SOIL SAMPLING FOR POTATO ROOT EELWORM CYSTS

The National Agricultural Advisory Service (Advisory Entomologists) has adopted a uniform soil-sampling technique for potato root eelworm. In Part I the recommended technique is quoted in full. In Part II an account is given of some experimental sampling done by the Advisory Entomologists, on which the recommendations are partly based. In trying to estimate the average cyst content of the soil of a field, a statistical problem is encountered of deciding on an adequate sampling procedure. A similar problem was investigated in the wartime wireworm survey, but the rather different features of eelworm sampling call for fresh consideration of points of detail.     

STUDIES OF FLUCTUATIONS IN INSECT POPULATIONS XII. FURTHER EVIDENCE OF PROLONGED LARVAL LIFE IN THE WHEAT-BLOSSOM MIDGES

Contarinia tritici emerges the same year as the larvae are in the wheat ears and up to 3 years later. Its parasites emerge up to 2 years after the larvae are in the wheat ears, but never the same year. This indicates that the supernumerary generation of C. tritici that occurs on couch grass in August and September may be expected to be free from parasites and so constitutes a dangerous source of replenishment of the pest.
Emergence of Sitodiplosis mosellana can take place after the larvae have been in the soil up to twelve winters. Most of any one year's larvae do not necessarily emerge as midges after one winter, although usually this is so. Any one year's flight is probably a composite one derived from several previous generations of this one-generation-a-year gall midge.     

STUDIES OF FLUCTUATIONS IN INSECT POPULATIONS XIII. AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ASCERTAINING THE CORRECT DATE TO SAMPLE WHEN ASSESSING LARVAL INFESTATIONS OF THE WHEAT-BLOSSOM MIDGES

Fully fed larvae of the wheat-blossom midges need moist conditions in order to descend from the ears to the soil. A dry spell coinciding with the fully fed stage therefore causes an accumulation of larvae, which subsequently leave the ears in a body when rain comes. Conversely, in wet weather each larva leaves the wheat as soon as it finishes feeding, and, since all the eggs are not laid on the same day, the descent will then be a gradual process.
A method is described of taking small samples of wheat ears at frequent intervals, thus facilitating the determination of the correct date on which to take the main sample for the assessment of infestation by the two wheat-blossom midges.     

油松毛虫(Dendrolimus labulaeformis)幼虫抽样技术的研究

本文在测定油松毛虫幼虫静态格局和动态格局的条件下,全面而系统地进行了株抽样、轮抽样和“枝”抽样的研究。根据幼虫在各轮垂直分布的特征和喜食二年生针叶的特性,建立回归模型,从轮抽样发展到“枝”抽样,通过检验,预报精度在91—98％之间。轮抽样比株抽样平均提高效率6倍,“枝”抽样比轮抽样又平均提高1.5倍。如费用以每株0.20元计,轮抽样比株抽样每株平均减少0.16元,“枝”抽样每株又减少0.032元。     

BEHAVIORAL SAMPLING METHODS FOR CETACEANS: A REVIEW AND CRITIQUE

Behavioral scientists have developed methods for sampling behavior in order to reduce observational biases and to facilitate comparisons between studies. A review of 74 cetacean behavioral field studies published from 1989 to 1995 in Marine Mammal Science and The Canadian Journal of Zoology suggests that cetacean researchers have not made optimal use of available methodology. The survey revealed that a large proportion of studies did not use reliable sampling methods. Ad libitum sampling was used most often (59%). When anecdotal studies were excluded, 45% of 53 behavioral studies used ad libitum as the predominant method. Other sampling methods were continuous, onezero, incident, point, sequence, or scan sampling. Recommendations for sampling methods are made, depending on identifiability of animals, group sizes, dive durations, and change in group membership.     

珙桐种质资源保存样本策略的研究

珙桐 (Davidiainvolucrata) 是我国特有的珙桐科单型属植物, 起源古老, 是第三纪热带植物区系的孑遗种, 被列为国家一级保护植物。利用RAPD技术, 通过 11个多态引物对 5个天然珙桐种群的遗传多样性、种群内和种群间的遗传变异进行了研究。结果表明 :珙桐天然种群具有丰富的遗传多样性, 但群体间的差异明显, 2 6 %的遗传变异存在于群体间。研究将珙桐划分为东南部和西北部两大种源区。通过对珙桐群体间及群体内的聚类分析, 结合遗传标记的捕获曲线研究提出了珙桐种质资源保存的样本策略。原地保存可以选择甘肃文县、四川峨眉山和贵州梵净山 3个种群作为保存对象, 每个群体保存面积 3hm2 以上 ;异地保存应抽取甘肃文县、四川峨眉山、湖北神农架、贵州梵净山等 4个群体, 每个群体抽样 30个以上个体, 株间最小间距 30m以上, 共计保存 15 0个个体, 分别在东南部和西北部建立一个异地保存点。     

基因快速检测仪的自动进样控制系统的研制

基因检测是遗传工程的重要技术之一,基因检测技术的自动化对工程的研究具有重要意义,而自动进样控制系统是基因快速检测仪的重要组成部分。该系统的硬件部分主要由液位检测电路及其接口电路组成;软件部分主要由VisualC 6．0编程对硬件实现其自动控制功能。该系统主要包括：控制清洗通道流程、排除废流流程和进样流程等功能,工作模式可根据人机对话方式设定,并能将扩增反应后的试样自动送到基因检测池中进行检测。系统具有快速、操作方便、智能化程度高、准确性高等特点。     

昆虫种群密度的二项抽样估计模型研究进展

昆虫种群密度的二项抽样估计模型主要有两类,一类是根据空间分布型理论演绎而来,另一类是根据样方中有虫样方比例或不大于某一阈值密度T头的样方比例与平均密度的经验关系拟合的．本文综述了这两类模型、模型的变异分析、模型的理论抽样数估计等方面的研究进展．