파악하기 위해 4개의 늪을 중심으로 2009년 5월부터 2010년 6월에 걸쳐 식물상을 조사하였다. 그 결과 무제치늪 일대의 관속식물은 55과 105속 128종 1아종 16변종 4품종 등 총 149분류군으로 분류되었다. 희귀식물은 자주땅귀개, 작은황새풀, 끈끈이주걱, 땅귀개, 이삭귀개, 꽃창포, 좀바늘사초 등 7분류군이 관찰되었고, 한국특산식물 1분류군, 식물구계학적 특정식물 19분류군, 귀화식물 3분류군이 관찰되었다. 특히, 작은황새풀은 식물지리학적, 진화적으로 중요한 식물로서, 보전하기 위해 심층적인 연구가 요구된다. 무제치늪과 가장 유사한 습생(수생)식물을 가지고 있는 산지습지는 신불산고산습지로 나타났다. 선행연구와 비교결과, 무제치늪 식물상이 조금씩 변화하고 있어서, 지속적인 관심과 적절한 대책이 마련되어야 할 것으로 판단된다.