饮用水源保护区生态服务补偿研究与应用

饮用水源保护区是确保饮用水安全的重要屏障,目前迫切需要引入生态服务补偿机制作为饮用水源保护区限制型政策的必要补充.生态系统所提供的服务分别属于人类和自然两种价值系统,生态服务补偿的目的是在两种价值观发生冲突时,首先保障自然价值系统发挥其服务,同时对损失的人类价值给予补偿,以促进生态系统服务更好的发挥其功能.通过辨识服务的提供者和受益者及其所对应的价值系统,可以帮助制定生态服务补偿策略.据此确定饮用水源保护区生态服务补偿主要是对生态公益林提供的涵养水源和水土保持服务的补偿.以武夷山市饮用水源保护区为研究案例,将饮用水源保护者所付出的机会成本作为补偿标准,计算结果为897.7万元,补偿年限为2005～2020年.将补偿标准折合成水费,武夷山市需要在水费中加收0.07元/(t·a)的生态服务补偿费,但最终的水费增收额需要通过考虑补偿者的支付意愿来决定.     

采伐和火烧对森林氮动态的影响

森林是重要的陆地生态系统类型,它通过特有的养分循环机制维持其结构和功能.其中氮素对林木生长和发育十分重要,而且常是森林生产力的限制因素.另一方面,森林氮动态又常受到人类活动干扰的影响.根据国内外研究结果综述了采伐和火烧对森林氮动态的影响.结果表明采伐后环境因素的变化将影响森林N动态,其中最为关注的是采伐后一系列因素引起的N损失,如:N淋溶增加、伴随生物量的N迁移以及因径流或侵蚀增加造成的枯枝落叶层和土壤层N流失.这些N损失又将影响更新林分的生长和生产力.此外,采伐后N吸收速率一般下降,但随着植被快速生长N吸收速率将不断增加.采伐后氨化和硝化过程增强,但因短期内同化作用较弱,生态系统中大部分N将发生损失.火烧对森林N动态的短期影响主要包括:第一,火烧时N直接挥发损失;第二,火烧后N有效性增加,这主要由灰分沉积、根和微生物死亡及有机质N矿化增强等综合造成.随着时间延长,N有效性逐渐降低,这可能与火烧引起的有机质损失、植物N吸收增加、淋溶或侵蚀损失有关.然而,目前关于火烧造成的长期生态影响,如火烧后地上植被恢复与地下生物地球化学过程变化有何联系仍不太清楚.未来研究应着重于探讨氮素对森林采伐和火烧作出的短期响应将如何长期影响森林的结构和功能.此外,建议在实施营林方案时需考虑采伐和火烧对生态系统氮的影响.     

生态系统工程师：理论与应用

生物通过非同化--异化过程影响环境的事实普遍存在,生态学家对此也开展了大量的研究,但缺乏相应理论框架的指导,使得这些工作的潜在价值未能得到充分的体现.学者Clive G.Jones等提出的"生态系统工程师"概念,概括了此类生态学现象的一般特征,为认识生物对环境的影响提供了一种新的理论框架.介绍了生态系统工程师概念及相关的理论体系,包括3个术语、2类生态系统工程师、5种生态系统工程概念模型以及工程效应的测定方法.同时,论述了该概念在入侵生态学、保护生物学、恢复生态学等领域的应用前景.最后,讨论了未来的研究方向.可以预料,生态系统工程师概念及相关理论的不断发展将有助于对生态学本质的认识,并为生态系统管理提供新的思路.     

基于生物物理视角的城市生态竞争力

研究城市的生命支持系统、系统解析城市运行的生物物理代谢过程是深入揭示现代城市"病"产生机理与作用规律的新视角.借助生态能量学方法之一 --能值方法对城市生态经济系统进行了系统分析,并构建了综合性城市生态竞争力指数UECCI,将之应用于北京、上海和广州3个案例城市1990年到2005年的评价中.同时,引入并整合台北(1991和1998年)和澳门(1990、1993、1995、1997、2000、2003和2004年)的能值分析结果进行参照对比.结果显示:研究期内3个案例城市生态经济系统的演化趋势呈现很好的一致性,但广州的UECCI一直高于北京和上海,广州城市生态经济系统在可持续发展的长远尺度上似乎更具有生态竞争力;与台北与澳门的进一步比较发现,尽管中国大陆城市经济发展程度不及台北与澳门,其UECCI总体上却高于台北和澳门.     

生态建设补偿的定量标准——以南水北调东线水源地保护区一期生态建设工程为例

生态补偿标准的确定是生态补偿机制建立的重点和难点.以南水北调东线水源地保护一期生态建设工程的补偿为例,探讨生态建设的补偿标准.从工程投资和机会成本的角度分析生态建设的总成本为1.46亿元/年,通过生态系统服务价值评价并结合专家咨询赋权,计算出生态建设工程成功实施后,建设区域所增加的生态服务效益为0.83亿元/年,外部区域所增加的生态服务效益为2.13亿元/年;综合生态建设成本和生态效益,提出了根据生态服务效益分担生态建设成本的补偿标准分析思路,并由此计算得到外部区域对建设区域的补偿标准为1.11亿元/年.     

额济纳荒漠河岸胡杨林叶片气孔导度与微环境因子关系的模拟研究

以额济纳荒漠河岸胡杨(Populus euphratica)为研究对象,利用LI-6400光合测定仪于2005年5~9月份观测了胡杨叶片气体交换数据,研究了胡杨叶片气孔导度与光合速率、光合有效辐射与光合速率之间的关系.结果表明:(1)胡杨叶片净光合速率随气孔导度的增大而升高,但当气孔导度增加到一定值后,光合速率的增加变缓慢直至平稳,并主要是非气孔限制因素造成的;Ball-Berry模型(B-B模型)能够很好地描述气孔导度与光合速率之间的关系(R2=0.92).(2)叶片净光合速率随着有效辐射的变化符合非直角双曲线规律(R2=0.99).(3)B-B模型和非直角双曲线光合模型耦合后模拟值与观测值之间存在很好的正相关性(r=0.93),但耦合模型的模拟值还是较实测值偏大.因此,在干旱区还必须考虑水分限制因素对气孔开闭的控制作用,进一步构建适合干旱区生态系统特点的水-碳耦合循环机理模型.     

生态退耕与植被演替的时空格局

综述了多重尺度上生态退耕的时空格局及其对植被演替时空变异影响的研究进展,提出了生态退耕与植被演替的时空格局研究方向.在自然和人文等因子的驱动下,全球兴起了生态退耕的热潮,生态退耕类型正在由人工恢复为主向自然弃耕为主发展.尽管国内外很多学者开始关注不同尺度上生态退耕的时空格局及其影响因子,但是生态退耕的时空变异性研究仍然比较薄弱,尤其缺乏多重尺度上生态退耕时空格局及其驱动因子的综合研究,在很大程度上限制了研究结果外推.研究表明,受到多因子的综合影响,生态退耕后植被演替呈现出复杂多样的时空变化特征;退耕植被演替研究从植物群落结构特征分析为主向群落功能分析发展,从传统的演替过程规律分析转向退耕植被演替的时空变异性分析;相对来说,生态退耕后植被演替的时空分异、影响因子和机制方面的研究比较薄弱.加强多重尺度上生态退耕时空格局与植被演替时空变异的综合研究是将来的研究重点.     

Proximity to forest edge does not affect crop production despite pollen limitation

A decline in pollination function has been linked to agriculture expansion and intensification. In northwest Argentina, pollinator visits to grapefruit, a self-compatible but pollinator-dependent crop, decline by approximately 50% at 1km from forest edges. We evaluated whether this decrease in visitation also reduces the pollination service in this crop. We analysed the quantity and quality of pollen deposited on stigmas, and associated limitation of fruit production at increasing distances (edge: 10, 100, 500 and 1000m) from the remnants of Yungas forest. We also examined the quantitative and qualitative efficiency of honeybees as pollen vectors. Pollen receipt and pollen tubes in styles decreased with increasing distance from forest edge; however, this decline did not affect fruit production. Supplementation of natural pollen with self- and cross-pollen revealed that both pollen quantity and quality limited fruit production. Despite pollen limitation, honeybees cannot raise fruit production because they often do not deposit sufficient high-quality pollen per visit to elicit fruit development. However, declines in visitation frequency well below seven visits during a flower's lifespan could decrease production beyond current yields. In this context, the preservation of forest remnants, which act as pollinator sources, could contribute to resilience in crop production. Like wild plants, pollen limitation of the yield among animal-pollinated crops may be common and indicative not only of pollinator scarcity, but also of poor pollination quality, whereby pollinator efficiency, rather than just abundance, can play a broader role than previously appreciated.     

Thermodynamics of Agricultural Sustainability: The Case of US Maize Agriculture

This paper considers the local, field-scale sustainability of a productive industrial maize agrosystem that has replaced a fertile grassland ecosystem.

Using the revised thermodynamic approach of Svirezhev (1998 Svirezhev, Y. M. 1998. “Thermodynamic orientors: How to use Thermodynamic concepts in ecology”. In Eco Targets, Goal Functions, and Orientors, 102–122. Berlin: Springer Verlag. [Crossref] [Google Scholar], 2000 Svirezhev, Y. M. 2000. Thermodynamics and ecology. Ecological Modelling, 132: 11–22. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]) and Steinborn and Svirezhev (2000) Steinborn, W. and Svirezhev, Y. M. 2000. Entropy as an indicator of sustainability in agro-ecosystems: North Germany case study. Ecol. Mode., 133: 247–257. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar], it is shown that currently this agrosystem is unsustainable in the U.S., with or without tilling the soil. The calculated average erosion rates of soil necessary to dissipate the entropy produced by U.S. maize agriculture, 23–45 t ha^?1 yr^?1, are bounded from above by an experimental estimate of mean soil erosion by conventional agriculture worldwide, 47 t ha^?1 yr^?1, (Montgomery, 2007 Montgomery, D. R. 2007. Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability. PNAS, 104(33): 13268–13272. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]). Between 1982 and 1997, US agriculture caused an estimated 7–23 t ha^?1 yr^?1 of average erosion with the mean of 15 t ha^?1 yr^?1 (USDA-NRCS Database). The lower mean erosion rate of no till agriculture, 1.5 t ha^?1 yr^?1 (Montgomery, 2007 Montgomery, D. R. 2007. Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability. PNAS, 104(33): 13268–13272. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]), necessitates the elimination of weeds and pests with field chemicals—with the ensuing chemical and biological soil degradation, and chemical runoff—to dissipate the produced entropy. The increased use of field chemicals that replace tillers is equivalent to the killing or injuring of up to 300 kg ha^?1 yr^?1 of soil flora and fauna. Additional soil degradation, not calculated here, occurs by acidification, buildup of insoluble metal compounds, and buildup of toxic residues from field chemicals. The degree of unsustainability of an average U.S. maize field is high, requiring 6–13 times more energy to reverse soil erosion and degradation, etc., than the direct energy inputs to maize agriculture. This additional energy, if spent, would not increase maize yields. The calculated “critical yield” of “organic” maize agriculture that does not use field chemicals and fossil fuels is only 30 percent lower than the average maize yield of 8.7 tons per hectare (～140 bu/acre) assumed here. This critical yield would not likely be achieved and sustained by large monocultures, but might be achieved by more balanced organic polycultures (Baum et al., 2008 Baum, A. W., Patzek, T. W., Bender, M., Renich, S. and Jackson, W. 2008. The Visible, Sustainable Farm: A Comprehensive Energy Analysis of a Midwestern Farm 1–34. Posted at petroleum.berkeley.edu/papers/Biofuels/SSF?Report3-051408.pdf [Google Scholar]).     

Surface characteristics of grasslands in Inner Mongolia as detected by micrometeorological measurements

A roving tower concept was used to compare a semi-arid grassland site in Inner Mongolia (China), which was fenced in 1979 and ungrazed thereafter (UG79) with differently grazed semi-arid steppe ecosystems. The study was conducted during three consecutive years characterised by contrasting precipitation. The different grazing intensities included continuously and moderately grazed (CG), winter grazed (WG), and heavily grazed (HG). Here, we compare the energy fluxes and surface parameters that characterise the differently managed plots. The main focus is on sensible heat flux (H), available energy (AE), surface temperature (T ( s )), and surface albedo (alpha). Systematic errors were excluded by a side-to-side intercomparison of the instruments, and systematic climatic differences were minimised by the close distance between the fixed and the roving eddy covariance tower. Statistically, AE and T ( s ) were always significantly different between two simultaneously measured grazing intensities. Whereas AE was higher at UG79 in all years (mean difference of about 19Wm(-2)), T ( s ) was typically lower at UG79 (mean differences of 0.4 degrees C to about 2 degrees C). The exception was the end of the vegetation period in 2004 when T ( s ) was 0.6 degrees C higher at UG79 compared to CG. At UG79 alpha was typically significantly lower, and H was typically significantly higher. Consequently, latent heat fluxes (both as energy balance residual and directly measured) do not differ much between the different grazing intensities. It is concluded, that (1) the roving tower concept is able to detect differences due to grazing, (2) differences between the sites can be attributed to real surface differences, and (3) differences due to grazing intensities are small compared to interannual differences in surface fluxes.