Biomolecules preserved in ca. 168 million year old fossil conifer wood

Biomarkers are widely known to occur in the fossil record, but the unaltered biomolecules are rarely reported from sediments older than Paleogene. Polar terpenoids, the natural products most resistant to degradation processes, were reported mainly from the Tertiary conifers, and the oldest known are Cretaceous in age. In this paper, we report the occurrence of relatively high concentrations of ferruginol derivatives and other polar diterpenoids, as well as their diagenetic products, in a conifer wood Protopodocarpoxylon from the Middle Jurassic of Poland. Thus, the natural product terpenoids reported in this paper are definitely the oldest polar biomolecules detected in geological samples. The extracted phenolic abietanes like ferruginol and its derivatives (6,7-dehydroferruginol, sugiol, 11,14-dioxopisiferic acid) are produced only by distinct conifer families (Cupressaceae s. l., Podocarpaceae and Araucariaceae), to which Protopodocarpoxylon could belong based on anatomical characteristics. Therefore, the natural product terpenoids are of great advantage in systematics of fossil plant remains older than Paleogene and lacking suitable anatomical preservation.     

丹江口水库水环境保护协调机制研究

针对丹江口库区及其上游水环境保护现状和存在问题,探索建立跨地区、多部门、多层次的丹江口水库水环境保护协调机制,逐步形成国家和地方、流域与区域、水利部门与非水利部门间的水资源保护协调机制,以及流域上、下游分工明确、统一协调的水源地及其上游水资源保护管理新格局,以推进跨地区、跨部门的水资源管理,促进南水北调水源地水资源的持续利用。     

上海高温和低温气候变化特征及其影响因素

基于上海11个气象站逐日最高、最低气温、降水资料和西太平洋副热带高压(简称副高,下同)环流指数,分析了上海夏季高温和冬季低温的气候变化特征及其影响因素。结果表明,1873～2007年,上海高温日数表现为少-多-少-多的年代际变化,低温日数则表现为多-少的年代际变化。2001～2007年,上海年均高温日数、各级高温过程数和高温过程日数都最多,低温日数、低温过程数和低温过程日数都最少。1960～2007年,上海每年高温日数与当年夏季副高面积和强度指数显著正相关,低温日数与当年冬季副高面积和强度指数显著负相关。降水对上海极端气温有一定的缓解作用,上海高温日数与夏季降水量弱显著负相关,低温日数与冬季降水量显著负相关。上海高温过程数受城市化影响较大,其时间变化具有明显的城郊差异,低温过程数则受城市化影响较小。     

Changes in the structure of chortobiont invertebrate community exposed to emissions from a copper smelter

The aboveground phytomass of meadow plants and the density of chortobiont invertebrates in secondary upland meadows were estimated using a biocenometer in three areas differing in the level of pollution with emissions from the Middle Ural Copper Smelter (Revda, Sverdlovsk oblast) in 2006 and 2007. As the smelter is approached, the total amount of phytomass (dry weight) decreases by a factor of 1.3–1.9, with the proportion of grasses reaching 100%; the total abundance of invertebrates increases two-to threefold due to sucking phytophages, which account for up to 80% of the invertebrate community. The abundance of gnawing phytophages near the smelter is reduced, with some taxa entirely missing (e.g., mollusks and phalangiid harvestmen). Rearrangements in chortobiont community structure are attributable to changes in the physiological state of plants and in the species diversity and architecture of the herbaceous layer, with consequent modification of hydrothermal conditions in it, as well as by the direct toxic effect of heavy metals.     

长江中游盆地地质环境系统演变与防治对策

在构造沉降,泥沙淤积及人工围的相互的相互作用下,长江中游盆地质环境系统分割为演变化方向不同的两部分,堤外水域成为人工过饱盆地,堤内垸地成人为人工饥饿盆地。,长江某些区段及洞庭湖 水位抬升,垸地高程不断降低,洪涝渍害不断加剧。     

汉江中下游干流水质状况时空分布特征及变化规律

汉江是南水北调中线工程的水源区,其中下游水质状况是国家和湖北省政府重点关注的饮用水安全问题.研究南水北调中线工程影响区汉江中下游干流的水质状况和特征,为进一步分析工程运行对汉江中下游水质的影响奠定基础.收集了汉江中下游干流11个水质监测站2011—2014年pH、ρ（DO）、ρ（COD_Mn）、ρ（BOD₅）、ρ（NH₃-N）、ρ（TP）、ρ（TN）等7项水质指标,应用水污染指数法和层次聚类分析法,综合辨识2011—2014年汉江中下游干流的水环境时空变化特征.结果表明:①2011—2014年汉江中下游干流水质整体上为GB 3838—2002《地表水环境质量标准》的Ⅳ类~劣Ⅴ类水体,超标指标为ρ（TN）、ρ（TP）、ρ（BOD₅）,其中ρ（TN）超标最严重.②为深入辨识TN负荷对研究区域水质的影响,通过情景分析发现控制ρ（TN）可有效改善汉江中下游干流水质状况.③汉江中下游干流水质状况层次聚类分析表明,在时间上将研究时段分为2类,基本对应于汉江中下游的汛期和非汛期;在空间上将水质监测断面（沈湾、泽口、新沟、宗关、转斗、皇庄、汉南村、石剅、白家湾、余家湖、罗汉闸）分为3类,其中第3类可细分为3个子类,各子类所对应的水质监测断面与其空间分布基本对应.④汉江中下游干流富营养化严重,其中ρ（TP）和ρ（TN）在非汛期分别呈显著降低和增加趋势,汛期无明显变化.研究显示,江汉中下游污染严重,营养盐尤其丰富且ρ（TN）为主要影响因素.      

水利旅游资源空间结构特征及自驾车可达性研究——以长江中游城市群国家水利风景区为例

以长江中游城市群60处国家水利风景区为研究对象,利用最邻近点指数、Voronoi多边形面积变异系数、核密度分析、图层叠加分析等空间分析手段和GIS空间分析工具,对区域水利旅游资源的空间结构特征进行分析。解释了水利风景区空间分布的影响因素。最后基于谷歌地图搜索测算了各水利风景区对于相应城市群地级市的交通可达性。结果表明:水利风景区呈随机、均匀分布态势,但有集聚分布倾向;空间集聚形态上表现为三处高密度集聚圈、三处低密度集聚圈、一处真空地带;水利风景区空间分布受资源禀赋、交通区位、政策支撑等多因素影响;水利风景区的通达度均值为212.15分钟,大部分水利风景区可达性并不理想;湖南各地级市到达所有水利风景区平均耗时优于江西和湖北。     

我国中西部地区持续发展中的环境问题及其对策

探讨了中西部地区环境问题的严峻性,并提出了一些环境立法、资源合理利用、结构优化、环境带动等可持续发展对策。     

中昆仑山形成时代与隆升幅度——基于夷平面与磷灰石裂变径迹研究

青藏高原北缘蚕眉山地区为主夷平面残留区(属高原腹地),有关火山岩年龄揭示夷平面于13 Ma前已基本形成,并于3.7Ma前解体。在中昆仑山前山和后山分别获得(4.2±0.8)Ma和(3.9±0.6)Ma的磷灰石裂变径迹年龄。夷平面解体年代和磷灰石裂变径迹年龄指示一次明显的构造抬升,并与青藏运动A幕相对应。进一步的地貌-沉积分析表明,昆仑山北面山前盆地上新世—早更新世沉积的厚度巨大的西域组砾岩主要来源于昆仑山的剥蚀作用,证明昆仑山4 Ma左右开始即相对南面高原腹地大幅隆起。根据磷灰石裂变径迹年龄,推算昆仑山区已剥蚀掉的古夷平面(虚拟面)对应现代海拔高度约为8 200 m,而现代高原腹地夷平面残留实体海拔为5 200 m左右,据此计算出昆仑山4 Ma以来较高原腹地(蚕眉山地区)相对抬升了约3 000 m。     

Dynamics of heavy metal accumulation in thalli of the epiphytic lichen Hypogymnia physodes

A sequential extraction procedure was used to study localization of heavy metals in thalli of the lichen Hypogymnia physodes (L.) Nyl. growing under conditions of chronic aerotechnogenic pollution in the Middle Urals. Trends in the seasonal dynamics of metal contents in the thalli were revealed. The dynamics of metal accumulation was also studied in the thalli brought to the polluted zone from the background environment. After one year, the extra-and intercellular contents of most metals in these transplants approached those in the aboriginal thalli and in some cases (intracellular content of cadmium) exceeded them.