底物流加-间歇运行方式下氨氧化细菌富集培养的效果及影响因素分析

富集培养氨氧化细菌(AOB)可为污水处理工艺提高氨氮氧化速率、促进亚硝酸盐积累提供物质基础。在(20±2) ℃下,采用底物流加-间歇运行方式进行氨氧化细菌富集培养,重点考察了游离氨(FA)、游离亚硝酸(FNA)、溶解氧(DO)等因素的影响,并对富集前后活性污泥样品中的AOB进行了定性定量分析。结果表明：第15天左右AOB增殖进入稳定生长期,比氨氮氧化速率由接种时的4.45 mg·(g·h)⁻¹升高至57.22 mg·(g·h)⁻¹;通过pH、底物流加速率和实际反应速率关系的联合控制,可以实现整个反应过程中FA和FNA在预期范围内波动;即使在极低的DO条件下,高纯度的AOB也可进行氨氮氧化。高通量测序结果表明,体系内Nitrosomonas属的AOB大幅度增长,可由0.23%上升至54.18%,亚硝酸盐氧化细菌(NOB)的生长得到了有效抑制,培养结束时仅为0.12%。荧光定量PCR对AOB功能基因amoA的绝对含量结果表明,富集前后平均拷贝数由2.67×10⁵ copies·g⁻¹升至最大,可达9.67×10⁹ copies·g⁻¹,AOB成为活性污泥中的优势菌。本研究结果可为常温条件下快速富集AOB提供参考。     

A global ecological signal of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates

To determine the distribution and causes of extinction threat across functional groups of terrestrial vertebrates, we assembled an ecological trait data set for 18,016 species of terrestrial vertebrates and utilized phylogenetic comparative methods to test which categories of habitat association, mode of locomotion, and feeding mode best predicted extinction risk. We also examined the individual categories of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List extinction drivers (e.g., agriculture and logging) threatening each species and determined the greatest threats for each of the four terrestrial vertebrate groups. We then quantified the sum of extinction drivers threatening each species to provide a multistressor perspective on threat. Cave dwelling amphibians (p < 0.01), arboreal quadrupedal mammals (all of which are primates) (p < 0.01), aerial and scavenging birds (p < 0.01), and pedal (i.e., walking) squamates (p < 0.01) were all disproportionately threatened with extinction in comparison with the other assessed ecological traits. Across all threatened vertebrate species in the study, the most common risk factors were agriculture, threatening 4491 species, followed by logging, threatening 3187 species, and then invasive species and disease, threatening 2053 species. Species at higher risk of extinction were simultaneously at risk from a greater number of threat types. If left unabated, the disproportionate loss of species with certain functional traits and increasing anthropogenic pressures are likely to disrupt ecosystem functions globally. A shift in focus from species- to trait-centric conservation practices will allow for protection of at-risk functional diversity from regional to global scales.     

Different phagostimulants in potato foliage for Manduca sexta and Leptinotarsa decemlineata

Summary. In the past decades, several studies have focused on the identification of feeding stimulants for specialists that feed on solanaceous plants, especially potato (Solanum tuberosum). In the 1950's, a phagostimulant was isolated from potato and tomato for Manduca sexta and characterised as a glycoside. It was suggested that the phagostimulant for M. sexta and Leptinotarsa decemlineata is identical. We tested whether these insects indeed share the same recognition factor. Previous bioassays for L. decemlineata larvae and adults were found to be unsatisfactory, so a new assay system was developed, using starch and wheat flour-based wafers as a neutral substrate. An aqueous extract of potato foliage that was highly active as a stimulant was fractionated by reverse phase medium pressure liquid chromatography (MPLC). Both insects were stimulated by a MPLC fraction that eluted with 25% methanol in water. Further separation of this and the following fraction (35% methanol, stimulatory for the beetle only) by semi-preparative high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), using gradients of water and acetonitrile, resulted in the isolation of two distinct fractions that stimulated feeding by L. decemlineata. None of the HPLC fractions was active for M. sexta. However, fractions of the flash chromatography with less polarity (45–75% methanol) had a stimulatory effect only on M. sexta. Thus, the two insects do not use a common feeding stimulant, and for both at least two compounds of different polarity are active. Received 3 July 2000; accepted 24 October 2000     

Ecological Connections between Gamasid Mites (Arachnida,Gamasoidea) and Small Mammals in Forest Biotopes of the Middle Volga Region

Host specificity of mites with respect to different species of small mammals in forest ecosystems was studied. The preferences of some parasites for certain host species differed from those described previously. In some cases, most parasites preferred to feed on the species that were most numerous in a certain biogeocenosis, rather than on their specific hosts. Conversely, other species of mites fed mostly on their specific hosts, irrespective of their low abundance, thus manifesting close connections with these mammals. Two mite species, Myonyssus dubinini and M. rossicus, were found in the study region for the first time.     

邯钢炼铁系统粉尘污染防治技术分析

重点介绍了邯钢新建2000m^3高炉（7^#高炉）出铁场和槽下上料系统粉尘污染治理方面的成功经验，并对应用电除尘器处理粉尘的技术进行了简要分析。     

Task selection by workers of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

The effects of worker size, age, and crop fullness on the flow of food into the colony were assessed using video recording and playback. Regardless of the level of colony satiation, small workers seldom had full crops and were more involved in larval grooming than in food traffic. Large workers played little role in larval care, but tended to be recruited easily to a food source and to store food in their crops. Medium workers had crops ranging from empty to full because they alternated between ingesting from and donating food to other colony members. Medium workers were the most versatile, engaging competently in food recruitment, larval grooming, and larval feeding. They displayed considerable variation in the frequency at which they fed larvae: some fed a few larvae before switching to other tasks, others fed over a hundred larvae before switching. The persistence, or lack thereof, of a worker's feeding response suggests a flexibility unaccounted for by the fixed-threshold-response hypothesis. Worker coverage of the brood pile was a dynamic equilibrium process unaffected by worker size, age, or crop fullness, or by differences in the nutritional or hygienic states of larvae. In summary, it appeared that worker size and age offered coarse regulation of task selection by workers, whereas crop fullness, flexible response, and task switching fine-tuned task selection. Received: 25 May 1998 / Accepted after revision: 20 August 1998     

Zimbabwe's Child Supplementary Feeding Programme: a re-assessment using household survey data

In 1992-3 and 1995-6, Zimbabwe used a Child Supplementary Feeding Programme (CSFP) to combat child malnutrition during drought-induced emergencies. Previous evaluations of the CSFP relied on routine administrative data and key informant interviews and made only cursory use of available household survey data. These evaluations concluded that the CSFP was effective in preventing an increase in malnutrition among children under five, especially in 1992-3. The more-detailed analysis of household surveys provided in this article suggests that CSFP coverage was generally patchy and disappointingly low, especially in 1995-6. There is little evidence that children from poor or nutritionally vulnerable households got preferential access to supplementary feeding. The CSFP failed to feed many malnourished and nutritionally vulnerable children even in areas where the programme was operating. Household survey evidence suggests that the CSFP's impact on nutritional status was likely marginal, especially in 1995-6.     

进水方式对序批式深床人工湿地硝化效能的影响

针对现有人工湿地硝化效能低、占地面积大的问题,研究污水处理厂尾水人工湿地高效硝化深度处理技术,采用序批式深床人工湿地反应器(DSCW),考察进水方式及其运行工况对硝化效能的影响。结果表明,进水方式、进水时间和闲置时间对湿地硝化效能影响显著。进水方式采用"连续进水-间歇出水"较连续进出水运行工况NH_4~+-N去除率高39.69%。连续进水时间为5.5 h、7.5 h、11.5 h时,NH_4~+-N去除率分别为81.82%、88.12%、89.91%;闲置时间为0、2 h、4 h时,NH_4~+-N去除率分别为88.12%、94.46%、92.60%。反应器在水温(20±3)℃、负荷35.56 g NH_4~+-N/(m2·d)、连续进水7.5 h-间歇出水0.5 h-排空闲置2 h运行工况下,出水NH_4~+-N为0.91 mg/L,去除率为94.46%,系统NH_4~+-N去除效能大幅提高。     

Trophic attributes of the mudskipper,Periophthalmus barbarus (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) in the mangrove swamps of Imo River Estuary,Nigeria

Aspects of the trophic attributes of the mudskipper, Periophthalmus barbarus occurring in the mangrove swamps of Imo River　Estuary, Nigeria, were investigated during a 12-month period (April, 1992-March, 1993). Feeding intensity increased with size, it was　higher in the dry season(November-April) than in the wet season(May-October), monthly changes in the indices of feeding intensity were　significantly correlated. Major food objects comprised detritus and benthic algae; crustaceans, insects, macrophyte matter and sand grains were minor food objects while fish, molluscs, Chilopoda, nematodes and fungi were unconsciously devoured objects. Diet varied seasonally; algae and sesarmid crabs were generally more in the dry season than during the rains whereas FPOM and fish increased in the wet over dry season.The mudskipper display a high degree of euryphagy and can be considered as a generalist and an omnivore. The lower trophic status of P.barbarus qualifies it as a good aquaculture candidate. Food richness was higher in big-sized class(BSC) than small-sized class(SSC). Sizebased and seasonal variations were not apparent in food richness. Diet breadth was higher in the BSC than the SSC, there was dry season increase in diet breadth.