Effects of different sluice control manipulation on the benthic community structure in the artificial Lake Sihwa, Korea |
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학술지명 Japanese Benthological Society
저자 황인서,김세원,윤건탁,홍재상,최광순,김동섭
발표일 2009-10-18
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Coastal environments in Korea have been under increasing pressure during the last five decades as a result of increasing human activities. In January 1994, the Sihwa area of a shallow brackish ecosystem was impounded by the 17 km long dyke after seven years of construction that created an artificial Lake Sihwa on the western coast of Korea, by the entrapment of Yellow Sea water. The trapped seawater with a surface area of 44 km2, was supposed to drain into the Yellow Sea through a sluice gate along the dyke. Inside the lake, this shallow saline water wasstrongly stratified with freshwater at the surface and entrapped saline water on the bottom. Therefore, the pycnocline, lying usually at a depth of about 6 m, prevents mixing between the two water bodies, and thus generates periodically hypoxic and anoxic conditions in the deeper waters every summer. As a result, the Sihwa Lake has been suffering from these hypoxia / anoxia events that contribute to the disastrous periodical mass mortality of benthic communities. |