Assessing Landowner Activities Related to Birds Across Rural-to-Urban Landscapes

Fluctuations of bird abundances in the Midwest region of the United States have been attributed to such factors as landscape change, habitat fragmentation, depredation, and supplemental feeding. However, no attempt has been made to estimate the collective role of landowner activities that may influence birds across a landscape. To investigate how landowners might influence birds when the majority (> 90%) of land is privately owned, we surveyed all 1694 private domestic landowners living on three breeding bird survey routes (120 km) that represent a continuum of rural-to-urban landscapes in Southeastern Michigan from October through December 2000. Our survey was designed to investigate (1) the proportion of landowners involved in bird feeding, providing bird houses, planting or maintaining vegetation for birds, gardening, landscaping, applying fertilizer, and applying pesticides or herbicides; (2) whether differences existed between urban, suburban, and rural landowner activities; and (3) whether landowners that carried out a given activity were sociodemographically different from those who did not. Of the 968 respondents (58.5% response rate), 912 (94%) carried out at least one of the activities on their land and the average landowner carried out 3.7 activities. A total of 65.6% fed birds, 45.7% provided bird houses, 54.6% planted or maintained vegetation for birds, 72.7% gardened, 72.3% landscaped, 49.3% applied fertilizer, and 25.2% applied pesticides or herbicides. Significant differences existed between the landscapes, with rural landowners having more bird houses and applying pesticides or herbicides in greater frequency. Similarly, urban landowners had a greater density of bird feeders and houses, but planted or maintained vegetation in the lowest frequency. Participation in activities varied by demographic factors, such as age, gender, and occupation. Scaling each activity to all landowners, including nonrespondents, across all landscapes indicates that between 14% and 82% of landowners may be engaged in a particular activity, with application of pesticides or herbicides having the least potential involvement (13.9%–55.4%) and gardening having the greatest potential involvement (40.1%–81.6%). Taken collectively, our results indicate that landowners are both intentionally and unintentionally engaged in a wide range of activities that are likely to influence bird populations.     

微波辐射作用下人体热调节的数值模拟

探讨了微波辐射的致热生物效应，研究了微波辐射与人体热调节的关系，建立了考虑微波辐射致热效应的人体热调节系统模型。采用数值模拟方法能方便地定量分析微波辐射的致热生物效应。     

电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定水中钴的研究

采用电感耦合等离子体质谱仪测定水中的钴,在0μg／L～300μg／L范围内线性良好,相关系数均达到0．9999。该法对钴标准样品测定的结果在保证值范围。对三份不同浓度水样分别进行测定,其结果的RSD为0．2％～1．2％,空白水样的加标回收率在99％～107％之间。通过对水样的分析,符合标准要求,ICP－MS质谱仪具有灵敏度高,检出限低,取样量少,线性范围宽等特点,能快速测出水中的微量重金属元素含量。     

介质阻挡放电等离子体分解CO_2

温室效应导致全球变暖已成为全球性的环境问题之一.采用放电等离子体法转化CO2,不仅可消纳温室气体,缓解全球变暖的巨大影响,还可制备化工原料CO和O2.充分利用了C1(含1个碳原子的化合物分子)资源,对高频同轴式介质阻挡放电等离子体分解纯CO2进行了研究.结果发现:在采用不锈钢光滑内电极,放电间隙为2.0mm,注入功率为180W,气体流量为170mL/min的条件下,CO2转化率可达18.2%,CO和O2产率分别为10.1%和4.7%;增大注入功率,减小气体流量、选择合适的放电间隙和内电极形式,均有利于提高CO2转化率,获得更多的CO和O2.     

介质阻挡放电降解苯乙烯的研究

研究了介质阻挡放电(DBD)常压下降解流动态苯乙烯时,不同电压、流速、初始浓度及湿度下苯乙烯的降解情况.结果表明,DBD降解苯乙烯15~20min即可达稳定,产物主要为CO、CO₂和H₂O;电压4800V时有少量带苯环的气态及固态物质产生,且随电压的升高而减少,到7500V时红外光谱已无法检测到;高电压下放电可以取得90%左右的降解率,产生带苯环的气态物质和结焦物质较少.流速在1.5cm/s,浓度为3000mg/m³,相对湿度为20%左右时,降解效果最好.     

Determination of alkali-labile phosphoprotein phosphorus from fish plasma using the Tb^3＋-tiron complex as a fluorescence probe

A sensitive method based on the fluorescence quenching effect of the Tb^3＋-Tiron complex is proposed for the determination of alkali-labile phosphoprotein phosphorus （ALP） released from fish plasma. The detection limit was 5.4 ng/ml （S/N=2）, and the relative standard deviation of the quenching effect （6 replicates） was 4.6%. The results obtained by the proposed method were in good agreement with those obtained by the colorimetric assay. The advantages of the present method are its relatively simple detection procedure, the lack of toxic organic solvents, and high sensitivity.     

DBD降解CF2ClBr过程中自由基与电子能量

利用介质阻挡放电方法对环境污染物ＣＦ₂ＣｌＢｒ进行了等离子体降解的研究．在前人对该体系的降解产物分析及活性粒子推测的基础上,采用动态反应装置得到了等离子体的发射光谱,进一步确证了等离子体系中出现的ＣＦ₂、ＣＦＣｌ、Ｆ、Ｃｌ、Ｂｒ等主要自由基,并从中推出了等离子态气体可能发生的自由基反应．同时通过发射光谱的分析,近似得到该体系的平均电子能量约为２．４２ｅＶ     

介质阻挡放电等离子体直接分解NOx的影响因素

在以 γ- Al₂O₃小球作为填充物的介质阻挡放电条件下 ,研究放电电压 ( 9～ 16k V)、交流电源频率 ( 50～ 1600 Hz)、NO入口浓度 ( 50～1800 ml/m³)、气体空速 (1000～ 6500 h^-1)、反应温度 ( 20～250℃ )、介质小球比表面积及加入 O₂等因素对 NO分解率的影响 .发现提高放电电压、放电频率及介质小球比表面积能显著增加 NO分解率 ,O₂ 的加入对 NO的等离子体分解有强抑制作用 .     

基于SPIS的月球表面充电模拟研究

目的研究月球表面不同等离子体环境下航天器表面充放电效应情况。方法利用欧空局开发的SPIS软件建模,并仿真模拟,通过分析表面电流种类、大小,得出不同环境下的一般性的充放电规律。结果月球表面探测器存在表面充电风险,磁鞘层、磁尾瓣、等离子体片及太阳风4种不同典型等离子体环境下表面充电电位差异较大,连接处充电电位存在分布不均匀的渐变现象。表面充电电位区间约为-1784~142 V。结论光照条件能显著影响探测器表面电位,特殊区域充电电位会受到临近区域充放电效应形成的新的小范围等离子体环境的影响。     

等离子体催化降解有机废水研究

研究了多种因素对高压脉冲介质阻挡放电低温等离子体法处理印染废水效果的影响。通过实验得出结论:随着有效处理时间和峰值外施电压的增加,废水中的有机物的去除率增加;随着水样浓度的增加,废水中有机物的去除率降低;随着催化剂(TiO)2量的增加,废水中有机物的去除率先升高后降低,最佳催化剂的加入量为0.5 g/L TiO2悬浮液0.5 mL。