基于综合指数法的白龙江流域生物多样性空间分异特征研究

大中区域尺度上生物多样性空间分布格局识别是制定和实施区域生物多样性保护计划的前提条件,也是生物多样性保护确定优先区域研究工作迫切需要解决的关键问题之一。拟以甘肃白龙江流域为例,结合InVEST模型和遥感、GIS技术,以区域生境质量、植物净初级生产力和景观状态指数为评价指标,应用归一化处理方法,构建区域生物多样性空间格局综合评估方法,在栅格像元尺度上开展白龙江流域生物多样性评价及其空间分异特征分析。结果表明:白龙江流域生物多样性较为丰富,空间分异特征明显。生物多样性较高的区域(Ⅰ和Ⅱ级以上)面积约占39.80%,且主要集中在自然保护区和林业管护区。生物多样性较低的地区主要分布在舟曲-武都-文县的白龙江两岸及其以北区域、宕昌县岷江沿岸、高寒稀疏植被区和高山积雪-裸岩区。     

广州从化市古树名木资源调查初报

在查阅历史资料的基础上,采用实地调查与走访当地群众相结合的方法,对广州从化市街口、城郊、江埔、太平、鳌头、良口、吕田、温泉和东明9个管护区的古树名木进行逐株调查。结果表明:从化市古树名木分布范围广,9个管护区均有分布,但种类数和株数有较大差异;古树和大树主要分布在风水林中,并以群落的形式存在。从化市有古树名木2 104株,隶属于41科72属90种;其中,含5种及以上的科有壳斗科(Fagaceae)、樟科(Lauraceae)、大戟科(Euphorbiaceae)、桑科(Moraceae)和柏科(Cupressaceae);无患子科(Sapindaceae)和壳斗科的古树名木株数较多,分别有553和451株;锥属〔Castanopsis(D.Don)Spach〕的古树名木种类最多(9种);在从化市的古树名木中,荔枝(Litchi chinensis Sonn.)和红锥(Castanopsis hystrix A.DC.)的株数较多,分别为500和301株;绝大多数古树名木为乡土树种,种数达到89种。树龄在100 a以上的古树共有2 000株,其中,树龄为100～199、200～299、300～399、400～499和500 a以上的古树分别有1 394、434、162、4和6株。62.95%的古树生长表现良好,生长表现一般的古树占总株数的30.80%,而生长较差和濒死的古树分别仅占总株数的4.65%和1.60%。根据调查结果,对从化市古树名木的管理和保护提出了一些建议。     

第一届全国生物多样性监测研讨会第一轮通知

<正>生物多样性监测是对生物多样性组成和变化进行的有计划的观察和记录,对生物多样性进行监测是生态学研究、物种保护管理和资源可持续利用的核心环节,是评估生物多样性保护进展的最有效途径。为了中国生物多样性实施全面长期监测,在全国范围内组建生物多样性专业监测和研究队伍,建立全国生物多样性监测信息数据共享平台,定期发布生物多样性动态变化数据和综合分析研究成果,中国科学院科技促进发展局、国际生物多样性计划中国委员会、中国科学院生物多样性委     

景观生态学与生物多样性保护

景观生态学的发展为生物多样性保护提供了新理论,方法和技术手段,从景观多样性与遗传多样性,物种多样性,生态系统多样性各层次生物多样性之间的相互关系及生物多样性保护的景观规划等方面评述近年来景观生态学应用于生物多样性保护的主要内容及研究进展,阐述了生物多样性动态及反馈,生物多样性保护的地理途径（ＧＡＰ分析）,景观生态安全格局,区域和大陆尺度的生态网络等一些新的概念和方法。     

光谱多样性在植物多样性监测与评估中的应用

光谱多样性是一种基于植物反射电磁辐射光谱的生物多样性维度, 反映了不同波段光谱反射率在植物种内与种间个体之间的变异程度。由于植物反射光谱特征的差异可以综合地反映植物间生化组分和形态特征的差异, 光谱多样性成为植物多样性监测和评估的重要技术手段。该文介绍了光谱多样性的概念及其生态学意义, 比对了多源、多平台光谱数据各自的技术优势和局限性, 并概述了基于光谱多样性的植物多样性监测和评估方法及其应用, 探讨了光谱多样性整合不同维度生物多样性的能力, 展望了光谱多样性在生物多样性研究中的发展前景。光谱多样性能在多空间尺度服务于植物多样性的监测与评估, 特别是依托基于无人机技术的近地面遥感, 可以实现精细尺度植物多样性的监测与评估, 在生物多样性的保护和管理中具有广阔的应用前景。     

北京东灵山辽东栎林植物物种多样性的多尺度分析

多尺度分析物种多样性格局能够为有效保护生物多样性提供重要信息.利用物种多样性的加法分配法则分析了样方-坡位-坡面等级尺度系统辽东栎林植物物种多样性(gamma多样性)的alpha多样性和beta多样性在各尺度上的分配关系.结果表明以物种丰富度为指标的区域物种多样性的最大贡献来自坡面尺度,表明坡面尺度是维持辽东栎林物种多样性的有效尺度;而对Simpson多样性和Shannon多样性的最大贡献则来自样方内,这决定于群落物种优势度和稀有度格局;各尺度间beta多样性组分随尺度的增大而增大可能是环境异质性和扩散作用的综合结果.各尺度间Shannon多样性对总体多样性的贡献大于Simpson多样性的贡献是偶见种在各尺度间分配的结果.物种多样性分配的加法法则为物种多样性格局的多尺度分析提供了理论框架,是检验物种多样性格局形成机制的有效方法.     

云南生物多样性调查与保护研究进展

生物多样性是说环境和生物形成的复杂生态系统以及生态过程的总称。生物多样性属于广泛概念,主要包括三种层次生态系统多样性、物种多样性、遗传多样性,从长远发展来说,生物多样性主要价值就是能够为全球环境变化和区域适应性提供依据和保障,所以,如果能够拥有丰富生物多样性,未来就会存在很多发展机会。     

遗传多样性研究进展

１遗传多样性的含义遗传多样性作为生物多样性的重要组成部分,是生态系统多样性和物种多样性的基础一方面,任何物种都具有其独特的基因库和遗传组织形式,物种的多样性也就显示了基因的多样性［１６］;另一方面,物种是构成生物群落进而组成生态系统的基本单元,生态系...     

景观多样性分析及其制图研究

景观多样性是生物多样性研究的主要内容之一。景观多样性是指景观结构、功能和动态的多样性和复杂性。本文讨论了景观多样性的概念、测度和空间制图。提出了景观多样性包括类型多样性、格局多样性和斑块多样性。景观多样性可用多样性指数、优势度、相对丰富度、修改的分维数等指数来测定。一个多样性指数Ｄ＿ｉ＝（ｉ－１）／（ｍ－１）×１００％被给出用于景观多样性制图,黄土高原泉家沟流域被选为研究区域。在地理信息系统的支持下,通过时栅格化的土地利用类型图进行分析操作产生出了研究区域的景观多样性图。对景观多样性进行空间制图有助于分析景观生态过程,研究结果可直接用于景观和土地利用规划、野生动植物保护及立地分析。     

浙江省主要亚热带森林群落类型物种和谱系水平的α和β多样性比较

了解不同森林群落类型的物种和谱系水平的α和β多样性,有助于指导森林经营和生物多样性保护。本研究比较了浙江省内不同地点主要森林类型(包括常绿阔叶林、常绿落叶阔叶混交林、落叶阔叶林和针阔叶混交林)的物种α多样性和谱系α多样性,以及物种β多样性和谱系β多样性。研究表明,该地区主要森林类型的物种和谱系α多样性均存在较大差异,但控制了空间和地形因子的作用后,差异几乎全部消失;森林类型内部及相互间的物种和谱系β多样性均存在显著差异,同种森林类型内部的物种和谱系β多样性分别小于不同森林类型之间的物种和谱系β多样性,且在控制了空间和地形因子的作用后,以上差异仍然显著。本研究表明影响亚热带主要森林群落类型物种和谱系水平的α和β多样性的因素存在差异:α多样性可能主要受到空间和地形因子等的影响,而β多样性则可能受到森林类型的重要影响。     

Establishing Baseline Indices for the Quality of the Biodiversity of Restored Habitats Using a Standardized Sampling Process

The need for standardized biodiversity assessment methods to enable biodiversity quality to be measured is outlined. A general approach to sampling is suggested. The results of the use of this sampling process are given for two case studies of different taxonomic groups. The data assessment is made easier by the use of a bespoke computer program. Examples of the program output are presented. The advantage of this standardized measurement of biodiversity compared to species lists and the use of indicator species are outlined in the case studies macrofungi and butterflies. It was shown that the biodiversity quality of sites can be compared by the use of a range of measured biodiversity indices in a way that allows sites to be compared through time or between sites/treatments. In one case (butterflies), data that have been collected systematically in a recording scheme have been analyzed retrospectively and yielded valuable information on changes in biodiversity quality. The uses of this method in establishing baselines in restoration ecology are discussed. The importance of restoration ecology in the conservation of biodiversity could be underlined by the use of the methods presented in this article.     

国际生物多样性研究科学计划与热点述评

生物多样性与人类生活密切相关.近年来不断加剧的人类活动,对生物多样性造成了严重破坏.已有研究表明,地球上的物种正以前所未有的速度丧失.为了遏止这种状况,目前,世界上许多国际组织和国家都对生物多样性及其相关问题展开研究,并制定了与生物多样性保护相关的法规和战略计划,也采取了许多保护生物多样性的行动.DIVERSITAS是国际全球环境变化(GEC)四大研究计划之一,也是生物多样性领域最大的国际科学计划, DIVERSITAS于2001年开始启动了第Ⅱ阶段研究并确定了新的核心研究计划和跨学科交叉网络计划.世界自然保护联盟(The World Conservation Union,IUCN)在2008年发布了<塑造可持续的未来:IUCN 2009～2012年计划>,提出了5个优先主题领域.欧盟于2006年通过了一项保护生物多样性的新战略--<2010年及未来阻止生物多样性丧失:人类福祉的可持续生态服务>.此外,很多国际/国家基金组织还发起了一些全球性的生物多样性计划,如国际海洋生物普查计划、生命之树计划、国际生命条码计划等.本文对上述生物多样性保护和研究的国际计划予以概要介绍和评述,并指出当前国际上生物多样性研究的主要热点,即:生物多样性变化与生态系统功能;生物多样性和生态系统服务的价值评估;生物多样性与气候变化;生物多样性长期动态监测;生物多样性的评价指标等.     

Biodiversity at the global scale: the synthesis continues

Traditionally, the generation and use of biodiversity data and their associated specimen objects have been primarily the purview of individuals and small research groups. While deposition of data and specimens in herbaria and other repositories has long been the norm, throughout most of their history, these resources have been accessible only to a small community of specialists. Through recent concerted efforts, primarily at the level of national and international governmental agencies over the last two decades, the pace of biodiversity data accumulation has accelerated, and a wider array of biodiversity scientists has gained access to this massive accumulation of resources, applying them to an ever-widening compass of research pursuits. We review how these new resources and increasing access to them are affecting the landscape of biodiversity research in plants today, focusing on new applications across evolution, ecology, and other fields that have been enabled specifically by the availability of these data and the global scope that was previously beyond the reach of individual investigators. We give an overview of recent advances organized along three lines: broad-scale analyses of distributional data and spatial information, phylogenetic research circumscribing large clades with comprehensive taxon sampling, and data sets derived from improved accessibility of biodiversity literature. We also review synergies between large data resources and more traditional data collection paradigms, describe shortfalls and how to overcome them, and reflect on the future of plant biodiversity analyses in light of increasing linkages between data types and scientists in our field.     

A suite of essential biodiversity variables for detecting critical biodiversity change

Key global indicators of biodiversity decline, such as the IUCN Red List Index and the Living Planet Index, have relatively long assessment intervals. This means they, due to their inherent structure, function as late‐warning indicators that are retrospective, rather than prospective. These indicators are unquestionably important in providing information for biodiversity conservation, but the detection of early‐warning signs of critical biodiversity change is also needed so that proactive management responses can be enacted promptly where required. Generally, biodiversity conservation has dealt poorly with the scattered distribution of necessary detailed information, and needs to find a solution to assemble, harmonize and standardize the data. The prospect of monitoring essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) has been suggested in response to this challenge. The concept has generated much attention, but the EBVs themselves are still in development due to the complexity of the task, the limited resources available, and a lack of long‐term commitment to maintain EBV data sets. As a first step, the scientific community and the policy sphere should agree on a set of priority candidate EBVs to be developed within the coming years to advance both large‐scale ecological research as well as global and regional biodiversity conservation. Critical ecological transitions are of high importance from both a scientific as well as from a conservation policy point of view, as they can lead to long‐lasting biodiversity change with a high potential for deleterious effects on whole ecosystems and therefore also on human well‐being. We evaluated candidate EBVs using six criteria: relevance, sensitivity to change, generalizability, scalability, feasibility, and data availability and provide a literature‐based review for eight EBVs with high sensitivity to change. The proposed suite of EBVs comprises abundance, allelic diversity, body mass index, ecosystem heterogeneity, phenology, range dynamics, size at first reproduction, and survival rates. The eight candidate EBVs provide for the early detection of critical and potentially long‐lasting biodiversity change and should be operationalized as a priority. Only with such an approach can science predict the future status of global biodiversity with high certainty and set up the appropriate conservation measures early and efficiently. Importantly, the selected EBVs would address a large range of conservation issues and contribute to a total of 15 of the 20 Aichi targets and are, hence, of high biological relevance.     

Interactive effects of global change drivers as determinants of the link between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Biodiversity, both aboveground and belowground, is negatively affected by global changes such as drought or warming. This loss of biodiversity impacts Earth's ecosystems, as there is a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF). Even though soils host a large fraction of biodiversity that underlies major ecosystem functions, studies exploring the relationship between soil biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (sBEF) as influenced by global change drivers (GCDs) remain scarce. Here we highlight the need to decipher sBEF relationships under the effect of interactive GCDs that are intimately connected in a changing world. We first state that sBEF relationships depend on the type of function (e.g., C cycling or decomposition) and biodiversity facet (e.g., abundance, species richness, or biomass) considered. Then, we shed light on the impact of single and interactive GCDs on soil biodiversity and sBEF and show that results from scarce studies studying interactive effects range from antagonistic to additive to synergistic when two individual GCDs cooccur. This indicates the need for studies quantitatively accounting for the impacts of interactive GCDs on sBEF relationships. Finally, we provide guidelines for optimized methodological and experimental approaches to study sBEF in a changing world that will provide more valuable information on the real impact of (interactive) GCDs on sBEF. Together, we highlight the need to decipher the sBEF relationship in soils to better understand soil functioning under ongoing global changes, as changes in sBEF are of immediate importance for ecosystem functioning.     

Things We Like: Human Preferences among Similar Organisms and Implications for Conservation

Human preferences will increasingly determine many species’ prospects for survival. However, aside from a small number of survey-based studies of preference among disparate taxa, human species preferences have received little attention. I determined human aesthetic preferences among a relatively homogenous group, the penguins, from representation in all recently published, comprehensive, popular books of photographs of penguins (n = 4 books; 304 photographs). Representation of visually distinguishable types of penguins, measured by total photograph area, was highly skewed and rankings were highly concordant across books, suggesting large and commonly held differences in aesthetic appeal. Multiple regression analysis indicated that amount of warm color was the only significant determinant of representation, and warm color was highly correlated (r ² = 0.96) with mean representation of the penguin types. Body size and neotenic form, traits found to influence human preferences among other animals, were not significant, suggesting that the bases of human species preferences differ by species type. The results of this study indicate that human aesthetic preferences discriminate finely among species and may be based on minor features. Conservationists must be vigilant to the potential for aesthetic responses to influence conservation efforts.     

都江堰地区──横断山北段生物多样性交汇、分化和存留的枢纽地段

都江堰地区位于四川盆地西缘山地、西藏高原向成都平原的过渡,位置特殊,是大尺度复合性的生态过渡中地理要素在此交汇过渡。气候处于中亚热带,植被基带为 阔叶林。由于气候温润,加上地形崎岖,岭谷相同,物种交汇,分化强烈,境内最高山光光山海拔４５８２ｍ,高于附近平源３８８０ｍ,植被垂直带谱清晰完整,是横断山北段生物多样性保护关键区的代表。     

Biogeographic distribution of the Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)

More than 1982 species in 90 genera were included in an analysis of the biogeography of the Phytoseiidae, a family of predatory mites. Seven biogeographic regions were taken into account: Nearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, West Palaearctic, East Palaearctic, Oriental, and Australasian. The number of species was particularly high in the Neotropical, Oriental, and West Palaearctic regions. These regions also present the highest levels of species endemism. The number of genera was quite similar in all regions except for the Neotropics, which also had a high level of endemism. The possible Gondwanian (Neotropical, Ethiopian, Australasian, and Oriental regions) origin of the Phytoseiidae, most probably in the Neotropics, and their possible radiation to Laurasia (Nearctic, West Palaearctic, and East Palaearctic regions) are discussed. The comparison between genera and species in the different biogeographic regions indicate the importance of both dispersal and vicariance events in the evolution of the group. Dispersal is assumed to have been most important between Neotropical and Nearctic regions and between East Palaearctic and Oriental regions, whereas vicariance could have been the dominating process between Australasian, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions, as well as between West and East Palaearctic regions. A parsimony analysis of endemicity showed the Neotropical and the Nearctic regions to be isolated from the other regions. This is certainly due to a diversification after the continents drifted apart and then a high dispersal between Nearctic and Neotropical regions. Different phylogenetic hypotheses and scenarios are proposed for each subfamily based on the results obtained and further investigations are proposed.  © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2008, 93 , 845–856.     

Multivariate mapping of spatial variation in biodiversity in Peruvian Amazonia

Abstract. Variation of biodiversity over 72 600 km² of tropical rain forest was mapped by multiple characteristics using a new combined nominal–numerical classification system. Three hundred and sixty-nine tree genera were grouped into classes by eight taxonomic, geographical, phylogenetic and ecological characteristics. Each grid cell was assigned to a nominal biodiversity type by its dominant classes and classified numerically by its share of total variation in study area biodiversity. Differentiation of 0.5° cells by nominal classification was inferior to numerical classification, but improved at higher resolution. The nominal and numerical classifications were shown to have potential for complementary roles in conservation planning.     

苔藓植物的多样性研究

苔藓是具有较多种类的一类绿色植物群,是生物多样性的重要组成成分。缘于苔藓的可变水性、体表直接吸收水分和营养以及独特的繁殖与传播方式,苔藓几乎存在于所有的生态系统之中。除极地冻原、温带苔藓沼泽等以苔藓为优势的植被类型外,苔藓还通常在维管束植物群落中形成自己的群落。苔藓是重要的初级生产者之一,在物质循环中起着重要的作用,影响森林植被的水分平衡,也是某些演替过程中的重要先锋植物。苔藓与其它生物类群的生活和生存有密切联系,尤其是苔藓群落所营造的生境,促进和保护了生物多样性。苔藓与人类生活的关系日益密切。由于苔藓与生境的强烈相关性,其多样性所受到的威胁主要源于生境的破坏,加之人们对苔藓的了解远远少于其它高等植物,这种威胁更应引起关注。