研究高寒区植物生长过程对气候变化响应的封顶式生长室系统

为了研究高寒区植物生长过程对主要全球气候变化因子[如环境CO2浓度加倍（EC）、环境温度升高（ET）]及其二者组合（ECT）条件下的响应和适应，在青藏高原东缘岷江上游中部的中国科学院成都生物研究所茂县生态站[A（E）103^o53’，φ（N）31^o41’，海拔1820m]建立了一组全封闭的生长室系统．系统由6个独立、自控、封闭的生长室和2个对照组成．本文首先描述了生长室系统的结构和控制原理，然后基于2004年的运行结果，分析了系统的各项指标特征．结果表明：（1）EC和ECT生长室内的CO2浓度在650～800μmol mol^-1之间的时间分别占91．32％和91．67％（目标CO2浓度=环境CO2浓度加倍）；（2）ET和ECT生长室内空气温度升高1．0～3．5℃的时间分别占95．06％和88．73％（目标温度=现行环境温度＋2℃）；（3）生长室内太阳辐射和光合有效辐射强度减少20％～40％的时间分别占90．42％和89．43％．生长室系统能够提供多种与自然环境变量较一致的环境条件，也能提供长期的、稳定的目标环境变量．是研究高寒区植物生长过程对全球气候变化响应和适廊的有效模拟实验系统．     

Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Threats

Abstract:  Marine ecosystems are threatened by a suite of anthropogenic stressors. Mitigating multiple threats is a daunting task, particularly when funding constraints limit the number of threats that can be addressed. Threats are typically assessed and prioritized via expert opinion workshops that often leave no record of the rationale for decisions, making it difficult to update recommendations with new information. We devised a transparent, repeatable, and modifiable method for collecting expert opinion that describes and documents how threats affect marine ecosystems. Experts were asked to assess the functional impact, scale, and frequency of a threat to an ecosystem; the resistance and recovery time of an ecosystem to a threat; and the certainty of these estimates. To quantify impacts of 38 distinct anthropogenic threats on 23 marine ecosystems, we surveyed 135 experts from 19 different countries. Survey results showed that all ecosystems are threatened by at least nine threats and that nine ecosystems are threatened by > 90% of existing threats. The greatest threats (highest impact scores) were increasing sea temperature, demersal destructive fishing, and point-source organic pollution. Rocky reef, coral reef, hard-shelf, mangrove, and offshore epipelagic ecosystems were identified as the most threatened. These general results, however, may be partly influenced by the specific expertise and geography of respondents, and should be interpreted with caution. This approach to threat analysis can identify the greatest threats (globally or locally), most widespread threats, most (or least) sensitive ecosystems, most (or least) threatened ecosystems, and other metrics of conservation value. Additionally, it can be easily modified, updated as new data become available, and scaled to local or regional settings, which would facilitate informed and transparent conservation priority setting.     

经济全球化背景下中国农业生态学面临的新问题与新任务

中国农业发展正呈现现代化、结构优化、产业化、标准化、信息化、生态良性化等发展趋势。在经济全球化背景下 ,中国加入WTO后 ,农业生态学也面临着新的问题和任务 ,主要包括 :(1 )农业结构调整中的生态学问题 ;(2 )农业生物安全问题 ;(3)食物安全与生态农业建设问题 ;(4)农业资源与物种多样性保护问题 ;(5)农业生态管理与生态补偿问题 ;(6)农业与农村生态环境建设与生态恢复问题 ;(7)农业人口迁移与城市化过程中的生态学问题 ;(8)贫困地区的农业生态经济与可持续发展问题     

Population Growth, Human Development, and Deforestation in Biodiversity Hotspots

Abstract:  Human population and development activities affect the rate of deforestation in biodiversity hotspots. We quantified the effect of human population growth and development on rates of deforestation and analyzed the relationship between these causal factors in the 1980s and 1990s. We compared the averages of population growth, human development index (HDI, which measures income, health, and education), and deforestation rate and computed correlations among these variables for countries that contain biodiversity hotspots. When population growth was high and HDI was low there was a high rate of deforestation, but when HDI was high, rate of deforestation was low, despite high population growth. The correlation among variables was significant for the 1990s but not for the 1980s. The relationship between population growth and HDI had a regional pattern that reflected the historical process of development. Based on the changes in HDI and deforestation rate over time, we identified two drivers of deforestation: policy choice and human-development constraints. Policy choices that disregard conservation may cause the loss of forests even in countries that are relatively developed. Lack of development in other countries, on the other hand, may increase the pressure on forests to meet the basic needs of the human population. Deforestation resulting from policy choices may be easier to fix than deforestation arising from human development constraints. To prevent deforestation in the countries that have such constraints, transfer of material and intellectual resources from developed countries may be needed. Popular interest in sustainable development in developed countries can facilitate the transfer of these resources.     

Atmospheric Deposition, Mineralization and Leaching of Nitrogen in Subtropical Forested Catchments, South China

In recent years, China has conducted considerable research focusing on the emission and effects of sulphur (S) on human health and ecosystems. By contrast, there has been little emphasis on anthropogenic nitrogen (N) so far, even though studies conducted abroad indicate that long-range atmospheric transport of N and ecological effects (e.g. acidification of soil and water) may be significant. The Sino-Norwegian project IMPACTS, launched in 1999, has established monitoring sites at five forest ecosystems in the southern part of PR China to collect comprehensive data on air quality, acidification status and ecological effects. Here we present initial results about N dynamics at two of the IMPACTS sites located near Chongqing and Changsha, including estimation of atmospheric deposition fluxes of NO_x and NH_x and soil N transformations. Nitrogen deposition is high at both sites when compared with values from Europe and North America (25–38 kg ha^–1 yr^–1). About 70% of the deposited N comes as NH₄, probably derived from agriculture. Leaching of N from soils is high and nearly all as NO₃ ^–1. Transformation of N to NO₃ ^–1 in soils results in acidification rates that are high compared to rates found elsewhere. Despite considerable leaching of NO₃ ^–1 from the root zone of the soils, little NO₃ ^–1 appears in streamwater. This indicates that N retention or denitrification, both causing acid neutralization, may be important and probably occur in the groundwater and groundwater discharge zones. The soil flux density of mineral N, which is the sum of N deposition and N mineralization, and which is dominated by the N mineralization flux, may be a good indicator for leaching of NO₃ ^–1 in soils. However, this indicator seems site specific probably due to differences in land-use history and current N requirement.     

地球早期生命环境的演化

地质记录告诉我们，在地球约46亿年的整个历史中经历了无数次大大小小的劫难，其中在地球生命处于起源和早期演化阶段的前寒武纪，首先是“狂轰滥炸”，4.5亿-3.8亿年前由太阳系形成时留下的岩石林-小行星仍不断撞击着地球并烧焦了整个地球；后来的“雪球”，2.2亿-1.8亿年及大约6亿年前也许是大气中氧气的增加或/和二氧化碳或/和氨气或/和甲烷等温室气体的缩减，使我们的星球进入冰封期，显然，生命挺过了所有的磨难，并以柔克刚的脱颖而出。甚至与环境相互作用共同向高级阶段演化。在至少38亿年前，随着“狂轰滥炸”的停止，原始的生命也许已出现在地球上，到大约5.8亿年前，“雪球”刚结束，新元古代末期的埃迪卡拉大辐射和早寒武纪生命大爆发就接接踵而来，似乎早期地球生命大的进步性演化都是由大的劫难诱发的。     

大气中CO2增加引起全球变暖和海平面上升及其对珠江三角洲可能的影响

本文是根据国内外大量实测数据，说明全世界大气层中二氧化碳不断增多，出现“温室效应”，使全球变暖，近地而大气层气温变化的情况；从而引起海面水温变化，使海洋上冰块瓦和融化，引起海平面上升。按世界各国学者研究的结果，近百年全球近地面大气层气温变化总的趋势是上升，北半球比较明显。海平面孔 有上升的趋势。按近40年中海平面可能上升0.4～1m的预测值，估计了海平面可能对珠江水位、沿海风暴潮潮位及咸潮入侵的影响，进而分析了对珠江三角洲、特别广州可能产生的危害。作者认为全球变暖和海平面上升当前还是一个不确定性问题，宜加强科学研究和实测。     

Birds as Suppliers of Seed Dispersal in Temperate Ecosystems: Conservation Guidelines from Real‐World Landscapes

Abstract: Seed dispersal by animals is considered a pivotal ecosystem function that drives plant‐community dynamics in natural habitats and vegetation recovery in human‐altered landscapes. Nevertheless, there is a lack of suitable ecological knowledge to develop basic conservation and management guidelines for this ecosystem service. Essential questions, such as how well the abundance of frugivorous animals predicts seeding function in different ecosystems and how anthropogenic landscape heterogeneity conditions the role of dispersers, remain poorly answered. In three temperate ecosystems, we studied seed dispersal by frugivorous birds in landscape mosaics shaped by human disturbance. By applying a standardized design across systems, we related the frequency of occurrence of bird‐dispersed seeds throughout the landscape to the abundance of birds, the habitat features, and the abundance of fleshy fruits. Abundance of frugivorous birds in itself predicted the occurrence of dispersed seeds throughout the landscape in all ecosystems studied. Even those landscape patches impoverished due to anthropogenic disturbance received some dispersed seeds when visited intensively by birds. Nonetheless, human‐caused landscape degradation largely affected seed‐deposition patterns by decreasing cover of woody vegetation or availability of fruit resources that attracted birds and promoted seed dispersal. The relative role of woody cover and fruit availability in seed dispersal by birds differed among ecosystems. Our results suggest that to manage seed dispersal for temperate ecosystem preservation or restoration one should consider abundance of frugivorous birds as a surrogate of landscape‐scale seed dispersal and an indicator of patch quality for the dispersal function; woody cover and fruit resource availability as key landscape features that drive seedfall patterns; and birds as mobile links that connect landscape patches of different degrees of degradation and habitat quality via seed deposition.