新疆塔城黄土的形成

中亚黄土是研究区域古气候和古环境变化的重要载体。但是对于受到广泛研究的黄土 高原黄土来说,对中亚东部塔城黄土的报道较少。基于对塔城黄土粒度的系统分析,与伊犁盆 地黄土、典型黄土高原的黄土对比,我们发现无论是粒度频率曲线、粒度结构散点图、还是三 角图,塔城黄土与伊犁盆地清水河黄土较相似,而与黄土高原黄土不同,塔城黄土粒度频率分 布曲线为三峰分布,粒度组成比较分散,分选较差,细、中颗粒含量较少,主要以粗颗粒物质 为主,属近源风成黄土。结合当地地形和现代环流分析,我们认为中亚萨雷耶西克阿特劳沙漠 为塔城黄土提供主要的物源,盛行西风为粉尘的搬运提供足够的动力,向西开口的山间盆地地 形为粉尘的沉积提供有利的沉积中心,这三个条件的共同作用导致了塔城盆地厚层黄土的沉积。     

新疆伊犁地区近地表黄土的磁化率研究

伊犁盆地位于亚洲中纬度内陆,其特殊的构造和地理位置,使得该区具有特殊的气候 环境。分布在盆地内的黄土记录了该区气候环境的变化过程,但是由于受到区域气候、海拔及 近地物源的影响,使得磁化率在该区的表现和环境意义与黄土高原黄土中的会有差异。为了较 准确的应用磁化率指标表征气候环境意义,就必须理解磁化率变化所受到的制约因素。本文通 过伊犁盆地近地表采取的38 个黄土样品（相当于黄土高原马兰黄土顶层）,应用粒度,磁化率, 元素分析的方法,结合地形和气候因素,初步探讨了近地表黄土的磁性特征、地域分异和受控 因素,指出了磁化率在伊犁古环境研究中需考虑的问题。结果表明,近地表黄土样品的磁化率 与<2 μm 的粘粒含量、Fe2O3 含量成负相关,与>63 μm 的粗粒级含量呈正相关关系;样品的频 率磁化率与<2 μm 含量、Fe2O3 含量呈正相关;成壤作用形成的超顺磁颗粒对磁化率的贡献有限, 粗颗粒组分对磁化率贡献较大。近地表黄土磁化率与降水、海拔高度、局地物源等多种因子有关, 在黄土古气候解译中需要综合考虑这些因子对磁化率变化的可能影响。     

天山北坡经济带工业碳排放影响因素实证分析

在天山北麓9个州(市、地区)2002-2011年工业能源消费量、人口等数据基础上,利用LMDI法对该地区工业碳排放影响因素进行实证分析,结果表明,经济发展水平、工业化水平、人口规模是天山北坡经济带工业碳排放增加的拉动因素。工业能源强度和工业能源消费结构的变化是天山北坡经济带工业碳排放增加的抑制因素。总体来说,该地区抑制因素的抑制作用远小于拉动因素的拉动作用,工业碳排放量呈现增加趋势。     

陕西秦岭南麓区域发展与生态效率变动研究

分析区域社会经济发展与环境的生态效率关系,描述区域发展对生态环境资源消耗和占用状况,揭示导致生态变化的重要因素,有助于为区域可持续发展政策提出奠定基础.通过对陕西秦岭南麓区域发展与生态足迹影响因素的差异性分析以及区域内2005—2014年城市发展指数CDI和生态足迹EF的测算,分析陕南三市CDI、EF和生态效率的年际变化趋势及相互影响关系.研究表明:陕南三市CDI和人均EF均呈现不断增长态势,2005—2014年,汉中市、安康市、商洛市CDI分别增长34.99%、42.91%、33.39%;人均EF分别增长66.59%、73.59%、67.04%.结果显示,陕南三市生态效率呈现先升后降的趋势,环境效率年际变化波动较大.资源效率是导致陕南三市生态效率波动变化的主要因素,与生态效率的变化趋势基本一致.化石能源消耗和建设用地占用不断增长是导致资源效率降低的主要原因.陕西秦岭南麓区域社会经济发展能力逐步增强,但资源的高消耗和占用使生态环境压力持续增大,发展循环经济、开发生态旅游等成为政策着力点.     

不同热解及来源生物炭对西北黄土吸附敌草隆的影响

以西北黄土为研究对象,采用批量法研究不同温度下制得的生物炭对西北黄土吸附敌草隆的影响.结果表明,敌草隆在添加不同质生物炭黄土上的动力学吸附过程较好地符合准二级吸附动力学模型,且吸附过程主要分为快吸附(0~8 h)和慢吸附(8~12 h)两个阶段,在12 h左右达到平衡;热力学较好地符合Freundlich等温吸附模型;添加生物炭的黄土对敌草隆的吸附量随着温度的升高而增大,且吸附过程中ΔG~θ小于0,ΔH~θ和ΔS~θ大于0;不加生物炭的黄土对敌草隆吸附量则随着温度的升高而降低,且吸附过程中ΔG~θ和ΔH~θ小于0,ΔS~θ大于0;在体系温度范围内,E(吸附平均自由能)为1.29~5.00 k J·mol-1,表明无论是否添加生物炭,黄土对敌草隆的吸附都以物理吸附为主.其影响因素分析结果显示,随着生物炭热解温度的升高,溶液中敌草隆的平衡浓度降低,平衡吸附量增大;添加生物炭的黄土对敌草隆吸附量在0.5~6 mg·L-1浓度范围内快速上升,之后吸附量随初始浓度的升高缓慢增加并逐渐趋于平衡;溶液pH对黄土吸附敌草隆有一定影响,但影响不大.     

关帝山森林土壤真菌群落结构与遗传多样性特征

土壤微生物群落驱动土壤碳、氮、磷、硫生物地球化学循环,在维持土壤碳汇和生态系统功能等方面发挥重要的作用.分析环境与空间因素在寒温性针叶林土壤微生物群落构建中的作用,可以为区域森林生态系统管理措施的制定提供理论依据.本文利用Illumina高通量测序技术分析了关帝山庞泉沟自然保护区华北落叶松(Larix principis-rupprechtii)林、青杄(Picea wilsonii)林、油松(Pinus tabulaeformis)林以及桦树(Betula spp.)林这4种林型的5个土壤真菌群落(Lp MC1、Lp MC2、Pw MC、Pt MC和BMC)的结构.同时测定林下土壤环境因子及林下植被多样性,分析真菌群落的结构与植被和土壤环境因子的相关性.结果表明:(1)5个样地中共有7个真菌门和33个优势真菌属;(2)冗余分析结果表明:土壤pH、温度、含水率、全氮含量、NH+4含量、全碳含量、蔗糖酶活性、脲酶活性、林下植被优势度和均匀度与土壤真菌群落结构显著相关;(3)聚类分析和PCA分析结果表明,森林植被类型、土壤环境因子和林下植被对土壤真菌群落结构影响显著.(4)空间变量(PCNM)分析结果表明,在局域尺度(local scale)上扩散限制对研究区域真菌群落构建的影响不显著.本研究区森林土壤真菌群落结构主要受到环境选择(土壤pH、温度、含水率、全氮含量、NH+4含量、全碳含量、蔗糖酶活性、脲酶活性、林下植被优势度和均匀度、森林类型)的显著影响.     

Functional regulatory spaces and policy diffusion in Europe: The case of mountains

The aim of this article is to propose a new analytical framework for comparing and explaining the emergence and diffusion of European regional mountain initiatives (ERMIs), envisaged as ‘functional regulatory spaces’ (FRS). The article examines three exploratory hypotheses. The first hypothesis considers that the different ERMIs (Alps, Pyrenees, Jura, Carpathian, Balkan Mountains, Dinaric Arc, Caucasus) can be compared, distinguished, and classified using the FRS approach. The second hypothesis addresses the relationship between the degree to which ERMIs correspond to an ideal-type FRS and their role and position within policy diffusion processes. We suggest that the more an ERMI corresponds to an ideal-type FRS, the more important is its role in diffusion processes. The third hypothesis focuses on the relationship between the degree of formalization and institutionalization of ERMIs and their role in policy diffusion processes. We argue that the more and the earlier an ERMI is “formalized” and “institutionalized” in a clear and robust way as a “mature” FRS, the more important its role, and the more central its position, in diffusion processes. This article is a very first attempt to link FRS and policy diffusion concepts. As such it seeks to assess the link's feasibility and relevance, rather than a definitive empirical (in)validation of the three hypotheses.     

Soil burdens of persistent organic pollutants - Their levels, fate and risk. Part II. Are there any trends in PCDD/F levels in mountain soils?

Good quality data apt for an assessment of temporal trends of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PCDDs/Fs) in soils are difficult to obtain since there is a general lack of information on their residues in soils. Variability of soil profiles, non-homogeneity of samples, and often also inconsistency of applied sampling procedures further complicate this problem. To assess spatial and temporal trends of contamination, three soil sampling campaigns have been performed over the period of 12 years at the mountain forest sites in the Czech Republic. Relation between the air, needle and soil contaminations was addressed in addition to time-related variability of soil. It has been confirmed that soil is a good matrix for evaluation of spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) but difficult for establishment of temporal trends. A slow rate of the soil-forming processes and their site-specificity was generally the major source of uncertainties.     

Conservation Implications of Drastic Reductions in the Smallest and Most Isolated Populations of Giant Pandas

Abstract: In conservation biology, understanding the causes of endangerment is a key step to devising effective conservation strategies. We used molecular evidence (coalescent simulations of population changes from microsatellite data) and historical information (habitat and human population changes) to investigate how the most‐isolated populations of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) in the Xiaoxiangling Mountains became highly endangered. These populations experienced a strong, recent demographic reduction (60‐fold), starting approximately 250 years BP. Explosion of the human population and use of non‐native crop species at the peak of the Qing Empire resulted in land‐use changes, deforestation, and habitat fragmentation, which are likely to have led to the drastic reduction of the most‐isolated populations of giant pandas. We predict that demographic, genetic, and environmental factors will lead to extinction of giant pandas in the Xiaoxiangling Mountains in the future if the population remains isolated. Therefore, a targeted conservation action—translocation—has been proposed and is being implemented by the Chinese goverment.     

Impacts of Dams on Flow Regimes in Three Headwater Subbasins of the Columbia River Basin,United States1

Moore, Johnnie N., Alicia S. Arrigoni, and Andrew C. Wilcox, 2012. Impacts of Dams on Flow Regimes in Three Headwater Subbasins of the Columbia River Basin, United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 48(5): 925‐938. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752‐1688.2012.00660.x Abstract: We compared long‐term changes in flow regimes resulting from climate change with those resulting from dams in three matched pairs of natural and modified headwater subbasins of the Columbia River. Based on the analysis of 12 flow‐regime metrics, we found that damming had minimal effect on most quantity of flow metrics, but major effect on timing of flow metrics, especially those representing “spring runoff.” In all modified subbasins, “spring runoff” metrics occurred much earlier than natural flow (up to ～44 days earlier for April‐July flows). Storage capacity modulated the magnitude of timing of flow‐metric changes, with the largest storage capacity leading to the most change. However, even in subbasins with low storage capacity, we found significant change in most timing of flow metrics. We also found that damming, especially in subbasins with higher storage capacity, overwhelmed climate variability in all basins for most flow metrics. This shows that reservoir operations need to be modified to more closely match the natural timing of flow regimes to promote positive ecologic response in modified rivers, even in basins where quantity of flow metrics have not changed substantially as a result of damming.