基于过程的河北平原农田生态系统稳定性评价

论文旨在探讨河北平原区农田生态系统稳定性的概念及内涵,构建稳定性评价指标体系并进行定量评价实证研究。首先,在总结生态系统领域有关稳定性研究相关成果的基础上,结合农田生态系统稳定性的特点,给出了农田生态系统稳定性的概念,并分析了其稳定性内涵。然后,以县域为研究单元构建了一个包括产量形成、投入产出、土壤生态等主导过程及生态环境效应4个方面22个具体指标的评价指标体系。最后,构建了区域农田生态系统稳定性评价的数学模型;并以雄县为例,运用所建模型进行评价,发现1995~2005年该区农田生态系统稳定性水平变化较大且呈阶段性发展,1995~1999年呈直线式逐年下降,2000~2005年呈波浪式发展,且投入产出过程对该区农田生态系统稳定性影响最大。     

Human Impacts on Regional Avian Diversity and Abundance

Abstract: Patterns of association between humans and biodiversity typically show positive, negative, or negative quadratic relationships and can be described by 3 hypotheses: biologically rich areas that support high human population densities co‐occur with areas of high biodiversity (productivity); biodiversity decreases monotonically with increasing human activities (ecosystem stress); and biodiversity peaks at intermediate levels of human influence (intermediate disturbance). To test these hypotheses, we compared anthropogenic land cover and housing units, as indices of human influence, with bird species richness and abundance across the Midwestern United States. We modeled richness of native birds with 12 candidate models of land cover and housing to evaluate the empirical evidence. To assess which species were responsible for observed variation in richness, we repeated our model‐selection analysis with relative abundance of each native species as the response and then asked whether natural‐history traits were associated with positive, negative, or mixed responses. Native avian richness was highest where anthropogenic land cover was lowest and housing units were intermediate based on model‐averaged predictions among a confidence set of candidate models. Eighty‐three of 132 species showed some pattern of association with our measures of human influence. Of these species approximately 40% were negatively associated, approximately 6% were positively associated, and approximately 7% showed evidence of an intermediate relationship with human influence measures. Natural‐history traits were not closely related to the direction of the relationship between abundance and human influence. Nevertheless, pooling species that exhibited any relationship with human influence and comparing them with unrelated species indicated they were significantly smaller, nested closer to the ground, had shorter incubation and fledging times, and tended to be altricial. Our results support the ecosystem‐stress hypothesis for the majority of individual species and for overall species diversity when focusing on anthropogenic land cover. Nevertheless, the great variability in housing units across the land‐cover gradient indicates that an intermediate‐disturbance relationship is also supported. Our findings suggest preemptive conservation action should be taken, whereby areas with little anthropogenic land cover are given conservation priority. Nevertheless, conservation action should not be limited to pristine landscapes because our results showed that native avian richness and the relative abundance of many species peaked at intermediate housing densities and levels of anthropogenic land cover.     

Managing Invasive Aquatic Plants in a Changing System: Strategic Consideration of Ecosystem Services

Abstract:  Climate change is projected to increase stress for many coastal plant communities. Along large portions of the North American coast, habitat degradation from anthropogenic changes to the environment already threaten the community structure of tidal marshes and submerged aquatic grass beds. The potential loss of ecological services historically provided by these communities has been a long-standing rationale for aggressive control of invading plants such as Phragmites australis and Hydrilla verticillata . Increasing evidence of ecological services provided by invasive species such as P. australis and H. verticillata suggest that, in the face of increasing stress, it may be prudent to take a more pragmatic approach regarding the effect of these species on coastal ecosystems. The notable resilience of these species to control efforts and their competitive success and comparative vigor in stressed systems and capacity to provide at least some beneficial services combine to suggest some invasive species may have a useful role in managed coastal ecosystems.     

生态系统对酸沉降敏感性评价方法与进展

评述水体、土壤和整个生态系统对酸沉降敏感性评价的各种方法,这些方法用系统 的不同物理化学性质表征它们缓冲酸输入的能力。     

人工复合生态系统对太湖局部水域水质的净化作用

根据不同生态类型水生高等植物的净化能力及其微生境特点,设计建造了由漂浮、浮叶、沉水植物及其根际微生物等组成的人工复合生态系统（artificialcomplexecosystem;AcE）,并在太湖五里湖中桥湖湾内以动态模拟试验,从群落水平研究了多种水生植物镶嵌组合的人工复合生态系统对富营养化湖水的净化能力。结果表明,富营养化湖水经该系统净化后,藻类生物量（以Chla计）下降58％,氨氮下降66％,总氮下降60％,总磷下降72％,可溶性磷酸盐下降80％,水质得到明显改善。与以该湖湾湖水为水源的水厂出水相比,人工复合生态系统出水的氨氮比水厂出水的氨氮平均低45％,总氮低37％,可见经人工复合生态系统处理的湖水部分指标优于同源的自来水。     

上海城市内河生态系统服务的条件价值评估

条件价值评估法(CVM)是估算生态系统服务最主要的技术方法之一。浦东张家浜的综合整治为全国河道整治的样板工程,笔者采用CVM引出张家浜沿线居民对改善张家浜生态系统的平均支付意愿(528 8元 a),初步估算出张家浜综合整治后的生态系统服务价值约为3 014～5 262亿元 a。讨论了导致支付意愿产生偏差的各方面原因,研究了张家浜沿线居民对张家浜整治项目的支付意愿和被调查者收入、年龄、受教育程度等因素的关系。最后提出了CVM研究结果的可靠性和国内在CVM研究中亟待解决的问题。      

五里湖生态重建影响因素及其对策探讨

简要介绍了五里湖的概况、主要生态环境问题和对五里湖生态环境现状及其变化过程的调查,并从水文、水质、底质等方面分析了五里湖生态重建的影响因素。在此基础上结合蠡湖新城建设规划及五里湖综合整治规划,提出了相应的生态重建对策,即通过控源、利用生境修复措施创造生态恢复条件、人工重建水生植被和湖泊生态系统管理,重建良性的湖泊水生态系统。同时,从体制和机制创新的角度出发,探讨了湖泊生态系统的管理方式和途径。      

能值理论在生态系统稳定性研究中的应用

通过对生态系统稳定研究的回顾,分析了争论的根源,从而提出划分2种稳定性的分析角度,并利用能值理论较为准确、量化的度量了生态系统第二类稳定性.     

Decision-support tools for dynamic management

Spatial management is a valuable strategy to advance regional goals for nature conservation, economic development, and human health. One challenge of spatial management is navigating the prioritization of multiple features. This challenge becomes more pronounced in dynamic management scenarios, in which boundaries are flexible in space and time in response to changing biological, environmental, or socioeconomic conditions. To implement dynamic management, decision-support tools are needed to guide spatial prioritization as feature distributions shift under changing conditions. Marxan is a widely applied decision-support tool designed for static management scenarios, but its utility in dynamic management has not been evaluated. EcoCast is a new decision-support tool developed explicitly for the dynamic management of multiple features, but it lacks some of Marxan's functionality. We used a hindcast analysis to compare the capacity of these 2 tools to prioritize 4 marine species in a dynamic management scenario for fisheries sustainability. We successfully configured Marxan to operate dynamically on a daily time scale to resemble EcoCast. The relationship between EcoCast solutions and the underlying species distributions was more linear and less noisy, whereas Marxan solutions had more contrast between waters that were good and poor to fish. Neither decision-support tool clearly outperformed the other; the appropriateness of each depends on management purpose, resource-manager preference, and technological capacity of tool developers. Article impact statement: Marxan can function as a decision-support tool for dynamic management scenarios in which boundaries are flexible in space and time.     

Mechanisms and impacts of an incentive-based conservation program with evidence from a randomized control trial

Conservation science needs more high-quality impact evaluations, especially ones that explore mechanisms of success or failure. Randomized control trials (RCTs) provide particularly robust evidence of the effectiveness of interventions (although they have been criticized as reductionist and unable to provide insights into mechanisms), but there have been few such experiments investigating conservation at the landscape scale. We explored the impact of Watershared, an incentive-based conservation program in the Bolivian Andes, with one of the few RCTs of landscape-scale conservation in existence. There is strong interest in such incentive-based conservation approaches as some argue they can avoid negative social impacts sometimes associated with protected areas. We focused on social and environmental outcomes based on responses from a household survey in 129 communities randomly allocated to control or treatment (conducted both at the baseline in 2010 and repeated in 2015–2016). We controlled for incomplete program uptake by combining standard RCT analysis with matching methods and investigated mechanisms by exploring intermediate and ultimate outcomes according to the underlying theory of change. Previous analyses, focused on single biophysical outcomes, showed that over its first 5 years Watershared did not slow deforestation or improve water quality at the landscape scale. We found that Watershared influenced some outcomes measured using the survey, but the effects were complex, and some were unexpected. We thus demonstrated how RCTs can provide insights into the pathways of impact, as well as whether an intervention has impact. This paper, one of the first registered reports in conservation science, demonstrates how preregistration can help make complex research designs more transparent, avoid cherry picking, and reduce publication bias.