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Responses of Low-Quality Soil Microbial Community Structure and Activities to Application of a Mixed Material of Humic Acid, Biochar, and Super Absorbent Polymer

  • Li, Fangze;Men, Shuhui;Zhang, Shiwei;Huang, Juan;Puyang, Xuehua;Wu, Zhenqing;Huang, Zhanbin
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.30 no.9
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    • pp.1310-1320
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    • 2020
  • Low-quality soil for land reuse is a crucial problem in vegetation quality and especially to waste disposal sites in mining areas. It is necessary to find suitable materials to improve the soil quality and especially to increase soil microbial diversity and activity. In this study, pot experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of a mixed material of humic acid, super absorbent polymer and biochar on low-quality soil indexes and the microbial community response. The indexes included soil physicochemical properties and the corresponding plant growth. The results showed that the mixed material could improve chemical properties and physical structure of soil by increasing the bulk density, porosity, macro aggregate, and promote the mineralization of nutrient elements in soil. The best performance was achieved by adding 3 g·kg-1 super absorbent polymer, 3 g·kg-1 humic acid, and 10 g·kg-1 biochar to soil with plant total nitrogen, dry weight and height increased by 85.18%, 266.41% and 74.06%, respectively. Physicochemical properties caused changes in soil microbial diversity. Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Cyanobacteria, Firmicutes, Nitrospirae, Planctomycetes, and Proteobacteria were significantly positively correlated with most of the physical, chemical and plant indicators. Actinobacteria and Armatimonadetes were significantly negatively correlated with most measurement factors. Therefore, this study can contribute to improving the understanding of low-quality soil and how it affects soil microbial functions and sustainability.

Groping the Environmental Education Method Based on the Ecological Principles (생태학의 원리에 기초한 환경교육 방법의 모색)

  • 이창석
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.137-147
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    • 2002
  • The progress of environmental science and technology in the developed countries has been rapid in recent years. Particularly remarkable has been the advancement of various pollutant control measures, which have brought the pollution of inorganic factors such as air and water under control. In contrast, diversity of the ecosphere, of which man is a part, is being steadily Impoverished and the biological community is getting unvaryingly uniform. These phenomena were brought about by the expansion of artificial environment such as new industrial complexes, transportation facilities and urban development. Man has constructed uniform and artificial environment, believing in the premise of confrontation with nature, to such a scale that the natural environment and biological community have lost their balance. This will increasingly endanger the soundness of the biotic environment of nature, which constitutes the potential foundation both for the survival environment of man as biological entity and for the development of human civilization. In order to guarantee the soundness of man's body, intelligence and sensitivity as wholesome gene Pool on the earth and for the future of man, primarily important environmental education is the understanding of how man can everlasting exist in and with the survival environment. In view of this reality, it is vitally important to create ecologically diverse and well-balanced environment with living materials, i.e., vegetation in order to secure lasting survival environment for man. This task is urgently required in highly artificial environment where non-biological materials have forced the impoverishment of the biological community. Therefore, environmental education for the future should not be totally oriented to technology as that in the past nor it is limited to the medical aspect where well-being of human is the sole object of concern. That is to say, environmental education for the future should be one that provides knowledge that human can understand his place based on the ecological concept and thereby make him to have ethical consciousness that he can control his behavior within the reasonable level for ecological niche who he is located.

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A Study of Arctic Microbial Community Structure Response to Increased Temperature and Precipitation by Phospholipid Fatty Acid Analysis

  • Sungjin Nam;Ji Young Jung
    • Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.86-94
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    • 2023
  • Climate change is more rapid in the Arctic than elsewhere in the world, and increased precipitation and warming are expected cause changes in biogeochemical processes due to altered microbial communities and activities. It is crucial to investigate microbial responses to climate change to understand changes in carbon and nitrogen dynamics. We investigated the effects of increased temperature and precipitation on microbial biomass and community structure in dry tundra using two depths of soil samples (organic and mineral layers) under four treatments (control, warming, increased precipitation, and warming with increased precipitation) during the growing season (June-September) in Cambridge Bay, Canada (69°N, 105°W). A phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis method was applied to detect active microorganisms and distinguish major functional groups (e.g., fungi and bacteria) with different roles in organic matter decomposition. The soil layers featured different biomass and community structure; ratios of fungal/bacterial and gram-positive/-negative bacteria were higher in the mineral layer, possibly connected to low substrate quality. Increased temperature and precipitation had no effect in either layer, possibly due to the relatively short treatment period (seven years) or the ecosystem type. Mostly, sampling times did not affect PLFAs in the organic layer, but June mineral soil samples showed higher contents of total PLFAs and PLFA biomarkers for bacteria and fungi than those in other months. Despite the lack of response found in this investigation, long-term monitoring of these communities should be maintained because of the slow response times of vegetation and other parameters in high-Arctic ecosystems.

Phytosociological Study and Spatial autocorrelation on the Forest Vegetation of Mt. Yeonae at Gijang-gun

  • Choi, Byoung-Ki;Huh, Man Kyu
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1373-1381
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    • 2013
  • Mt. Yeonae is at Gijang-gun in Busan and is surrounded by farming lands on three sides. The search for the species composition and dynamics of local communities were studied at Mt. Yeonae of how spatial similarity decays with geographic distance. The index values of Z$\ddot{u}$rich-Montpellier School's phytosociology at the 12 plots was compared to a distribution of similarly using 20 m quadrates at 12 sites. The specific communities were five including Pinus densiflora - Quercus variabilis community. Six species were significant similarity between neighboring sites by using the spatial autocorrelation coefficient, Moran's I. If Mt. Yeonae was destroyed by an artificial action, some spatial correlated species such as P. densiflora and Q. variabilis will be collapsed because of no maintaining the effective population sizes.

Comparison of Estimation Methods for Primary Net Production at Herbaceous Coastal Marsh Vegetation (海安 鹽濕地 植生의 純生産性 推定法의 比較)

  • Ryu, Beung Tae;Joon-Ho Kim
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.133-140
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    • 1985
  • Aboveground net productions of four stands in the coastal salt marsh of Incheon were estimated with three different methods: first method was to measure peak live standing crop; second to measure both live and dead standing crops; thrid to measure live and dead standing crops and dead disappearance as well. Net productions estimated by the first method were lowest with a difference of 28~50% from those by the third method. Whereas estimates by the second method approximated considerably to those by the third method with a difference of 4~15%. The third method figured out the highest values and seemed to be most appropriate in estimating net production of herbaceous community. Form these results it is known that live standing crop, dead standing crop and dead disappearance respectively accounted for about 60, 30, 10% of net production estimated by the third method. Annual net productions estimated by the third method for Suaeda japonica-Salicornia herbacea, Artemisia scoparia-Limonium tetragonum, Calamagrostis epigeios, and Sonchus brachyotus-Setaria viridis stand were 650, 1, 080, 1, 409 and 1, 126 g.$m^{-2}.yr^{-1}$, respectively.

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Phytosociological Classification of Plant Communities on Mt. Halla National park, Korea (漢拏山國立公圓 植物群集의 植物社會學的 分類)

  • Yim Yang-Jai;Jeong-Un Kim;Nam-Ju Lee;Yong-Beom Kim;Kwang-Soo Paek
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.101-130
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    • 1990
  • The forest vegetation of Mt. Halla national park area. Cheju island, Korea, was classified into six associations in three alliances and two associations in unidentified alliances by Z-M school method as follows: Unidentified alliance Saso-Abietetum Koreanae assoc. nov. Acero-Quercion mongoliae Kim et Yim 1988 Hepatico-Quercetum mongolicae assoc. nov. Saso-Carpinioin laxiflorae all. nov. Saso-Carpinetum laxiflorae assoc. nov. Daphniphyllo-Carpinetum tschonoskii assoc. nov. Asaro-Quercetum serratae assoc. nov. Rhododendro-Pinion densiflorae Kim et Yim 1988 Saso-Pinetum densiflorae assoc. nov. pinus thunbergii community Unidentified alliance Ardiso-Torretum nuciferae assoc. nov. Among them one now alliance and seven new associations were found and marked with "nov."

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An Analysis of Vegetation -Environment Relationships of Forest Community in Mt. Baekun by Ordination and Classification (Ordination 과 Classification에 의한 백운산의 산림 군락과 환경의 상관관계 분석)

  • 정진철;장규관;송호경
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.244-253
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    • 1999
  • 백운산의 산림군락과 환경 요인과의 관계를 구명하기 위하여 TWINSPAN과 CCA Ordination을 이용분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. TWINSPAN에 의해서 서어나무 군락, 고로쇠나무 군락, 신갈나무 군락 및 굴참나무 군락의 4 group으로 구분되었다. 주요 군락과 환경 용인과의 상관을 보면 서어나무 군락과 굴참나무 군락은 해발고가 중간이고 유기물 함량과 유효인산의 양료가 중간인 곳에 주로 분포하고 신갈나무 군락은 해발고가 높고 유기물 함량과 유효인산의 양료가 많은 곳에 주로 분포하며 고로쇠나무 군락은 해발고가 낮고 $K+$,$Ca{++}$,및 $Mg^{++}$등의 양료가 많은 곳에 주로 분포하고 있다 주요 수종과 환경과의 상관관계를 보면 해발고가 높고 유기물 함량과 $P_2O_5$ 많은 곳에 신갈나무, 노리재나무, 물푸레나무, 해발고가 중간기고 양료가 중간인 곳에 서어나무, 비목, 단당풍 졸참나무, 쪽동백나무, 때죽나무, 해발고가 낮고, 습하며$K+$,$Ca{++}$,및 $Mg^{++}$ 등의 양료가 많은 계곡부타 까치박달나무 층층나무, 느티나무, 고로쇠나무, 들메나무, 나도밤나무 및 산뽕나무가 분포하고 있다.

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Analysis on the forest Community Structure of Daewon Valley in Chirisan national Park (지리산국립공원 대원사계곡의 삼림군집구조 분석)

  • 권전오
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.354-366
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    • 2000
  • 지리산국립공원 대원계곡의 삼림군집구조를 분석하여 국립공원관리의 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여 기조사지역(이경재 등, 1991)이외의 지역에 대해 39개 조사지(100m2)를 설정하고 식생조사를 실시하였다 Classification의 한 기법인 TWINSPAN을 사용하여 군집을 분리하였으며 그 결과 느릅나무-굴참나무군집(군집 I) 졸참나무-굴참나무군집(군집II) 졸참나무군집(군집III-V) 신갈나무군집(군집VI) 그리고 서어나무-노각나무군집(군집VII)의 7개 군집으로 나뉘었다 각 군집에 대해 우점도 종다양도 유사도 종수 및 개체수 그리고 흉고직경 등의 분석을 통해 군집의 종조서을 살펴본 결과 지리산 대원계곡의 삼림은 졸참나무 굴참나무 신갈나무 등의 참나무가 주류를 이루고 있었으며 점차 서어나무와 노각나무등으로 천이가 진행되어갈 것으로 판단되었다.

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Vegetation Structural Restoration Model for Naturalness of Robinia pseudo-acacia Forest in the Case of Korean National Capital Region (수도권 지역 아까시나무림의 식생구조의 자연성 복원 모델)

  • 강현경;방광장
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.159-172
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    • 2001
  • 본 연구는 수도권 지역의 아까시나무림을 중심으로 식물군집의 식생구조적 특성을 분석함으로써 향후, 도시녹지의 자연성 복원을 위한 기초 자료로 제시하고자 하였다. 조사지역은 서울도심지역으로 중구 남산과 서대문구 안산, 서울외곽지역으로 은평구 봉산과 부천시, 성주산, 비도시지역으로 경기도 천마산을 선정하였다. 주요 연구분야는 생태적 특성과 복원모델로 구분하였가. 생태적 특성평가는 천이단계, 자연성 및 다층적 식생구조와 종다양성을 실시하였으며, 복원모델은 적정수종, 개체수, 흉고단면적, 수목간 최단거리를 선정하였다. 조사결과, 복원모델은 비도시지역 중 자연성이 높으며 다층구조를 이루고 있는 자생식물군집을 선정하였으며 적정식물은 교목성장 3종, 아교목성정 7종, 관목성장 16종, 주연부 수종 4종 초본식물 27종이 적절한 것으로 판단되었다. 향후, 아끼시나무림읜 자연성 복원을 위해서 자연림인 참나무류로의 천이를 유도할 수 있도록 자생종 중심의 생태적 복원방안의 모색이 이루어져할 것이다.

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