城市边缘湿地的休闲旅游功能

城市边缘湿地是城市的生态屏障，是城市可持续发展的自然基础，具有一定的经济功能和巨大的生态、社会服务功能，休闲与旅游是其中的组成部分之一，但是由于城市边缘湿地本身存在生态脆弱性，加上受城市化、工业化影响，其休闲与旅游功能不断退化，为实现城市边缘湿地旅游资源可持续利用的目的，应当采取相应的治理措施。     

Bidirectional visibility

The percentage of the cross-sectional area of two objects (e.g., vehicles, hikers, or animals) that can be seen from each of their locations in a forested area is generally not the same. There is a directionality to the visibility between them. This is due to the relative positions and sizes of the vegetation and other view-blocking features between the objects. An analytical technique has been developed to help understand bidirectional visibility. Its use entails the construction of a visibility diagram containing the basic visibility information between observers in a given setting. An example is presented showing the use of the visibility diagram to determine visibility between two moving observers in a forested environment. The diagram is also used to determine the differences in the percentage each observer has of the other's visible cross-sectional area (bidirectional visibility). A discussion of the application of the technique in the planning or development of new facilities, as well as in forest and wildlife management, is provided.     

A strategy for integrated monitoring

Administrative machinery has been set up to regulate and control most of the emissions that are known to have severe local consequences, such as the discharge of raw sewage into rivers and lakes and the smokestack emission of air pollutants. Now, the nature of environmental degradation is usually different. We are faced with pollutants and effects with more subtle cause-effect relationships, often characterized by larger geographic areas of interest and longer term potential damage; the potential risk is now more chronic than acute. Acid rain and climate change are good examples, in that they are associated with a variety of pollutants from a number of sources and damage to ecosystems occurs over many years. It is argued that monitoring programs should evolve to reflect the changing nature of the environmental problems they are addressing. It is now necessary to consider interactions among many pollutants, mixing among the various media, and potentially affecting many components of the ecosystem in both indirect and direct ways. Here, integrated monitoring and analysis is presented as a unifying strategy to bring together different measurement methodologies in different disciplines, addressing environmental questions of complexity beyond the scope of many existing activites that have a classical narrower focus. The underlying concept is of nested networks, each tier being composed of sites selected for specific purposes but arranged to maximize the number of common sites where more multidisciplinary questions can be addressed.     

Better environmental future in Europe through environmental auditing?

environmental auditing must be rejected if the aim is to make companies introduce a specific management concept. Rather, it is preferable to leave the search for effective environmental protection strategies to the competitive system, especially since the criteria for environment-oriented management in the European Community audit proposal are without substance. Environmental auditing can, however, assume a complementary function in the framework of an overall environmental policy if it is designed as an information tool with which companies provide information on the development of environmental problems deriving from their manufacturing processes and products. However, the model required to establish a framework of quantity and evaluation criteria is not available. Further, auditing does not cover products. Similarly, there are no proposals defining the evaluation procedure for ecological resource scarcity. Thus, the attempt of the Commission of the European Communities to create the elementary prerequisites for consistent and verifiable environmental auditing in the corporate sector has failed.     

Estrogenic effects of water from the Yangtze River （Nanjing section） on goldfish （Carassius auratus） after an early life stage exposure

Effects of river water from the Yangtze River (Nanjing section) on fish development, vitellogenin (VTG) induction, gonado-somatic index (GSI) and sex ratio were investigated by exposing goldfish (Carassius auratus) in the early life stage (from fertilization to 28 days post-hatch) to water samples (25%, 50% and 100%) collected from three representative sections. The results showed that there was no significant effect on hatching success for any of the exposure groups, but survival was significantly reduced when compared with the control (P < 0.05). Body lengths, weights of all treated fish did not differ significantly from those of the control. Condition factors (CF) of larval fish exposed to 50% and 100% river water from the Jiangxinzhou section and 100% river water from the Daqiao section were significantly lower than that of the control (P< 0.05). VTG inductions were significant in larval fish exposed to all the dilution series of river water. No significant difference in CF value was observed in any exposure group after 150 days of depuration. VTG was fully eliminated after 75 days of depuration. For both female and male, GSI did not significantly differ between exposure groups and the control after 150 days of convalescence. The highest female:male ratios were observed in response to the treatment with 50% or 100% river water from the Jiangxinzhou section and 100% river water from the Daqiao section (53:47, 56:44 and 54:46, respectively), but no significant difference in sex ratio was observed in any treated group when compared to the control. The results showed that early life stage exposure of river water from the Yangtze River (Nanjing section) had adverse effects on goldfish development and reproductive health, and the effects on CF and VTG were reversible after depuration in clean water.     

不同喜树碱制剂对普通小球藻的毒性比较

以普通小球藻（Chlorella vulgaris）为试验材料,连续10d测定了新型生物农药喜树碱3种不同的制剂对普通小球藻的毒性.结果表明：0.2%喜树碱乳油对普通小球藻毒性最高（EC50值在0.0368～0.2547mg.L-1）,其中第3天的EC50值最小为0.0368mg.L-1;0.5%喜树碱钠盐的毒性较低（...     

采煤驱动下潘谢矿区水体演变及其景观生态效应

基于Landsat数据利用水体指数、波段运算和阈值法提取了淮南潘谢矿区1979、1987、2000及2006年水体信息,结合矿井采掘工程布置识别了塌陷水体与自然水体.面积统计结果表明1979年自然水体、塌陷水体面积最小,1980年后农田水利工程、开挖鱼塘、取土烧砖等人为活动导致后期自然水体面积增大;矿区内井工采煤导致塌...     

Two-dimensional numerical and eco-toxicological modeling of chemical spills

The effects of chemical spills on aquatic nontarget organisms were evaluated in this study. Based on a review of three types of current eco-toxicological models of chemicals, i.e., ACQUATOX model of the US-EPA, Hudson River Model of PCBs, and critical body residual (CBR) model and dynamic energy budget (DEBtox) model, this paper presents an uncoupled numerical ecotoxicological model. The transport and transformation of spilled chemicals were simulated by a chemical transport model (including flow and sediment transport), and the mortalities of an organism caused by the chemicals were simulated by the extended threshold damage model, separately. Due to extreme scarcity of data, this model was applied to two hypothetical cases of chemical spills happening upstream of a lake. Theoretical analysis and simulated results indicated that this model is capable of reasonably predicting the acute effects of chemical spills on aquatic ecosystems or organism killings.     

3种不同功效医药品活性成分对发光菌的毒性作用

因药物活性成分的环境残留引发的风险和健康问题成为公众关注的焦点。本文以海洋发光细菌为受试生物,研究了布洛芬、阿奇霉素、三氯生3种医药品的单一和联合毒性作用。结果表明,3种医药品对发光菌的EC_(50)值分别为:36.5×10~(-5)、30.26×10~(-5)和0.0155×10~(-5)mol·L~(-1);二元及多元混合体系对发光菌的EC_(50)值高于单一体系的毒性作用,进一步采用相加指数法(AI)、毒性单位法(TU)、混合毒性指数法(MTI)评价3种医药品多元体系的联合毒性的作用类型,取得了一致的评价结果。3种医药品的二元混合体系及多元混合体系的作用类型均属于拮抗作用,但拮抗作用的强弱不同,这与医药品不同药效官能团结构可影响其对微生物生理生化反应过程有关。研究3种医药品对发光菌急性毒性作用可为该类新型污染物的环境风险评价提供基础数据。     

纳米材料与环境污染物的复合毒性

纳米材料因其独特的物理化学性质,不仅其自身具有毒性,还会与共存污染物相互作用,影响彼此的迁移转化和毒性效应。文中总结了纳米复合污染毒性的研究方法,并介绍了几种纳米材料(碳纳米材料、金属氧化物、量子点和零价金属)与重金属或有机物复合时造成的生物毒性,包括不同层次毒性指标响应(生物整体、生物积累、大分子水平)和毒性机制的探讨,展望了纳米复合污染毒性领域今后的发展方向和亟待研究的重要问题。