Analysis of ecological response to flow regime change using River Analysis Package(RAP) |
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학술지명 국제 하천호소환경 심포지움
저자 서진원,박상영,김정곤,고익환
발표일 2007-10-19
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Most major rivers in Korea have experienced extensive modifications including construction of artificial structures such as multipurpose dams for flood protection, water supply, energy generation, and other purposes. The construction and operation of such a dam inevitably leads to physical and ecological changes throughout waterways and their floodplane, mostly downstream of the reservoir site, as well as in the reservoir itself and in some cases also upstream (jorde, 2006). Downstream impacts develop through discontinuity in downstream gradients, e.g. sediment supply water quality and temperature, and most of all in modification of the flow regime. These impacts consequently lead to secondary changes in fluvial and floodplane processes, affecting the high spatial and temporal variability of available habitats characteristic of river floodplane system. These primary and secondary changes have biological and socioeconomic implications. Quantitative modeling is one of the key tools in assessing the importance of 'natural' rivers cape character to ecologic function. Poff et al.(1997) suggested that alterrations to the Natural Flow Regime (flow magnitude, frequence, duration, timing, and rate of change)can, directly or indirecly , influence secondary physical processes ann thus have deleterious impacts on ecological integrity. Richter et al. (1996) proposed the index of hydrologic alteration which is a good tool to quantify or comepare hydrologic alterations. However, there is little knowledge as to what quantitative components of the hydrologic regime are really important for ecosystem function, which ones are less important and which components of the natural regime can be changed and how. We have initiated an international collaborative reserch project with eWater CRC of australia to study the impacts of flow regime alteration on the physical and ecological changes in the Geum River, korea. We developed a conceptual model coupled with numerical modeling. |