Design and use of a time-sorting pitfall trap for predatory arthropods

An electronically-controlled time-sorting pitfall trap was designed which improves upon earlier models in having a 24-h rotation time, and in being capable of running continuously for at least one week without attention. Four prototypes were built, using readily available, inexpensive components, and used from June to October, 1995, to collect carabid beetles and linyphiid spiders in clover-undersown and weeded cabbages. The traps operated without malfunction during the hottest weather ever recorded in Aberdeen, when soil surface temperatures exceeded 40°C, and also during periods of torrential rain. Three spider and two carabid species dominated the catch, their nocturnal and diurnal patterns of activity being in general agreement with other published data. Some predators were apparently able to adapt to the contrasting vegetation in the two treatments, two species of Erigone spiders being nocturnal in weeded cabbages but tending to be diurnal in undersown crops.     

农田生态系统N2O排放的数值模拟研究

综合大气化学等多学科最新研究进展,建立了农田N₂O排放数值模式,模式较好地模拟了农田生态系统中N₂O排放过程.利用模式分析了气象因子对N₂O排放影响.结果表明:苏州稻田N₂O排放量与生长期平均气温存在显著正相关,与总辐射和降水量相关不明显;功率谱分析表明N₂O排放量存在7～9年的变化周期,与平均温度变化周期比较接近.模拟气候变化对N₂O排放的可能影响表明:气温比目前升高1℃,苏州稻田N2O排放量将平均增加4.5%.     

A review of concepts and criteria for assessing agroecosystem health including a preliminary case study of southern Ontario

The model of agroecosystem health has been advocated as an appealing guideline for agricultural research. Yet, some ambiguity remains in how the concept can be defined and how the general criteria for assessing the health of an agroecosystem at a particular scale can be selected. This paper reviews the literature from various disciplines pertinent to the concept of agroecosystem health. It focuses on assessing the applicability of assorted concepts, norms, and criteria to agroecosystem health assessment, and develops a general definition of agroecosystem health. A classification scheme is proposed which scattered while potentially useful concepts in the literature are discussed, using southern Ontario as a case study to further illustrate the usefulness of the conceptual framework in studying agroecosystem health. Agroecosystem health can be characterized from four different perspectives that are related to agroecosystem structure, function, organization, and dynamics. Given the complexity of agroecosystems, the health of the systems at different scales cannot be fully captured from one perspective only. Criteria, such as resource availability, diversity, and accessibility, are some of the existing concepts capable of depicting the structural state of agroecosystem health. Concepts including productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness appear very useful for assessing the functional performance of agroecosystems. As any agroecosystem interacts actively with its external environments and changes over time, such characteristics are not necessarily captured by structural or functional criteria. Organizational criteria, such as autonomy and self-dependence, are useful to characterize the organizational nature inherent to agroecosystem health. Stability and resilience on the other hand are two appealing concepts capable of revealing the temporal dimension of agroecosystem health. Numerous empirical studies that are used to illustrate how these concepts developed in different disciplines of agricultural research can be potentially employed to facilitate the assessment of agroecosystem health. It is argued that any holistic investigation of the health of an agroecosystem needs to examine biophysical, economic, and human conditions of the system and to evaluate these conditions from perspectives pertinent to system structure, function, organization, and dynamics.     

河西走廊绿洲玉米农田生态系统呼吸特征及温度响应

准确评估农田生态系统碳排放对评价陆地生态系统碳平衡具有重要意义。研究利用中国生态系统研究网络临泽内陆河流域研究站玉米农田生态系统涡度相关和微气象监测数据,分析了2009年生态呼吸速率（RE）和呼吸敏感性指数（Q₁₀）的季节变化规律,探讨了环境因子对RE的影响,比较了不同模型估算生态系统碳排放量的差异。结果表明,河西走廊荒漠绿洲玉米农田生态系统夜间平均呼吸速率表现为单峰型的季节动态,平均最大呼吸速率12.54 μmol CO₂·m^-2·s^-1;空气温度（T_a）比土壤温度（T_s）更明显地影响着玉米农田生态系统呼吸,且影响过程表现出明显的季节差异;基于Q₁₀模型拟合的4—10月各月的参考呼吸速率RE₁₀和敏感性指数Q₁₀也表现出单峰型的季节变化模式,最大值先后出现在6月和8月,其值分别为2.68 μmol CO₂·m^-2·s^-1和2.62。Logistic模型能较好地反映RE与T_a的关系,可以解释半小时呼吸速率55.9%的变异,但在高温情况下的预测值偏低;Q₁₀、Quadratic、Lloyd & Taylor和Logistic模型模拟的玉米农田生态系统呼吸速率的平均日变化和季节动态差异明显,估算的河西走廊荒漠绿洲玉米农田生态系统年呼吸碳排放量介于1 122~1 252 g C·m^-2·a^-1。     

河北省涞水县大气颗粒物单颗粒分析表征及来源识别

为了解河北省涞水县颗粒物污染特征,采用单颗粒分析技术扫描电镜-X射线能谱法和气团后向轨迹分析技术对该县2015年3个典型污染时段〔即正常管控、严格管控（2015年阅兵期间）及发生严重颗粒物染污〕采集的7个大气颗粒物样品进行了分析表征和来源解析.共测量了1 506个粒径≥0.5 μm的单颗粒,其中粒径小于2.5 μm的颗粒占98%以上,测量结果揭示了细颗粒污染特征.结果表明:①碳质颗粒为主要颗粒物种类,其检出数目占比在90%以上.②非供暖期严格管控时段,当地居民日常生活产生的球形碳质颗粒检出数目占比最高.③非供暖期正常管控时段,机动车排放的碳质集合体颗粒检出数目占比最高,交通污染贡献最大.④供暖期球形碳质颗粒检出数目占比最高,含硫颗粒检出数目占比相对增加,燃煤的贡献最大.3个采样时段48 h气团后向轨迹分析结果表明,在空气质量良好、颗粒物污染水平较低的情况下,影响研究区域空气质量的主要是本地源;雾霾天气（处于严重颗粒物污染时段）时,西南方向外来源和本地源共同构成研究区域的颗粒物污染状态.      

Energy flow through an organic agroecosystem in China

The energy flow in a traditional organic agroecosystem located in Hailun county of Northeastern China was analyzed for the years 1952–1954. For this energy analysis of the Hailun agroecosystem and human society, energy production was divided into 3 systems: crops, livestock and forestry.In terms of energy, this agroecosystem was self-sustaining. Human and horse power provided the major energy inputs. In the crop system, the energy input/output ratio was about 1:2. Fossil energy input into the total agroecosystem was less than 2% of the total. Based on only fossil energy inputs and crop outputs, the ratio was 1:107. The sources of food and household energy for human society came from the crop, livestock and forestry systems. The crop system provided more than 80% of the energy for this society.In addition to natural additions of N and P, legumes, other crop rotations and the application of human and livestock wastes to the land provided the nutrients for crop production. However, the agroecosystem was not self-sustaining in terms of some soil nutrients. Quantities of both nitrogen and phosphorus were calculated to be declining because of losses due to composting, storage, burning crop residues, exporting some harvests and soil erosion.     

Researching the agroecosystem/environmental interface

This special issue of Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment recognizes the important contribution of Dr. J.W. Sturrock to agroecosystem and environmental research through his long-term role as Editor-in-Chief (1982–2000). An historical overview of agroecosystem and environmental research is provided to illustrate the continued growth of scientific endeavor in this area, and to show its importance for a better understanding of ecological interactions within agroecosystems and especially at the agroecosystem/environmental interface. The papers collected in this special issue are selected to illustrate the breadth and diversity of agroecosystem and environmental research. They can be placed in the following four areas: the environmental impact of farming systems; the management of organic resources, the link between the ecology of farming systems and the environment; and the ecological interactions that occur within or between agricultural systems. Intensification of food production, population growth, technological change, changing land-use patterns, and global change will further impact the structure and functional properties of agroecosystems, and intensify the interaction between agriculture and the environment, and will present a major continuing need for research in the 21st century.     

Responses of plant, insect and spider biodiversity to local and landscape scale management intensity in cereal crops and grasslands

The aim of this study was to determine the relative effects of landscape scale management intensity, agroecosystem type, local management intensity and edges on diversity patterns of functional groups of plants, carabid beetles, spiders and grasshoppers. Nine landscapes were selected differing in percent intensively used agricultural area (IAA), each with a pair of organic and conventional winter wheat fields and a pair of organic and conventional mown meadows. Within fields, plants were surveyed in the edge and in the interior. Carabid beetles and spiders were captured by funnel traps, while grasshoppers were sweep-netted in the meadows. Diversity patterns of study organisms were affected both by local variables (local management, agroecosystem type and within-field position) and by landscape scale management intensity. Species richness of grasses, presumably because of sowing low-diversity mixtures, and hunting spiders decreased with percent cover of IAA. Meadows differed from wheat fields in that they had higher species richness of forbs and grasses, as well as higher densities of hunting spiders. In contrast, more carabid individuals, especially of non-carnivore species, were captured in wheat fields. In field edges with their reduced management intensity and increased immigration, species richness of plants, carabids and spiders was higher than in the interiors regardless of agroecosystem type and management. Organic management enhanced forb richness and cover in both agroecosystem types. Organic management also increased grass cover in wheat fields, but not in meadows, and promoted species richness of non-carnivore carabids and hunting spiders, but not grasshoppers. The results show that agri-environmental management needs to be targeted to the agroecosystem's field size, because higher edge area led to higher species richness. Organic management affected several functional groups positively (forbs, non-carnivore carabids, hunting spiders), while lower landscape scale management intensity only increased species richness of grasses and spiders. The great differences in responses of functional groups to local cereal and grassland as well as landscape management suggest implementing more scale and group specific targets for agri-environmental schemes to improve their efficiency.     

气候变暖对西北干旱区农业气候资源的影响

在气候变暖背景下,西北干旱区气候资源变化如何影响农业是该区农业应对气候变化研究的前提与基础。论文根据西北干旱区1961—2007年77个气象站点均一化气温数据和日照时数数据,采用5 d滑动平均和线性倾向估计方法,分析了各农业气候指标的时间变化特征与区域差异。研究表明,霜冻日、暖日、生长期、无霜期、≥0℃与≥10℃活动积温的变化趋势显著且区域特色鲜明。暖日、生长期、无霜期变化呈显著上升趋势,其多年平均值空间分布主要表现为"南高北低"的特征,而霜冻日则相反;≥0℃、≥10℃的活动积温亦呈明显增加趋势(增长率分别为80℃.d/10 a、77℃.d/10 a),且可分为6个空间差异显著的活动积温特征区域。农业气候资源变化对西北干旱区农业生产影响利弊各兼。一方面,干旱区热量资源得以改善,作物生育期延长,天然植被气候生产力显著增加[增长率为15.6g/(m2.10 a)];另一方面,干旱区热害与冷害等极端气温事件增加,光照资源显著减少,水资源严重缺乏和分布不均,这造成了农业生产的不稳定性增加。     

Hot-blooded singers: endothermy facilitates crepuscular signaling in African platypleurine cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae:<Emphasis Type="Italic"> Platypleura</Emphasis> spp.)

The cicada genus Platypleura has a wide distribution across Africa and southern Asia. We describe endothermic thermoregulation in four South African species that show crepuscular signaling behavior. This is the first evidence of thermoregulation in platypleurine cicadas. Field measurements of body temperature ( T _b) show that these animals regulate T _b through endogenous heat production. Maximum T _b measured was 22.1°C above ambient temperature during calling activity at dusk. The mean T _b during dusk activity did not differ from the mean T _b during diurnal activity. A unique behavior for cicadas, a temperature-dependent telescoping pulsation of the abdomen, was observed in the laboratory during endogenous warm-up. This behavior is part of a unique method of heat generation in endothermic cicadas. Males generally call from trunks and branches within the canopy and appear to use endothermy even when the sun is available to elevate T _b. Endothermy may provide the cicadas with the advantage of decreasing predation and acoustic competition by permitting calling from perches that most complement their cryptic coloration patterns and that ectotherms cannot use due to thermal constraints. In addition, endothermy may permit calling activity during crepuscular hours when atmospheric conditions are optimal for acoustic communication and predation risks are minimal.     

系统决策与作物布局——徐州地区秋作物布局实例分析

作物布局是农业生产的一个重要环节,直接关系到农业生态系统资源输入(物质条件、科学技术、气候资源和生物资源等)的利用和转化效率的高低。因为系统输入的资源是非定常的,尤其是天气气候条件年际之间是不同的,本文在年型预测的基础上,确定在不同天气气候条件下的作物合理布局。     

Results from the 1987 total exposure assessment methodology (team) study in Southern California

Volatile organic compound (VOC) levels in breath, personal air and fixed-site (indoor and outdoor) air were measured and compared for a sample of 50 individuals in the Los Angeles area of California. Comparisons were also made between seasons (winter and summer), between breath samples taken at three different times during the 24-h monitoring period, and between exposure levels of smokers and non-smokers. Personal air levels were higher than indoor air levels and indoor levels were much higher than outdoor levels. Air concentrations in the kitchen and living area were quite similar. Air and breath levels were higher in the winter than in the summer. Little difference was found between levels for the three breath sampling periods. Mean personal air levels of VOCs related to smoking were higher in individuals exposed to tobacco smoke vs those who were not exposed. The personal air levels of smokers and passive smokers (those non-smokers exposed to tobacco smoke) were not significantly different; while similar air levels were found in the kitchen and primary living area of homes with smokers.     

黄土高原丘陵沟壑区脆弱农业生态系统服务评价——以安塞县为例

论文以典型黄土高原丘陵沟壑区安塞县为例,运用市场价值法、替代工程法、影子价格法、机会成本法等方法对其境内7种不同类型农业生态系统的保持土壤(Es)、涵养水分(Ew)、固定CO²和释放O²(Ea)、维持营养物质循环(En)、净化环境(Ee)等服务功能进行了价值核算,初步估算出安塞县生态系统各服务功能的价值总量为3169870.46×10⁴元,是其农林产品服务价值(Vp)的170倍。这一方面表明脆弱生态系统依然担当了重要的生态系统服务功能,为其经济生产力提供了巨大的生态服务。各种服务价值的大小依次为En(占89.85%)、Ew(占4.39%)、Ea(占4.18%)、Vp(占0.58%)、Es(占0.81%)、Ee(占0.18%)。另一方面也充分反映出在该地区“生态生产力”与“经济生产力”严重失衡。     

Influence of rice straw burning on the levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in agricultural county of Taiwan

Atmospheric particulate and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) size distribution were measured at Jhu-Shan (a rural site) and Sin-Gang (a town site) in central Taiwan during the rice straw burning and non-burning periods. The concentrations of total PAHs accounting for a roughly 58% (34%) increment in the concentrations of total PAHs due to rice-straw burning. Combustion-related PAHs during burning periods were 1.54–2.57 times higher than those during non-burning periods. The mass median diameter (MMD) of 0.88–1.21 m in the particulate phase suggested that rice-straw burning generated the increase in coarse particle number. Chemical mass balance (CMB) receptor model analyses showed that the primary pollution sources at the two sites were similar. However, ricestraw burning emission was specifically identified as a significant source of PAH during burning periods at the two sites. Open burning of rice straws was estimated to contribute approximately 6.3%–24.6% to total atmospheric PAHs at the two sites.     

农业生态系统中杂草资源的可持续利用

杂草是农业生态系统中对农作物的生长和产量产生重要影响的伴生植物。杂草具有耐不良环境、生长快、繁殖力强等优良特性,是重要的生物资源。可利用杂草的优良基因作为农作物遗传改良的基因供体,利用其有用成分开发中医药,利用植物他感效应进行害虫生物防治,可开发成观赏植物,可作为先锋物种进行生态恢复、改良环境、促进养分循环、保护土壤微生物等。杂草的化学防除是导致杂草资源丧失的重要因素,寻找既利于杂草资源保护又不影响农作物生长的防除途径、杂草资源数据库的创建、杂草资源有益基因的发掘和开发利用,是杂草科学今后应加强的研究方向。     

新型动态针捕集阱技术分析大气中低浓度的VOCs

本研究针对大气中挥发性有机物（VOCs）浓度低,难于分析等特点,以Carboxen 1000作为吸附剂,制作一种新型动态针捕集阱（needle trap）装置,可用于主动富集大气中低浓度VOCs.该装置与气相色谱-质谱（GC-MS）联用,操作简单、无需溶剂、容易定性定量.选择空气中苯系物（BTEX）为目标化合物,对needle trap装置从设计原理到实际应用进行了详细分析,将萃取条件与穿透体积等实验条件进行优化,建立了needle trap吸附提取空气中BTEX的最佳条件.结果表明,方法检出限低至0.05ng·mL-1,加标回收率为86.5%～110.5%,符合外场采样要求.     

基于SPAMS的太原市典型生活区停暖前后PM2.5来源及组成

为分析太原市采暖期和非采暖期PM_2.5的特征,利用单颗粒气溶胶质谱仪（SPAMS）分析太原市典型生活区采暖期（2016年3月11-18日）和非采暖期（2016年4月1-7日）PM_2.5的来源及组成.结果表明:① 采暖期（停暖前）颗粒物有机碳、硫酸盐和多环芳烃等信号强度大于非采暖期（停暖后）,而元素碳、硝酸盐、铵盐等反之.② 为了尽可能排除气象因素的影响,选取风向（东南风）、风级（二级）相同时段的颗粒物进行分析,停暖前后颗粒物主要化学组分为有机碳、混合碳和元素碳,采暖前有机碳占比（达51.9%）最高,非采暖期元素碳占比（32.6%）最高.采暖期有机碳、高分子有机物和左旋葡聚糖占比明显高于非采暖期,元素碳、矿物质和重金属反之.③ 停暖前后首要的两类污染源为燃煤和机动车尾气,二者贡献率之和分别高达70.1%和67.4%,可见本地主要受这两类源的影响.燃煤在采暖期为首要污染源,并且贡献比例高于非采暖期,而机动车尾气在非采暖期为首要污染源,且比例明显高于采暖期.研究显示,采暖和非采暖期虽然首要污染源有所差异,但在污染过程中,机动车尾气源的贡献比例均高于优良时段,说明无论是采暖期还是非采暖期,除燃煤排放的影响外,机动车尾气的影响也需得到重视,建议加强机动车燃油品质的升级,使用清洁煤,并在重污染时段采取相应的管控措施.      

Evasive response to ultrasound by the crepuscular butterfly<Emphasis Type="Italic"> Manataria maculata</Emphasis>

The crepuscular nymphalid butterfly Manataria maculata was studied in Monteverde cloud forest, Costa Rica, during the dry season reproductive diapause. M. maculata has ears in the form of Vogel's organs located near the base of the forewings. Its behaviour in response to bursts of ultrasonic pulses (26 kHz, 110 dB SPL at 1 m) was condition-dependent. At dusk and dawn the sound consistently elicited evasive responses, similar to those of moths, in flying individuals. In contrast day-roosting individuals always remained motionless although they were alert to other stimuli. The daily movements between day- and night-roosts coincided in time and light intensity with the activity of insectivorous bats. This is the first reported case of ultrasonic hearing connected to evasive flights in a true butterfly (Papilionoidea). It strongly supports the idea that echolocating bats were involved in the evolution of hearing in butterflies.     

长三角背景点夏季大气PM2.5中水溶性无机离子污染特征及来源解析

为研究长三角背景点夏季PM_2.5污染特征,于2018年5月30日—8月15日在上海市崇明岛对PM_2.5样品进行昼夜采集,并对其中水溶性无机离子(Cl-、NO₃-、SO₄2-、Na+、NH₄+、K+、Mg2+、Ca2+)进行了分析.运用PSCF(潜在源贡献)方法判别污染物排放源区,并结合PCA(主成分分析)和PMF(正交矩阵因子)源解析探究PM_2.5来源.结果表明:①观测期间崇明岛ρ(PM_2.5)平均值为(33±21)μg/m3,低于GB 3095—2012《环境空气质量标准》一级标准限值(35 μg/m3),但在部分时段存在显著超标现象,ρ(PM_2.5)最高值在120 μg/m3以上.②水溶性无机离子质量浓度平均值为(14±9.3)μg/m3,占PM_2.5的42.4%,其中SNA(SO₄2-、NO₃-、NH₄+三者统称)为主要离子,占水溶性离子总质量浓度的85.7%.③n(NH₄+)/n(SO₄2-)(NH₄+与SO₄2-的摩尔浓度比)显示,清洁期〔ρ(PM_2.5) < 15 μg/m3〕呈贫铵状态,过渡期〔15≤ρ(PM_2.5)≤35 μg/m3〕和污染期〔ρ(PM_2.5)>35 μg/m3〕均呈富铵状态;过渡期SNA主要以NH₄HSO₄和NH₄NO₃形式存在,而污染期则主要以(NH₄)₂SO₄和NH₄NO₃形式存在.④通过对两次典型污染事件进行离子相关性分析和PSCF分析发现,E1污染事件(5月30日—6月8日)为局地生物质燃烧型污染事件,E2污染事件(7月23日—8月1日)为区域传输污染事件.源解析结果进一步表明,两次典型污染事件期间气态污染物的二次转化对PM_2.5的贡献最显著,贡献率分别为62.8%和59.8%;其次是生物质燃烧,其贡献率分别为32.5%和20.1%;E2污染事件期间海盐源对崇明岛PM_2.5贡献率较高(16.6%),远超过E1污染事件期间对PM_2.5的贡献率(2.7%).研究显示,区域输送对崇明岛PM_2.5有显著贡献,二次颗粒物累积是崇明岛PM_2.5超标的主要原因.      

吹扫捕集-气相色谱法测定水中的乙醛和丙烯醛

建立了吹扫捕集-气相色谱法测定水样中乙醛和丙烯醛的方法,并对吹扫捕集测试条件进行优化,考察了吹扫温度和吹扫时间对吹扫捕集效率和方法检出限的影响。在50℃下,吹扫时间为20 min时,该方法乙醛和丙烯醛的检出限分别为0.001 2 mg/L、0.000 6 mg/L,相对标准偏差分别为3.5%～6.9%、2.9%～5.8%,加标回收率分别为91.6%～108%、92.0%～105%。与GB3838-2002推荐使用的分析方法相比较,该方法具有操作简便、灵敏度高、重复性好、基本上不消耗有机溶剂等特点,可满足地表水和废水中乙醛和丙烯醛的测定要求。