{"title":"Status of alien plant species in the Seongeup Folk Village in Jeju island.","authors":"H. Shin, Myung-Hoon Yi, J. Yoon, J. Sung, G. Kim","doi":"10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.299","url":null,"abstract":"The study performed flora investigation for 3 times on seasonal basis between April and October 2012 in Seongeup Folk Village, Pyoseon-myeon, Jeju-si designated as No. 188 of the National Major Folk Cultural Asset to analyze distribution and features of alien plants and categorized naturalized plants to calculate the naturalized index and the urbanization index. The tracheophytes of the village is 201 taxa including 80 families, 175 genus, 183 species, 14 varieties, 2 plants and 2 subspecies and the alien plants account for 32.8% with 66 taxa including 37 families, 60 genus, 63 species, 2 varieties and 1 subspecies and the naturalized plants have a total of 27 taxa including 14 families, 24 genus, 26 species and 1 variety. The naturalized index of the 321 taxa of the naturalized plants was 13.4% and the urbanization index was 8.4%. Systematic plans to manage plants in the Seongeup Folk Village are required, as well as gradually eliminate alien and naturalized plants and replace them with indigenes.","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"20 1","pages":"299-304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91223316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Byung Do Kim, Sung-Tae Yu, H. Shin, Myung-Hoon Yi, J. Yoon, G. Kim, J. Sung
{"title":"A Study on the Plants for Phenology of the Mt. Palgongsan Provincial Park","authors":"Byung Do Kim, Sung-Tae Yu, H. Shin, Myung-Hoon Yi, J. Yoon, G. Kim, J. Sung","doi":"10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.287","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The study performed monitoring on seasonal changes of a total of 13 plants including 10 woody plants and 3 herbaceous plants vulnerable to the climate change around the Mt. Palgongsan Provincial Park from April 10 to November 30, 2010. The plants were divided with 5 features including leaf unfolding, flowering, falling blossom, fall foliage and fallen leaves. The meteorological data were measured from early January, 2010 to late December, 2011 and the maximum and minimum monthly average temperatures were 25.3°C and −4.7°C and the maximum and minimum monthly average relative humidity was 96% and 28.3%, respectively. The study analyzed indicator species which may be compared as a result of monitoring indicator plants. The flowering period delayed from 2 to 10 days. In contrast, the flowers fell 3 to 25 days earlier. The leaf unfolded earlier than the previous year except some trees. No clear pattern changes were observed in the leaf foliage, time of leaf falling and growth duration compared to the previous year. It is required to perform long-term climate monitoring, observe phenology of plants and compare and analysis depending on vegetation, soils and slopes for each individual entity.","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"42 1","pages":"287-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84360010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seon-Deok Jin , Seul-Gi Seo , Young-Un Shin , Ki-Chang Bing , Tae-Han Kang , Woon-Kee Paek , Doo-Pyo Lee
{"title":"Heavy Metal Accumulations of 4 Species of Anseriformes in Korea","authors":"Seon-Deok Jin , Seul-Gi Seo , Young-Un Shin , Ki-Chang Bing , Tae-Han Kang , Woon-Kee Paek , Doo-Pyo Lee","doi":"10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.345","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study figured out the tendency of distribution of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd), and compared and examined the heavy metal accumulations among species by measuring the heave metal accumulations in major organs (liver, muscle, kidney and bones) targeting 31 birds in 4 species(<em>Cygnus cygnus, Anser albifrons, Aix galericulata</em> and <em>Anas formosa</em>) of Anseriformes. Concentration of lead (Pb) in tissues was generally high in kidney (1.54 μg/wet g) or bones (5.94 μg/wet g), and concentration of cadmium (Cd) was generally high in kidney (0.474 μg/wet g) and low in muscles (0.019 μg/wet g). As shown above, there was no bird containing more than the standard amount of cadmium (Cd) among Anseriformes, but the study confirmed from 3 species (<em>Cygnus cygnus, Anser albifrons, Aix galericulata and Anas formosa</em>) containing lead at exposed levels and at poisoned levels. It is judged that the study result will be used as a comparing material for studies monitoring heavy metal of Anseriformes, a winter bird and a bio-indicator in an aquatic ecosystem and a basic material for reasonable environmental policy of lead shots and lead sinker in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"5 4","pages":"Pages 345-349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72106022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Staphylinine Species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) New to Korea","authors":"Young-Bok Cho","doi":"10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.327","url":null,"abstract":"Philonthus mercurii Tikhomirova and Indoquedius juno Sharp are reported for the first time in Korea. Diagnoses and illustrations of habitus and aedeagus of two species are presented.","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"16 1","pages":"327-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77589621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Study on the Change of Birds Community in Gyeongju National Park","authors":"Jae-Pyoung Yu, In-Hwan Paik, Seon-Deok Jin, Woon-Kee Paek","doi":"10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined birds community distributed in the forest and the surrounding areas from July to December, 2011 targeting 5 areas including Namsan area (21.00 km<sup>2</sup>), Tohamsan area (76.95 km<sup>2</sup>), Seoak area (4.30 km<sup>2</sup>), Hwarang area (3.90 km<sup>2</sup>), and Sogeumgang area (6.8 km<sup>2</sup>) which are designated as Gyeongju National Park. As a result of examination, observed birds are total 5,060 individuals from 11 orders, 30 families and 71 species, Tohamsan area and Namsan area recorded the most species, 43 species respectively. The number of individuals are the most in Namsan area (1,678 individuals), followed by Hwarang area (1,178 individuals), Sogeumgang area (1,082 individuals), Tohamsan area (741individuals) and Seoak area (382 individuals). Dominant species included <em>Corvus frugilegus</em> (19.37%), <em>Streptopelia orientalis</em> (11.40%), <em>Passer montanus</em> (9.51%), <em>Paradoxornis webbianus</em> (7.69%), <em>Pica pica</em> (6.11%), <em>Anas platyrhynchos</em> (6.01%) and <em>A. poecilorhyncha</em> (5.83%). Tohamsan area which recorded the biggest number of species showed the highest species diversity (2.91) and species richness (6.36), and Sogeumgang area which had the smallest number of species and <em>Corvus frugilegus</em> as an extremely dominant species showed the lowest species diversity (1.35) and species richness (3.29). The number of species of birds observed in each area in each season was the most in summer (47 species), 44 species in winter and 31 species in autumn, the least.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"5 4","pages":"Pages 335-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72105815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Byung Do Kim , Sung Tae Yu , Hyun tak Shin , Myung hoon Yi , Jung won Yoon , Gi song Kim , Jung won Sung
{"title":"A Study on the Plants for Phenology of the Mt. Palgongsan Provincial Park","authors":"Byung Do Kim , Sung Tae Yu , Hyun tak Shin , Myung hoon Yi , Jung won Yoon , Gi song Kim , Jung won Sung","doi":"10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.287","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study performed monitoring on seasonal changes of a total of 13 plants including 10 woody plants and 3 herbaceous plants vulnerable to the climate change around the Mt. Palgongsan Provincial Park from April 10 to November 30, 2010. The plants were divided with 5 features including leaf unfolding, flowering, falling blossom, fall foliage and fallen leaves. The meteorological data were measured from early January, 2010 to late December, 2011 and the maximum and minimum monthly average temperatures were 25.3°C and −4.7°C and the maximum and minimum monthly average relative humidity was 96% and 28.3%, respectively. The study analyzed indicator species which may be compared as a result of monitoring indicator plants. The flowering period delayed from 2 to 10 days. In contrast, the flowers fell 3 to 25 days earlier. The leaf unfolded earlier than the previous year except some trees. No clear pattern changes were observed in the leaf foliage, time of leaf falling and growth duration compared to the previous year. It is required to perform long-term climate monitoring, observe phenology of plants and compare and analysis depending on vegetation, soils and slopes for each individual entity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"5 4","pages":"Pages 287-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72106021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Staphylinine Species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) New to Korea","authors":"Young Bok Cho","doi":"10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.327","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Philonthus mercurii</em> Tikhomirova and <em>Indoquedius juno</em> Sharp are reported for the first time in Korea. Diagnoses and illustrations of habitus and aedeagus of two species are presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"5 4","pages":"Pages 327-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.4.327","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72105817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wooyuel Kim, Min-gyeong Sin, Hyeong-cheol Song, Young-mu Kim, Ha-Cheol Sung
{"title":"Bird Diversity of Gokdudo · Daehangdo · Mokdo Islands in Dadohaehaesang National Park of Korea","authors":"Wooyuel Kim, Min-gyeong Sin, Hyeong-cheol Song, Young-mu Kim, Ha-Cheol Sung","doi":"10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/JKN.2012.5.4.293","url":null,"abstract":"As a result of conducting the study on the current state of bird diversity living in specific islands (Gokdudo, Daehangdo and Mokdo) twice for two days each on June and September, 2012, total 30 species, 184 birds were observed. As for each island, 8 species, 79 birds were observed in Is. Gokdudo, 17 species and 46 birds in Is. Daehangdo, and 20 species and 59 birds in Is. Mokdo. The most dominant species was Apuspacificus in the whole areas, total 58 birds (31.5%) were observed. In analysis of ecological index, species diversity was 2.62, species evenness was 0.77 and species richness was 5.56, and as for protected species, 3 species of natural monuments, two species of endangered wildlife class II and one kind of vulnerable species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature were recorded.","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"16 1","pages":"293-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80852174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insect Fauna of Is. Ulleung-do (Prov. Gyeongsangbuk-do) in Korea","authors":"Heon-Myoung Lim , Dae-Hyun Lee","doi":"10.7229/jkn.2012.5.3.243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.3.243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study was carried out to understand the distribution of land insects of Ulleung-do (Ulleung Island) between 18 and 26 May, 2011. Total land insects appearing in this study are 12 groups, 81 families and 242 species. 17 families and 76 species of Lepidoptera show a dominance of appearance of 31.4%. 23 families and 68 species of Coleopteran, and 13 families and 42 species of Diptera, etc. were studied. 35 species from Endermic species, 8 species from Designated species, and 1 Management of exotic species appeared. The insects that have appeared in every area studied by region are 9 groups, 53 families and 138 species in Seo-myeon, 9 groups 53 families and 131 species in Ulleung-eup, and 7 groups, 54 families and 114 species in Buk-myeon which were confirmed. 118 species of insect distribution not studied in preceding literature were confirmed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 243-250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.7229/jkn.2012.5.3.243","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72107356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Roh, Sat-Byul Shin, YOUNG-MIN Shin, Tae-Yang Eom, Seong-Jin Oh, B. Byun
{"title":"Lepidopterous Insect Fauna of Mt. Geumwonsan, Prov. Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea","authors":"S. Roh, Sat-Byul Shin, YOUNG-MIN Shin, Tae-Yang Eom, Seong-Jin Oh, B. Byun","doi":"10.7229/JKN.2012.5.3.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7229/JKN.2012.5.3.233","url":null,"abstract":"The present research was conducted to gain the comprehensive knowledge of Lepidopterous insect fauna in Mt. Geumwon Recreational Forest, Geochang-gun, Prov. Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea. The field collecting of Lepidopterous insects was carried out from May to September, 2011. A total of 174 species representing 25 families were identified from 1,053 individuals.","PeriodicalId":100797,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Korean Nature","volume":"28 1","pages":"233-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74826217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}