Land Degradation Evaluation in North Hebei Province Based on Remote Sensing and GIS

Abstract

Land degradation is one of the serious environmental problems that can lead to poverty, and is especially prominent in eco-fragile areas in developing countries and increases the risk of environmental safety. North Hebei Province belongs to an ecologically fragile region in North China, which has great impact on the eco-safety of Beijing and Tianjin. Using Landsat TM data and GIS, this paper evaluates land degradation in North Hebei province of China from the the 1960's to 1987 and 2000. Land use/cover change pattern from 1987 to 2000, its regional difference and forest change characteristics will also be analyzed; soil erosion intensity and arable land suitability were also evaluated. Results revealed that land use/cover pattern in this study area did not change greatly from 1987 to 2000. The structure and function of regional land ecosystem was at a level of local improvement and integral deterioration. Land above medium soil erosion intensity reached 21 percent, which was also the area with a serious soil erosion and land degradation problem. Soil erosion and land degradation intensity of grassland was the biggest. For the present arable land, the proportion of high suitability was 13 percent.     

生态系统变化对岩溶水资源的影响--以湘西为例

岩溶水资源是支撑岩溶区社会经济发展最为重要的一个基本方面,明确生态系统变化是如何影响岩溶水资源的质与量这一重大问题,将有助于岩溶水循环机制的深入研究,为揭示岩溶水资源的形成、演化规律及控制机理,建立岩溶水资源评价、开发利用和保护的系统理论,探索岩溶水资源可持续利用模式提供科学的依据。在分析岩溶山区典型生态系统类型及其演化特征和岩溶水资源特点的基础上,通过湘西20年来的生态系统变化的对比,就其对岩溶水资源的影响进行了详细的论述。认为生态的恶化是引起岩溶石山区水资源短缺的一个重要因素,生态系统变化对岩溶水资源的影响主要是通过对岩溶水的补给、径流、排泄等的影响,使岩溶水资源产生水质和水量的变化。     

Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat

Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental and public health problems facing human society. Humans obtain more than 99.7% of their food (calories) from the land and less than 0.3% from the oceans and other aquatic ecosystems. Each year about 10 million ha of cropland are lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the cropland available for food production. The loss of cropland is a serious problem because the World Health Organization reports that more than 3.7 billion people are malnourished in the world. Overall soil is being lost from land areas 10 to 40 times faster than the rate of soil renewal imperiling future human food security and environmental quality.     

Surface reaction of Bacillus cereus biomass and its biosorption for lead and copper ions

In this study, the surface chemical functional groups of Bacillus cereus biomass were identified by Fourier transform infrared （FTIR） analytical technique. It had been shown that the B. cereus cells mainly contained carboxyl, hydroxyl, phosphate, amino and amide functional groups. The potentiometric titration was conducted to explain the surface acid-base properties of aqueous B. cereus biomass. The computer program FITEQL 4.0 was used to perform the model calculations. The optimization results indicated that three sitesthree pKas model, which assumed the cell surface to have three distinct types of surface organic functional groups based on the IR analysis results, simulated the experimental results very well. Moreover, batch adsorption experiments were performed to investigate biosorption behavior of Cu（Ⅱ） and Pb（Ⅱ） ions onto the biomass. Obviously, the adsorption equilibrium data for the two ions were reasonably described by typical Langmuir isotherm.     

Sustainability and environmental enhancement in changing cirumstances

Natural environment has endured fast economic growth and population explosion sine the 20th century,which has soil erosion,land desertification,ozone layer depletion,bio-diversity reduction and persistent toxic and harmful pollutants are among the major environmental challenges.     

Sustainability： A view from the wind-eroded field

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个人行为改善与减缓气候变暖研究

不断增加的能源消耗造成温室气体排放的增加,导致气候变暖,并且气候变暖在日益加剧。个人行为也是造成气候变暖的重要原因之一。应对气候变暖,除采取清洁发展机制等从排放源减少排放外,改善人们行为来减少排放也是实现气候目标的重要途径。本文在分析了个人行为对气候的影响、个人行为改善的途径及促进个人行为改善实例研究的基础上,提出了促进改善个人行为、减缓气候变暖的建议。     

稠油热采井防砂筛管失效机理及完整性研究

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蚯蚓活动对重金属在土柱中淋溶行为的影响

采用土柱淋溶方法,以溴离子为示踪离子,研究了蚯蚓活动形成的土壤大孔隙对铜和锌离子在土柱中迁移行为的影响.运用平衡和非平衡对流-弥散模型对溴离子和铜、锌离子在不同土柱中的穿透曲线进行拟合.结果表明,蚯蚓活动形成的蚯蚓孔能够产生明显的优势流现象,这种优势流极大地加快了重金属离子在土柱中垂直向下迁移的速度.非平衡对流-弥散模型能很好地预测溴离子和铜、锌离子在蚯蚓孔土柱中的流出趋势,而平衡对流-弥散模型适合于预测溶质在对照（匀质）土柱中的流出趋势.     

卤代酚复合污染对鲤科金鱼的生化毒性效应研究

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