不同阴离子钠盐对土壤Cd形态与微生物群落的影响

为了探明污染土壤在盐碱胁迫条件下镉（Cd）有效性与微生物群落的响应,采集污灌区Cd污染农田土壤,模拟北方土壤典型盐碱胁迫情景,设置不同阴离子钠盐配置处理,利用微生境培养实验,采用高通量测序技术,结合对土壤性质、土壤Cd形态等的测定.结果表明：施用钠盐可显著提高钠吸附比（SAR）、碱化度（ESP）,降低有机碳（SOC）含量、阳离子交换量（CEC）;促进土壤中小粒径团聚体（<0.002mm）的形成,增加了Cd在小颗粒团聚体的质量负载;与对照相比,两种土壤中T1处理（主要阴离子为SO₄^2-、Cl^-）均显著（P<0.05）增加交换态Cd含量（27.06%和11.00%）.钠盐的添加降低了土壤中细菌的丰度和多样性,其中T1处理的微生物群落均匀度最低;盐碱胁迫处理改变了土壤细菌的关键类群,如增加了耐盐碱腈基降解菌科、葡萄球菌科、假单胞菌科和耐重金属芽孢杆菌科的菌群丰度,不同处理菌群结构差异与土壤阴离子组成有关,如相比而言,T1处理可增加变形菌门、芽单胞菌门、拟杆菌门的丰度.冗余分析结果表明土壤pH值、交换态Cd含量、SAR和ESP是影响细菌群落组成变化的关键环境因子,拟杆菌门、芽单胞菌门和变形菌门的丰度与pH值呈正相关,而酸杆菌门、绿弯菌门的丰度与交换态Cd含量、SAR呈现显著正相关.可见,盐碱胁迫增加了土壤Cd的有效性,显著改变了土壤微生物群落结构.     

Why do nocturnal orb-web spiders (Araneidae) search for light?

The nocturnal orb-web spider Larinioides sclopetarius lives near water and frequently builds webs on bridges. In Vienna, Austria, this species is particularly abundant along the artificially lit handrails of a footbridge. Fewer individuals placed their webs on structurally identical but unlit handrails of the same footbridge. A census of the potential prey available to the spiders and the actual prey captured in the webs revealed that insect activity was significantly greater and consequently webs captured significantly more prey in the lit habitat compared to the unlit habitat. A laboratory experiment showed that adult female spiders actively choose artificially lit sites for web construction. Furthermore, this behaviour appears to be genetically predetermined rather than learned, as laboratory-reared individuals which had previously never foraged in artificial light exhibited the same preference. This orb-web spider seems to have evolved a foraging behaviour that exploits the attraction of insects to artificial lights. Received: 8 June 1998 / Received in revised form: 18 January 1999 / Accepted: 19 January 1999     

Variations in the birth sex ratio and neonatal mortality in a natural herd of horses

Variations in birth sex ratios and sex differences in juvenile mortality occur in a number of mammalian species, and in many cases have been linked to resource availability. Most of these biases in offspring sex ratios concern polygynous species with pronounced sexual dimorphism, and where females only are philopatric. Data on species with unusual life-history strategies, such as slight sexual dimorphism or dispersal by both sexes, are of particular interest. In this study of a natural herd of horses (Equus caballus) which experienced an eruptive cycle, and therefore a period of nutritional stress, male offspring had higher neonatal mortality rates in nutritionally poor years than in good ones, whereas “year quality” had no effect on the mortality of female offspring; year quality could therefore be used by mares as predictor of sex-specific offspring survival. We show that the environmental conditions that predicted lower survival of males were negatively related to their production: the birth sex ratio the following year was female-biased; and mares were less likely to produce a son when they had produced a son the preceding year. There was no significant effect of mother's parity, age or rank, or the timing of conception or birth on offspring sex ratios. The mechanism leading to biases in the birth sex ratio could have been the loss of male embryos by mares that did not foal. As there was no evidence for selective abortion of male foetuses in females that did foal the next year, it is not necessary to invoke maternal adjustment, though this remains a possibility. Finally, there was a suggestion that male offspring were more costly to raise than females, since mothers that reared a son in poor years tended to experience an increase in the interbirth interval between their two subsequent offspring. Received: 28 December 1996 / Accepted after revision: 27 July 1997     

耕作土壤非交换性钾有效性的研究

采用２种化学连续提取法及连续耗钾实验。研究了几种耕作土壤非交换性钾释放特性及有效性。结果表明,供试土壤非交换性钾释放特性和有效性与粘土矿物密切相关。富含伊利石的土壤非交换性钾的释放量大,速率快,有效性高;黑麦草吸收该土壤的非交换性钾量及总吸钾量高,生物量大。而富含高岭石或蒙脱石的土壤非交换性钾有效性明显较低;非交换性钾的释放量和速率、黑麦草吸收该土壤的非交换性钾量、总吸钾量及生物量的均值分别仅为富含伊利石上壤的４６．９６％、４５．５０％、４１．６５％、４３．９０％和６７．５２％。供试土壤耗竭前期非交换性钾有效性高,供钾量大;黑麦草生长良好,生物量大。     

Interdemic variation in mixed-species association patterns: common diurnal primates of Kibale National Park, Uganda

We used interdemic variation in the tendency to form mixed-species groups to examine the costs and benefits of association among the primates of Kibale National Park, Uganda. A year-long survey of six sites revealed that the amount of time that the five common diurnal primates [red colobus (Procolobus tephrosceles), black-and-white colobus (Colobus guereza), redtail monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius), blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis), and grey-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena)] spent in mixed-species groups varied dramatically among sites. In many cases, the proportion of time that species associated was positively related to their densities. By using detailed behavioral observations of redtail monkeys and red colobus made over 4 years (2660 h) at four sites, we were able to reject the null hypothesis that associations occur by chance for only one of four sites. However, a correlative approach exploring the costs and benefits of association suggests that ecological variables do influence association patterns. We found that redtail monkeys and red colobus overlapped in diet (19.2% of their foraging effort) and traveled further when in mixed-species groups than when alone. Having demonstrated this, we examined the applicability of the ecological constraints model for predicting the proportion of the time spent in mixed-species groups based on food availability. For this analysis we concentrated on red colobus from the site with 35 months of observation and demonstrated that their tendency to be in mixed- species groups was related to food availability. We used two methods to examine if mixed-species associations function to decrease predation risk. First, chimpanzees are known to prey heavily on red colobus, but rarely kill other primates. The time red colobus spent in mixed-species groups was correlated to chimpanzee density, but it was not for the other monkey species, suggesting that mixed-species groups serve to decrease predation risk. Second, when red colobus groups contain more infants and are presumably at the greatest risk of predation, they form mixed-species groups most often. These results demonstrate that the costs and benefits of mixed-species associations vary dramatically over small spatial and temporal scales. If such variation is generally the case, then studies conducted at different locations or different times could easily highlight the importance of difference selective agents in favoring mixed-species associations. Received: 10 February 1999 / Received in revised form: 16 September 1999 / Accepted: 2 October 1999     

大田条件下不同钝化剂对空心菜吸收镉的影响及机理

通过大田试验,研究4种钝化剂（赤泥、海泡石、钙镁磷肥和磷矿粉）对两茬空心菜（Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.）生长和镉吸收的影响。钝化剂施用量为：赤泥（0.5%和1.0%）、海泡石（0.3%和0.5%）、磷矿粉（450和900 kg.hm-2）、钙镁磷肥（450和900 kg.hm-2）。结果表明,各钝化剂均能显著降低土壤有效态镉质量分数,钝化能力大小表现为海泡石〉赤泥〉钙镁磷肥〉磷矿粉;钝化剂提高了空心菜地上部生物量,第1茬时（50 d）,施用高量赤泥、低量海泡石和高量钙镁磷肥处理生物量增加最为明显,地上部分别增加78.7%、75.2%和76.6%。第2茬（80 d）,高量赤泥与高量磷矿粉处理增加最高,地上部分别增加24.6%和34.5%。钝化剂对空心菜镉吸收影响不同,第1茬时对根系和地上部分别起促进和抑制作用,施用高量赤泥和高量海泡石最能抑制地上部镉累积,镉质量分数分别降低27.3%和23.2%。第2茬时,除海泡石外,钝化剂均显著抑制了根系和地上部的镉吸收,高量磷矿粉和赤泥效果最佳。总体来看,赤泥是保障农产品安全的最佳钝化材料,海泡石效果最差。