Microscale Spatial Variation in Forest Litter Phytotoxicity

The spatial variation (within a 100 × 100 m plot) in the pollution of forest litter with heavy metals (Cu, Cd, Pb, and Zn), its acidity, and phytotoxicity (measured by the results of the root test using seedlings from a genetically homogeneous sample of common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale s.l.) have been estimated. Forest litter has been sampled in three zones differing in the toxic impact of long-term polymetal pollution by emissions from a copper-smelting plant emissions in the Middle Urals. The phytotoxicity variation is maximum in a moderately polluted plot, where both very high and very low pollution levels were observed, which determines a substantially nonlinear dose–effect relationship. The litter phytotoxicity is mainly accounted for by exchangeable forms of metals. Biological testing of samples from the most polluted plot has demonstrated marked antagonism between heavy metals and acidity.     

江苏、南部下、中侏罗统的划分

江苏南部的下、中侏罗统,长期以来笼统称之为象山群。本文根据地层岩性特征和大量动植物化石的研究,结合与邻区地层之对比,将江苏南部下、中侏罗统进一步划分为下侏罗统南象山组及中侏罗统北象山组;前者为含煤地层,大致相当于原象山群下部(或下段为),后者为红色地层,大致相当于原象山群上部(或上段)。     

A test of stress theory: relief workers in refugee camps

The purpose of this paper is to apply a stress model drawn from the literature to the relief and social service workers who have been active in refugee camps for a prolonged period of time. Working in difficult environments, social service workers deliver essential services to refugee populations around the world. A model of four work-stress determinants--tasks, management, appreciation and collaboration--was tested on 274 social workers in five regions of the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as the occupied Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank). Statistical fit indices were adequate but two relationships were statistically insignificant. The collaboration variable was dropped to create a modified model with tasks indirectly and management and appreciation directly affecting work-related stress. The five direct relationships and two indirect relationships of this modified model are consistent with stress theory, and all relationships--direct and indirect--are statistically significant.     

A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance

A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., is described from Dashankou, Gansu Province, China, a Middle Permian locality which is known mostly for its therapsid fauna. The material consists of well-preserved mandibular and anterior skull remains and currently represents the largest and latest surviving member of Bolosauridae. Phylogenetic analysis of bolosaurid interrelationships, the first analysis of any clade of Early Permian parareptiles, indicates that the new taxon groups consistently with the other (Russian) members of the genus Belebey, and forms the sister clade to the genus Bolosaurus from North America. The Early Permian Eudibamus cursoris from Germany falls into the basal most position within Bolosauridae. Our analysis also shows that the split between the main bolosaurid lineages must have occurred near or before the Permo-Carboniferous boundary and that the paleo-equatorial region of Laurasia probably served as the center of origination for these parareptiles. A similar pattern can be found in other clades of Paleozoic amniotes, suggesting that this may be the general trend in early amniote evolution.     

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.