横断山区六种两栖类皮肤表型结构多态现象及其地理分布的探讨

我国两栖类皮肤形态方面（非性征性状）的多态现象（ｐｏｌｙｍｏｒｐｈｉｓｍ）可分为两类,一类是色斑的,另一类是皮肤表型结构的。本文主要探讨后一类型“皮肤多瘰疣或满布瘰疣”的多态现象。目前在我国两栖类中已发现６种存在这种类型的多态性变体,其中有尾２种Ｂａｔｒａｃｈｕｐｅｒｕｓ ｐｉｎｃｈｏｎｉｉ和Ｂ．ｔｉｂｅｔａｍｕｓ;无尾目４种Ｓｃｕｔｉｇｅｒ（Ｓｃｕｔｉｇｅｒ）ｂｏｕｌｅｎｇｅｒｉ,Ｓ．（Ａｅｌｕ     

基于层次分析法和GIS的秦岭地区魔芋潜在分布研究

魔芋(Amorphophallusrivieri)为我国传统的食用与药用植物,主产于秦岭以南地区。依据陕西秦岭地区28个魔芋分布点信息,利用秦岭地区45个气象台站1961—2010年气候资料、土壤数据(分辨率1 km)和DEM高程数据(分辨率30 m),结合前人研究,通过魔芋产量与环境指标的相关性分析,获取相关性显著的20个评价指标,包括气候指标13个、土壤指标4个和地形指标3个,运用GIS技术和多元回归模型对气候指标进行栅格化处理,基于层次分析法和加权平均法获得评价指标权重,建立陕西秦岭地区魔芋潜在种植分布模型,确定魔芋潜在种植的空间分布。结果显示:陕西秦岭地区魔芋最适宜种植区面积1 214.42 km2,占可种植区面积的10.18%;适宜种植区面积2 015.60 km2,占可种植区面积的16.90%;次适宜种植区面积3 115.03 km2,占可种植区面积的26.12%;不适宜种植区面积5 580.02 km2占可种植区面积的46.80%。适宜魔芋潜在种植区域主要分布在陕西汉中中南部、安康中南部以及商洛东南部。     

Rare plants in a Succulent – Nama Karoo ecotone in southern Africa

Phylogenetic patterns, adaptations and conservation status of the rare species flora of a winter–summer rainfall ecotone in southern Africa were investigated to shed light on the species' evolutionary history and conservation requirements. Some 11% (93 species) of the Greater Fish River Canyon Landscape in Namibia were classified as rare species, more than half currently not receiving formal protection in Namibia. The rare species flora does not present a subset of the overall species pool, but a unique assemblage of plant species, over‐represented by members of the family Mesembryanthemaceae, Crassulaceae, Asphodelaceae and Hyacinthaceae. Low growth forms (dwarf leaf‐succulent shrubs, dwarf stem succulents and dwarf deciduous shrubs) as well as bulbs are more common amongst rare species. Multiple factors and processes, likely interlinked, are believed to be responsible for determining the rare species flora, indicating that individual species respond differently to the challenges posed by this arid environment. Some plants are likely remnants of wetter conditions in the past, which have retained viable populations in the mountainous terrain of this landscape, others may have evolved in situ.     

天山林区土壤真菌多样性及其群落结构

土壤真菌群落结构对森林生态系统功能的维持具有重要作用,目前对天山林区土壤微生物的种类和群落结构了解甚少。为了解天山不同植被类型下土壤真菌的群落动态及优势菌属,使用Illumina MiSeq高通量测序技术,研究天山林区根际土与非根际土中真菌群落组成及多样性。结果表明:(1)对有效序列进行OTU聚类(operational taxonomic unit)后共得到14121个OTUs,经注释划分为7个门、33个纲、109个目、255个科、444个属、677个种;(2)子囊菌门(Ascomycota)和担子囊菌门(Basidiomycota)是天山植物的优势菌门,灌丛中相对丰度较高的有帚枝霉属(Sarocladium)、鬼笔属(Lysurus)、Microidium;云杉林中相对丰度较高的属有镰刀属(Fusarium)、赤霉属(Gibberella)、丝盖伞属(Inocybe);(3)灌丛与云杉林土壤真菌的群落结构和丰富度有显著差异,灌丛土壤真菌的多样性和丰富度更高,云杉林中阴坡的土壤真菌丰富度较高而阳坡和林窗较低;(4)丝盖伞属(Inocybe)、被孢霉属(Mortierella)、赤霉属(Gibberella)、镰刀属(Fusarium)与云杉的生长可能具有密切的关系。本文推测,根际土壤真菌的多样性和丰富度较低可能是导致云杉幼苗成活率低等更新障碍的问题。     

Co-ordination between xylem anatomy,plant architecture and leaf functional traits in response to abiotic and biotic drivers in a nurse cushion plant

Background and AimsPlants in dry Mediterranean mountains experience a double climatic stress: at low elevations, high temperatures coincide with water shortage during summer, while at high elevations temperature decreases and water availability increases. Cushion plants often act as nurses by improving the microclimate underneath their canopies, hosting beneficiary species that may reciprocally modify their benefactors’ microenvironment. We assess how the nurse cushion plant Arenaria tetraquetra subsp. amabilis adjusts its hydraulic system to face these complex abiotic and biotic constraints.MethodsWe evaluated intra-specific variation and co-ordination of stem xylem anatomy, leaf functional traits and plant architecture in response to elevation, aspect and the presence of beneficiary species in four A. tetraquetra subsp. amabilis populations in the Sierra Nevada mountains, southern Spain.Key ResultsXylem anatomical and plant architectural traits were the most responsive to environmental conditions, showing the highest mutual co-ordination. Cushions were more compact and had smaller, more isolated conductive vessels in the southern than in the northern aspect, which allow minimization of the negative impacts of more intense drought. Only vessel size, leaf mass per area and terminal branch length varied with elevation. Nurse cushions co-ordinated plant architecture and xylem traits, having higher canopy compactness, fewer leaves per branch and fewer, more isolated vessels than non-nurse cushions, which reflects the negative effects of beneficiary plants on nurse water status. In non-nurse cushions, plant architecture co-ordinated with leaf traits instead. The interacting effects of aspect and elevation on xylem traits showed that stress due to frost at high elevation constrained xylem anatomy in the north, whereas stress due to drought had a parallel effect in the south.ConclusionsTrait co-ordination was weaker under more demanding environmental conditions, which agrees with the hypothesis that trait independence allows plants to better optimize different functions, probably entailing higher adjustment potential against future environmental changes.     

武功山地区野生有毒植物资源研究

为了解武功山地区有毒植物资源情况及毒性特点,有效保护与利用武功山有毒植物资源,通过野外实地考察并结合查阅文献资料的方法,对该地区的有毒植物进行统计分析。结果显示,武功山地区共有有毒植物75科179属240种;形成以豆科(Leguminosae)、毛茛科(Ranunculaceae)、菊科(Asteraceae)、百合科(Liliaceae)4科为主的数量优势科(含10种及以上),以紫堇属(Corydalis)为主的数量优势属(含5种及以上)。该区有毒植物的生活习性以草本为主;以海拔400～499 m区域内的植物最多,且主要生长在山坡、林中、灌丛等环境中。区系地理成分复杂多样,科以泛热带分布和世界分布为主,属以北温带分布和泛热带分布为主,而种以中国特有分布和东亚分布最多。毒性以小毒为主,有毒部位以全株有毒为主;有毒化学成分颇为复杂,主要以生物碱为主,毒理类型以神经系统毒为主。     

Assessing the threat to montane biodiversity from discordant shifts in temperature and precipitation in a changing climate

Mountains are centres of global biodiversity, endemism and threatened species. Elevational gradients present opportunities for species currently living near their upper thermal limits to track cooler temperatures upslope in warming climates, but only if changes in precipitation are sufficiently in step with temperature. We model local population extirpation risk for a range of temperature and precipitation scenarios over the next 100 years for 16 848 vertebrate species populations distributed along 156 elevational gradients. Average population extirpation risks due to warming alone were < 5%, but increased 10-fold, on average, when changes in precipitation were also considered. Under the driest scenarios (minimum predicted precipitation), local extirpation risks increased sharply (50-60%) and were especially worrisome for hydrophilic amphibians and montane Latin America (c. 80%). Realistic assessment of risks urgently requires improved monitoring of precipitation, better regional precipitation models and more research on the effects of changes in precipitation on montane distributions.     

天山盘羊夏季采食地和卧息地生境选择

2010年7-8月采用样线调查法及直接观察法对天山中部古仁郭楞高山区的盘羊天山亚种采食地和卧息地生境进行了研究。共调查5条沟系的12条样线,测量天山盘羊147个采食地和136个卧息地样方,分析了13类生态因子对天山盘羊采食地和卧息地选择的影响。研究结果表明,天山盘羊夏季采食地与卧息地在坡位、坡向、地貌类型、海拔高度、距最近家畜距离、距道路距离和距居民点距离差异极显著（P < 0.01）,植被高度差异显著（P < 0.05）,而其它生态因子差异性不显著（P > 0.05）;相对卧息地的选择而言,夏季盘羊采食地的选择更偏爱海拔较低,植被高度低,距离道路、居民点和最近家畜距离近的半阴半阳坡,山体中下位的高山草甸缓坡生境。逐步判别分析表明,距道路距离、距居民点距离、植被高度、距家畜距离4个生态因子可以用于判别夏季天山盘羊采食地与卧息地生境,正确区分率达到90.6%。     

Below-ground response of Norway spruce to climate conditions at Mt. Brocken (Germany)—A re-assessment of Central Europe's northernmost treeline

Alpine treelines at medium high mountains are less abundant and thus have been less frequently studied than at high-elevation mountain ranges of the world. We studied mature Norway spruce stands along an extended elevation transect at Mt. Brocken (Harz Mountains, Central Germany) to analyse the altitudinal changes in climate-related growth conditions, and to evaluate the prevailing climate conditions at the treeline of medium high Mt. Brocken. A particular aim was to analyse the change in fine root biomass partitioning along the transect towards the treeline. Microclimate conditions at the treeline of Mt. Brocken were very similar to other treeline sites worldwide. Tree height and stem biomass strongly decreased from middle elevations towards the treeline. On the contrary, fine root biomass and the ratio of fine root/stem biomass strongly increased towards the treeline indicating a marked shift in carbon allocation in favour of the fine root system with elevation. A meta-analysis of literature data revealed that the elevation-related increase in dry mass partitioning to the fine root system is a general phenomenon for Norway spruce stands in northern and central European mountains. We conclude that the particularly large fine root system of Norway spruce at cold sites represents a mechanism to cope with unfavourable soil conditions such as reduced or temporally variable nutrient supply.