食物浓度对角突臂尾轮虫种群增长、个体大小和卵大小的影响

以蛋白核小球藻为食物 ,应用群体累积培养法研究了食物浓度对角突臂尾轮虫种群增长、个体大小和卵大小等的影响 .结果表明 ,食物浓度对角突臂尾轮虫种群增长率、个体大小和卵大小均有极显著影响 .其中 ,轮虫种群增长率与食物浓度间呈曲线相关 ;当食物浓度为 8.2 4 5 3× 10 6cells·ml-1时 ,种群增长率达最大值 0 .6 0 85d-1;在所研究的食物浓度范围内 ,轮虫个体具有随食物浓度的增大而增大的趋势 ,轮虫卵体积在中等食物浓度范围 (6 .0× 10 6～ 9.0× 10 6cells·ml-1)时较大     

温度对玉米蚜种群增长的影响

研究了温度对玉米蚜RhopalosiphummaidisFitch种群存活率、生殖率及内禀增长率的影响 ,同时测定了不同温度条件下玉米蚜种群的净增殖率、周限增长率、种群倍增时间及稳定年龄组配等种群参数。在 1 0℃和 3 5℃条件下 ,玉米蚜若蚜的死亡率较高 ,特别是 4龄若蚜 ;2 5℃最适宜玉米蚜的生长、发育和繁殖 ,其种群增长最快     

温度对星豹蛛实验种群增长的影响

根据星豹蛛(Pardosa astribera Koch)在20℃、23℃、29℃、32℃和35℃6种恒温条件下的发育历期、幼蛛存活率、成蛛产卵率、产卵量和孵化率组建了星豹蛛在不同温度条件下的实验种群增长表,结果表明星豹蛛在所试验的6种恒温条件下其种群数量可保持上升趋势,其中以在29℃条件下种数量增长最快、繁殖1代种群数量对增加37.78倍;以在20℃的条件下种群数量增长最慢,繁殖1代其中种群数量可增加15.77倍。     

食物种类和浓度对红臂尾轮虫种群增长、个体大小及卵大小的影响

采用群体累积培养法,研究了藻类食物的种类和浓度对红臂尾轮虫种群增长、个体大小及卵大小的影响．结果表明,藻种类和浓度对红臂尾轮虫种群增长率、个体体积及卵体积均有极显著影响．不同食堕种空中,种群增长率以小球藻组最小,栅藻组最大;个体体积以小球藻组最小,栅藻组和混合藻组问无显著差异．种群增长率(Y,d^-1)与食物浓度(X,×10^6cells·ml^-1)间呈曲线相关,两者间的关系符合方程：y＝-0．0040x^2+0．0409X+0．4471。在所研究的食物浓度范围内,当浓度分别高于或低于6．0×10^cells·m1^-1和3．0×10^6cells·ml^-1时,轮虫个体体积和卵体积均分别呈减小的趋势。     

温度对桃蚜和萝卜蚜种群增长的影响

测定了桃蚜Myzus persicae(Sulzer)、萝卜蚜Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach)非全周期孤雌胎生型在13个恒温、3组自然变温下的发育、存活和生殖情况.结果表明:(1)温度对两种蚜虫的发育速率(以及桃蚜的翅型分化)、寿命和存活率;生殖力和生殖率都有直接的影响;(2)两种蚜虫能生存繁衍的温度广度基本一致,恒温下限到上限约相距23℃,但所对应的具体温度范围桃蚜的比萝卜蚜的约低3—4℃;(3)在较低的温度下,桃蚜的发育速率、若虫期存活率、生殖力和生殖率都比萝卜蚜的高,而在较高温度下则是萝卜蚜的比桃蚜的高;(4)两种蚜虫的内禀增长能力r_m均随温度升高呈二次抛物线变化,在16—24℃范围内两种蚜虫的r_m基本一致,低于16℃桃蚜的比萝卜蚜的高,高于24℃则萝卜蚜的比桃蚜的高;(5)在变温下两种蚜虫能适应的低温范围都比在恒温下明显要低.     

温度对美洲斑潜蝇及南症状斑潜蝇种群增长的影响

在恒温条件下观察了美洲斑潜蝇和南美斑潜蝇实验种群的发育、存活及繁殖情况,拟合了两种斑潜蝇发育速率与温度之间的关系模型,求出了各发育阶段的发育起点温度及有效积温,组建了不同温度下两种斑潜蝇实验种群的生殖力表,计算了主要的生命表参数。结果表明,温度对两种斑潜蝇的发育、存活、繁殖均有显著的影响,且两种斑潜蝇对温度的适应特性有着明显差异。美洲斑潜蝇适应的温度范围较广,相对较高的温度有利于种群的发育、生存及繁殖;而南美斑潜蝇适应的温度范围相对较窄,且适温范围明显偏低,高温不利于种群的增长;在各自的适温条件下,两种斑潜蝇都有很强的种群增殖能力。     

川西平原大足鼠的种群生态学Ⅰ.种群动态和个体大小

我们利用标志重捕、夹捕解剖和笼养等三种方法于１９８９年１月至１９９５年６月对川西平原的大足鼠的种群密度、个体大小、生长和生物量进行了研究。种群密度最高１１．３只／ｈａ,最低０．７只／ｈａ,平均３．６只／ｈａ,并显示出与农作物相同的季节变动特征。雌雄性比由幼年组和亚成体组约１：１到成体组１：０．７８到老年组１：０．５３。雌雄个体的平均质量分别为１３６ｇ和１１４ｇ,两性的个体质量和后足长有明显差异,体长和耳长差异不明显。饲养的幼体及亚成体个体质量和尾长均持续增长,并可分别用Ｌｏｇｉｓｔｉｃ和对数方程较好地拟合。生物量则显示出比种群密度和个体质量更稳定的特征。     

pH值对大乳头水螅种群增长、无性生殖及3种抗氧化酶活力的影响

应用种群累积培养法,就培养液pH值对大乳头水螅（Hydra magnipapillata）的生存、种群增长、无性生殖以及水螅的超氧化物歧化酶（SOD）、过氧化氢酶（CAT）、谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶（GSH—PX）3种抗氧化酶活力的影响进行了探讨。结果表明,水螅存活的pH上限为10．5,下限为4．0,水螅存活的最适pH范围为5．5～9．5;pH值对水螅种群增长有显著影响,种群密度及种群瞬时增长率均随pH的不同而明显改变。培养15d后,除了pn4．0时水螅种群为负增长外,其他pH梯度下的水螅种群为正增长,其中pH6．5时水螅种群密度最高。以pH6．5为起始点,随着培养液酸性或碱性的增强,水螅种群密度整体都呈递减趋势。水螅SOD活力的转折点在pH6．5,当pH值偏离6．5时（酸性或碱性增强）,水螅SOD活力整体呈明显上升趋势;但水螅GSH—PX和CAT活力的转折点却在pH7．0,当pH值偏离7．0时（酸性或碱性增强）GSH—PX和CAT活力整体呈明显下降趋势。pH6．5时水螅SOD活力最低与pH6．5实验组水螅的无性出芽生殖率最高之间可能存在一定的内在联系。本文研究结果可为实验室培养水螅提供适宜的pH值指标。     

Effects of high temperature on body size and weight of Ophraella communa

Ophraella communa LeSage (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is an effective biological control agent of the invasive common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. Body size, one of the most important life-history characters for many insects, affects O. communa mating choice. Temperature is one of the most important factors on body size, especially high temperatures. Adult body lengths were significantly inhibited after eggs, larvae and pupae of O. communa experienced high temperature stresses. With exception of subsequent female body after exposure of larvae to high temperatures, the body weights of females and males were not affected by temperatures. Since adult insect fecundities are often in proportion to their body sizes, we concluded that high temperatures may influence the population expansion of O. communa in the field.     

Effects of body size and temperature on population growth

For at least 200 years, since the time of Malthus, population growth has been recognized as providing a critical link between the performance of individual organisms and the ecology and evolution of species. We present a theory that shows how the intrinsic rate of exponential population growth, rmax, and the carrying capacity, K, depend on individual metabolic rate and resource supply rate. To do this, we construct equations for the metabolic rates of entire populations by summing over individuals, and then we combine these population-level equations with Malthusian growth. Thus, the theory makes explicit the relationship between rates of resource supply in the environment and rates of production of new biomass and individuals. These individual-level and population-level processes are inextricably linked because metabolism sets both the demand for environmental resources and the resource allocation to survival, growth, and reproduction. We use the theory to make explicit how and why rmax exhibits its characteristic dependence on body size and temperature. Data for aerobic eukaryotes, including algae, protists, insects, zooplankton, fishes, and mammals, support these predicted scalings for rmax. The metabolic flux of energy and materials also dictates that the carrying capacity or equilibrium density of populations should decrease with increasing body size and increasing temperature. Finally, we argue that body mass and body temperature, through their effects on metabolic rate, can explain most of the variation in fecundity and mortality rates. Data for marine fishes in the field support these predictions for instantaneous rates of mortality. This theory links the rates of metabolism and resource use of individuals to life-history attributes and population dynamics for a broad assortment of organisms, from unicellular organisms to mammals.     

铅、镉和锌3种重金属离子对水螅的联合毒性研究

以水螅为实验生物,采用相加指数法,研究了铅、镉和锌3种重金属离子复合污染物的联合毒性.结果表明:铅和锌共存时的联合毒性为拮抗作用,而镉和锌,镉和铅共存时主要表现为毒性剧增的协同作用.铅、镉和锌三者共存时的联合毒性较为复杂,三者浓度比1∶1∶1时表现为协同作用,而毒性比1∶1∶1时表现为拮抗作用.     

The relationship between body size and population size in bromeliad tank faunas

Relationships between body size and abundance in collections of animals from the tanks of 73 bromeliads belonging to five species were analysed. Unlike data in previously published studies on this relationship, these collections of species are not taxonomically restricted and represent complete communities over the macroscopic range of organisms. There is no overall tendency for there to be a positive or negative relationship between population abundance and body size of morphospecies. We can find no evidence that body size-abundance patterns are triangular in complete communities. However, there is weak evidence that the relationship in the aquatic subsets of those communities may have some underlying triangularity, with medium-sized species having the largest populations.     

Wingbeat frequency, temperature and body size in bees and flies

ABSTRACT. This paper describes the relationship between ambient temperature and wingbeat frequency in bees and flies of different sizes, and presents new data from insects in free fight. The slope of the relationship changes with the size of the insect, and was different for insects in hovering flight compared with individuals of the same species in forward flight.     

Ecology of body size in Drosophila buzzatii: untangling the effects of temperature and nutrition

Abstract.

• 1 A method of separating the effects of two important determinants of body size in natural populations, temperature of larval development and level of larval nutrition, by making measurements of thorax length and wing length of adult flies is investigated.
• 2 I show that at any given time variation in body size of Drosophila buzzatii from two sites in eastern Australia is determined primarily by variation in the quality of nutrition available to larvae.
• 3 Throughout the year adult flies are consistently at least 25% smaller in volume than predicted for optimal nutrition at their predicted temperature of larval development.
• 4 Nutritional stress is therefore a year-round problem for these flies.
• 5 Measurements of adult flies emerging from individual breeding substrates (rotting cactus cladodes) show that there is substantial variation among these substrates in the nutrition available to larvae.
• 6 This method will allow study of spatial and temporal variation in the temperature of larval substrates and in the nutritional resources available to flies in natural populations.

     

Global evaluation of growth in a rural population: comparative analysis of shape and size

In this work the analogies and differences in shape and size between a rural school population (6–14 aged) of the Lozoya-Somosierra region (Madrid) and several recent and past Spanish populations from different environments have been studied. The results show the growth trend as well as the influences of ecological and socioeconomical factors. Paper presented at the 4^th congress of the European Anthropology Association (Florence, Sept. 1984).     

Optimum body size in aphids

Abstract.

• 1 Smallness in British plant-sucking bugs is associated with feeding on the contents of individual plant cells, especially phloem.
• 2 The sizes of species of aphids living in similar habitats and the rates of water loss from those that have and lack a filter chamber do not support the contention that small size in aphids is a means of maximizing the loss of water by cuticular transpiration.
• 3 An optimum energy partitioning model, previously developed for aphids, was used to predict the interspecifie relation between adult weight and birth weight that would maximize the population growth rate, r_m. Using the observed r_m/IRGR ratio (0.8–0.9) and that the gonads are smaller than the soma at birth the predicted relation between the logarithm of the adult weight and the logarithm of the birth weight is linear and has a slope of 1.
• 4 The relation between the logarithm of the adult weight and the logarithm of the birth weight for eighteen species of aphids is linear and has a slope of 1.
• 5 Birth size differs between species of aphids and in each species is assumed to be the minimum size necessary for feeding. Accepting this constraint then the optimum adult size for maximizing r_m is approximately 15 times the birth size.

     

Linking individual phenotype to density-dependent population growth: the influence of body size on the population dynamics of malaria vectors

Understanding the endogenous factors that drive the population dynamics of malaria mosquitoes will facilitate more accurate predictions about vector control effectiveness and our ability to destabilize the growth of either low- or high-density insect populations. We assessed whether variation in phenotypic traits predict the dynamics of Anopheles gambiae sensu lato mosquitoes, the most important vectors of human malaria. Anopheles gambiae dynamics were monitored over a six-month period of seasonal growth and decline. The population exhibited density-dependent feedback, with the carrying capacity being modified by rainfall (97% wAIC(c) support). The individual phenotypic expression of the maternal (p = 0.0001) and current (p = 0.040) body size positively influenced population growth. Our field-based evidence uniquely demonstrates that individual fitness can have population-level impacts and, furthermore, can mitigate the impact of exogenous drivers (e.g. rainfall) in species whose reproduction depends upon it. Once frontline interventions have suppressed mosquito densities, attempts to eliminate malaria with supplementary vector control tools may be attenuated by increased population growth and individual fitness.