用地统计学方法对落叶松人工纯林表层细根生物量的估计

 采用地统计学的变异函数分析方法定量研究了落叶松（Larix olgensis）纯林表层（0～10 cm）细根的空 间异质性特征,利用地统计学的克里格内插法结合定积分,对落叶松纯林表层细根（<2 mm）的生物量进 行了估测。结果表明：1）6种林龄（14～40 年）的落叶松人工纯林表层细根的变异函数曲线理论模型均 为球状模型,空间变异主要是由结构性因素引起,且空间自相关程度均属中等以上（空间结构比>25%）。 14、19、22、26、32、40年生的落叶松纯林表层细根的空间变异尺度分别为1.76、3.40、1.02、4.12、 3.37和5.58 m。在所研究的林龄范围内,随林龄的增长,落叶松纯林表层细根的空间变异尺度近似呈直线 增长（p =0.074 4）。2）非参数统计的成对样本符号检验结果表明,变异函数分析结果基础上的克里格 内插法适用于落叶松纯林表层细根生物量的估计。利用此估计值,拟合其与位置坐标值之间的多元回归关 系均为二元十次余弦级数多项式。利用此多项式,通过定积分的方法（积分区间为整块样地的大小）,估 计出14、19、22、26、32、40年生的落叶松纯林表层细根生物量分别为1.097 3、1.434 0、1.185 4、 0.974 3、1.682 6、1.255 6 Mg• hm-2。3）在本次调查的林龄范围内（14～40年）,落叶松纯林表层细 根的现存量近似相等（α=0.037 3）,土壤表层单株细根生物量与林龄之间呈极显著的指数增长关系（α =0.002）。4）采用地统计学的克里格空间插值,结合多元回归和定积分的方法,可以实现落叶松人工林 表层细根生物量的准确估计。     

大球盖菇产胞外多糖液体优化培养条件初探

以菌丝生物量及胞外多糖(exopolysaccharides,EPS)含量为指标对大球盖菇产胞外多糖液体培养基组成和发酵条件进行了优化。结果表明,最适碳源是麦芽糖,最适氮源是酵母膏,正交试验确定最佳培养基组成为马铃薯150 g/L,麦芽糖20 g/L,酵母膏1 g/L,KH2PO41 g/L,MgSO4.7H2O 2.5 g/L。最佳发酵条件为28℃,摇床转速160 r/min,起始pH值6.5,装液量100 mL/250 mL、接种量10%,发酵时间6 d。在此条件下,大球盖菇菌丝生物量及EPS含量分别比对照增加了31.8%和51.6%。     

稳定同位素化学标记结合质谱技术在定量蛋白质组学中的应用

传统的蛋白质组定量策略主要是通过双向凝胶电泳来进行相对定量。由于该方法不能对相对分子质量极高或极低、等电点极酸或极碱和含量低的蛋白质以及膜蛋白质等进行有效分离和检测,所以已不能适应目前蛋白质组研究深入发展的需要。近年来,定量蛋白质组学的发展主要是以同位素亲和标签试剂为代表的、以质谱检测为核心的稳定同位素化学标记方法。稳定同位素化学标记结合质谱技术,使定量蛋白质组的分析更趋简单、准确和快速,具有良好的发展前景。本文对稳定同位素化学标记结合质谱技术在定量蛋白质组学中的研究进展进行了评述。     

白灵菇液体发酵工艺

以菌丝生物量为指标,探讨了白灵菇最适的液体发酵培养基和培养条件,结果表明:最适培养基为葡萄糖1.0%,玉米粉3.0%,酵母粉0.1%,黄豆粉2.0%,磷酸二氢钾0.15%,硫酸镁0.1%;摇瓶装液量80mL,接种量10%,起始pH为6.5,摇瓶转速160r/min。     

Effects of vapour pressure deficit on growth of temperate and tropical evergreen rainforest trees of Australia

Little is known about the effect of vapour pressure deficit (VPD) on the growth of trees. Rainforest trees of eastern Australia provide an opportunity to investigate responses to VPD in species that occur in high precipitation areas but have contrasting dry seasons—summer in the temperate south and winter in the tropical north. Growth responses to VPD were measured in eight species of Australian rainforest trees from different latitudes to investigate possible differences in their response to atmospheric drought. Previous work on these species found that the tropical species have large reductions in gas exchange with increasing VPD whereas the temperate species were mainly unresponsive to increasing VPD. Plants were grown in glasshouses for a year under either low VPD or ambient conditions of a temperate climate. All species had non-significant increases in growth rates (1–9%) of plants grown under low VPD compared with plants grown under ambient VPD. In addition, growing the species under low VPD had no effect on allocation of biomass (leaf area ratio, leaf weight ratio and root/shoot ratio). Therefore, the high sensitivity of gas exchange to increasing VPD found in the tropical rainforest trees did not have a significant, long-term effect on growth under high VPD.     

Stand age-related effects on soil respiration in a first rotation Sitka spruce chronosequence in central Ireland

The effect of stand age on soil respiration and its components was studied in a first rotation Sitka spruce chronosequence composed of 10‐, 15‐, 31‐, and 47‐year‐old stands established on wet mineral gley in central Ireland. For each stand age, three forest stands with similar characteristics of soil type and site preparation were used. There were no significant differences in total soil respiration among sites of the same age, except for the case of a 15‐year‐old stand that had lower soil respiration rates due to its higher productivity. Soil respiration initially decreased with stand age, but levelled out in the older stands. The youngest stands had significantly higher respiration rates than more mature sites. Annual soil respiration rates were modelled by means of temperature‐derived functions. The average Q ₁₀ value obtained treating all the stands together was 3.8. Annual soil respiration rates were 991, 686, 556, and 564 g C m^?2 for the 10‐, 15‐, 31‐, and 47‐year‐old stands, respectively. We used the trenching approach to separate soil respiration components. Heterotrophic respiration paralleled soil organic carbon dynamics over the chronosequence, decreasing with stand age to slightly increase in the oldest stand as a result of accumulated aboveground litter and root inputs. Root respiration showed a decreasing trend with stand age, which was explained by a decrease in fine root biomass over the chronosequence, but not by nitrogen concentration of fine roots. The decrease in the relative contribution of autotrophic respiration to total soil CO₂ efflux from 59.3% in the youngest stand to 49.7% in the oldest stand was explained by the higher activity of the root system in younger stands. Our results show that stand age should be considered if simple temperature‐based models to predict annual soil respiration in afforestation sites are to be used.     

Competitive responses of the rare Viola elatior and the common Viola mirabilis

Viola mirabilis is abundant in Estonia; Viola elatior is rare. We tested whether these species differ in their competitive responses to a common grass. We used a pot experiment in which individuals of each violet species grew with 0, 2, 4, or 8 individuals of Festuca ovina in natural soil. The response patterns of shoot and root mass and leaf numbers of the two species were similar: the biomass and leaf number of both violet species decreased with increasing grass density. The decrease of root mass of the rare V. elatior was significantly greater, and the decrease of leaf number tended to be greater, than that of the common V.␣mirabilis. We conclude that the stronger competitive response of V. elatior compared to V. mirabilis might be one reason behind its lower regional and local abundance.     

Patterns of ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) colonization in mountain grasslands: the importance of management practices

Woody colonization of grasslands is often associated with changes in abiotic or biotic conditions or a combination of both. Widely used as fodder and litter in the past traditional agro-pastoral system, ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) has now become a colonizing species of mountain grasslands in the French Pyrenees. Its present distribution is dependent on past human activities and it is locally controlled by propagule pressure and abiotic conditions. However, even when all favourable conditions are met, all the potentially colonizable grasslands are not invaded. We hypothesize that management practices should play a crucial role in the control of ash colonization. From empirical field surveys we have compared the botanical composition of a set of grasslands (present and former) differing in management practices and level of ash colonization. We have displayed a kind of successional gradient positively linked to both ash cover and height but not to the age of trees. We have tested the relationships between ash presence in grassland and management types i.e. cutting and/or grazing, management intensity and some grassland communities’ features i.e. total and local specific richness and species heterogeneity. Mixed use (cutting and grazing) is negatively linked to ash presence in grassland whereas grazing alone positively. Mixed use and high grazing intensity are directly preventing ash seedlings establishment, when low grazing intensity is allowing ash seedlings establishment indirectly through herbaceous vegetation neglected by livestock. Our results show the existence of a limit between grasslands with and without established ashes corresponding to a threshold in the intensity of use. Under this threshold, when ash is established, the colonization process seems to become irreversible. Ash possesses the ability of compensatory growth and therefore under a high grazing intensity develops a subterranean vegetative reproduction. However the question remains at which stage of seedling development and grazing intensity these strategies could occur.     

Assessment of Soluble and Biomass K in Culture Medium Is a Reliable Tool for Estimation of K Releasing Efficiency of Bacteria

Abstract

Assessing the amount of released K from minerals in bacterial liquid culture is the main process for screening and isolation of efficient potassium releasing bacteria (KRB). This study was aimed to determine the amount of released K in solution phase or supernatant (SK) as well as microbial biomass K (MBK). Therefore, 20 different bacterial isolates belonging to the 10 bacterial genera (Beijerinckia, Klebsiella, Azotobacter, Pseudomonas, Agrobacterium, Rhizobium, Sphingomonas, Citrobacter, Microbacterium, and Achromobacter) were individually used to inoculate Aleksandrov medium in presence of biotite or muscovite. Our results from in-vitro experiments revealed that the MBK (K in pellet) is more important than in SK. Although some genera such as Azotobacter and Citrobacter released more SK (16?mg/l from biotite and 12.77?mg/l from muscovite, respectively), the Klebsiella isolates with the highest MBK could release an average of 90?mg/l total K. This study indicated that the assimilated K in microbial cells is the main part of K dissolution from minerals. Due to the fast turnover of nutrients in bacterial biomass, it can be concluded that both SK and MBK could be available for plants. It seems that the finding of this research should be considered in the isolation of KRB.

Highlights

• This study reports, assessment of soluble and biomass K in the culture medium is a reliable tool for estimation of K releasing efficiency of bacteria

• Our results from in vitro experiments revealed that the assimilated K in microbial cells is the main part of K dissolved from minerals.

• Although some genera such as Azotobacter released more K in solution phase, the Klebsiella isolates with the highest biomass K could release more total K

     

Grimmia homodictyon Dixon

Abstract

We examined photosynthetic responses of two dominant pleurocarpous mosses, Actinothuidium hookeri (Mitt.) Broth. and Hylocomium splendens (Hedw.) Schimp. to low-level nitrogen (N) addition. The study was conducted in an old-growth fir forest on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. The added N, 1 g N/m², was mainly absorbed by the new-growth. The concentrations of chlorophyll a and b both increased 8 days after N addition. The quantum yield of Photosystem II (Φ_PSII) also increased. However, no significant changes were found in terms of gas exchange parameters. The mass-based CO₂ assimilation rate, chlorophyll a content, and chlorophyll a/b ratio (which is related to antenna size of the photosystem), of H. splendens were all higher than those of A. hookeri. Shoot mass per area (SMA) of H. splendens was lower than that of A. hookeri. We conclude that the photosynthetic rate was less sensitive to low-level N addition than chlorophyll contents and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters, suggesting other limiting factors in the photosynthetic process. Additionally, the faster growing H. splendens has a higher photosynthetic capacity than A. hookeri, allocating fewer resources to structural tissue.