지금까지 연안 양식장의 지속적인 생산 및 체계적인 관리를 위해 어장환경용량 산정 및 활용에 관하여 많은 연구가 선행되어 왔다. 그러나, 생태학적 부하를 고려한 지속적 적정 생산을 위해서는 4가지 계층구조(물리적 수용능력, 생산 수용능력, 생태학적 수용능력 및 사회적 수용능력)에 의한 어장환경용량 산정 개념을 활용할 수 있다. 생태학적 수용 능력 산정의 경우, 환경과 패류 양식의 상호작용에 관한 좀 더 전체적인 접근이 필요하여 아직까지 모델 개발은 초기 단계에 있으므로, 이에 대한 대안접근으로 패류양식장이 해양생태계의 가능을 어떻게 변화시킬 수 있는지 패류양식장의 생태적 효율을 평가할 수 있는 생태지표의 필요성이 대두되었다. 현재 거제한산만 굴양식장의 정화율 생태지표는 0.331, 여과압 생태지표는 0.203으로 계산되었으며, 이는 연안 생태계에 부하를 주지 않는 생태학적 수용 능력인 0.05를 초과하고 있음을 나타내었다. 본 연구에서는 생태학적 수용 능력의 개념에 근거한 생태지표를 거제한산만에 적용하여, 현재의 굴 양식장의 개발 수준이 어느 정도인지를 평가하여 지속적인 생산과 효과적인 양식어장 관리 지침으로 활용하는 방안을 마련하고자 하였다.

울산만의 육상기인 오염부하에 대한 해역수질의 응답특성을 조사하고 만내 수질관리에 활용하기 위하여 해양생태계모델링 연구를 수행하였다. 생태계모텔에 의해 계산된 울산만의 수질은 만 내측에서 COD 농도 2.8mg/L로 해양수질 III등급 수준으로 나타났다. 계산결과 울산만 전체 해역의 수질을 II등급으로 개선하기 위해서는 육상부하를 약 30% 이상 삭감해야 하며, COD 농도 1.0mg/L이하의 수질이 되기 위해서는 전체 육상부하의 70% 이상을 삭감해야 하는 것으로 나타났다. 해역수질 II등급을 유지하기 위하여 삭감해야 할 오염부하량은 약 3,083kgCOD/day, 이 때의 환경용량은 약 7,193kgCOD/day로 계산되었다. 태화강 하구역은 식물플랑크톤 대증식(Bloom)이 상습적으로 발생하는 해역이므로 식물플랑크톤에 의한 자생유기물 부하를 감소시키기 위해서는 유가물 삭감 이외에도 영양염의 제어가 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

Pachynematus itoi Okutani emerges three times a year, and overwinters as a pre-pupa in cocoon. First emergence of P. itoi was from 7th May to third June. Second and third emergence was from 20th June to 13th July and fourth to 25th August, respectively. Mean oviposited egg number was 59, and egg period was about 9 days. Hatching rate was ＞90%. Oviposited egg number was the highest in the first needle cluster of short shoot followed by second and third. P. itoi did not oviposit on single needle (long shoot) of Larix leptolepis (Sieb. et Zucc.). Larva had five instars, and larval period was about 20 days. Larva prefer needle cluster of short shoot to single needle of long shoot. Mature larva descended from host tree and pre-pupa in cocoon overwinter at topsoil.

This paper analyzes legal remedies for marine ecological damage as provided in Article 90, Section 2 of the Marine Environment Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China. In doing so, the paper examines the Tasman Sea Oil Spills Case, the first civil case in China to claim marine ecological damage involving foreign interests. The paper finds that many issues arise in practice due to the simplicity of the relevant legal provisions. The existing international treaties on marine oil pollution damage caused by ships do not cover marine ecological damage. However, domestic courts of some countries have relevant judicial practice on the matter. Hence, it is urgent to establish a set of new rules on marine ecological damage compensation in China and to specify the claimants, the scope for compensation and the measure of indemnity with the aim of providing an effective legal remedy for marine ecological damage.

동강할미꽃 자생지(백운산, 마하리, 귤암리와 덕항산)의 환경특성을 파악하기 위하여 환경요인, 식생 및 토양분석을 실시하였다. 동강할미꽃 자생지는 해발 220-772 m에 위치하고, 경사는 41-85˚로 다양하였으며, 주로 북서사면에 분포하였다. 식생분석결과 10개 방형구내에서 조사된 분류군은 총 27종류였다. 중요치는 동강할미꽃이 9.65%였으며, 산거울(28.93%), 돌양지꽃(16.55%), 돌단풍(7.09%), 기름나물과 그령(4.55%), 큰네잎갈퀴(3.90%) 등 6종류는 중요치가 높게 나타나 이 분류군들은 동강할미꽃과 친화도가 높은 것으로 생각된다. 종다양도는 평균 0.75이었고 우점도와 균등도는 각각 0.24와 0.85로 나타났다. 토양의 포장용수량은 평균 19.05%이었으며, 유기물 함량은 10.51%로 나타났고, pH는 7.43으로 자생지간에 비슷하게 나타났다.

Ecological changes, both man-made and natural, have changed the landscape of the Republic of Korea following the end of Japanese occupation at the end of World War II (1939-1945). During the Japanese occupation, forested hillsides were cleared and wood products shipped to Japan, leaving the hills and mountains largely covered by grasses and other shrub vegetation. Following WWII, the country of Korea was divided into North and South Koreas, with North Korea under communist powers, while South Korea was established as a democratic government. In South Korea poverty was rampant and local populations scavenged for wood for cooking and heating during the cold winters. Just as economic conditions were increasing, South Korea was attached by North Korea, beginning a long drawn-out conflict from 1950 to the summer of 1953, whereby an armistice was signed and an often uneasy peace between the two countries continues today. Again, the Republic of Korea emerged from a War as an impoverished country with treeless country sides, hills, and mountains. In the 1960’s, president Chung-Hee Park established a tree planting policy to reestablish long-ago lavish forested mountains and hillsides that make up more than 70% of the South Korean landscape. Today, mountains and hillsides are generally not used for agriculture and are completely forested, with planted groves and volunteer trees ranging in age from 10-50 years. These forested areas have led to increased protection for large and small mammals and birds, increasing the potential for zoonotic pathogens that there ectoparasites harbor to be transmitted to man during work and leisure activities. While forested areas provided an expanded habitat for some animals, agriculture expanded and modernized, resulting in short-cut grasses on banks separating much of the rice paddies, orchards, ditches, and dry-land farming that increased competition for small mammal habitat. As a result of increased surveillance of small and large animals and their ectoparasites, the increased prevalence of known pathogens and identification of new pathogens, especially those harbored by ticks, has demonstrated the presence of tick-borne encephalitis, several species of spotted fever group Rickettsia, and a host of other zoonotic diseases in wild animals, their ectoparasites, and man. As tick-borne diseases are not reportable diseases in Korea, the extent and impact on civilian and military populations is unknown as diagnoses are often likely sought for the wrong pathogen. While agriculture modernized, military training sites largely consist of unmanaged lands with tall grasses that are conducive to large and small mammal populations, which are host to a number of zoonotic diseases, e.g., hantaviruses, scrub typhus, murine typhus, leptospirosis, tick-borne encephalitis, spotted fever group rickettsial pathogens, Lyme disease, bartonellosis, etc. that impact on military populations training in those areas. The impact of training sites habitat modification has not been assessed, but for many sites is impractical. To reduce health risks of vectorborne diseases, the US Army has established better housing (tents to barracks with screened windows and air conditioning) at some field training sites, reducing the potential for the transmission of mosquito-borne pathogens (malaria and Japanese encephalitis virus). The increased use of permethrin-treated all climate uniforms (ACUs) and repellents, also reduce the potential for transmission of mosquito-, tick-, mite-, and flea-borne pathogens. However, training conditions at some field training sites remain largely unchanged, with personnel working and sleeping in tents that abut to forested areas where animals and their ectoparasites are present. While some training and maneuver sites are well planned for weapons qualifications of wheeled and tracked vehicles, others sites are in areas of unmanaged lands which are rodent infested. Increased surveillance by the 65th Medical Brigade not only provides a baseline and relative distribution for vector-borne diseases in Korea, but also provides disease trends and risk assessments that are necessary for protecting US military personnel training in Korea.