长期施肥措施下稻田土壤有机质稳定性研究

采用傅立叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)对典型稻田生态系统长期定位试验的土壤有机质(SOM)结构进行分析,探讨不同施肥处理下表层与深层土壤有机质的分布差异及其稳定性机制.结果表明,长期不同施肥措施下稻田表层土壤有机碳(SOC)含量以有机-无机肥配施处理最高,其中高量有机肥(HOM)、低量有机肥(LOM)和秸秆还田(STW)处理较对照(CK)处理分别增加了18.5%、12.9%和18.4%.土壤有机质的化学结构也存在一定的差异性,与CK相比,施肥处理均增加了土壤中化学抗性化合物(脂族性、芳香族)、碳水化合物以及有机硅化合物的官能团吸收强度,其中HOM、LOM和STW处理最为明显.以烷烃类化合物为例,HOM、LOM和STW处理下其吸收强度为0.30、0.25和0.29,较CK分别增加了87%、56%和81%.表层土壤有机质各官能团的吸收峰强度皆高于深层土壤,同样以HOM、LOM和STW处理的差异最显著.本研究结果揭示了长期有机-无机肥配施下对亚热带稻田土壤有机质较丰富的化学抗性官能团结构的影响,贡献于其较高的有机质含量,这也从一方面揭示了稻田土壤有机质积累的化学稳定机制.     

基于扎根理论的学生水域高危行为影响因素研究

为探究学生水域高危行为影响因素,基于扎根理论,对国内24名受访者(18名学生、3名救生员、3名游泳教师)进行半结构式访谈,将访谈资料整理成文本,依次进行开放式编码、主轴编码和选择性编码。研究表明,学生水域高危行为影响因素包括个人因素和环境因素2个大范畴,二者共计含有安全知识、安全技能、风险感知、溺水经历、过度自信、感觉寻求、父母行为控制、不良同伴、学校安全教育、涉水水域环境等10个小范畴。依据范畴间的交互作用构建出学生水域高危行为影响因素理论模型。此模型为有针对性地预防和干预学生水域高危行为提供理论支持。     

Forestry best management practices for timber harvesting and site preparation in the eastern United States: An overview of water quality and productivity research during the past 20 years (1982–2002)

Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) were developed to protect water quality. In the eastern US, those BMPs were often expanded to include maintenance of site productivity. Generally, BMPs recommend the use of pre-harvest planning and careful design for construction of roads and other activities that expose bare soil, minimizing trafficking and areas of bare soil, maintaining streamside management zones, ensuring rapid revegetation following harvesting, minimizing soil disturbance, and ameliorating severe trafficking with site preparation. This review of peer-reviewed research from the past 20 years examined the effects of forest harvesting and site preparation on water quality and site productivity in the eastern US. The review was subdivided into areas having relatively similar physiography and land management (New England, Lake States, Appalachian Plateau, Ridge and Valley, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Gulf Coastal Plain, and Ouachitas-Ozarks). In general, data from steeper physiographic regions indicated that forest harvesting and site preparation can increase erosion, sediment and nutrient losses to streams. However, the quantities introduced into streams tended to be relatively low, generally below the values that are considered acceptable for alternative land uses. Also most research indicated that water quality recovers within two to five years following forest operation disturbances, particularly if BMPs are employed. Research from the less mountainous and often more poorly drained Lake States and Coastal Plain regions indicated that soil compaction and rutting may or may not cause site productivity effects, depending on soil types, natural ameliorative properties and site preparation. Overall, the research supports the forestry BMPs recommended in the eastern states.     

Risk Management of Sediment Stress: A Framework for Sediment Risk Management Research

Research related to the ecological risk management of sediment stress in watersheds is placed under a common conceptual framework in order to help promote the timely advance of decision support methods for aquatic resource managers and watershed-level planning. The proposed risk management research program relies heavily on model development and verification, and should be applied under an adaptive management approach. The framework is centered on using best management practices (BMPs), including eco-restoration. It is designed to encourage the development of numerical representations of the performance of these management options, the integration of this information into sediment transport simulation models that account for uncertainty in both input and output, and would use strategic environmental monitoring to guide sediment-related risk management decisions for mixed land use watersheds. The goal of this project was to provide a sound scientific framework based on recent state of the practice in sediment-related risk assessment and management for research and regulatory activities. As a result, shortcomings in the extant data and measurement and modeling tools were identified that can help determine future research direction. The compilation of information is beneficial to the coordination of related work being conducted within and across entities responsible for managing watershed-scale risks to aquatic ecosystems.     

Performance Assessment of Rain Gardens1

Abstract: The most widely used approach for evaluating the performance of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) such as rain gardens is monitoring, but this approach can involve a long time period to observe a sufficient number and variety of storm events, a high level of effort, and unavoidable uncertainty. In this paper, we describe the development and evaluation of three approaches for performance assessment of rain gardens: visual inspection, infiltration rate testing, and synthetic drawdown testing. Twelve rain gardens in Minnesota underwent visual inspection, with four determined to be nonfunctional based on one or more of the following criteria: (1) presence of ponded water, (2) presence of hydric soils, (3) presence of emergent (wetland) vegetation, and (4) failing vegetation. It is believed that these rain gardens failed due to a lack of maintenance. For the remaining eight rain gardens, an infiltrometer was used to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity (K_sat) of the soil surface at several locations throughout each basin in what is termed infiltration rate testing. The median K_sat values for the rain gardens ranged from 3 to 72 cm/h. Synthetic drawdown testing was performed on three rain gardens by filling the basins with water to capacity where possible and recording water level over time. The observed drain times for two of those rain gardens were in good agreement with predictions based on the median of the infiltrometer measurements. The observed drain time for the third rain garden was much greater than predicted due to the presence of a restrictive soil layer beneath the topsoil. The assessment approaches developed in this research should prove useful for determining whether the construction of the rain garden was performed properly, a rain garden is functioning properly, and for developing maintenance tasks and schedules.