塔里木河上游土地利用变化中的生态价值损益分析

利用1990和2000年2期TM影像,对塔里木河上游典型绿洲的土地利用面积变化进行了研究,在土地利用变化背景下,通过货币化生态服务功能,揭示塔里木河上游典型绿洲生态价值的变化。研究表明,1990~2000年研究区土地利用变化显著。农田、居民点、盐碱地大面积增加,草地、林地、水域、湿地都有不同程度的减少;10年间研究区生态价值为负增长,减少了1.055×109元,由于土地利用变化而造成的生态价值损失巨大,而国民生产总值增加了3.652×109元。不顾生态环境的损失,盲目追求经济的增长,最终无法实现经济与社会的最大效益。评估区域生态价值,并将其纳入区域环境与经济综合核算体系意义重大。     

失水－吸水过程中微鞘藻光合活性的特性

雨季来临时,干藻重新吸收水分,光合活性恢复,迅速生长。微鞘藻(Microcoleus vaginatus)藻体在失水过程中,光合活性降低;而干藻接种到流沙后,恢复生长,在生长后期,生物量可达27μg/cm2土壤。在重吸水中,离子对光合活性的恢复具有重要作用,相对于去离子水来说,BG-11培养液处理后活性恢复较高;K 和Mg2 的缺失,对光合活性有抑制作用,而Ca2 的缺失,造成光合活性恢复的延缓;较高浓度的胞外多糖(Extracellular polymeric substances,EPS)和热水溶性多糖(500mg/L),较低浓度的蔗糖(100mg/L),对光合活性的恢复和保持具有促进作用。结果表明,在光合重吸水过程中,离子在促进光合恢复中起重要作用,而糖类在保持细胞形态上具有重要的作用,这对于利用干藻进行流沙接种试验具有非常重要的意义。     

植物叶片和角果的碳酸酐酶与光合速率的关系研究

以3种植物为材料,对其叶片、角果的碳酸酐酶活性日变化和相应的净光合速率日变化以及不同叶位的叶片和不同长度角果的CA活性和净光合速率关系进行研究.结果表明,在日变化中,油菜和诸葛菜的CA活性与其净光合速率之间存在显著性正相关,羽衣甘蓝则不明显.但3种植物不同叶位的叶片和不同长度角果的CA活性与净光合速率之间都呈显著正相关,说明无论是植物的营养器官叶片,还是生殖器官角果,CA活性的高低对净光合速率都有较大的影响.     

竹叶提取物对心肌缺血再灌注损伤的保护作用

本文通过两种不同的模型来探讨竹叶提取物对心肌缺血再灌注(缺氧/复氧)损伤的保护作用。在体内模型中不同剂量的竹叶提取物均提高了模型组室内压最大上升和下降速率,降低了左室末期舒张期压力,提高了心输出量。同时降低了模型组肌酸磷酸激酶及乳酸脱氢酶的活性,减少了丙二醛的含量,增加了超氧化物歧化酶的活性,通过电压依赖性钙通道及受体依赖性钙通道降低了钙的含量。说明竹叶提取物对心肌缺血再灌注(缺氧复氧)损伤具有保护作用,其作用是通过电压依赖性钙通道及受体依赖性钙通道降低了钙的含量而对心肌缺血再灌注(缺氧复氧)损伤产生保护作用。     

不同采收期宁夏枸杞叶中总黄酮含量的比较

宁夏枸杞（Lycium barbarum L．）的果实为常用的传统中药,其有效成分主要为黄酮类化合物。研究发现,黄酮类成分具有止咳、平喘、祛痰之功效,并能扩张冠状动脉及降低血胆固醇,有增强心脏收缩、减少心脏搏动数及明显的抗氧化等作用。有研究表明,枸杞干叶中黄酮含量高于枸杞干果。因而,作者对不同采收时期青海产宁夏枸杞叶中总黄酮含量进行了测定和比较,以期为扩大黄酮类成分的药源及确定枸杞叶的最佳采收期提供一定的参考依据。     

Unexpected biodiversity loss under global warming in the neotropical Guayana Highlands: a preliminary appraisal

The fully vegetated summits of the table mountains that form the Guayana Highlands (GH), in northern South America, hold amazing biodiversity and endemism levels, and unique vegetation types. In spite of their present‐day healthy appearance, their biota is seriously threatened of habitat loss by upward displacement, because of the projected warming for the end of this century. Available data are still insufficient for a definite assessment, but preliminary estimations based on representative endemic vascular plant species show that roughly one‐tenth to one‐third of them would loss their habitat with the 2–4°C temperature increase predicted for the region by AD 2100. Given the underlying endemism, the eventual loss of biodiversity will be of global nature. Other mountain ranges around the world with similar characteristics of the GH, namely topographical isolation, high endemism and absence of nival stage because of the lower altitude, would be under similar unexpected risk, and should be urgently considered for conservation purposes.     

毛竹受害后化学物质含量的变化及其对刚竹毒蛾种群参数的影响

研究了毛竹受刚竹毒蛾危害后,竹叶主要次生物质和营养物质的变化及其对刚竹毒蛾种群参数的影响。结果表明:毛竹受刚竹毒蛾危害后,竹叶中单宁和黄酮的含量显著增加,而总糖、可溶性糖和蛋白质的含量显著下降;刚竹毒蛾幼虫取食被害竹叶后,表现出发育历期延长、体重减轻、生殖力下降等现象。     

Assessing Heterodera glycines-Resistant and Susceptible Cultivar Yield Response

The soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines (SCN) is of major economic importance and widely distributed throughout soybean production regions of the United States where different maturity groups with the same sources of SCN resistance are grown. The objective of this study was to assess SCN-resistant and -susceptible soybean yield responses in infested soils across the north-central region. In 1994 and 1995, eight SCN-resistant and eight SCN-susceptible public soybean cultivars representing maturity groups (MG) I to IV were planted in 63 fields, either infested or noninfested, in 10 states in the north-central United States. Soil samples were taken to determine initial SCN population density and race, and soil classification. Data were grouped for analysis by adaptation based on MG zones. Soybean yields were 658 to 3,840 kg/ha across the sites. Soybean cyst nematode-resistant cultivars yielded better at SCN-infested sites but lost this superiority to susceptible soybean cultivars at noninfested sites. Interactions were observed among initial SCN population density, cultivar, and location. This study showed that no region-wide predictive equations could be developed for yield loss based on initial nematode populations in the soil and that yield loss due to SCN in our region was greatly confounded by other stress factors, which included temperature and moisture extremes.     

Impacts of climate warming and habitat loss on extinctions at species' low-latitude range boundaries

Polewards expansions of species' distributions have been attributed to climate warming, but evidence for climate‐driven local extinctions at warm (low latitude/elevation) boundaries is equivocal. We surveyed the four species of butterflies that reach their southern limits in Britain. We visited 421 sites where the species had been recorded previously to determine whether recent extinctions were primarily due to climate or habitat changes. Coenonympha tullia had become extinct at 52% of study sites and all losses were associated with habitat degradation. Aricia artaxerxes was extinct from 50% of sites, with approximately one‐third to half of extinctions associated with climate‐related factors and the remainder with habitat loss. For Erebia aethiops (extinct from 24% of sites), approximately a quarter of the extinctions were associated with habitat and three‐quarters with climate. For Erebia epiphron, extinctions (37% of sites) were attributed mainly to climate with almost no habitat effects. For the three species affected by climate, range boundaries retracted 70–100 km northwards (A. artaxerxes, E. aethiops) and 130–150 m uphill (E. epiphron) in the sample of sites analysed. These shifts are consistent with estimated latitudinal and elevational temperature shifts of 88 km northwards and 98 m uphill over the 19‐year study period. These results suggest that the southern/warm range margins of some species are as sensitive to climate change as are northern/cool margins. Our data indicate that climate warming has been of comparable importance to habitat loss in driving local extinctions of northern species over the past few decades; future climate warming is likely to jeopardize the long‐term survival of many northern and mountain species.     

Yield loss of faba bean (Vicia faba) due to chocolate spot (Botrytis fabae) in sole and mixed cropping systems in Ethiopia

Two field experiments were conducted during 2004 and 2005 cropping seasons at Adet Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopia to assess yield losses caused by chocolate spot(Botrytis fabae) of faba bean in sole and mixed cropping systems using two cultivars. Cropping systems were sole faba bean (FB), faba bean mixed with field pea (FB: FP), barley (FB: BA) and maize (FB: MA). Mancozeb was sprayed at the rate of 2.5 kg a.i/ha at 7-, 14- and 21-day interval to generate different levels of chocolate spot disease in all the four cropping systems, and unsprayed control was also included. The treatments were arranged in a randomised complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. FB: MA mixed cropping significantly reduced disease severity and the area under disease progress curve (AUDPC) and increased faba bean grain yield. The highest faba bean grain yield among the three mixed croppings under different spray schedules was obtained from FB: MA mixed cropping in both 2004 and 2005 (2.56 and 3.74 t/ha, respectively) cropping seasons. There were highly significant yield differences (P < 0.05) among the spray intervals of mancozeb in both seasons. The highest grain yield (4.9 t/h) was recorded from the 7-day spray interval in 2005. The unsprayed faba bean had a lower grain yield (1.9 t/ha in 2004 and 2.3 t/ha in 2005) compared to the sprayed plots. The highest relative yield loss (67.5%) was calculated in 2005 from FB: FP mixed cropping in unsprayed plots. The relative yield losses in the unsprayed plots were in the range of 35.8–41.5% in 2004 and 52.6–67.5% in the 2005 cropping season. Severity and AUDPC were inversely correlated with faba bean grain yield. Significant differences were recorded in the 100-seed weight and days to maturity (DM). The unsprayed plots had shorter DM ranging from 126 to 128.5 day (except FB: MA mixed cropping) in 2004 and 122–123.9 days in 2005. In the sprayed plots DM was relatively longer than the unsprayed plots. A higher seed weight was recorded in the sole FB (56 g) and FB: MA (55 g) mixed cropping, and the lowest value of 100-seed weight was recorded from FB: FP (53 g) mixed cropping. The productivity of the mixed cropping evaluated by land equivalent ratio (LER) exceeded that of sole cropping. Faba bean grain yield was highly influenced by the severity of chocolate spot. The disease affects the DM, forcing early maturing of the plants.