Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure

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Response of Vegetation to Shoreline Alternation in a Large Reservoir

대형 저수지에서 호안 정비에 대한 식생의 반응

  • Chu, Yun Soo (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University) ;
  • Cho, Hyunsuk (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University) ;
  • Cho, Kang-Hyun (Department of Biological Sciences, Inha University)
  • Received : 2016.06.23
  • Accepted : 2016.06.24
  • Published : 2016.06.30
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Abstract

Shoreline armoring is a globally used engineering strategy to prevent shoreline erosion along stream, lake and reservoir coastlines. Armoring alters the land-water interface and has the potential to affect shoreline vegetation by changing nearshore geomorphology, hydrology, sediment composition and water quality. We quantified the effects of the artificial disturbances and alternation of the land-water interface on the community structure and distribution of shoreline vegetation in a large reservoir, Uiam Reservoir, Korea. More than 60% of shorelines were disturbed by armoring with retaining wall of concrete block, riprap and gabion in the Uiam Reservoir. The results of detrended correspondence analysis showed that the vegetation structures of the shoreline modified by armoring changed from hydrophyte-dominated to hygrophyte-dominated ecosystems. The shoreline armoring caused the disruption of gradual continuity in the water-land interface and the biological invasion by alien plants. The changes in distribution area of shoreline vegetation showed that the area of hydrophytic vegetation decreased and that of hygrophytic vegetation increased from 2010 to 2013. In conclusion, the human disturbance such as armoring, road construction, recreation etc. could lead to terrestrialization, the loss of transverse continuity and biological invasion in the shoreline vegetation of the Reservoir Uiam. Our findings suggest that redesigning or removing shoreline armoring structures may benefit nearshore hydrophytic vegetation for the conservation of novel shoreline ecosystems.

호안 보강 (armoring)은 하천, 호수 및 저수지의 호안 침식을 방지하기 위하여 일반적으로 사용하는 공학적 기법이다. 호안 보강은 육역-수역 경계부를 변경하고, 호안 근처의 지형, 수문, 퇴적물 조성 및 수질을 변화시켜서 호안 식생에 영향을 미친다. 본 연구에서는 대형 저수지인 의암호의 육역-수역 경계부에서 인위 교란이 호안 식생의 군집 구조와 분포에 미치는 영향을 파악하고자 하였다. 의암호의 호안선은 60% 이상이 콘크리트 옹벽, 사석, 돌망태로 보강되어 있었다. 탈경향대응 분석 (DCA)의 결과에 의하면 보강에 의하여 바뀌어진 호안의 식생 구조가 수생식물 우점 생태계에서 습생식물 우점 생태계로 변화하였다. 호안 보강은 육역-수역 경계부에서 점진적 연속성을 파괴하였고 외래식물의 생물침입을 초래하였다. 2010부터 2013년까지 호안 식생의 분포 면적은 수생식물은 감소하였고 습생식물은 증가하였다. 결론적으로 의암호에서 보강, 도로 건설, 휴양 등과 같은 인간 교란은 호안 식생에서 육역화, 횡단 연속성의 상실, 생물침입을 초래하였다. 그러므로 호안 생태계의 특이성을 보전하기 위하여 호안 수생식물 식생대을 확대할 수 있도록 호안 보강 구조물을 철거하거나 재조성하여야 할 것으로 생각된다.

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