长江流域湖泊湿地生态环境状况分析

在对长江流域湖泊湿地长期调查或考察的基础上,首先明确了长江流域湖泊湿地的战略地位,进而提出其当前存在的人水争地等主要生态环境问题。在此基础上从气候变化以及人类活动的角度对湖泊湿地在调蓄洪水、净化水质、保护湖泊生物多样性等方面的功能和关系作了探讨。认为随着经济发展和人口的增加,人水争地矛盾将愈来愈突出,加之种种因素造成的生态环境破坏,流域湖泊湿地生态环境压力将愈来愈大,并业已成为国民经济发展的制约因素。文章可为寻求长江流域湖泊湿地治理及管理对策提供基础资料或信息。     

Experimental support for the cost–benefit model of lizard thermoregulation

According to Huey and Slatkin’s [Q Rev Biol 51:363–384, 1976] cost–benefit model of behavioural thermoregulation, lizards should adjust their thermoregulatory strategy between active thermoregulation and thermoconformity (no thermoregulation) according to the costs (time and energy spent thermoregulating, exposure to predators), benefits (optimised physiological performance) and thermal quality of environment associated with a given situation. However, Gilchrist’s [Am Nat 146:252–270, 1995] model of thermal specialisation suggests that apparently costly mechanisms of behavioural thermoregulation can greatly increase fitness if the optimal body temperature is achieved. Field studies of ectotherm thermoregulatory strategies under extreme cold conditions and experiments testing the effects of cool environments on thermoregulatory behaviour are surprisingly scarce. We conducted laboratory experiments to test if common lizards Zootoca vivipara (an active thermoregulator in the field) are able to switch between active thermoregulation and thermoconformity in response to different thermal environments. We found that lizards in treatments with an opportunity to reach their preferred body temperature thermoregulated accurately, maintained their level of daily activity and improved their body condition considerably. In contrast, lizards in the treatment where the preferred body temperature could not be reached became thermoconformers, decreased their daily activity (except for gravid females) and did not increase their body condition. Our results show that lizards can indeed change their thermoregulatory strategy but stress that maintaining the preferred body temperature and, thus, optimising the physiological performance have high priority in lizard behaviour.     

影响甜菜黑腐丝囊霉的几种生态学和生物学因子

通过对河西灌区甜菜(Beta vulgaris L.)黑腐病(Sugar Beet Black Rot)为期3a的研究，探讨了甜菜栽培品种与病害发病率及病原菌黑腐丝囊霉（Aphanomyces cochlioides)分离频率的关系以及3种环境因子即温度、pH值、不同天然培养基与甜菜黑腐丝囊霉的关系。结果表明：各栽培品种在田间的发病率与室内病原分离频率不同，其中工农2号田间发病率为1．3％，室内分离频率为93％，工农5号分别为1％和7．2％，宁甜301分别为2％和6．1％，工农2号具有更大的耐病性；甜菜黑腐丝囊霉的生长温度范围为5—30℃，最适温度为25—27℃，对高温敏感，33℃为其致死温度；甜菜黑腐丝囊霉可在pH3．5—11范围内生长，最适pH为5—9．9；甜菜黑腐丝囊霉在PDA、玉米粉琼脂、甜菜汁、麦芽糖—胨、麦芽糖酵母汁及燕麦琼脂培养基上均可生长，其中在甜菜汁培养基上生长最好．图4表3参11     

我国山地城镇的景观生态学探讨

应用景观生态学的理论，与平原城镇相比较，分析了山地条件下的山地城镇的景观生态特性：景观自然生境要素多，廊道体系不发达，景观要素布局松散，生态系统抗干扰能力差。按照地形条件和结构形态对山地城镇的景观结构类型进行了详细分类，总结了山地城镇的主要生态问题，为山地城镇的景观规划与设计提供参考。     

城市景观河道不同类型驳岸界面微生物生态研究

对某景观河道鹅卵石驳岸、泥岸、石砌驳岸和砼仿木桩驳岸4种类型驳岸的河水/河床界面上覆水质及界面功能微生物生态多样性进行了研究.结果表明:4种驳岸的界面上覆水质以鹅卵石驳岸和泥岸较好,而石砌驳岸和砼仿木桩驳岸较差;界面上覆水和界面泥样的功能微生物菌群数量都以鹅卵石驳岸最多,泥岸次之,砼仿木桩驳岸最少.在鹅卵石驳岸上鹅卵石的堆砌增加了水体与驳岸的接触面积,为微生物提供了更多的生存空间.泥岸对污染物的吸附能力较强,为微生物提供了有利的生存环境,微生物数量较大.     

A Landscape Approach to Biodiversity Conservation of Sacred Groves in the Western Ghats of India

Abstract:  Although sacred groves are important for conservation in India, the landscape that surrounds them has a vital influence on biodiversity within them. Research has focused on tree diversity inside these forest patches. In a coffee-growing region of the Western Ghats, however, landscape outside sacred groves is also tree covered because planters have retained native trees to provide shade for coffee plants. We examined the diversity of trees, birds, and macrofungi at 58 sites—10 forest-reserve sites, 25 sacred groves, and 23 coffee plantations— in Kodagu district. We measured landscape composition and configuration around each site with a geographic information system. To identify factors associated with diversity we constructed multivariate models by using a decision-tree technique. The conventional measures of landscape fragmentation such as patch size did not influence species richness. Distance of sacred groves from the forest reserve had a weak influence. The measures of landscape structure (e.g., tree cover in the surroundings) and stand structure (e.g., variability in canopy height) contributed to the variation in species richness explained by multivariate models. We suggest that biodiversity present within sacred groves has been influenced by native tree cover in the surrounding landscape. To conserve this biodiversity the integrity of the tree-covered landscape matrix will need to be conserved.     

城市景观生态建设──以沈阳市为例

本文对城市进行了景观生态学分析，认为城市景观嵌块体小，数量多，景观高度破碎，道路廊道多，而缺少绿色廊道及绿色嵌块体，结合沈阳市，分析了景观质量及绿地现状，从而提出在城市景观生态建设中应增加绿色嵌块体及绿色廊道的数量。     

Human impact on the landscape of small islands in the West-Estonian archipelago

Research on the development of the interrelationship between society and environment is crucial for the understanding of contemporary landscapes. The West-Estonian archipelago provides an opportunity for such investigations because of its small size, landscape diversity, and well-defined economic activities. The contemporary landscapes of the islands reflect environmental changes resulting from centuries of human activity. This paper describes both natural and human factors in the change in landscape of small Estonian islands during the last centuries. During the period 1850–1940, human activity diversified the landscape structure. During World War II, with the establishment of Soviet rule, the islets were depopulated; their landscape became more uniform and lost their economic and ecological vitality. The re-establishment of private ownership of land and a market economy is predicted to result in positive changes in the landscape of the islets.     

Friends of the land and the rise of environmentalism, 1940–1954

The rise of the postwar environmental movement is rooted in the development of ecological consciousness within intellectual circles as well as the general public. Though many commentators cite the 1960s as the focal point of the new environmentalism, the ecological ethic had actually evolved by the 1930s in the writings and speeches of both scientists and public commentators. Agricultural conservationists led the way in broadcasting the message of ecology. Friends of the Land, an agriculturally-oriented conservation organization formed in 1940 and active through the 1950s, is an interesting example of how the agricultural community was an integral component in the rise of environmentalism. While Friends of the Land flourished only for a brief period, its goals and the ideas that the group represented illustrate how the ecological ethic was burgeoning by the early-1950s. Furthermore, the history of Friends of the Land is an important chapter in the ongoing quest for ecological agriculture and societal permanence.     

A planning and decision-making framework for ecological restoration

A broad and objective perspective of ecological and socioenomic knowledge is required to underlie a scientific approach to the problems of terrestrial restoration ecology. Uncertainty associated with limited scientific knowledge highlights the crucial importance of the interaction between science and policy in weighing ecological restoration alternatives in relation to other management options. In this paper, we provide a pragmatic definition for restoration ecology that is suitable for extensive terrestrial applications and present a decision framework to help organize and clarify different phases of the decision process as it is related to ecological restoration. We argue that restoration planning should include a wider spectrum of participants and decisions than have traditionally been employed.