Total Factor Productivity Change in the New England Groundfish Fishery: 1964–1993

We develop estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) change in the New England groundfish fishery from 1964 to 1993, using a procedure similar to Squires' (1992, Rand J. Econom.23(2), 221–236) method, which extends standard TFP measurement by including the effect of fluctuations in stock abundance. The results indicate that TFP increased on average by 4.4% per year from 1964 to 1993. A higher average rate of increase occurred between 1964 and 1982, possibly due to new technologies (e.g., fishfinders). TFP declined at 0.33% annually from 1983 to 1993 due to stringent output and effort control measures.     

Modeling Carbon and Water Budgets in the Lushi Basin with Biome-BGC

1 INTRODUCTIONEvapotranspiration (ET) is the key process controlling theexchange of energy and hydrologic flux for vegetatedsurface. Terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP)represents the carbon available for plant allocation toleaves, stems, roots, defensive compounds, reproductionand is the basic measure of biological productivity. Treegrowth, forage available for grazing, food productivity,and atmospheric CO2 levels are all strongly controlled byNPP (White et al., 2000). The exch…     

运行微生物燃料电池减排稻田土壤甲烷的研究

为了研究稻秆还田条件下运行微生物燃料电池(microbial fuel cells,MFCs)是否能有效减排稻田甲烷,本研究将添加质量分数0.5%稻秆的土壤装入MFCs反应器,淹水并种植水稻后运行MFCs.待水稻经历苗期、分蘗期、晒田期、灌浆期和成熟期共98 d后,停止MFCs运行.在MFCs运行过程中实时连续记录电压,每周一次采用静态箱法搜集并检测反应器的甲烷排放通量.结果表明,MFCs电流在分蘗期逐步升高并达到峰值,并且运行MFCs显著降低添加稻秆土壤在苗期和分蘗期的甲烷累积排放通量.原因可能与产电菌和产甲烷菌竞争有机底物有关.MFCs运行98 d后,水稻株高、地上和地下部分生物量,以及产量未受显著影响.本研究为稻田CH_4减排提供了一种潜在的绿色可持续的技术.     

区域资源产出率核算方法研究

资源产出率是科学评价循环经济发展水平的核心指标,国家及部分省已开展了相关研究.然而在市域及县域层面,资源产出率核算还缺乏统一的方法,制约了其应用.选择鹤壁市作为典型研究区域,基于物质流分析方法,重点探讨了采用测算方法对区域资源产出率进行核算.研究结果表明,测算方法利用常规公开统计数据,对市县域层面资源产出率进行核算基本可行,可为市县域资源产出率核算提供参考.     

Restoration of the Marine Ecological Environment Along the Charting Coast: Primary Productivity and Biomass Study

Since 1986, when green oysters occurred due to the copper and organic pollution in the Charting coastal area, the government banned all maricultural activity. It has been claimed that growing algae in a polluted environment may clean the water of pollutants and restore the marine ecosystem. to test this hypothesis, in the Charting coastal area a three-year programme (from August 1992 to July 1995) was carried out. the survey programme included environmental components such as salinity, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand (BOD), particulate organic carbon (POC), heavy metals and ecological indicators such as nutrients, chlorophyll-a, primary productivity. in the first year study, the environmental background data collected was used to select the suitable season and locations for growing large algae transferred from the laboratory to the field study area. Since September 1993, various species of large algae have been cultured. Although some of the growing algae were damaged by a typhoon in August 1994, the impact of the growing algae on the environmental conditions in the area has been monitored throughout. Elsewhere, we have reported that in the algae growing area higher dissolved oxygen with lower values of BOD and POC were found, and the concentrations of heavy metals in both water and sediments decreased. the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the possible impact of growing large algae on the ecological conditions in Charting coastal waters through the period from August 1983 to May 1995. As a result of the positive results obtained, large amounts of algae have again been cultured in the same area during the period from April 29 to May 25, 1995. We expect that inorganic and organic pollutants will be reduced by the algal growth, oyster mariculture will be restored and finally, the fishery resources potential will be increased.     

Population Biology of Cichorium intybus L. (Asteraceae) of the Middle Don River Basin

The stages of ontogeny and morphogenesis of the common chicory were characterized on the basis of long-term observations. A comparative analysis of seed productivity was performed, and the pool of viable seeds in the soil was determined. The ecological–cenotic relationships and the types of population strategy of the species were estimated.     

Impact Factors of Energy Productivity in China: An Empirical Analysis

This article developed a decomposition model of energy productivity on the basis of the economic growth model. Four factors were considered which may influence China’s energy productivity according to this model: technology improvement, resource allocation structure, industrial structure and institute arrangement. Then, an econometric model was employed to test the four factors empirically on the basis of China’s statistical data from 1978 to 2004. Results indicated that capital deepening con- tributes the most (207%) to energy efficiency improvement, and impact from labor forces (13%) is the weakest one in resource factor; industrial structure (7%) and institute innovation (9.5%) positively improve the energy productivity.     

试析环境监测工作的基础

要搞好环境监测工作 ,必须解放和发展环境监测生产力 ,履行“政府行为” ,贯彻“稳住一片 ,放开一头”的政策。环境监测工作具有政府行为组成的三种必备要素和五个特点 ;“稳住一片 ,放开一头”是因为环境监测所具有的本质属性、社会属性和法律属性     

水土保持的波动与发展

分析了我国水土保持几十年来的起落变化，提出水土保持要有稳定的投入、健全的机构和稳固的人员队伍，不断提高水保人员素质；通过建立具有持续高生产力并和各环境因子保持和谐协调关系的生态体系，恢复和培育土壤的生产功能和调控功能，才可能把水土保持从初级水土流失治理阶段，逐步推向整治开发型或生态经济型阶段。     

Modeling Carbon and Water Budgets in the Lushi Basin with Biome-BGC

Abstract

In this article, annual evapotranspiration (ET) and net primary productivity (NPP) of four types of vegetation were estimated for the Lushi basin, a subbasin of the Yellow River in China. These four vegetation types include: deciduous broadleaf forest, evergreen needle leaf forest, dwarf shrub and grass. Biome-BGC—a biogeochemical process model was used to calculate annual ET and NPP for each vegetation type in the study area from 1954 to 2000. Daily microclimate data of 47 years monitored by Lushi meteorological station was extrapolated to cover the basin using MT-CLIM, a mountain microclimate simulator. The output files of MT-CLIM were used to feed Biome-BGC. We used average ecophysiological values of each type of vegetation supplied by Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG) in the University of Montana as input ecophysiological constants file. The estimates of daily NPP in early July and annual ET on these four biome groups were compared respectively with field measurements and other studies. Daily gross primary production (GPP) of evergreen needle leaf forest measurements were very close to the output of Biome-BGC, but measurements of broadleaf forest and dwarf shrub were much smaller than the simulation result. Simulated annual ET and NPP had a significant correlation with precipitation, indicating precipitation is the major environmental factor affecting ET and NPP in the study area. Precipitation also is the key climatic factor for the interannual ET and NPP variations.