• 제목/요약/키워드: climate heterogeneity

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Spatial Physicochemical and Metagenomic Analysis of Desert Environment

  • Sivakala, Kunjukrishnan Kamalakshi;Jose, Polpass Arul;Anandham, Rangasamy;Thinesh, Thangathurai;Jebakumar, Solomon Robinson David;Samaddar, Sandipan;Chatterjee, Poulami;Sivakumar, Natesan;Sa, Tongmin
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • 제28권9호
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    • pp.1517-1526
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    • 2018
  • Investigating bacterial diversity and its metabolic capabilities is crucial for interpreting the ecological patterns in a desert environment and assessing the presence of exploitable microbial resources. In this study, we evaluated the spatial heterogeneity of physicochemical parameters, soil bacterial diversity and metabolic adaptation at meter scale. Soil samples were collected from two quadrats of a desert (Thar Desert, India) with a hot, arid climate, very little rainfall and extreme temperatures. Analysis of physico-chemical parameters and subsequent variance analysis (p-values < 0.05) revealed that sulfate, potassium and magnesium ions were the most variable between the quadrats. Microbial diversity of the two quadrats was studied using Illumina bar-coded sequencing by targeting V3-V4 regions of 16S rDNA. As for the results, 702504 high-quality sequence reads, assigned to 173 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) at species level, were examined. The most abundant phyla in both quadrats were Actinobacteria (38.72%), Proteobacteria (32.94%), and Acidobacteria (9.24%). At genus level, Gaiella represented highest prevalence, followed by Streptomyces, Solirubrobacter, Aciditerrimonas, Geminicoccus, Geodermatophilus, Microvirga, and Rubrobacter. Between the quadrats, significant difference (p-values < 0.05) was found in the abundance of Aciditerrimonas, Geodermatophilus, Geminicoccus, Ilumatobacter, Marmoricola, Nakamurella, and Solirubrobacter. Metabolic functional mapping revealed diverse biological activities, and was significantly correlated with physicochemical parameters. The results revealed spatial variation of ions, microbial abundance and functional attributes in the studied quadrats, and patchy nature in local scale. Interestingly, abundance of the biotechnologically important phylum Actinobacteria, with large proposition of unclassified species in the desert, suggested that this arid environment is a promising site for bioprospection.

우리나라 하천 관리에서 생물지형학의 적용과 전망 (Applications and Perspectives of Fluvial Biogeomorphology in the Stream Management of South Korea)

  • 김대현;김원;김은석;옥기영;장창래;최미경;조강현
    • Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2020
  • 하천과 홍수터 생태계에서 생물지형학 연구는 폭 넓은 시공간 차원에서 생물계와 수문-지형체계 사이의 복잡한 다중관계를 다루어 왔다. 본 총설에서는 하천에서 (1) 생물과 수문지형 조건의 다자간 관계, (2) 생물다양성과 서식처 이질성의 관계, (3) 생태계 유형에 대한 교란의 영향에 대하여 설명함으로써 하천지형생물학의 범위와 과정을 논의하였다. 시간적으로 하천의 생물지형 복합체는 지형, 선구, 생물지형 및 생태적 단계의 순서로 전환이 된다. 공간적으로 물 흐름과 유사 분포가 식생과 상호작용하여 하도 지형의 변화가 일어난다. 이렇게 형성된 하천의 공간적 이질성은 하안의 생물종다양성을 증가시킨다. 그러나 댐 하류 하천에서는 서식처 유형과 조건이 심각하게 훼손되어 생물다양성이 저하된다. 우리나라의 하천에서는 최근 국지적 교란과 전 지구적 기후변화로 하안 식생이 번무하고 특히 외래종이 빠르게 정착하고 있다. 따라서 급격한 기후변화와 인류에 의한 압박의 시대에서 하천 생물과 수문지형 조건 사이의 상호 관계를 이해하는 것이 더욱 중요할 것으로 생각된다. 이 총설에서 논의한 하천 생물지형 개념틀은 우리나라 하천의 생태적 관리와 복원에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

Differences in Temporal Variation of Ground Beetle Assemblages (Coleoptera: Carabidae) between Two Well-Preserved Areas in Mt. Sobaeksan National Park

  • Jung, Jong-Kook;Suk, Sang-Wook;Kim, Byeong-Young;Hong, EuiJeong;Kim, Youngjin;Jeong, Jong-Chul
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • 제33권2호
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    • pp.122-129
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    • 2017
  • Understanding how future climate conditions will be impact on the biodiversity and species composition is important, because biodiversity becomes more important in environment assessment. To understand the biological changes including diversity and species composition over time (temporal variation within a year), the species diversity and composition of ground beetles were investigated in two well-preserved areas in the Sobaeksan National Park using pitfall traps. In addition, relationships between ground beetles and environmental variables were studied by considering temporal variation. We collected 2,146 ground beetle specimens representing 45 species, and individual-based rarefaction curves indicated that similar species richness was found between Geumseon Valley (GV) and Namcheon Valley (NV). The Bray-Curtis matrix comparisons between study sites were characterized by similar ground beetles sample heterogeneity, while temporal variations in abundance, species richness, and ${\beta}-diversity$ of ground beetles showed rather difference over time according to location of study sites. In GV site, minimum temperature was selected as the best predictor for abundance, species richness, and ${\beta}-diversity$ of ground beetles, while those relationships in NV site were more complicated. In conclusion, our study suggests that understanding the different response of ground beetles to climatic variables related to local habitat conditions is important to predict the effect of climate change on biological communities.

Linking nuclear energy, human development and carbon emission in BRICS region: Do external debt and financial globalization protect the environment?

  • Sadiq, Muhammad;Shinwari, Riazullah;Usman, Muhammad;Ozturk, Ilhan;Maghyereh, Aktham Issa
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제54권9호
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    • pp.3299-3309
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    • 2022
  • Nuclear energy has the potential to play an influential role in energy transition efforts than is now anticipated by many countries. Realizing sustainable human development and reducing global climate crises will become more difficult without significantly increasing nuclear power. This paper aims to probe the role of nuclear energy, external debt, and financial globalization in sustaining human development and environmental conditions simultaneously in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. This study applied a battery of second-generation estimation approaches over the period from 1990 to 2019. These methods are useful and robust to cross-countries dependencies, slope heterogeneity, parameters endogeneity, and serial correlation that are ignored in conventional approaches to generate more comprehensive and reliable estimates. The empirical findings indicate that nuclear energy and financial globalization contribute to human development, whereas external debt inhibits it. Similarly, financial globalization accelerates ecological deterioration, but nuclear energy and external debt promote environmental sustainability. Moreover, the study reveals bidirectional feedback causalities between human development, carbon emissions and nuclear energy consumption. The study offers useful policy guidance on accomplishing sustainable and inclusive development in BRICS countries.

중국 농수산품의 대(對)한국 수출 영향요인 분석 (An Analysis of Factors Influencing on Chinese Agricultural Exports to Korea)

  • 편지은;남은영
    • 무역학회지
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    • 제47권5호
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    • pp.39-57
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    • 2022
  • This study aims to analyze the factors influencing exports of agricultural products(HS01~HS24) from China to Korea by estimating the gravity model with panel data from 31 provinces in China. The results of the empirical analysis from the panel Tobit model are as follows: The effects of GDP and GDP per capita on agricultural exports are reversed, but their impacts are different on exports of each product, notably HS03, HS07 and HS20. As expected, distance decreases Chinese agricultural exports, and the impact of the relative exchange rate variable is also statistically significant, although it differs from product to product. However, differences in latitude, which considers the heterogeneity of climate and agricultural production conditions between Korea and each Chinese region, does not seem to affect agricultural exports to Korea. The road length, which affects the logistical conditions of each province in China, is not statistically significant either. On the other hand, increases in the number of Chinese visitors to Korea raises the amount of Chinese agricultural exports, including exports of HS03 and HS20. The results also shows that after the Korea-China FTA agreements, agricultural exports have actually decreased, especially exports of non-processed agricultural products, such as HS07.

공기유동해석을 통한 온실내 식물군 미기상 분석기술 개발 - (2)온실내 대기환경에 미치는 작물의 영향 분석을 위한 CFD 모델개발 - (Development of an Aerodynamic Simulation for Studying Microclimate of Plant Canopy in Greenhouse - (2) Development of CFD Model to Study the Effect of Tomato Plants on Internal Climate of Greenhouse -)

  • 이인복;윤남규;;;이성현;김경원;홍세운;성시흥
    • 생물환경조절학회지
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.296-305
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    • 2006
  • 변화무쌍한 기상변화가 실험의 정확도에 미치는 영향을 최대한 줄일 수 있도록 강제환기식 온실에서 실험을 하였고, 또한 대체적으로 크지 않은 온실에서의 실험으로 인하여 CFD모델결과의 오차를 크게 줄일 수 있었다. CFD와 현장실험 결과를 비교하여 본 결과, 온실내 1m높이에서의 평균풍속이 각각 $0.42m{\cdot}s^{-1}$$0.39m{\cdot}s^{-1}$으로써 CFD의 지점별 오차 평균값은 7.7% 로 나타났다. Y8.5m 지점에서 가장 큰 오차가 발생하였는데, 최대 오차는 -53.8%로 나타났다. 이의 가장 큰 이유로는 온실 길이방향에서 중간지점인 Y8.5m에서 풍속이 매우 작았기 때문에 소숫점 2번째 자리의 차이라고 해도 큰 오차로 나타났다. 작물형상의 기하학적 복잡성이 매우 큰 것을 고려한다면 오차범위는 매우 양호한 것으로 판단된다. 온실내 1m높이에서 평균온도의 CFD 평균오차는 2.2%로 나타났고, 최대편차는 5.5%이었다. 온실내 바닥으로부터의 복사열 발생량의 차이로 인하여 온실내 동쪽 지역에 상대적으로 큰 오차가 발생하였다. 외기 상대습도가 44%일 때, CFD상대습도의 오차는 2.1%이었으며, 최대 오차는 -3.8%이었다. 식물군의 공기유동저항, 식물군의 수분 및 열평형 모델을 추가하여 보다 사실적인 CFD모델을 설계하였다. CFD 모델의 설계방법이 정립되었기 때문에, 추후에 온실내 다른 작물의 미기상 및 이의 온실내 기상에 미치는 영향 등을 정량적으로 분석할 수 있게 되었다. 또한 작물의 적정생육환경에 주요 대상이면서도 동시에 센서설치의 어려움 등으로 인하여 연구에 어려움이 많았던 작물군내 미기상을 연구할 수 있는 토대를 마련하였다.

실외노동과 보상적 임금격차: 지역별·분위별 추이 (Outdoor Workers and Compensating Wage Differentials: A Comparison across Regions and Wage Levels)

  • 정상윤;송창현;김연우;임업
    • 지역연구
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    • 제38권2호
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    • pp.3-20
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    • 2022
  • 본 연구는 폭염 등 기후변화의 영향에 가장 취약할 수 있는 실외근로자에 초점을 맞춰 실외노동에 대한 보상적 임금격차가 지역별 그리고 분위별로 어떻게 다른지 분석하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구에서는 근로자 개인 수준의 일반 특성과 작업 환경에 대한 정보를 제공하는 「근로환경조사」 자료를 이용하여 Oaxaca-Blinder 분해, 무조건분위회귀 분석, 권역별 다중회귀분석을 수행하였다. 분석 결과에 따르면, 대부분의 임금 결정요인의 경우 자원효과와 가격효과가 실내근로자에게 더 큰 것으로 나타났으나, 경력과 성별 특성의 경우 실외근로자의 임금을 상승시키는 효과가 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 또한 임금 분위가 높을수록 실외근로자에 대한 금전적 보상이 커지며, 하위 분위에서는 통계적으로 유의한 보상적 임금격차가 확인되지 않는 경우도 있었다. 전국적으로 실외근로자에 대한 보상적 임금격차는 2.4%인 것으로 나타났으나, 권역에 따라 보상적 임금격차의 크기에는 차이가 있었다. 본 연구는 실외노동에 대한 보상적 임금격차의 지역별 및 분위별 이질성을 확인하였다는 점에 연구의 의의가 있다.

산림 저습지의 생태적 특성분석 및 관리방안 - 경상북도 남부지역을 중심으로 - (Management and Analysis on Ecological Characteristics of the Swamp in Forest - Focused on Southern Parts of Gyeongsangbuk-do -)

  • 유주한;나정화;정성관;조현주
    • 한국환경복원기술학회지
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    • 제11권2호
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    • pp.75-86
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    • 2008
  • The wetlands have functions those were retention of diverse biota, purification of water quality, control of climate and flood, eco-tourism and supply of agricultural water, and that was the ecosystem of high biodiversity as the zone of transition between inland and water. Therefore, this study showed the conservation and management plan by analyzing in the abiotic and biotic environment of forest swamp, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The results were as follows. Examining the management plan of the abiotic environment, there will need to establish the hydrological plan in continuous expediting the supply of water to maintain a humid soil of swamp, and to try to find the organic farming, use of low toxic agrichemicals and so on to prevent occurring a non-point source pollutants. To prevent changing the flowing of ground water and inflow of earth and sand in modifying the land character, there will be needed to restrict the construction of farmland and slope around swamp. To manage the biotic environment, there needed to offer the habitat by removing the regular interval and individual of a dead tree, and to improve the growth environment of vegetation. Because the naturalized plants disturb the natural vegetation, they will be removed. The afforested trees like Robinia pseudoacacia and Amorpha truticosa will be renewed to prevent the heterogeneity of landscape ecology, and the active conservation plan on wetland species will be established. As this study was carried out to study on the partial swamp, Gyeongsanbuk-do, the ecological environments distributing a swamp in Korea show a some problem. In the future, the study will accomplish to study the accurately and objectively ecological environment and management of a swamp by analyzing the extensive sites.

The Impact of International Integration on the Inequality of Income between Rural and Urban Areas in Vietnam

  • NGUYEN, Thi Thanh Huyen;NGUYEN, Thi Thu Hien;NGUYEN, Thi Le Hang;NGUYEN, Van Cong
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • 제7권3호
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    • pp.277-287
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    • 2020
  • The study examines the impact of international integration on Vietnam's rural and urban income inequalities using the regression model. The data used for this study is based on the results of the Vietnam Household Living Standards survey from 2008 to 2016 of the General Statistics Office. These surveys conducted nationwide with a sample size of 46,995 households in 3,133 communes/wards which were representative at national, regional, urban, rural and provincial levels. The level of international economic integration used in the study is the proportion of import and export turnover of GDP, the proportion of FDI and GDP by province. Due to the heterogeneity and unobservableness of the single observant in the data set, we selected the models of random and fixed effects. The research results show that during the economic integration process, the Export/GDP factor is negatively related to income inequality. The remaining factors (GDP per capita, FDI/GDP, Educational level of households, Percentage of internet users, Aggregation of foreign cash inflow and GDP of the province) are all positively related to income inequality. The findings help assess the impact of international integration on rural-urban income inequality, but also provides a concrete basis to help policymakers address income inequality in the integration process.

SWAT을 이용한 충주댐 유역의 유출곡선지수 산정 방안 (Estimation of Runoff Curve Number for Chungju Dam Watershed Using SWAT)

  • 김남원;이진원;이정우;이정은
    • 한국수자원학회논문집
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    • 제41권12호
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    • pp.1231-1244
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    • 2008
  • 본 연구에서는 기후조건, 토지이용 및 토양조건 등의 유역의 비균질성을 고려할 수 있는 SWAT 모형을 이용하여 홍수량 계산에 활용될 수 있는 유출곡선지수를 산정하는 방법을 제시하였다. 이 방법은 Hawkins 등(1993)이 제시한 점근 유출곡선지수 산정법을 기반으로 하되, 실측 홍수량 시간자료를 직접 이용하지 않고 SWAT에 의한 모의 지표 유출량 일자료를 이용하는 점이 특징이다. SWAT 모형이 지표유출성분량을 산정할 수 있고 소유역 분할에 따른 공간모의 및 유역의 비균질 특성을 반영할 수 있는 장점을 이용한 것이며, 또한 일자료를 이용함으로써 단기사상 자료의 오류에 따른 영향을 최소화할 수 있다. 이 방법에 의해 산정된 유출곡선지수는 모형에 의한 유출량 모의치와 관측치의 적합 과정을 거친 것으로 대상 유역의 유출 특징이 반영된 것이다. 본 제안 방법을 충주댐 상류유역에 대해 적용하여 전체유역 및 임의 소유역의 유출곡선지수를 산정하였고, 이를 강우량에 따라 지수함수형으로 감소하는 회귀식을 제시하였다.