基于生态风险评估的旅游目的地开发研究——以吉林省大布苏国家级自然保护区为例

吉林大布苏国家级自然保护区的主要生态风险源来自人类活动,该保护区目前以开展生态旅游为主。以吉林省大布苏国家级自然保护区为例,运用生态风险评估的一般方法系统分析影响其生态风险的因素,确定其主要生态风险源为干旱、盐碱化、水土流失和人类活动,其中人类活动造成的影响特别突出。将ArcGIS应用于生态风险的评价当中,结合2004--2011年土地利用类型变化,绘制综合生态风险等级分布图,提出针对性的旅游开发对策以降低该保护区面临的生态风险,实现吉林省大布苏国家级自然保护区的可持续发展。     

德州盐渍土改良与开发利用研究

德州市是我国北方土壤盐碱化和次生盐渍化分布最典型的地区之一,20世纪50至60年代就率先在全国进行土壤改良试验,改良成果突出。但是在投入巨资进行工程建设的同时,次生盐渍化现象并没有得到根本性改变,反而出现反弹现象。运用地学原理分析了研究区土壤盐碱化和次生盐渍化的分布和成因,总结出区域盐碱地整治和改良措施,运用生态学和景观生态学原理提出研究区盐碱资源开发利用的经济、社会和生态价值,以及盐碱资源可持续利用的新思路和建议。     

黄土高原生态化油田建设

针对长庆油田在黄土高原较为脆弱的生态环境下,建设西部大庆过程中所面临的油田快速发展与生态保护之间的矛盾,运用工业生态学原理,总结探讨了长庆油田以企业文化、数字化油田、集约用地、研究配套实用勘探开发技术、体制机制改革、发展循环经济及管理创新等手段对建设生态化油田进行探索,实现企业发展、生态保护、企地和谐,通过油田的开发改善和促进黄土高原的生态文明。     

城市湿地生态系统的结构特征及现存问题

对我国城市湿地生态系统的结构特征和存在问题进行了综述。目前我国城市湿地生态系统的结构特征表现为面积小、分布不均、空间结构和营养结构简单、稳定性低、脆弱性强,同时其形态结构具有显著的景观美学特征,但受水环境因素的制约性强。目前的主要问题是：湿地面积迅速减少、空间结构脆弱性加剧、环境污染加剧、生物多样性降低、生物入侵严重、生态系统稳定性下降、水土流失与湖泊淤积严重、规划设计不当、人为干预强烈。通过综述,将增加人们对城市湿地生态系统结构的深入认识,为开展科学保护、建设、开发、利用活动和促进城市可持续发展提供依据。     

基于RS/GIS技术的“十一五”期间塔里木河流域生态环境质量综合评价分析

"十一五"是新疆经济飞速发展的五年,同时也是重大生态保护工程十五实施期。本文采用国家环境保护部制定的《生态环境状况评价技术规范》(HJ/T192-2006)分别对新疆"十五"末与"十一五"末生态环境质量进行综合评价分析。结果显示:塔里木河流域生态环境质量总体处于较差水平,各县(市)生态环境质量以较差和差为主,二者面积总和在全区总面积60%以上;与"十五"末相比,全区生态环境质量保持稳定,无明显变化。呈现总体趋于稳定,局部区域有所改善的特征。     

Compensatory Mitigation for Streams Under the Clean Water Act: Reassessing Science and Redirecting Policy1

Doyle, Martin W. and F. Douglas Shields, 2012. Compensatory Mitigation for Streams Under the Clean Water Act: Reassessing Science and Redirecting Policy. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 48(3): 494-509. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00631.x Abstract: Current stream restoration science is not adequate to assume high rates of success in recovering ecosystem functional integrity. The physical scale of most stream restoration projects is insufficient because watershed land use controls ambient water quality and hydrology, and land use surrounding many restoration projects at the time of their construction, or in the future, do not provide sufficient conditions for functional integrity recovery. Reach scale channel restoration or modification has limited benefits within the broader landscape context. Physical habitat variables are often the basis for indicating success, but are now increasingly seen as poor surrogates for actual biological function; the assumption “if you build it they will come” lacks support of empirical studies. If stream restoration is to play a continued role in compensatory mitigation under the United States Clean Water Act, then significant policy changes are needed to adapt to the limitations of restoration science and the social environment under which most projects are constructed. When used for compensatory mitigation, stream restoration should be held to effectiveness standards for actual and measurable physical, chemical, or biological functional improvement. To achieve improved mitigation results, greater flexibility may be required for the location and funding of restoration projects, the size of projects, and the restoration process itself.     

Post-Fordist transformation,the sustainability concept and social relations with nature: a case study of the Hamburg region

Following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the concept of sustainability in general and of urban sustainability in particular has become increasingly significant in the course of the 1990s. Even if the environmental problems of cities are far from being solved, one can interpret this development as a change in the relationship between society and nature on both a discursive and a material level. At the same time the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism has given rise to new forms of urban entrepreneurialism, with an absolute priority to economic competitiveness on the one hand and sharpened social conflicts on the other. Looking at the case of the Hamburg region, the article discusses the interaction of these processes. Contrary to the understanding of sustainability as a broadly accepted policy goal it conceptualizes sustainability as a terrain of conflict. As such, we will argue, the sustainability concept and the underlying change in social relations with nature contribute to containing the contradictions of capitalist societalization, which in the transition to post-Fordism have become more visible again. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Is There a Metabolism of an Urban Ecosystem? An Ecological Critique

The energy and material flows of a city are often described as urban metabolism (UM), which is put forward as a way to link a city's ecology and economy. UM draws parallels to the biology of individual organisms, yet the analogy is misapplied. In striving to be interdisciplinary, UM makes this organismic comparison rather than identifying the city as an ecosystem, thereby ignoring developments in ecological theory. Using inappropriate rhetoric misdirects researchers, which influences scientific investigation-from problem statements to interpretations. UM is valuable in quantifying the city's use of natural resources but does not achieve a comprehensive, integrated analysis of the urban ecosystem. To realize an interdisciplinary, perhaps transdisciplinary, understanding of urban ecology, researchers need to emphasize the essential tenets of material flows analysis, view the city as an ecosystem, and use language that properly reflects current knowledge, theory, and conceptual frameworks in the foundational disciplines.     

Four Decades of Plant Community Change in the Alpine Tundra of Southwest Yukon,Canada

Repeat measurements from long-term plots provide precise data for studying plant community change. In 2010, we visited a remote location in Yukon, Canada, where a detailed survey of alpine tundra communities was conducted in 1968. Plant community composition was resurveyed on the same four slopes using the same methods as the original study. Species richness and diversity increased significantly over the 42 years and non-metric multidimensional scaling indicated that community composition had also changed significantly. However, the direction and magnitude of change varied with aspect. Dominant species were not replaced or eliminated but, instead, declined in relative importance. Fine-scale changes in vegetation were evident from repeat photography and dendro-ecological analysis of erect shrubs, supporting the community-level analysis. The period of study corresponds to a mean annual temperature increase of 2°C, suggesting that climate warming has influenced these changes.     

向家坝工程扰动区的景观变化及其生态恢复

大型水利水电工程扰动常造成土地利用的显著变化。为研究工程扰动对景观的影响以及采取修复措施后的景观生态效果,以向家坝水利水电工程建设为例,以工程扰动区的航空摄影图像分析和野外样地调查为手段,分别针对工程区域在被扰动前（2004年）、扰动后（2006~2007年）和进行恢复重建之后（2008年）的3个代表年份展开了区域景观变化及现有生态恢复工程对生态景观恢复效应的研究。选取景观破碎化指数、多样性、优势度和景观形状指数4个参数,量化分析了向家坝工程建设区整体景观结构特征,包括不同阶段景观格局变化、景观斑块类型面积与斑块数量变化、斑块破碎化和斑块形状变化,以及各年份景观指数和各景观类型破碎化指数变化等。此外,从景观生态学原理的角度,提出了向家坝工程扰动区将来实施生态恢复重建的对策措施。其中特别强调扰动区今后的生态恢复工作应在科学规划扰动区景观格局和功能的基础上,注重景观连接性的建设,同时不断改善群落结构和丰富物种多样性