新兴污染物对微藻的毒性作用与机制研究进展

随着科技的发展,监测手段不断进步,新兴污染物普遍存在于环境中的问题及其可能带来的危害近年来才开始受到重视和研究。微藻作为初级生产者,对维持生态系统的稳定和平衡起到了至关重要的作用。本文综述了包括全氟化合物、多环芳烃、药品及个人护理品、纳米材料、微塑料和稀土元素在内的新兴污染物对微藻毒性作用及机制的研究进展。重点针对微藻的种间关系、生长和形态、对污染物的吸收和代谢、氧化应激反应、光合作用及基因表达等方面进行了总结,分析了新兴污染物作用下微藻的响应规律,归纳了新型污染物作用于微藻的毒性影响与可能机制。最后思考了其中可能存在的问题,提出了几点建议和展望。     

林业生态环境评价原理和内容的探讨

论述了林业生态环境评价的概念、特点、原则、内容、指标和标准等,构建出林业生态环境评价的基本框架,并提出了存在问题和建议。着重指出,林业生态环境的价值多重性决定了林业生态环境评价的特殊性和复杂性。     

林业生态环境评价原理和内容的探讨

论述了林业生态环境评价的概念、特点、原则、内容、指标和标准等,构建出林业生态环境评价的基本框架,并提出了存在问题和建议。着重指出,林业生态环境的价值多重性决定了林业生态环境评价的特殊性和复杂性。     

自然资源保护立法述评

本文系统评述了我国在土地、森林、草原、渔业、野生动物、水、矿产等自然资源利用与保护方面的立法体系。分别概述了我国这些资源的基本特征和面临的问题,介绍了为解决这些问题,建国以来我国政府所颁布的所有法律和行政规定以及一些地方性法规,特别是对这些法规和有关法规的主要条款作了较深刻和较为系统的评论。     

我国城市污水处理的有效措施

我国水环境污染和水资源短缺,促进了污水处理厂的建设,而污水处理工艺在很大程度上决定了污水处理厂的投资、基建费用、用地和运行管理费用。文章介绍了我国有污水处理厂的工艺、投资和运行费用。结合我国的基本国情,提出了建立经济有效的处理工艺的措施。     

污泥处理热干燥工艺的研究进展

介绍了国外污泥热干燥工艺的现状和干燥设备的类型,阐述了热干燥方法,包括对撞流干燥、过热蒸汽干燥、燃气红外辐射干燥、间壁式热干燥和流化干燥等,及其在污泥干燥中的应用原理和发展。并分析了污泥干燥处理技术综合利用的几种途径和发展趋势,认为污泥热干燥技术拓展了污泥的处置手段,为污泥的安全、可靠利用与处理提供了保障。     

海豚肝脏中含有硒和汞的新化合物的纯化和精制

为了搞清在海豚肝脏中存在的含有高浓度硒和汞的新化合的的存在形态及化学性质,本文采用了丙酮脱脂、无机盐溶液提取、限外过滤及离子交换、凝胶色谱、纸色谱、高速液相色谱等各种色谱分离法,对于海豚肝脏中含有硒和汞的新化合物进行了抽出、分离、纯化和精制。并比较了各种色谱法的纯化和精制的效果,制定了最佳的提纯操作方案。通过本实验,确证了在海豚肝脏中存在摩尔分子比1:1的硒和汞的新化合物,并探讨了这个化合物的存在状态及化学性质。     

磁性粉末净化含油污水

对磁粉与油浸磁粉和铁粉的除油效果进行了对比。研究了磁粉的寿命、多级净化效果、吸附量以及磁粉表面吸附层组成和磁粉的加热时间对其除油效果的影响。同时,利用EHMO理论计算了Fc_3O_4吸附乙烷、乙烯和水的稳定几何构型、结合能和电荷分布,并与XPS结果对照,提出了Fe_3O_4磁性粉末净化含油污水的机理,为实际应用提供了科学依据。     

上海化工原料与产品的清洁生产技术

在调研了上海化学工业生产工艺的基础上,结合将来上海化学的原料和产品,着重提出了一些清洁生产工艺的建议和规划。在异氰酸酯、甲基丙烯酸甲酯、叔丁胺、苯胺、亚氨基二乙酸、碳四、苯二酚等项目方面提出了相应的建议。     

日照阳光生态市建设框架

以“社会-经济-自然”复合生态系统理论为指导,通过系统辨识、系统模拟、系统分析和系统设计,找出了日照市社会经济发展的利导因子、限制因子和存在问题,弄清了复合生态系统的功能和过程,提出了日照市人口、资源、环境与产业的发展战略。     

Introduction to the Issue

We welcome you to this third issue of the Review of EnvironmentalEconomics and Policy. Once again, this issue includes articles,a symposium focused on a single topic, and a set of regularfeatures. In the first of two articles in this issue, Susmita Dasgupta,Kirk Hamilton, Stefano Pagiola, and David Wheeler describe andassess the history of "Environmental Economics at the WorldBank." This is the first in a series of articles that will describethe role of environmental economics at various government andmultilateral organizations. In this issue, a team of currentand former World Bank economists examines how environmentaleconomics entered the intellectual mainstream at the Bank in1992, and how since then it has exerted a     

Analysing the incorporation of sustainability themes into the university curricula: a case study of a Spanish public university

From an international view, several papers have analysed how sustainability themes are integrated into the university curricula. In Spain, few studies to date have examined the extent to which universities are incorporating sustainability themes into their curricula. In view of such considerations, this article examines the extent to which sustainability themes are being incorporated into the curricula of a Spanish public university strongly committed to signing sustainability policies and declarations. In addition, this study analyses the main barriers to the incorporation of sustainability themes into the curricula of this university. To accomplish this task, this article uses different methodological instruments over three phases through a case study approach. The findings of this study suggest how the university examined has many difficulties in incorporating, holistically or separately, sustainability themes in its formal courses despite having so many policies, regulations and a commitment to sustainability.     

Novel features of an inducible defense system in larval tree frogs (Hyla chrysoscelis)

Organisms in aquatic ecosystems must often tolerate variable environmental conditions, including an uncertain risk of predation. Individuals that can maintain plastic defenses against predation will increase their survival when predators are present, but will not incur the costs of these defenses when the risk of predation is low and the defense is not induced. Larvae of the pond-breeding anuran Hyla chrysoscelis develop a conspicuous phenotype in the presence of predators consisting of a brightly colored tail and a deeper tail fin. In this study, I attempted to identify the source of the chemical signal that induces this defensive morphology in this species. I tested whether metabolites alone, originating from the prey but passing through the predator, were able to induce the same morphological response as the combination of alarm signals released directly by attacked conspecifics, and metabolites. I used morphometric and tail conspicuousness data to assess tadpole response to the perceived risk of predation by larval odonate predators (Anax junius). I also tested whether this inducing cue could be recognized across species by measuring the morphological response of H. chrysoscelis tadpoles exposed to cues emitted when tadpoles of a closely related genus (Pseudacris crucifer) were consumed. Tadpoles exhibited a clean graded response of both overall shape and tail morphology in response to all cues, corresponding to their relative reliability as indicators of a risk of predation. H. chrysoscelis tadpoles were also able to respond to cues emitted when tadpoles of a closely related genus were consumed by predators. These results illustrate that tadpoles of this species are able to respond to metabolites alone without alarm signals, and that interspecific chemical communication is a primary mechanism for predator avoidance in this inducible defense system.     

Depth-related adaptations, speciation processes and evolution of color in the genus Phyllidiopsis (Mollusca: Nudibranchia)

The nudibranch genus Phyllidiopsis (Phyllidiidae) contains 30 currently recognized species, all of them distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific, eastern Pacific, Northwest Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Half of the known species of Phyllidiopsis inhabit deep waters, and most of the deep-sea species of the Phyllidiidae belong to this genus. There is no definitive explanation for the high diversity of Phyllidiopsis in the deep-sea or for whether diversity could be related to particular adaptations of this group or to historical events. In light of phylogenetic analysis, several cases of vicariance have been detected in this genus. Apparently two major vicariant events occurred between the tropical Indo-Pacific region and the Atlantic-eastern Pacific area first and subsequently between the eastern Pacific and the Atlantic. Vicariant events could also be involved in producing vertical distributional patterns in a few species of Phyllidiopsis. The scarcity of phyllidiids in the Atlantic Ocean may be explained by historical events, including isolation and subsequent extinction in shallow waters. There is a mimicry species complex in Phyllidiopsis, including several members of a clade that probably acquired this coloration through common ancestry, and also including another unrelated species that probably acquired this coloration through convergent or parallel evolution. There is also a group of white species, lacking any other contrasting colors, that inhabits deep waters. This coloration could constitute an adaptation to the deep-sea environment and not a mimicry complex. In this case, all species acquired this coloration through common ancestry.     

Concurrent Chemical and Histological Analyses: Are They Compatible?

Bivalves are often used as sentinel organisms in monitoring programmes for trace organic contaminants. the animal's physiological state may be important in interpreting trends in contaminant body burden. Simultaneous evaluation of physiological state and organic contaminant concentration in bivalves typically involves removal of a lipid-rich cross-section of the body mass for histopathological and/or gonadal analysis.

In this study, the bias introduced by this technique in the final trace organic concentrations, e.g. of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls, are evaluated on five different size groups of oysters. As a test case, we evaluated the use of this method in the NOAA's Status & Trends Mussel Watch (NS&T) Programme. the average biases introduced by this technique in the final trace organic concentrations in Gulf of Mexico oysters have been increasing since 1986 as a consequence of a continuous decrease in the size of the individuals sampled.     

Influence of prey reserve capacity on predator–prey dynamics

In this article the dynamics of a predator and prey population has been modelled when a reserve is created to protect a certain number of prey population from predation. This investigation is essential to derive some guiding principles to conserve the prey population and also to understand the behaviour and dependence of predator population on the reserve capacity. The present study concerns analysis of a fairly general model and hence some of the existing results based on specific explicit models, like Lotka–Volterra model and Rosenzweig–MacArthur model, can be derived from this work. In this study, conditions have been derived for coexistence of predator and prey, and extinction of predators. Results are obtained for global stability of required equilibrium of the model. Also, a method is suggested to compute reserve capacity in order to drive the ecosystem state to a required level. The key results developed in this article have been illustrated using numerical simulation. These results can be interpreted in different contexts like resource conservation, pest management, bio-economics of a renewable resource, etc.     

Mineral depletion with cost as the extraction limit: A model applied to the behavior of prices in the nickel industry

This article follows papers by Pindyck and Heal and Barrow in applying a Hotelling-type depletion model to a particular resource industry: in this case that of nickel. By means of the model the resource rent per ton of nickel is calculated as the proper index of extractive resource scarcity. The time path of this resource rent indicates that the model explains industry behavior well and that, as in the two previous studies, depletion has been an important determinant of prices and rents in this industry.     

Distribution of a novel infectious agent in healthy and diseased bicolor damselfish in Florida and the Caribbean

The disease damselfish neurofibromatosis (DNF) affects bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) on reefs in Florida. This disease consists of peripheral nerve sheath and pigment cell tumors that are eventually fatal. The development of DNF is correlated with the appearance of unusual, extrachromosomal DNAs in affected fish that appear to be the genome of an undescribed, virus-like agent. Probes derived from these sequences were used to determine the distribution of this agent in diseased and healthy fish from several reefs in South Florida and from selected locations elsewhere in the range of this species. These analyses demonstrated that naturally diseased fish exhibited high levels of these DNAs in tumors and, to a lesser extent, in unaffected tissues. Fish with experimentally induced DNF exhibited similar levels of this DNA. Healthy adult fish had either no detectable levels of this DNA or very low levels, depending on the sensitivity of the detection technique used. Healthy adults from high disease prevalence reefs were more likely to test positive for this DNA than those from low disease reefs. Juvenile damselfish never contained detectable levels of this agent. Very low levels of this DNA were also detected in healthy fish from the Caribbean and the Bahamas. Dose-response experiments using tumor-derived cell lines indicated that tumor development was directly related to exposure dosages and that very low concentrations of this material did not yield tumor development. Taken together, these data indicate that high levels of this agent were correlated with the appearance of this disease and the very low levels often observed in healthy fish were not a predictor of tumor development.     

(Z)-Dodec-3-en-1-ol, a common major component of the trail-following pheromone in the termites Kalotermitidae

(Z)-Dodec-3-en-1-ol has been identified as the major component of the trail-following pheromone of nine species of Kalotermitidae belonging to six different genera, suggesting that this compound represents a common signal in this family of termites. The homogeneous nature of trail-following pheromones of Kalotermitidae well agrees with the monophyly of this family. It also supports the postulated position of this family as a sister group of the Rhinotermitidae and Termitidae, which also secrete C12-alcohols as trail-following pheromones. The significance of a trail pheromone in termites of the ‘one-piece’ life type, which spend their whole life within the same piece of wood, is discussed.     

Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest

A hypothesis for progressive nitrogen limitation (PNL) proposes that net primary production (NPP) will decline through time in ecosystems subjected to a step-function increase in atmospheric CO2. The primary mechanism driving this response is a rapid rate of N immobilization by plants and microbes under elevated CO2 that depletes soils of N, causing slower rates of N mineralization. Under this hypothesis, there is little long-term stimulation of NPP by elevated CO2 in the absence of exogenous inputs of N. We tested this hypothesis using data on the pools and fluxes of C and N in tree biomass, microbes, and soils from 1997 through 2002 collected at the Duke Forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment. Elevated CO2 stimulated NPP by 18-24% during the first six years of this experiment. Consistent with the hypothesis for PNL, significantly more N was immobilized in tree biomass and in the O horizon under elevated CO2. In contrast to the PNL hypothesis, microbial-N immobilization did not increase under elevated CO2, and although the rate of net N mineralization declined through time, the decline was not significantly more rapid under elevated CO2. Ecosystem C-to-N ratios widened more rapidly under elevated CO2 than ambient CO2 indicating a more rapid rate of C fixation per unit of N, a processes that could delay PNL in this ecosystem. Mass balance calculations demonstrated a large accrual of ecosystem N capital. Is PNL occurring in this ecosystem and will NPP decline to levels under ambient CO2? The answer depends on the relative strength of tree biomass and O-horizon N immobilization vs. widening C-to-N ratios and ecosystem-N accrual as processes that drive and delay PNL, respectively. Only direct observations through time will definitively answer this question.