Pasture formation and management are crucial to avoid yield reduction. This experiment aimed to examine the effects of tall fescue-centered mixed-seeding combinations on yield and vegetation changes in perennial pastures in the central region for two years, from September 2020 to October 2022. The treatments were arranged in three replications in a randomized block design: control (C), tall fescue-based mixture-1 (T-1), and tall fescue-based mixture-2 (T-2). The tall fescue (TF), orchard grass (OG), perennial ryegrass (PRG), Kentucky bluegrass (KBG), and white clover (WC) were used. The emergency rate of grasses (70.0 to 73.3%) did not differ among mixed seeding combinations. Overwintering rates (81.7 to 83.3%) were similar among treatments. The plant height of grasses was similar at each harvest date, with the highest height (86.2 cm) recorded in the second harvest of the first year, followed by that (58.4 cm) in the third harvest of the first year; it was least (38.9 cm) in the fourth harvest of the second year. There was no significant difference in the dry matter yield of grasses among the mixed seeding combination treatments in the first, third, or fourth harvests of the first year (p>0.05). For second-year grasses, dry matter yield was not significantly different in harvest date among the treatments (p>0.05). Based on mixed seeding ratio, orchard grass showed the highest yield at 70% in the C treatment, followed by tall fescue at 80% and 60% in the T-1 and T-2 treatments, respectively, in the first harvest after seeding. There was no significant difference in feed value between treatments (p>0.05), but a significant difference was observed between the third and fourth harvest (p<0.05). Therefore, it indicated that it is important to create perennial pastures in the central region through mixed seeding combinations centered on tall fescue.

Sorghum×sudangrass hybrid (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, SSH) is one of the most important summer forage crop and it is widely used for silage in Korea. Agriculture is highly dependent on the climate condition and experiencing significant loss of productivity due to climate change. This study was conducted to investigate the correlation analysis between productivity of forage SSH and climatic factors in Central Northern region of South Korea for 3 years (2017 to 2019). Plant height and dry matter yield of SSH were significantly higher in Gyeonggi-do than Ganwon-do. The productivity of SSH is more closely related with temperature than other climatic factors. Maximum temperature and Growing degree days in May and June showed a positive correlation. However, correlation between production of SSH and precipitation was not clear in this study, but rainy days showed a negative correlation (0.42). In conclusion, temperature is most important climatic factor to the maintenance of plant yield.

This study was conducted to develop a simple volume model for the Larix kaempferi species in the Central Region of South Korea. General volume model forms were used and validated using a subset of the data collected for the L. kaempferi species. A total of 550 trees were collected in the different L. kaempferi stands through destructive sampling. The dataset was randomly divided into two: 80% for initial model development(seven volume models) and 20% for model validation. The 100% dataset was used for the final model fitting. Evaluation statistics including bias(Ē), absolute mean deviation(AMD), root mean square error(RMSE), coefficient of determination(R2), and the Akaike Information Criterion values(AIC) and weight (AICw) were used to assess performance of the different volume models. Rank analysis was employed and the first five best volume models were chosen for the model validation and final model fitting. The evaluations showed that volume model 4(V=aDBHb*Hc) had the best performance, while volume model 3(V=aDBH+bDBH2), which has a single variable, had the poorest performance.

We analyzed fault plane solutions of the recent twenty-two earthquakes which occurred from 2004 to 2006 in the central part of the Korean Peninsula by using P- and S-wave polarities along with SH/P amplitude ratios. The fault plane solution shows that strike-slip fault is dominant here, especially for the events with local magnitude equal to or greater than 3.0. However, some events with local magnitude less than 3.0 show normal fault or strike-slip fault with normal components. In the case of strike-slip fault, its orientation is almost in the direction of NNE-SSW to NE-SW almost parallel to the general trend of faults, while the compressional axis of the stress field trends ENE to E-W. The result is almost consistent with the stress field in and around the Korean peninsula, as reported previously. We cannot give any appropriate explanations to the normal faulting events along the western offshore and inland areas whether it is related to the local stress changes or tectonically unidentified extensional structures. Thus, an extension of investigations is desirable to clarify the cause of such phenomena.

1997년 12월 이후 남한 중부지역에서 방생한 지진 중 13개 지진에 대하여, 지역에 따라 5개 그룹으로 구분하여 P 파 극성을 이용하여 구한 복합단층면해와 P, S파 극성 및 진폭비(SV/P, SH/P, SV/SH)를 이용하여 구한 결과를 비교 해석하였다. 지진원에서의 단층운동은 NNE-SSW와 WNW-ESE 방향의 단층면을 나타내며 주향이동 혹은 역단층성 주향이동운동이 우세하게 나타났다. 단층운동에 작용한 주압축응력방향은 ENE-WSW 방향, 혹은 NE-SW 방향을 나타내며, 이는 남한지역에 발생하는 주요 지진에 대하여 구해진 주압축 응력장 방향과 거의 일치한다.

남한 중남부에 위치하는 한국교원대학교 단주기 지진 관측망에 1997∼1998년 사이 포착된 원거리 지진들의 종파 초동 시간의 상대적 도달시간차를 분석하고 향후 있을 한반도 전체규모의 종파속도구조대비의 연구를 위하여 예비적인 토모그라피(tomography) 역산을 실시하였다. 각 지진 관측점에서 측정된 종파의 상대적 도달시간차들은 최대 0.7초로 측정되었다. 경기육괴와 옥천대의 경계 근처의 관측점들에서 계산된 종파의 상대적 도달시간차들은 역방위각의 변화에 따라 비교적 큰 값의 변화를 나타내며 그 지역 지각 하부에 속도구조 이상체가 존재할 수 있음을 지시한다. 조사지역 상부 맨틀이 수평적으로 균질하다는 가정하에 지각 전체에 대한 토모그라피 역산 결과는 조사지역 북서쪽에 북동-남서 방향으로 상대적으로 낮은 종파 속도를 가지는 구조가 나타난다. 역산된 예비적 성격의 상대적 속도 구조이상체는 경기육괴와 옥천대의 경계를 따라 대비되는 듯한 경향을 나타낸다. 이번 연구에 사용된 블록의 크기나 위치 등에대한 입력 파라메터는 차후 자료가 충분히 집적될 경우 정밀분석을 위한 입력 파라메터로서 이용될 것이다.