川渝两地吴茱萸的有效成分测定分析

建立同时测定吴茱萸中吴茱萸碱、吴茱萸次碱和柠檬苦素含量的高效液相色谱的新方法,以测定川渝两地吴茱萸有效成分的含量.采用色谱柱Zorbax Eclipse C<,18>(4.6mm×250mm,5μm),流动相为乙腈-四氢呋喃-0.02%磷酸水溶液(22:13:65)1.0mL/min,检测波长220nm,柱温35℃进行测定.结果表明,吴茱萸碱、吴茱萸次碱和柠檬苦素分别在0.051-0.518μg(r=0.9997)、0.021-0.212μg(r=0.9995)、0.085-0.427μg(r=0.9998)范围内呈良好的线形关系.川渝两地吴茱萸总碱的平均值为1.340%,柠檬苦素含量的平均值为0.4138%,吴茱萸、柠檬苦素含量不能达到药典要求.     

柱前衍生HPLC法测定三七中的三七素

采用2,4-二硝基氟苯为柱前衍生试剂,建立测定三七中三七素含量的柱前衍生反相高效液相色谱法;采用Luna-C18柱(4.6×250mm,5μm)、乙腈和HAc-Na Ac为流动相(17∶83),检测波长360nm,柱温40℃,20μL进样,在0.40μg/m L—1.2mg/m L浓度范围内,色谱峰面积与三七素含量线性关系良好,回归方程为A=123.5×103c+136.7,R=0.9987,RSD=1.5%,三七幼苗叶中三七素含量最高。该方法操作简便、快速、准确,选择性好,可用于植物、药物和食品中三七素含量的测定。     

超高效液相色谱法同时测定桦褐孔菌中三种主要化合物的含量

建立超高效液相色谱法(UPLC),测定桦褐孔菌中三种主要化合物原儿茶醛、丁香酸和(E)-4-(3,4-二羟基苯基)丁-3-烯-2-酮含量。采用UPLC法,色谱柱为CORTECS UPLC T3(2. 1mm×100mm,1. 6μm),流动相为乙腈—水(含0. 1%甲酸),柱温为40℃,流速为0. 4mL/min,进样量为1μL,检测波长为280nm。结果表明:原儿茶醛、丁香酸和(E)-4-(3,4-二羟基苯基)丁-3-烯-2-酮分别在0. 1953125—6. 25μg/m L(R2=1. 0000)、0. 1953125—6. 25μg/m L (R2=0.9998)、0. 1953125—6. 25μg/m L(R2=1. 0000)范围内线性关系良好,平均回收率(n=9)分别为98. 150%(RSD=1. 924%)、95. 787%(RSD=2. 487%)、100. 324%(RSD=1. 541%)。不同产地间的桦褐孔菌含量测定结果表明,三种化合物含量的差异较大,吉林长白山最高,俄罗斯西伯利亚次之,黑龙江大兴安岭最低。该方法操作简便、结果准确可靠、重现性好,可为桦褐孔菌的定量分析和质量评价提供科学的依据。     

HPLC分析暴马丁香不同部位的紫丁香苷含量

分析研究了暴马丁香不同部位中的紫丁香苷含量,为可持续合理利用和保护暴马丁香资源提供依据。利用Alltech高效液相色谱仪对暴马丁香不同部位中的紫丁香苷含量进行了测定,色谱柱为ODS-C18(4.6mm×250mm,5um),测定紫丁香苷的流动相为乙腈∶水(12∶88),体积流量1ml/min,柱温为室温,检测波长265nm。结果表明,紫丁香苷在0.1—7.0μg与峰面积具有良好的线性关系,紫丁香苷含量为韧皮部3.593%枝皮1.174%干皮1.166%木栓层0.568%枝条0.509%根0.421%木质部0.104%。该方法简便可靠、快速、重现性好,适用于暴马丁香中紫丁香苷的含量测定。     

HPLC法测定复方甘草合剂中甘草苷的含量

建立HPLC法测定了复方甘草合剂中甘草苷的含量.以Shim-pack CLC-DOS 150mm×4.6mm(5μm)为分析柱,乙腈-0.5 醋酸(15∶85)为流动相,流速为1.0 ml·min-1,检测波长为276nm,采用外标法定量测定.结果表明,甘草苷在5～25μg·ml-1范围内呈良好的线性关系(r=0.9998);其高、中、低3个量的平均回收率分别为99.57%、99.41%、98.76%,RSD分别为0.46%、0.72%、0.69%(n=6).本方法简便可靠,重现性好,可作为复方甘草合剂质量控制方法.     

HPLC测定川楝子不同采收期及不同部位中川楝素的含量

通过测定不同采收期和不同部位川楝子中川楝素的含量,为确定川楝子最佳采收期提供依据。采用高效液相色谱法,色谱柱Agilent Zorbax SB-C18（4.6mm×150mm,5μm）,流动相乙腈—水（28∶72）,流速1.0mL/min,检测波长210nm,柱温35℃。不同采收期川楝子中川楝素以1—2月间采收的含量最高;同一采收期的川楝子果核和果肉中川楝素含量最高,外果皮次之,种子中未检出川楝素。     

HPLC分析甘草中甘草酸和甘草苷含量

研究不同产地、不同生长期的野生与栽培甘草中甘草酸、甘草苷含量的变化,确定其最佳采收期。为了更好地开发利用甘草资源提供理论依据,建立了分析方法,为甘草的现代质量评价体系提供参考数据,扩大甘草药源。采用高效液相色谱测定不同产地、不同生长期野生与栽培甘草中甘草酸、甘草苷的含量。甘草酸在0.4—6μg范围内具有良好的线性关系,r=0.9999,平均回收率(n=3)为101.83%,RSD=0.74%;甘草苷在0.4—6μg范围内具有良好的线性关系,r=0.9998,平均回收率(n=3)为100.50%,RSD=0.22%。该方法确立了甘草的最佳采收期为9月中旬,种植基地的甘草可代替野生甘草使用,为甘草的药用资源和深入开发利用提供了基础依据。该方法简便、精密度高,结果准确可靠。     

大口径毛细柱测定工作场所空气中的甲醇

采用大口径毛细柱气相色谱法测定工作场所空气中的甲醇,该方法利用硅胶管采集空气样品,超纯水解吸,DB-FFAP（30 m×0.53 mm×0.5μm）色谱柱,氢焰离子化检测器（FID）进行测定。方法的校正曲线相关系数r=0.999 94,线性范围20.30~203.0μg/ml,检出限1.9μg/ml,最低检出溶度1.3 mg/m3（以1.5 L样品计）,相对标准偏差为0.28%~0.53%,平均解吸率为96.3%,标准样品检查结果在参考范围内。实验结果表明,大口径毛细柱气相色谱法测定工作场所空气中的甲醇,方法精密度好,准确性和灵敏度高,适用于工作场所空气中甲醇的测定。     

流动注射—光度法联用测定海水中PO4-P

本法针对海水分析时严重的盐度和基体干扰,以监测的海水试样为载流,并在流动注射进样阀前流路上首次引入自制全容量阴离子交换柱,去除载流中的磷酸盐,使进入系统的载流盐度与试样一致,消除了基体干扰,并通过阴柱在线再生条件试验和工作曲线优化试验,建立了流动注射磷锑钼蓝(还原剂为抗坏血酸)光度法直接测定PO4-P浓度为Ⅰ类～Ⅳ类海水的新方法,能分辨海水类别。结果表明,在最适合条件下,该方法在PO4-P浓度5～80μg/L范围内峰高与浓度成线性关系,方法检出限为0.73μg/L,空白海水加10μg/L、30μg/L和60μg/L PO4-P标准物质连续进样,RSD分别为4.57%(n=5)、4.72%(n=4)和5.76%(n=4)。进行实际样品分析时,加标回收率为101%～102%,具有很好的准确性,与国家标准方法———磷钼蓝分光光度法比对,结果吻合,令人满意。     

离子色谱-衍生-分光光度法同时测定水中三价铬和六价铬

本文建立了离子色谱法同时测定水中三价铬和六价铬的方法。样品中的三价铬经柱前衍生后,泵入分析柱,与样品中的六价铬分离,分离后的样品经在线柱后衍生,流入可变波长检测器,分别在365 nm和540 nm检测。利用正交实验找出最佳分析条件:水浴加热2 min,加热温度80℃,柱后衍生液流速1.1 ml/min。方法在10 min内完成水中三价铬和六价铬分析,三价铬和六价铬线性范围分别为0.05～10 mg/L和0.005～1 mg/L,方法检出限低,分别为18.1μg/L和0.267μg/L,精密度分别为1.16%(0.4 mg/L Cr3+,n=7)和3.07%(0.08 mg/L Cr6+,n=7),样品分析时的加标回收率在96%～102%之间。     

AN APPLICATION RUNOFF MODEL STRATEGY FOR UNGAGED WATERSHEDS1

ABSTRACT: Mathematical models for predicting watershed surface flow responses are available, most of which are elaborate nonlinear numerical surface and channel flow models linked with infiltration models. Such models may be used to make predictions for ungaged areas, assuming an acceptable fitting of the model to the topography and roughness of the real system. For some application purposes, these models are impractical because of their complexity and expensive computer solutions. A procedure is developed that uses a complex model of an ungaged area to derive a simpler parametric nonlinear system model for repetitious simulation with input sequences. The predicted flow outputs are obtained with the simpler model at significant savings of money and time. The procedures for constructing a complex kinematic model of a 40 acre (161,880 m²) reference watershed and deriving the simpler system model are outlined. The results of predictions from both models are compared with a selected set of measured events, all having essentially the same initial conditions. Peak discharges ranged from 3 to 118 ft³/sec (0.085 to 3.34 m³/sec), which includes the largest event of record. The inherent limitations of lumped systems models are demonstrated, including the bias caused by their inability to model infiltration losses after rainfall ceases. Computer costs and times for the models were compared. The derived simple model has a cost advantage when repeated use of a model is required. Such an applications hydrologic model has an engineering tradeoff of reduced accuracy, and lumping bias, but is more economical for certain design purposes.     

Conversion of temperate forests into heaths: Role of ecosystem disturbance and ericaceous plants

Fire and logging in nutrient-poor temperate forests with certain ericaceous understory plants may convert the forests into heaths. The process of disturbance-induced heath formation is documented by using examples ofCalluna in western Europe,Kalmia in Newfoundland, andGaultheria (salal) in coastal British Columbia. In a cool, temperate climate, rapid vegetative growth ofCalluna, Kalmia, and salal following disturbance results in increasing organic accumulation (paludification), nutrient sequestration, soil acidification, and allelochemicals. These are thought to be the main reasons to conifer regeneration failure in disturbed habitats. If continuation in forest is a land-use objective, then temperate forests with an ericaceous understory should not be logged unless effective silvicultural methods are devised to control the ericaceous plants and restore forest regeneration. Preharvest vegetation control may be considered as an option. Failure to control the understory plants may lead to a long-term vegetation shift, from forest to heathland, particularly in nutrient-poor sites. Successful methods of controllingKalmia andGaultheria, however, have yet to be developed. While theKalmia- andGaultheria- dominated heathlands are undesirable in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, a wide range ofCalluna heathlands of western Europe are being conserved as natural and seminatural vegetation.     

Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress

Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use the state factor approach to highlight the role of important aspects of climate, substrate, organisms, relief, and time in differentiating urban from non-urban areas, and for determining heterogeneity within spatially extensive metropolitan areas. In addition to reviewing key findings relevant to each state factor, we note the emergence of tentative "urban syndromes" concerning soils, streams, wildlife and plants, and homogenization of certain ecosystem functions, such as soil organic carbon dynamics. We note the utility of the ecosystem approach, the human ecosystem framework, and watersheds as integrative tools to tie information about multiple state factors together. The organismal component of urban complexes includes the social organization of the human population, and we review key modes by which human populations within urban areas are differentiated, and how such differentiation affects environmentally relevant actions. Emerging syntheses in land change science and ecological urban design are also summarized. The multifaceted frameworks and the growing urban knowledge base do however identify some pressing research needs.     

Neighbourhood characteristics and urban gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area: staffing and voluntarism,food production,infrastructure, and sustainability practices

Urban gardens are important sources of sustenance for communities with limited access to food. Hence, this study focuses on food production in gardens in the Toledo metropolitan area in Northwest Ohio. We administered surveys to 150 garden managers from November 2014 to February 2015 in our attempt to better understand how neighbourhood racial composition and poverty levels are related to staffing and voluntarism, food production and distribution, the development of infrastructure, and the adoption of sustainability practices in urban gardens. The results from 30 gardens are presented in this paper. We used Geographic Information Systems to map the gardens and overlay the map with 2010 census data so that we could conduct demographic analyses of the neighbourhoods in which the gardens were located. Though the gardens were small – two acres or less – up to 46 varieties of food were grown in a single garden. Gardens also operated on small budgets. Food from the gardens was gifted or shared with friends, family, and neighbourhood residents. Gardens in predominantly minority neighbourhoods tended to have fewer institutional partners, less garden infrastructure, and had adopted fewer sustainable practices than gardens in predominantly White neighbourhoods. Nonetheless, residents of predominantly minority and high-poverty neighbourhoods participated in garden activities and influenced garden operations. Volunteering and staffing were racialised and gendered.     

Predicting deer-vehicle collisions in an urban area

Collisions with deer and other large animals are increasing, and the resulting economic costs and risks to public safety have made mitigation measures a priority for both city and wildlife managers. We created landscape models to describe and predict deer-vehicle collision (DVCs) within the City of Edmonton, Alberta. Models based on roadside characteristics revealed that DVCs occurred frequently where roadside vegetation was both denser and more diverse, and that DVCs were more likely to occur when the groomed width of roadside right-of-ways was smaller. No DVCs occurred where the width of the vegetation-free or manicured roadside buffer was greater than 40 m. Landscape-based models showed that DVCs were more likely in more heterogeneous landscapes where road densities were lower and speed limits were higher, and where non-forested vegetation such as farmland was in closer proximity to larger tracts of forest. These models can help wildlife and transportation managers to identify locations of high collision frequency for mitigation. Modifying certain landscape and roadside habitats can be an effective way to reduce deer-vehicle collisions.     

BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ESTUARINE/COASTAL POLLUTION1

ABSTRACT: Sustained interest in and concern about the health status of the aquatic environment has resulted in extensive research focused on (1) effects of pollution on survival, growth, and reproduction of resource species at all life stages; (2) diseases of fish and shellfish, as they may be related to pollution and as they may serve as indicators of environmental stress; and (3) contaminant body burdens in fish and shellfish - their effects on the aquatic animals and their potential effects on humans. Effects, lethal and sublethal, of pollutants on life history stages of fish and shellfish have been documented, as have impacts on local stocks in badly degraded habitats, but as yet there has been no adequate quantitative demonstration of effects on entire aquatic species - probably because of the difficulty in sorting out relative effects of the many environmental factors that influence abundance. Sublethal effects, especially those that result in disease, have been examined intensively, and some diseases and disease syndromes have been associated statistically with pollution. Other pollution indicators (biochemical, physiological, genetic, behavioral, and ecological) have also received some attention, as have body burdens of contaminants in aquatic species. Research, especially that conducted during the past decade, has done much to clarify the many pathways and toxic effects of contaminants on aquatic animals, and has also helped to identify mechanisms for survival of fish and shellfish in the presence of environmental changes caused by human activities.     

Biodiversity and biotechnology

The maintenance of biodiversity is urged from many quarters and on grounds ranging from aesthetic considerations to its usefulness, particularly for biotechnology. But regardless of the grounds for preserving biodiversity, writers are generally in agreement that it should be preserved. But, in examining the various references biodiversity, such as species diversity, genetic diversity, and habitat diversity, it is apparent that we cannot aim to preserve biodiversityas such, since there are a number of conflicts in any such undertaking. In preserving one aspect of biodiversity, we damage another aspect. Five arguments which attempt to ground our moral concern for biodiversity are reviewed and critiqued, not only for their consistency but also for their power to move us to action. The final section of the paper shows how conflicts in the values of personal and environmental health can impair ethical action and especially policy formation.An earlier version of this paper was read at the conference on Agriculture, Food, and Human Values: Tradition and Change, Orlando, Florida, October 7–9, 1987.     

Journalists' views of advertiser pressures on agricultural news

All major journalism ethical codes explicitly state that journalists should protect editorial copy from undue influence by outside sources. However, much of the previous research on agricultural information has concentrated on what information various media communicate (gatekeeping studies) or communication's role in increasing innovation adoption (diffusion studies). Few studies have concentrated specifically on organizational and structural constraints that might adversely affect agricultural journalists' ethical standards; those that have, focus largely on farm magazines. A study of newspaper reporters who cover agricultural news found that the most pressing ethical concern is the effect of advertiser (agri-business) pressure on editorial copy, and that their concerns in general parallel those of farm magazine writers and editors. The majority reported being in situations in which they might be exposed to advertiser pressure, including pressures to change or withhold editorial copy. Large minorities suggested that advertising pressures affect the overall environment in which agricultural journalists work, and more than one in ten said they allow advertiser pressures to influence editorial decisions. The newspaper reporters who cover agricultural beats showed slightly more resistance to advertiser pressure than did farm magazine editors in a parallel study.     

Definition Procedures Have Little Effect on Performance of Environmental Classifications of Streams and Rivers

Mapped environmental classifications are defined using various procedures, but there has been little evaluation of the differences in their ability to discriminate variation in independent ecological characteristics. We tested the performance of environmental classifications of the streams and rivers of France that had been defined from the same environmental data using geographic regionalization and numerical classification of individual river valley segments. Test data comprised invertebrate assemblages, water chemistry, and hydrological indexes obtained from sites throughout France. Classification performance was measured by analysis of similarity (ANOSIM). Geometric regions defined by a regular grid and without regard to environmental variables and a posteriori classifications based on clustering the test datasets defined lower and upper bounds of performance for a given number of classes. Differences in classification performances were generally small. The ANOSIM statistics for the a posteriori classifications were around twice that of all environmental classifications, including geometrically defined regions. The hydro-ecoregions performed slightly better for the invertebrate data and the network classification performed slightly better for the chemistry and hydrological data. Our results indicate that environmental classifications that are defined using different procedures can be comparable in terms of their ability to discriminate variation of ecological characteristics and that alleged differences in performance arising from different classification procedures can be small relative to unexplained variation. We conclude that definition procedures might have little effect on the performance of large-scale environmental classifications and decisions over which procedures to use should be based primarily on pragmatic considerations.     

A Social Contract for Biotechnology: Shared Visions for Risky Technologies?

Future technological developmentsconcerning food, agriculture, and theenvironment face a gulf of social legitimationfrom a skeptical public and media, in the wakeof the crises of BSE, GM food, and foot andmouth disease in the UK (House of Lords, 2000). Keyethical issues were ignored by the bioindustry,regulators, and the Government, leaving alegacy of distrust. The paper examinesagricultural biotechnology in terms of a socialcontract, whose conditions would have to be fulfilled togain acceptance of novel applications. Variouscurrent and future GM applications areevaluated against these conditions. Successwould depend critically on how far a sharedvision can be found with the public. Tore-establish trust, significant changes areidentified in the planning and pursuit ofbiotechnology.