高密度中心城区蓝绿空间冷岛效应及其影响因素——以北京五环路以内地区为例

蓝绿空间作为城市绿色基础设施的重要组成部分，对促进城市热环境健康、改善局地微气候具有重要作用。利用Landsat 8遥感影像、土地利用等数据，基于辐射传输方程算法、K均值聚类算法、相关性分析等方法，量化了典型的高密度中心城区--北京五环快速路以内地区的1199块1hm²以上的蓝绿空间冷岛效应的表征指标，并分析与蓝绿空间规模、形状复杂度、景观组成、环境组成、植被覆盖等要素的相关关系，还根据蓝绿空间的不同降温特性进行分类，探讨每类蓝绿空间在缓解高密度中心城区热岛效应中的独特作用、优势与机制。结果表明：（1）蓝绿空间的规模、形状复杂度、景观组成等景观要素与冷岛效应的关系显著，如总面积、绿地面积和水体面积与降温幅度、降温范围、降温服务呈显著正相关，与降温效率和降温速率呈显著负相关；周长与降温范围、降温服务呈显著正相关，与降温效率和速率呈显著负相关；周长面积比与降温幅度和降温服务呈显著负相关，与降温效率和蓝绿空间自身温度呈显著正相关，而形状指数则与降温范围和降温服务呈显著正相关。（2）蓝绿空间的环境要素与冷岛效应也存在相关关系。蓝绿空间之间会产生冷岛效应的协同与促进现象，蓝绿空间降温范围内的其他蓝绿空间的总面积与该蓝绿空间的降温幅度、降温范围、降温服务和辐射距离呈显著正相关，与蓝绿空间自身温度呈显著负相关。（3）蓝绿空间的总面积、水体面积、周长与降温幅度之间，周长面积比与降温效率之间存在阈值，为节约土地资源、保证降温效果，建议不应过多超过阈值。（4）基于蓝绿空间在降温幅度、效率、辐射距离等方面的差异，将蓝绿空间划分为4类。高密度中心城区蓝绿空间规划建设应充分评估区域降温需求，了解蓝绿空间降温现状，合理配置具有不同降温特性和优势的蓝绿空间，在土地和资金有限的情况下，充分发挥各类蓝绿空间的冷岛效应。本研究有助于政府和规划师摸清当前蓝绿空间冷岛效应的现状、问题和发展潜力，对理论和实践具有一定参考意义。     

Activation Energies from Transition Path Sampling Simulations

We derive an new expression for the calculation of activation energies within the framework of transition path sampling. Using this expression one can determine activation energies without knowledge of the reaction mechanism, which is often unavailable for processes occurring in complex systems. Since in this method activation energies are calculated directly from path averages, no computationally expensive calculation of reaction rate constants is necessary. As an illustrative example, we determine the activation energy for the isomerization of a model diatomic immersed in a bath of repulsive soft particles.     

Implementation of automatic plan optimization in Italy: Status and perspectives

PurposeTo investigate and report on the diffusion and clinical use of automated radiotherapy planning systems in Italy and to assess the perspectives of the community of Italian medical physicists involved in radiotherapy on the use of these tools.Materials and MethodsA survey of medical physicists (one per Institute) of 175 radiotherapy centers in Italy was conducted between February 21st and April 1st, 2021. The information collected included the institute’s characteristics, plan activity, availability/use of automatic tools and related issues regarding satisfaction, criticisms, expectations, and perceived professional modifications. Responses were analysed, including the impact of a few variables such as the institute type and experience.Results125 of the centers (71%) answered the survey, with regional variability (range: 47%–100%); among these, 49% have a TPS with some automatic option. Clinical use of automatic planning is present in 33% of the centers, with 13% applying it in >50% of their plans.Among the 125 responding centres the most used systems are Pinnacle (16%), Raystation (9%) and Eclipse (4%). The majority of participants consider the use of automated techniques to be beneficial, while only 1% do not see any advantage; 83% of respondents see the possibility of enriching their professional role as a potential benefit, while 3% see potential threats.ConclusionsOur survey shows that 49% of the responding centres have an automatic planning solution although clinically used in only 33% of the cases. Most physicists consider the use of automated techniques to be beneficial and show a prevalently positive attitude.     

Integrating the spatial proximity effect into the assessment of changes in ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation

The assessment of the value of ecosystem services is a valuable tool for biodiversity conservation that can facilitate better environmental policy decision-making and land management, and can help land managers develop interventions to compensate for biodiversity loss at the patch level. Previous studies have suggested that it is appropriate to assess the value of biodiversity for conservation planning by considering both the condition of the landscape and the spatial configuration of adjacent land uses that can be reflected as a proximity effect. This research examines the influence of spatial proximity on biodiversity conservation from the ecosystem service perspective based on the assumption that the variation in the proximity effect caused by land cover change has positive or negative impacts on ecological services. Three factors related to the spatial characteristics of the landscape were considered in this approach: the relative artificiality of the land cover types, the distance decay effect of patches and the impact of one land cover type on others. The proximity effect change (PE_C) parameter reflected the relationship between the spatial proximity effect and biodiversity conservation. The results of a quantitative and spatial comparative analysis of the proposed method and the conventional method in Yingkou for the periods of 2000–2005 and 2005–2010 showed that the former can account for the temporal and spatial changes in ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation that were caused by patch-level changes as well as the interaction between the altered and adjacent patches from a spatial perspective. The metric can also identify the most critical areas for biodiversity protection and inform the efficient allocation of limited land resources for nature conservation to maximize the benefit to biodiversity by guiding the process of land-use change, particularly urbanization and agriculture. Future studies should focus on the other important factors that are applicable to the assessment of the value of biodiversity conservation in socio-ecological systems, where society and nature are mutually capable of fulfilling their roles.     

城市景观功能的区域协调规划——以深圳市为例

城市景观功能的完善是城市可持续发展的重要保障之一,其与区域景观功能的相互协调是城市规划的重要组成部分,有利于城市和区域的整体持续发展。在分析城市景观基本特征的基础上,探讨了城市景观功能区域协调规划的基本思路,以城市景观为规划对象,以人类社会的功能需求为立足点,依据景观生态学理论,将城市景观的功能划分为生物生产功能、环境服务功能、文化支持功能和信息输运功能,对体现这些基本功能的景观类型进行区域协调规划。以深圳市为例,实证分析了其景观功能在珠江三角洲地区的协调规划。     

Purification processes, ecological functions, planning and design of riparian buffer zones in agricultural watersheds

Two international meetings on ecological engineering, with a focus on riparian buffer zones, served as the source for selected papers in this special issue: (1) an International Workshop on Efficiency of Purification Processes in Riparian Buffer Zones: Their Design and Planning in Agricultural Watersheds, jointly organised by Hokkaido University, Japan, the National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Japan, Civil Engineering Research Institute of Hokkaido, Japan, and the Institute of Geography, University of Tartu, Estonia, and held from 5 to 9 November 2001 in Kushiro City, Hokkaido, Japan; and (2) an International Conference on Ecological Engineering for Landscape Services and Products, jointly organised by the International Ecological Engineering Society (IEES) and Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, and held from 25 to 29 November 2001 in Christchurch, New Zealand. At these two meetings, altogether 94 oral presentations (17 from invited speakers) and 15 posters by representatives from 21 countries were presented. The editorial paper highlights trends in investigation of the purification processes in riparian buffer zones as well as planning, design and management aspects of riparian buffers regarding the wide spectrum of their ecological functions; it characterises the two international meetings which served as sources for the selected papers and briefly explains the main aspects of these papers.