• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.133-143
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• 2015

Freshwater macrophytes improve the structural heterogeneity of microhabitats in water, often providing an important habitat for zooplankton. Some studies have focused on the overall influence of macrophytes on zooplankton, but the effects of macrophyte in relation to different habitat characteristics of zooplankton (e.g., epiphytic and pelagic) have not been intensively studied. We hypothesized that different habitat structures (i.e., macrophyte habitat) would strongly affect zooplankton distribution. We investigated zooplankton density and diversity, macrophyte characteristics (dry weight and species number), and environmental parameters in 40 shallow wetlands in South Korea. Patterns in the data were analyzed using a self-organizing map (SOM), which extracts information through competitive and adaptive properties. A total of 20 variables (11 environmental parameters and 9 zooplankton groups) were patterned onto the SOM. Based on a U-matrix, 3 clusters were identified from the model. Zooplankton assemblages were positively related to macrophyte characteristics (i.e., dry weight and species number). In particular, epiphytic species (i.e., epiphytic rotifers and cladocerans) exhibited a clear relationship with macrophyte characteristics, while large biomass and greater numbers of macrophyte species supported high zooplankton assemblages. Consequently, habitat heterogeneity in the macrophyte bed was recognized as an important factor to determine zooplankton distribution, particularly in epiphytic species. The results indicate that macrophytes are critical for heterogeneity in lentic freshwater ecosystems, and the inclusion of diverse plant species in wetland construction or restoration schemes is expected to generate ecologically healthy food webs.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 1989

가야산국립공원지역의 현존식생을 파악하기 위하여 식생상관 및 종조성에 의한 식물사회학적 분석을 통해 식생군집을 분류하였으며 이를 기초로 녹지자연도를 사정하였다. 가야산의 식생은 크게 소나무림과 낙엽활엽수림으로 구성되었으며 구분된 식생군집은 다음과 같다. 1. 소나무 군집 1) 소나무-진달래 하위군집 2) 소나무-조록싸리 하위군집 3) 소나무-조릿대 하위군집 4) 소나무-대사초 하위군집 2. 신갈나무 군집 1) 신갈나무-철쭉군집 a) 전형하위군집 b) 산앵두나무 하위군집 2) 신갈나무-조릿대군집 3) 신갈나무-조록싸리군집 3. 졸참나무 군집 4. 서어나무-졸참나무 군집 5. 흰참꽃군집 6. 참싸리-억새군집 또한 가야산국립공원지역의 녹지자연도 등급은 2차림으로 구성된 녹지자연도 7,8이 93.9%를 차지하였다.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2021

The study has been carried out with an objective to prepare Siberian roe deer habitat potential maps in South Korea based on three geographic information system-based models including frequency ratio (FR) as a bivariate statistical approach as well as convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) as machine learning algorithms. According to field observations, 741 locations were reported as roe deer's habitat preferences. The dataset were divided with a proportion of 70:30 for constructing models and validation purposes. Through FR model, a total of 10 influential factors were opted for the modelling process, namely altitude, valley depth, slope height, topographic position index (TPI), topographic wetness index (TWI), normalized difference water index, drainage density, road density, radar intensity, and morphological feature. The results of variable importance analysis determined that TPI, TWI, altitude and valley depth have higher impact on predicting. Furthermore, the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was applied to assess the prediction accuracies of three models. The results showed that all the models almost have similar performances, but LSTM model had relatively higher prediction ability in comparison to FR and CNN models with the accuracy of 76% and 73% during the training and validation process. The obtained map of LSTM model was categorized into five classes of potentiality including very low, low, moderate, high and very high with proportions of 19.70%, 19.81%, 19.31%, 19.86%, and 21.31%, respectively. The resultant potential maps may be valuable to monitor and preserve the Siberian roe deer habitats.

• 한국조경학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.14-22
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to assess conservation value of forests and cultivated areas from the landscape ecological point of view. The main focus of landscape ecology estimates the reciprocal relationships between spatial patterns and ecological processes. This paper sets the criteria for conservation value and classify the conservation value based on the criteria. Forests and cultivated areas in Seo-Gu, Incheon Metropolitan City was selected as the case study area. In this research, factors such as patch size and connectivity have been selected in order to consider the landscape ecological aspect, gradient for the environmental physics aspect and to consider the environment-ecological aspect, grade of environmental-oriented land suitability analysis Map developed by the ROK Ministry of Environment has been utilized. GIS methodologies have been adopted to calculate the relationships among the above variables. Through literature review, the following evaluation criteria have been adopted: (1) based on island biogeography and metapopulation dynamics theory, patch size criteria are set 2ha and 10ha; (2) connectivity was set the degree of connection with surrounding grids; and (3) gradient of 20 degrees. Conclusively, this paper suggests that local conditions, landscape ecology and physical environment aspects should be considered to develop an estimation framework of the conservation value.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.9-24
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• 1991

지리산 국립공원중 반야봉을 중심으로 피아골과 심원계곡을 포함하는 자연생태계보전구역의 현존식생을 파악하기 위하여 총 43개 조사지의 종조성 및 식생상관에 의하여 삼림군집을 구분하였으며 이를 토대로 현존식생도를 작성하였다. 지리산 자연생태계보전구역의 식생은 냉온대남부에서 아한대에 이르기까지 13개의 삼림군집이 형성되었으며 확인된 삼림군집은 다음과 같다. 1. 졸참나무군집 2. 서어나무군집 3. 졸참나무-서어나무군집 4. 노각나무군집 5. 고로쇠나무군집 6. 까치박달나무군집 7. 들메나무군집 8. 개서나무군집 9. 소나무군집 10. 신갈나무군집 1) 신갈나무-철쭉 하위군집 2) 신갈나무-조록싸리 하위군집 11. 분비나무군집 12. 구상나무군집 1) 구상나무-신갈나무 하위군집 2) 구상나무-잣나무 하위군집 13. 철쭉군집 확인된 삼림식생중에서 졸참나무군집은 해발 700m에서 1,000m에 분포하였으며 서어나무군집, 개서나무군집은 동지역의 계곡부에 분포하였다. 해발 1,000m에서 1,400m에는 신갈나무군집이 그 이상 1,700m까지에는 구상나무군집, 분비나무군집등 아고산대림이 발달하였다.

• 생태와환경
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.212-220
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• 2018

Ecological and ecosystem database is becoming very necessary to understand origins and relationship between human and nature and also to minimize disturbance caused by human activities. An ecological information portal can play important roles as a computing system to collect knowledge, distributed research findings and separated data from researchers. In this study, we designed and developed ecological information portal service (EcoBank 1.0) for collecting and providing ecological information for diverse classes of stakeholders. To reach the goal, we had reviewed related and comparable ecological database portals to design conceptual structure of EcoBank system including database management framework. Then, we developed some functions of ecosystem analysis for each stake-holders (researchers, general public and policy makers). As a result of this study, we successfully designed of EcoBank system covering the functions of Digital Object Identifier(DOI) publishing and data quality management process. Also, we (1) applied ecological indices for calculating biodiversity by administrative boundary for policy makers, (2) provided statistical information of econature map for general public and distribution characteristics of species for researchers. To make a successful establishment of EcoBank, we have to collect and build up related database and offer various and reliable ecological data consistently. We expect that the successful construction of EcoBank will help not only to accomplish sustainable development goals but also to raise the welfare of ecosystem in Korea.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.287-294
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• 2019

대형댐 하류의 수용생태계에서는 상류로부터 공급되는 유기물과 토사 이동의 양적 단절과 질적 변환에 따라 서식처의 물리화학적 교란이 발생하게 된다. 본 연구는 금강 중상류역을 대상으로 대형댐에 의한 하상재료와 토양의 종적변화, 그리고 대형댐 건설 이후 하류 하천의 하도지형 변화를 정량적으로 파악하였다. 댐 상·하류 하상재료 입도분석 결과, 용담댐 구간은 상·하류 모두 호박돌, 굵은자갈로 조립화되어 있었으며, 대청댐 구간은 댐하류에서 중간입경이 가는자갈로 급격히 감소하고 모래비율이 급격히 증가하였다. 토양유기물은 두 개의 댐 모두 하류에서 뚜렷하게 증가하였다. 고지도와 항공사진을 이용하여 대청댐 하류의 하도지형을 분석한 결과, 사주면적의 감소와 사주 내 식생비율의 급격한 증가, 사행도와 저수로폭의 감소 경향을 정량적으로 파악할 수 있었다. 이러한 결과들은 댐 건설에 따른 서식처 변화의 인과관계를 파악하여 댐 하류 조절하천의 자연성을 회복하기 위한 복원관리 방안을 도출하는데 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.124-138
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• 2018

본 연구는 안산시 산림을 대상으로 연간 $CO_2$ 흡수량 평가를 위한 통계 및 공간자료의 활용성을 검토하였다. 통계자료, 임상도(1:5,000), 산림수종 표준 탄소흡수량 자료들을 활용해 산림의 연간 $CO_2$ 흡수량을 산정하였다. 또한 세분류토지피복도를 이용한 연간 $CO_2$ 흡수량 분석 및 활용성을 검증하였다. 통계자료를 이용한 경우 2010년을 기준으로 연간 $CO_2$ 흡수량의 차이가 컸다. 이는 2010년부터 산림기본통계의 작성 방법이 고도화됨에 따라 임목축적이 급격히 증가한 결과이다. 향후 통계자료를 활용할 경우 최근의 산림기본통계를 이용한 보정이 필요하다. 임상도(1:5,000)와 산림기본통계(2015, 2010)의 시기 차이를 이용한 방법은 수종들의 생장량에 따른 $CO_2$ 흡수량이 반영되지 않았다. 산림수종 표준 탄소흡수량 자료와 임상도(1:5,000)를 이용한 결과 연간 42,369 ton을 흡수하였다. 세분류토지피복도와 산림수종 표준탄소흡수량 자료를 이용한 결과는 40,696 ton이었다. 임상도(1:5,000)를 이용하여 세분류토지피복도를 검증한 결과 p<0.01 수준에서 유의했고, 흡수량 차이는 1,673 ton이었다. 본 연구는 다양한 산림활동의 온실가스 감축 효과 평가에 있어 객관적 기준을 적용하는 일환으로서 의의를 지닌다. 나아가 탄소흡수원과 관련된 토지이용 및 관리 등의 의사결정 지원을 위한 기초자료로 활용이 가능할 것이다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2014

Wind power which is one of renewable energies is higher economical efficiency and technical maturity than other renewable energies. Recently, the government of ROK announced to increase the proportion of renewable energy through the National Energy Plan. Also, industry required to deregulate for large-scale wind power as Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is introduced. Wind power whereas the eco-friendly energy, is a serious level of damage of the natural environment and topography when the wind power is located. Therefore, the study selected the indicators required for site selection of wind power and proposed the feasible area for wind power based on wind resource map. We selected the 15 indicators including 12 legal protected area, Ecology and Nature Map, rarity, and connectivity (National Ecological Network). After site selection, we should be considered slope and altitude at the stage of design for wind farm to mitigate the environmental impact. Results of analysis showed that 22.3% of wind resource map is available to locate wind power in real. Through the field survey we had verified the accuracy of the results was significantly correct.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.323-329
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• 2012

The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) is a widely used drought index to provide good estimations of the intensity, magnitude and spatial extent of droughts. The objective of this study was to analyze the spatial pattern of drought by SPI index. In this paper, the patterns of drought hazard in Iran are evaluated according to the data of 40 weather stations during 1967-2009. The influenced zone of each station was specified by the Thiessen method. It was attempted to make a new model of drought hazard using GIS. Three criteria for drought were studied and considered to define areas of vulnerability. Drought hazard criteria used in the present model included: maximum severity of drought in the period, trend of drought, and the maximum number of sequential arid years. Each of the vulnerability indicators were mapped and these as well as a final hazard map were classified into 5 hazard classes of drought: one, slight, moderate, severe and very severe. The final drought vulnerability map was prepared by overlaying three criteria maps in a GIS, and the final hazard classes were defined on the basis of hazard scores, which were determined according to the means of the main indicators. The final vulnerability map shows that severe hazard areas (43% of the country) which are observed in the west and eastern parts of country are much more widespread than areas under other hazard classes. Overall, approximately half of the country was determined to be under severe and very severe hazard classes for drought.