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Per Angelstam Kjell Andersson Maths Isacson Dmitri V. Gavrilov Robert Axelsson Mattias Bäckström Erik Degerman Marine Elbakidze Elena Yu. Kazakova-Apkarimova Lotta Sartz Stefan Sädbom Johan Törnblom 《Ambio》2013,42(2):146-159
Barriers and bridges to implement policies about sustainable development and sustainability commonly depend on the past development of social–ecological systems. Production of metals required integration of use of ore, streams for energy, and wood for bioenergy and construction, as well as of multiple societal actors. Focusing on the Swedish Bergslagen region as a case study we (1) describe the phases of natural resource use triggered by metallurgy, (2) the location and spatial extent of 22 definitions of Bergslagen divided into four zones as a proxy of cumulative pressure on landscapes, and (3) analyze the consequences for natural capital and society. We found clear gradients in industrial activity, stream alteration, and amount of natural forest from the core to the periphery of Bergslagen. Additionally, the legacy of top-down governance is linked to today’s poorly diversified business sector and thus municipal vulnerability. Comparing the Bergslagen case study with other similar regions in Russia and Germany, we discuss the usefulness of multiple case studies. 相似文献
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This multidisciplinary in-depth investigation of accidents using 24 occupants with neck symptoms shows the complexity of whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) in frontal impacts with respect to factors that influence occurrence as well as duration of symptoms. Several different occupant kinematics have been identified, all resulting in symptoms classified as WAD. Compared to occupants restrained only by a seat belt, occupants with arm resistance influence showed a greater representation of symmetrical neck symptoms. Two cases of unbelted occupants with a neck compression mechanism far from conventional "whiplash" motion were found. Posture as well as physical and psychosocial factors such as strong negative reactions, bad prognosis expectation, and stressed daily activities influenced the duration of symptoms. Occupant characteristics and sitting posture and behavior at the time of impact are important factors when analyzing and understanding WAD. 相似文献
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Erik Hysing Lotta Frändberg Bertil Vilhelmson 《Journal of Environmental Planning and Management》2015,58(6):1058-1075
Congestion charging is widely considered an effective policy measure to regulate and reduce car traffic demand and associated environmental and health problems in cities. However, introducing restrictive measures to constrain individual choice and behaviour for the common good has often proven difficult. Using a specific case, the Gothenburg congestion tax introduced in 2013, we study the policy process behind the introduction of the tax and assess to what extent green values were compromised along the way. The tax was made possible by co-financing infrastructure investments, including roads, which seemingly contradicts stated goals of reducing car traffic and emissions. We show how the tax was ‘muddled through’ in a top-down political compromise by a grand coalition where different interests could legitimate their support in relation to the achievement of partially conflicting objectives and projects. However, to declare the regulatory goals fully neutralised would be to underestimate the scheme's direct environmental effects and restrictive potential. Finding a compromise with powerful political and economic interests was necessary to get it off the ground. Once launched, however, it can over time regain its restrictive properties and lead to more profound long-term effects. 相似文献
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The dynamic catchment model HBV-N has been further developed by adding routines for phosphorus transport and is now called the HBV-NP model. The model was shown to satisfactorily simulate nutrient dynamics in the R?nne? catchment (1,900 km2). Its sensitivity to input data was tested, and results demonstrated the increased sensitivity to the selection of input data on a subcatchment scale when compared with the catchment scale. Selection of soil and land use databases was found to be critical in some subcatchments but did not have a significant impact on a catchment scale. Although acceptable on a catchment scale, using templates and generalization, with regards to emissions from point sources and rural households, significantly decreased model performance in certain subcatchments when compared with using more detailed local information. A division into 64 subcatchments resulted in similar model performance at the catchment outlet when compared with a lumped approach. Adjusting the imported matrixes of the regional leaching of nitrogen, from agricultural land, against mean subcatchment water percolation did not have a significant impact on the model performance. 相似文献
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Adrian Vallin Sven Jakobsson Christer Wiklund 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2007,61(9):1419-1424
Large eyespots on the wings of butterflies and moths have been ascribed generally intimidating qualities by creating a frightening
image of a bird or mammal much larger than the insect bearing the eyespots. However, evidence for this anti-predator adaptation
has been largely anecdotal and only recently were peacock butterflies, Inachis io, shown to effectively thwart attacks from blue tits, Parus caeruleus. Here, we test whether large eyespots on lepidopterans are generally effective in preventing attacks from small passerines
and whether the size of insect or bird can influence the outcome of interactions. We staged experiments between the larger
eyed hawkmoths, Smerinthus ocellatus, and the smaller peacock butterflies, I. io, and the larger great tits, Parus major, and the smaller blue tits, P. caeruleus. Survival differed substantially between the insect species with 21 of 24 peacock butterflies, but only 6 of 27 eyed hawkmoths,
surviving attacks from the birds. Thus, surprisingly, the smaller prey survived to a higher extent, suggesting that factors
other than insect size may be important. However, great tits were less easily intimidated by the insects’ eyespots and deimatic
behaviour and consumed 16 of 26, but the blue tits only 8 of 25, of the butterflies and hawkmoths. Our results demonstrate
that eyespots per se do not guarantee survival and that these two insects bearing equally large eyespots are not equally well
protected against predation. 相似文献
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Bird mortality is heavily affected by birds of prey. Under attack, take-off is crucial for survival and even minor mistakes in initial escape response can have devastating consequences. Birds may respond differently depending on the character of the predator's attack and these split-second decisions were studied using a model merlin (Falco columbarius) that attacked feeding blue tits (Parus caeruleus) from two different attack angles in two different speeds. When attacked from a low attack angle they took off more steeply than when attacked from a high angle. This is the first study to show that escape behaviour also depends on predator attack speed. The blue tits responded to a high-speed attack by dodging sideways more often than when attacked at a low speed. Escape speed was not significantly affected by the different treatments. Although they have only a split-second before escaping an attack, blue tits do adjust their escape strategy to the prevailing attack conditions. 相似文献
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Kathryn E. Arnold Stephen D. Larcombe Lotta Ducaroir Lucille Alexander 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2010,64(11):1857-1866
During mate choice, individuals are predicted to assess traits that honestly signal the quality of potential partners. Locomotor
capacity may be such a trait, potentially signalling condition and ability to resist oxidative damage. In this study, we experimentally
manipulated nutritional status: Male wild-type budgerigars, imported from Australia, were provided with either an enhanced
(EQ) or reduced quality (RQ) diet varying in vitamin (particularly retinol and α-tocopherol) and mineral levels. Then, we
assessed whether this influenced locomotor capacity, i.e. escape flight performance, and sexual attractiveness in male budgerigars
Melopsittacus undulatus. Males in the EQ group showed significantly greater total antioxidant capacity and higher blood plasma concentrations of the
dietary antioxidants retinol and α-tocopherol, but not carotenoids, than the RQ group. Over 8 weeks of flight training, males
on the EQ diet showed significantly greater improvement on the most strenuous flight test than RQ males. In mate choice trials,
females preferred EQ over RQ males. EQ males that were relatively fast in escape flight trials were more strongly preferred
in the mate preference arena than their RQ competitors. Interestingly, males with high plasma carotenoid levels flew slower
and were less attractive than males with low carotenoid levels. This might indicate that carotenoids are not effective antioxidants
in birds. Overall, our results show that dietary-derived antioxidants can influence sexual attractiveness and other fitness-related
traits through multiple pathways. Locomotor capacity appears to be an honest signal of male condition in birds. 相似文献
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Christer Wiklund Adrian Vallin Magne Friberg Sven Jakobsson 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(3):379-389
Insects that hibernate as adults have a life span of almost a whole year. Hence, they must have extraordinary adaptations
for adult survival. In this paper, we study winter survival in two butterflies that hibernate as adults and have multimodal
anti-predator defences—the peacock, Inachis io, which has intimidating eyespots that are effective against bird predation, and the small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, which does not have an effective secondary defence against birds. We assessed predation on wild butterflies hibernating
in the attic of an unheated house, as well as survival of individually marked butterflies placed by hand on different sites
in the attic. Our objectives were to assess (1) the number of butterflies that were killed during hibernation, (2) whether
survival differed between butterfly species, and (3) how predation was related to hibernation site and the identity of the
predator. There was a strong pulse of predation during the first 2 weeks of hibernation: 58% of A. urticae and 53% of I. io were killed during this period. Thereafter, predation decreased and butterfly survival equalled 98% during the final 16 weeks
of hibernation. There was no difference in survival between the two butterfly species, but predation was site-specific and
more pronounced under light conditions in locations accessible to a climbing rodent, such as the common yellow-necked mouse,
Apodemus flavicollis. We contend that small rodents are likely important predators on overwintering butterflies, both because rodents are active
throughout winter when butterflies are torpid and because they occur at similar sites. 相似文献
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The HBV-N model was used for a scenario analysis of changes in nitrogen retention and transport caused by alterations of
wetness due to land drainage, lowering of lakes, building of dams and climatic variability in a river basin in south-central
Sweden (1885–1994). In general, dams were situated in locations more favourable for retention, compared to the lowered lakes.
Rather modest conversions of water bodies only changed nitrogen transport by about 3%. The 180-times-larger increase of (mainly)
tile-drained agricultural land had, according to simulations, increased the nitrogen transport by 17%, due to reduced retention.
However, compared to human-induced alteration of the landscape N retention, the choice of 10-year periods of climatological
data had the overriding effect on the calculated nitrogen transport. Weather-induced variations resulted in a 13% difference
in nitrogen retention between various 10-year periods. When the model was driven by climatological data from the driest 10-year
period (1905–1914), the estimated average annual load was only half of that obtained with climatological data from the wettest
10-year period (1975–1984).
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