布氏四鼠在低温条件下的实验观察

实验在－２０℃的低温下进行。结果表明。（１）单笼饲养鼠平均存活期为１４５．９±３０．８ｈ。其中幼鼠耐低温力最差。然后依次为老体组、亚成体组、成体组。除幼体外,雌鼠的抗寒能力稍高于雄体。（２）饲喂冷蒿组比饲喂其它６种牧草在低温下布氏田鼠的存活期显著延长．（３）聚集可明显增强对低温的耐受程度。（４）窝草可使巢内温度保持在５～８℃,窝巢内层的温度可达１５～２２℃。     

我国水稻迁飞性害虫猖獗成因及其治理对策建议

本文运用生态学的基本原理,在阐述我国稻飞虱（褐飞虱Ｎｉｌａｐａｒｖａｔａｌｕｇｅｎｓ（ｓｔａｌ）,白背飞虱Ｓｏｇａｔｅｌｌａｆｕｒｃｉｆｅｒａ（Ｈｏｒｖａｔｈ））和稻纵卷叶螟（ＣｎａｐｈａｌｏｃｒｏｃｉｓｍｅｄｉｎａｌｉｓＧｕｅｎｅｅ）近１０—２０年来的发生和危害状况后,分析认为,我国水稻迁飞性害虫的猖獗力害,与初始主源、生产水平和作物坏境及气候异常有很密切的关系。本文还对未来若干年内的发生趋势作了浅析,同时从宏观治理的高度提出一些建没性的控制对策。     

桃儿七分布格局与生态适应的初步研究

以云南产桃儿七Ｓｉｎｏｐｏｄｏｐｈｙｌｌｕｍ ｈｅｘａｎｄｒｕｍ（Ｒｏｙｌｅ）Ｙｉｎｇ为研究材料,分析了它的分布格局及生态适应。指出桃儿七是一个分布范围较广、生态适应幅度大的物种;在分布区内它主要出现在具有次生植被的山谷中,个体在居群内的分布格局,由于受到放牧活动的影响而呈聚群式分布,植株常出现在灌木丛下和树根附近。它适应夏秋湿润凉爽,冬季及早春寒冷干燥的气候条件,并具有相应的生长与发育节律。人类     

农药对土壤微生物的生态效应

大量有关农药对土壤微生物生态效应的研究表明,虽然有些农药对土壤微生物及其活性会产生抑制或促进作用,但这种作用一般是短暂的;按推荐浓度正常使用农药通常不会影响土壤微生物的各种生化过程和活性,对土壤的物质循环和土壤肥力也没有不利影响;但大多数土壤薰蒸剂和杀真菌剂能改变土壤微生物平衡,它们对土壤微生物的作用强于杀虫剂和除草剂;长期使用农药不致使土壤微生物数量和活性发生明显变化,这应部分归功于土壤微生物对农药的降解或转化．     

淤泥湖退化水生植被恢复及其在湖泊资源天然生态库中作用的研究

对淤泥湖水生植被的天然恢复过程、群落组成、结构、功能与动态等进行了定位研究（１９９２～１９９５）．该湖水生植物共有２０科２９属４１种．４种生活型的植物种类在该湖均有分布,以沉水草本（１５种）和挺水草本（１３种）为多．８个分布区类型中世界广布成分１６种和东亚成分１０种．群落结构包括层次结构和层片结构．该彻共有８个群落类型;群落现存量３２０８．８ｇ·ｍ－２,全湖植被资源贮量为１６３６５．２ｔ．     

The evolution of brood parasitism: the role of facultative parasitism

The hypothesis that facultative brood parasitism may serve asan intermediate step in the evolutionary transition from purelyparental reproduction to obligate parasitism was investigated.The population dynamics of a host-parasite complex were computer-simulatedin a model that incorporated different intensities of parasitismand host defense and considered a simplified semelparous birdspecies living in a homogeneous habitat The individuals usetwo different breeding strategies: provide parental care orparasitize the nest of those providing parental care. Underobligate parasitism, the parasites appeared unsuccessful, drovethe host population to extinction, or coexisted with the hostin stable or oscillating proportions. The behavior of the systemdepended on both the effectiveness of the parasite and the defenseof the host. Under facultative parasitism (making the best ofa bad job), the parasites reduced host numbers but did not reducethe population size below the number of breeding sites. Thus,facultative parasitism provides a better opportunity for thedevelopment of defense in the host. The population of a hostthat shows a certain level of defense can be more successfullyinvaded by obligate parasites so that stable coexistence ofhosts and parasites is possible.     

Use of Plant Strategy Ordination,DCA and ANOVA to elucidate relationships among habitats of Salix planifolia and Salix monticola

Abstract. Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) was used on a data set of 112 species from 14 stands dominated by Salix planifolia and/or S. monticola. Environmental variables were determined which might be important to explain differences in stand vegetation composition, and willow stature (height), in willow carrs in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Correlation of environmental variables with DCA stand scores indicate that peat depth and soil redox potential are highly related to the primary DCA axis. Soils in stands of S. planifolia are more reduced in the early summer and have greater peat depths, than soils in stands of S. monticola. The second DCA axis is related to a water chemistry gradient of hydrogen ion, sulphate, and ammonium concentration. Four environmental variables selected by correlation analysis were regressed on stand scores from the first two DCA axes. Regression coefficients of August soil redox potential and soil water pH were significantly non-zero on the primary DCA axis. In addition to overall vegetation relationships elucidated by DCA, the relationships between willow stature and environmental variables were tested by simultaneous ANOVAs. ANOVA results and DCA ordinations indicate that S. planifolia and S. monticola plants achieve the greatest stature in the least reduced soils, and in shallow peat. Competitive, stress tolerant, and ruderal plant strategy theory applied to the vegetation data produced an arrangement of stands highly correlated to the DCA Axis 1 stand arrangement. These correlations indicate that the primary axis of vegetation structure can be extracted either by species composition, or species morphology/physiology relationships. Concurrent use of DCA and plant strategy theory is suggested as a tool for the prediction of community composition.     

Rank and age related feeding strategy observed through field experiments in the Koshima group of Japanese macaques

The feeding process of Japanese monkeys on soy beans which were scattered over a sandy beach on Koshima islet was studied. Younger monkeys were able to pick up more beans when 8 kg of beans were divided and given two times (“two times feeding”) than when the whole amount (8 kg) of beans was given at one time (“one time feeding”). The effect of saturation of the food intake capacity in younger monkeys at the first feeding in “two times feeding” did not appear at the second feeding one hour later. The minutely intake of soy beans (feeding speed) for each age class was analyzed. The decline of feeding speed in adult females after the peak in “one time feeding” was not related to the decline in density of beans on the ground, and this decline was caused by saturation of their food intake capacity. Adult females were divided into four classes according to their dominance rank order: high, lower-high, higher-low, and low classes. The total amount of intake in “one time feeding” was far larger in the high class than in any of the other classes. The total amount of feeding in the first feeding of “two times feeding” increased in accordance with rise in the dominance rank class, and there was no relation to rank and total feeding amount in the second feeding of “two times feeding.” Differences existed in the process of feeding between the rank classes. The feeding speed of the low class was as high as that of the high class on the curve of minutely intake, while the low class stopped feeding much earlier than the high class. The lower-high class displayed a low feeding speed, and stopped feeding the latest. The order of the duration to stay and to feed in the feeding area was lower-high > high > higher-low > low, and this order did not change under the three different feeding conditions, “one time feeding,” and the first and second feedings of “two times feeding.” Adolescent females tended to stay the longest duration in the feeding area among all age classes. Both the lower-high class females and adolescent females had an unstable social status in the Koshima group, and their social status affected their feeding behaviors. The feeding behaviors were similar in attitude depending on social status, and are considered to be maintained for a fairly long time. The feeding strategy of the lower-high class, in staying a longer duration in the artificial feeding area, and departing later, may be effective under the artificial feeding conditions, but it may be a bad strategy in a natural habitat where the food is not so clumped as in artificial feeding, and where choice of other food patches is possible. The above results agree well with previous reports for the Koshima group, indicating that the rank of the lower-high class females was unstable (Mori et al., 1989), and that their reproductive success was low (Watanabe et al., 1992).     

Seasonal activity and energetics of two species of varanid lizards in tropical Australia

The field metabolic rates (FMR) and rates of water flux were measured in two species of varanid lizards over five periods of the year in tropical Australia. The energetics of these species were further investigated by directly measuring activity (locomotion) and body temperatures of free-ranging animals by radiotelemetry, and by measuring standard metabolic rate (over a range of body temperatures) and activity metabolism in the laboratory. Seasonal differences in the activity and energetics were found in these goannas despite similar, high daytime temperatures throughout the year in tropical Australia. Periods of inactivity were associated with the dry times of the year, but the onset of this period of inactivity differed with respect to habitat even within the same species. Varanus gouldii, which inhabit woodlands only, were inactive during the dry and late dry seasons. V. panoptes that live in the woodland had a similar seasonal pattern of activity, but V. panoptes living near the floodplain of the South Alligator River had their highest levels of activity during the dry season when they walked long distances to forage at the receding edge of the floodplain. However, during the late dry season, after the floodplain had dried completely, they too became inactive. For V. gouldii, the rates of energy expenditure were 196 kJ kg^–1 day^–1 for active animals and 66 kJ kg^–1 day^–1 for inactive animals. The rates of water influx for these groups were respectively 50.7 and 19.5 ml kg^–1 day^–1. For V. panoptes, the rates of energy expenditure were 143 kJ kg^–1 day^–1 for active animals and 56 kJ kg^–1 day^–1 for inactive animals. The rates of water influx for these two groups were respectively 41.4 and 21.0 ml kg^–1 day^–1. We divided the daily energy expenditure into the proportion of energy that lizards used when in burrows, out of burrows but inactive, and in locomotion for the two species during the different seasons. The time spent in locomotion by V. panoptes during the dry season is extremely high for a reptile (mean of 3.5 h/day spent walking), and these results provide an ecological correlate to the high aerobic capacity found in laboratory measurements of some species of varanids.     

Operational patterns affecting lactic acid production in ultrafiltration cell recycle bioreactor

Lactic acid production with cell recycling on an ultrafiltration tubular membrane reactor was studied; higher lactic acid concentrations as well as productivities were obtained under long-term fermentations compared with other high cell density systems. Different operational conditions, namely dilution rates and start-up modes, were assessed. Performances were very different at the three different dilution rates tested (D = 0.20 h(-1), D = 0.40 h(-1), or D = 0.58 h(-1)). The different behaviours are discussed and factors responsible for them are presented. The best way to operate for lactic acid production is chosen, the dilution rate of D = 0.40 h(-1) being the one providing the best overall performance. On the other hand, results show that of the two start-up modes tested, continuous start (membrane open) permits higher permeabilities throughout the operational runs than batch start (membrane closed). Operational stability was found to be directly associated with membranes that work at "steady state," the membrane permeability being kept around 15 L/m(2) h. Optimized cell bleed can improve time of operation if such membrane permeability can be maintained for a longer time. A comparison of results with those obtained in other lactic acid production systems is presented; such comparison shows that this tubular ultrafiltration membrane cell recycle reactor presents three important advantages: (1) concomitant lactic acid concentrations and productivities; (2) long periods of operation at reasonable permeabilities; and (3) good mechanical stability permitting the use of steam sterilization. (c) 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.