Land‐use trade‐offs between tree biodiversity and crop production in the Atlantic Forest

Trade‐offs in ecosystem services (ES) have received increasing attention because provisioning services often come at the expense of biodiversity loss. When land‐use patterns are not maximally efficient relative to productivity, provisioning services, such as crop production, can often be increased without losing biodiversity. The Atlantic Forest (AF) encompasses dense, mixed, and seasonal forests and has high levels of endemism and anthropogenic threat. We examined trade‐offs between biodiversity and crop production in the AF to provide insights into land‐use management decisions. We developed a biodiversity metric that combines information on tree species richness, evolutionary distinctiveness, and rarity at the local level. We examined the extent to which the nature of ES trade‐offs differ among the 3 forest types. We assessed how annual deforestation rates and land management practices affect biodiversity and agricultural revenues. Finally, we tested whether it is possible to achieve the same total regional revenue without reducing biodiversity by improving local management practices. The 3 forest types had similar patterns in ES trade‐offs, although within mixed forest patterns differed. Biodiversity appeared to be more sensitive to land‐use change than crop revenues. Certain crops yielded up to 10 times higher values in some sites. Enhanced crop productivity may increase revenues without reducing biodiversity. Our results showed that to enhance human well‐being without further conversion of AF, maximizing crop productivity is needed . Increasing efficiency of management outcomes by maintaining higher biodiversity and increasing provisioning services depends on knowledge of forest type, the comparative advantage of planting crops in the best places, and preserving species in a balanced manner across forests.     

Assessing strategies to reconcile agriculture and bird conservation in the temperate grasslands of South America

Globally, agriculture is the greatest source of threat to biodiversity, through both ongoing conversion of natural habitat and intensification of existing farmland. Land sparing and land sharing have been suggested as alternative approaches to reconcile this threat with the need for land to produce food. To examine which approach holds most promise for grassland species, we examined how bird population densities changed with farm yield (production per unit area) in the Campos of Brazil and Uruguay. We obtained information on biodiversity and crop yields from 24 sites that differed in agricultural yield. Density–yield functions were fitted for 121 bird species to describe the response of population densities to increasing farm yield, measured in terms of both food energy and profit. We categorized individual species according to how their population changed across the yield gradient as being positively or negatively affected by farming and according to whether the species’ total population size was greater under land‐sparing, land‐sharing, or an intermediate strategy. Irrespective of the yield, most species were negatively affected by farming. Increasing yields reduced densities of approximately 80% of bird species. We estimated land sparing would result in larger populations than other sorts of strategies for 67% to 70% of negatively affected species, given current production levels, including three threatened species. This suggests that increasing yields in some areas while reducing grazing to low levels elsewhere may be the best option for bird conservation in these grasslands. Implementing such an approach would require conservation and production policies to be explicitly linked to support yield increases in farmed areas and concurrently guarantee that larger areas of lightly grazed natural grasslands are set aside for conservation.     

半固态触变成形坯料感应加热的数值模拟

半固态触变成形技术以其降低宏观偏析、减少多孔性、成形力小和近终成形等优点受到广泛关注。在触变成形之前 ,使坯料具有均匀的固 液相分布和球状晶粒是很重要的 ,这就要求加热快而迅速。为满足这一要求 ,目前普遍采用电磁感应加热。文中对感应加热进行了有限元理论分析 ,采用商用有限元软件ANASYS对半固态触变成形坯料感应加热进行了数值模拟 ,模拟了频率、加热时间、线圈电流强度系数、坯料尺寸半径、线圈尺寸大小等参数对坯料温度的影响。     

铝合金的半固态成形

半固态加工是金属材料成形领域中的一种新工艺。分析了铝合金半固态成形技术的现状及发展趋向。     

半干半湿法烟气脱硫技术研究

在实验的基础上，分析了半干半湿法烟气脱硫技术的优点。根据影响该技术脱硫效率的主要因素，通过实验，较系统地研究了温距与喷嘴布局、入塔烟温、Ｃａ／Ｓ 摩尔比、脱硫灰循环利用等对脱硫效率的影响，并对脱硫灰制砖的成分配制也进行了讨论。结果表明，在整体Ｃａ／Ｓ 摩尔比为１－５ ～１－７ 时，该技术工艺可以达到８０ ％ 以上的脱硫效率     

半干旱草原地—气温室气体交换速率测定

重点介绍采用静态箱－气相色谱法测定低交换速率的半干旱草原地－气间温室气体交换速率的采样分析系统的配置及操作，将静态采样箱置于采样点，用５０ｃｍ＾３或１００ｃｍ＾３的塑料注射器现场取样，转存于气袋中并送到实验室分析，用改进了进样系统并装有ＦＩＤ和ＥＣＤ的气相色谱仪（ＧＣ）分析其中的ＣＨ４、ＣＯ２和Ｎ２Ｏ浓度，计算出地－气痕量温室气体的交换速率云南人蒙古羊草草原、草甸草原Ｎ２Ｏ、ＣＯ２和ＣＨ４交换速率     

Thresholds of species loss in Amazonian deforestation frontier landscapes

In the Brazilian Amazon, private land accounts for the majority of remaining native vegetation. Understanding how land‐use change affects the composition and distribution of biodiversity in farmlands is critical for improving conservation strategies in the face of rapid agricultural expansion. Working across an area exceeding 3 million ha in the southwestern state of Rondônia, we assessed how the extent and configuration of remnant forest in replicate 10,000‐ha landscapes has affected the occurrence of a suite of Amazonian mammals and birds. In each of 31 landscapes, we used field sampling and semistructured interviews with landowners to determine the presence of 28 large and medium sized mammals and birds, as well as a further 7 understory birds. We then combined results of field surveys and interviews with a probabilistic model of deforestation. We found strong evidence for a threshold response of sampled biodiversity to landscape level forest cover; landscapes with <30–40% forest cover hosted markedly fewer species. Results from field surveys and interviews yielded similar thresholds. These results imply that in partially deforested landscapes many species are susceptible to extirpation following relatively small additional reductions in forest area. In the model of deforestation by 2030 the number of 10,000‐ha landscapes under a conservative threshold of 43% forest cover almost doubled, such that only 22% of landscapes would likely to be able to sustain at least 75% of the 35 focal species we sampled. Brazilian law requires rural property owners in the Amazon to retain 80% forest cover, although this is rarely achieved. Prioritizing efforts to ensure that entire landscapes, rather than individual farms, retain at least 50% forest cover may help safeguard native biodiversity in private forest reserves in the Amazon. Umbrales de Pérdida de Especies en los Paisajes Fronterizos de Deforestación en el Amazonas Ochoa‐Quintero     

Mapping opportunities and challenges for rewilding in Europe

Farmland abandonment takes place across the world due to socio‐economic and ecological drivers. In Europe agricultural and environmental policies aim to prevent abandonment and halt ecological succession. Ecological rewilding has been recently proposed as an alternative strategy. We developed a framework to assess opportunities for rewilding across different dimensions of wilderness in Europe. We mapped artificial light, human accessibility based on transport infrastructure, proportion of harvested primary productivity (i.e., ecosystem productivity appropriated by humans through agriculture or forestry), and deviation from potential natural vegetation in areas projected to be abandoned by 2040. At the continental level, the levels of artificial light were low and the deviation from potential natural vegetation was high in areas of abandonment. The relative importance of wilderness metrics differed regionally and was strongly connected to local environmental and socio‐economic contexts. Large areas of projected abandonment were often located in or around Natura 2000 sites. Based on these results, we argue that management should be tailored to restore the aspects of wilderness that are lacking in each region. There are many remaining challenges regarding biodiversity in Europe, but megafauna species are already recovering. To further potentiate large‐scale rewilding, Natura 2000 management would need to incorporate rewilding approaches. Our framework can be applied to assessing rewilding opportunities and challenges in other world regions, and our results could guide redirection of subsidies to manage social‐ecological systems.     

城市天然气管道半定量风险评估方法研究

以实现天然气管道风险评估资源的合理分配，确定天然气管道定量风险评估的重点为目标，改进燃气管道风险评估方法的肯特模型，探求城市天然气管道的半定量风险评估方法；分析了城市埋地天然气管道失效可能性与失效后果的影响因子，并研究其评分标准；分别给出了城市天然气管道失效可能性与失效后果的等级划分标准，并运用半定量风险矩阵进行燃气管道单元的风险初步排序，以确定高风险管道单元；对城市天然气管道进行半定量风险评估，可为识别管道沿线高风险后果区域、风险动态排序、风险预警及制定事故应急预案等提供科学依据和方法指导，具有重要的工程应用价值。     

半干旱区人工封育草场植被群落生态位研究——以宁夏盐池县长期定位监测点为例

人工封育是草场恢复和重建的一种主要措施。为研究半干旱区人工封育草地植物种群生态位,以宁夏盐池县人工封育区3种不同处理方式（长期完全封育、短期完全封育、短期不完全封育）为研究对象,将封育区分为封育核心区（E区）、封育边缘区（E1区）和封育外围区（E2区）,通过分析在该地区出现的27种植物种群的Levins生态位宽度指数和Pianka生态位重叠指数,揭示植物种群生态位在干旱荒漠环境下的变化规律,为进一步分析该地区群落稳定性提供依据。研究结果表明：1）核心区和外围区生态位宽度最大的都是刺沙蓬Salsola ruthenica lljin,分别为0.832和0.810,而边缘区生态位宽度最大的是丝叶山苦荬Lxeris chinensis var.graminifolia,为0.742,这2种植物的生物学特性决定了它们能够很好的适应封育区的环境,并很好的利用封育区的资源,结果是它们的生态位宽度明显高于其他物种。2）对三区内不同植物种群的生态位宽度分析结果显示,三区的群落稳定性表现为E1区〉E2区〉E区;长期的完全封育并不利于封育区内植物群落的稳定;而短期的完全封育措施比不完全封育措施更有利于植被群落的稳定。3）通过分析三区内不同植物种之间的生态位重叠得出,E区生态位重叠最大值出现在草地风毛菊Saussurea amara、苦豆子Sophora alopecuroides L、沙芦草Agropyron mongolicum Keng与臭蒿Artemisia hedinii之间,都是0.98。E1区生态位重叠最大值是达乌里胡枝子Lespedeza davurica和草木樨状黄芪Astragalus melilotoides之间（0.82）。E2区生态位重叠最大的一对是草木樨状黄芪和冰草Agropyron cristatum（0.99）。相关分析表明：生态位宽度与生态位重叠之间并没有明确的线性关系。生态位宽度窄的物种之间可能有较高的生态位重叠,反之,则较低,但并不是完全如此。