Situational Waste in Landscape Watering: Residential and Business Water Use in an Urban Utah Community1

Abstract: Landscape water conservation is an important issue for municipalities throughout the Western United States, and especially in Utah as rapid growth strains existing water supplies. We conducted interdisciplinary research in Layton, Utah, that aimed at understanding patterns of landscape water use among households and businesses. The research project involved three basic tasks. First, a landscape “water budget” was developed by producing a calibrated and classified mosaic of landscape type and area from airborne multispectral digital imagery, integrating this information with Layton City parcel boundary data to determine landscape vegetated areas per lot, and estimating irrigation needs derived from reference evapotranspiration (ETo) obtained using weather data for the Salt Lake City metropolitan region. Second, utilizing Layton water billing data, water use for each household and business was identified and categorized as “conserving,”“acceptable” or “wasteful” by determining how much the water applied varied from actual landscape plant need. Third, surveys were administered to a random stratified sample of households and businesses in the study area to investigate various factors that were hypothesized to be predictive of wasteful watering practices. This paper primarily focuses on analysis of the household and business survey data, which explores factors affecting urban landscape water use from a human behavioral perspective. We found that the most significant factors predicting actual water use were the type of irrigation system and whether the location was a household or business. Attitudinal and motivational characteristics were not consistently associated with water use. We found that wasteful watering is the result of many factors embedded in the complex context of urban landscapes. This implies that water conservation programs should identify potential wasteful users through analyses of water billing data and direct water conservation measures at these users by focusing on site‐specific evaluations and recommendations. Water audits or water checks are one such tool that some communities have employed to help people understand and assess the quantity of water needed by and applied to their landscapes. This approach provides an opportunity to evaluate situational constraints at particular locations and design appropriate strategies for reducing water waste.     

香格里拉纳西族与汉族聚居区的景观生态格局对比研究

位于云南省西北哈巴雪山中的三坝纳西族自治乡,由于历史原因,其人口组成中的汉族和纳西族分别聚居于境内的格基河和白水河2条小流域,从而形成了各有特点的景观利用格局. 应用景观生态学和文化人类学的研究方法,对三坝纳西族自治乡内2条小流域的景观格局进行了研究和分析. 结果表明:白水河流域的景观优势度比格基河流域高,且差异显著;白水河流域的景观破碎度比格基河流域高;白水河流域的景观多样性比格基河流域低,但差异不显著. 同时对其民族分布及其耕作文化的调查显示,纳西族的神山崇拜、聚居和梯田耕作文化对其居住的白水河流域景观格局的形成有直接联系.      

水生植物法再生景观回用水水质稳定技术研究

建立了污水处理和景观回用中试试验系统,景观回用试验水量为11 m3,研究了城市污水经二级生物处理再生后用作景观环境用水的水质稳定性;构建了不同结构的水生植物系统,研究了该系统对再生景观环境用水水质的影响. 结果表明:在晴朗天气,白天水温为(28±2)　℃,夜间水温为(20±2)℃的条件下,二级生物处理的再生水在瓷砖水池中最多可以稳定3 d;结构完善的“挺水-浮叶-沉水-浮水”水生植物系统能够有效抑制再生景观回用水中藻类的滋生,并可降低其有机物和氮、磷的含量,在9 d内使ρ(COD_Cr),ρ(TP)和ρ(NH₃-N)分别降低76.9%,95.8%和95.2%,从而使水质保持稳定并得以改善,使回用水水质完全符合再生景观回用水国家标准. 因此,构建结构完善的水生植物系统可实现污水再生景观回用.      

太湖流域景观生态风险评估

在GIS和RS技术支持下,以遥感数据和土地利用数据为基础,以行政区划为评价单元,构建景观生态风险评价模型,定量评价了研究区内景观生态风险的时空动态变化特征。结果表明,较低风险区主要分布于以苕溪为主的山地丘陵区,中等风险区主要分布于农业发达的平原区,较高风险区及高风险区主要集中于沿湖经济发达区。     

Combining Environmental Factors and Agriculturalists’ Observations of Environmental Changes in the Traditional Terrace System of the Amalfi Coast (Southern Italy)

Terraces are traditional engineered ecosystems that affect the hydro-geological equilibrium, slope stability, and local communities. The aims of this paper are (i) identifying environmental factors that affect terrace stability in the Amalfi Coast, (ii) defining agriculturalists’ observations on environmental changes within that system and (iii) exploring potentiality of these observations to better define conservation strategies. All available data on physical and ecological factors recognized to affect the terrace system were collected and analyzed. Interviews were conducted with agriculturalists to obtain long-term observations on environmental factors that interact with this system. Landslides are more frequent where rainfall is high and during winter. Fires have an uneven annual distribution, with higher frequency during summers. Agriculturalists detailed complex interactions among environmental factors, economic elements, and terraces. These observations represent a valuable resource for defining causes and effects of abandonment and for better addressing conservation strategies.

Electronic supplementary material

The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-013-0433-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

低动力复合净水系统净化生态农庄景观池水质

采用生物填料、阿科蔓生态基和生态浮盆等材料构建低动力复合净水系统(LCWPS)进行生态农庄人工景观池水质净化技术示范研究。系统稳定运行后的周年监测结果表明,整体系统使人工景观池的CODMn、TN、NH4+-N、TP和浊度分别下降61.1%～62.8%、36.0%～39.9%、14.3%～35.7%、66.7%～79.5%和76.8%～79.8%,水质溶解氧浓度(DO)上升72.7%～126.0%,景观池水质达到《地表水环境质量标准》(GB3838-2002)中景观水域需要的V类水质标准,并能长期保持稳定。从管理维护成本角度考虑,利用LCWPS净化生态农庄人工景观池水质能达到节能节水的目的。     

Assessment of denitrification process in lower Ishikari river system,Japan

Sediment denitrification rate and its role in removal of dissolved nitrate load in lower Ishikari river system were examined. Denitrification rate were measured using acetylene inhibition technique on the sediment samples collected during August 2009–July 2010. The denitrification rate varied from 0.001 to 1.9 μg N g⁻¹ DM h⁻¹ with an average value of 0.21 μg N g⁻¹ DM h⁻¹ in lower Ishikari river system. Denitrification rate showed positive correlation with dissolved nitrate concentration in the river basin, indicating overlying water column supplied nitrate for the sediment denitrification processes. Nutrient enrichment experiments result showed that denitrification rate increased significantly with addition of nitrate in case of samples collected from Barato Lake however no such increase was observed in the samples collected from Ishikari river main channel and its major tributaries indicating that factors other than substrate concentration such as population of denitrifier and hydrological properties of stream channel including channel depth and flow velocity may affects the denitrification rate in lower Ishikari river system. Denitrification rate showed no significant increase with the addition of labile carbon (glucose), indicating that sediment samples had sufficient organic matter to sustain denitrification activity. The result of nutrient spiraling model indicates that in- stream denitrification process removes on an average 5% d⁻¹ of dissolve nitrate load in Ishikari river. This study was carried out to fill the gap present in the availability of riverine denitrification rate measurement and its role in nitrogen budget from Japanese rivers characterize by small river length and high flow rate.     

汕头市练江流域景观格局与水质的关联分析

水环境对景观格局的变化极为敏感,水域(湿地)面积、分布格局、水质、水文特征等的变化,与土地变化和人类活动有着密切的关系,明确影响水质变化的关键景观因子,对于深入了解景观格局对水质的影响机制具有重要的研究价值.该研究选择广东省汕头市练江流域为研究对象,以2019年TM卫星影像、水质监测以及工业点源污染数据为基础,利用Sp...     

青山湖流域景观格局对河流氮磷营养盐影响的时空尺度效应

景观格局对水质的影响具有时空尺度依赖性,然而不同空间尺度下景观组成、景观配置及景观坡度对季节性水质的影响程度仍然不甚明了. 基于青山湖流域26个监测点的总氮、总磷、硝态氮和铵态氮数据,采用景观格局分析、冗余分析和偏冗余分析方法定量景观格局对河流氮磷营养盐影响的时空尺度效应. 结果表明：①子流域尺度内景观格局对河流氮磷浓度的解释力比在缓冲区尺度上高6.8%~8.4%,且这种作用在干季更明显. ②在子流域尺度,林地占比和居民地的散布分裂程度对河流氮磷浓度影响较大;而缓冲区尺度上,农田和居民地分布的坡度以及林地斑块的聚集度是影响氮磷浓度的关键因子. ③景观配置对河流氮磷浓度变化的独立贡献率（20.1%~36.5%）高于景观组成（4.1%~14.5%）和景观坡度（5.5%~23.7%）的独立贡献率,且景观配置对河流氮磷浓度影响随季节变化的敏感度最高,而景观坡度对河流氮磷浓度影响具有更高的空间尺度敏感性. 因此,通过景观格局调控非点源污染应从多尺度角度考虑. 研究结果可从宏观上为制定以非点源污染控制为目标的景观格局优化措施提供科学依据.     

充分利用校园绿化进行园林教学的尝试

园林专业是实践性很强的学科,教学内容跨度大、涉及面广。针对我院园林专业实践性强的特点,利用校园植物进行园林专业在树种识别、标本制作等方面的实践教学改革,有效地提高了教学质量。