Elites: Choice, Leadership and Succession

Elites: Choice, Leadership and Succession. Joao De Pina-Cabral and Antonia Pedroso de Lima. eds. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000. 253 pp.     

台湾植被分类方案

复杂的自然条件导致面积仅为36000多平办公里的台湾兼有热带和寒温带的群落类型,堪称中国乃至世界植被之缩影。它的植被分类也是对中国乃至世界植被分类的补充。台湾植被分类采用的是外貌-区系原则,分类单位和系统自上而下是：植被型纲、植被型目、植被型、群团组、群团和群丛。高级单位(植被型纲、植被型目和植被型)以群落的生态外貌为依据;中、低级单位主要依据种类组成,兼顾优势种和标志种的指示意义。在中级单位中(群团组、群团),重视优势种的作用,在低级单位中(群丛)更重视特征种(或标志种)的意义。按此原则将台湾植被划分为5个植被型纲(森林、灌丛、草本植被、岩原植被、沼泽和水生植被),29个植被型目(寒温性针叶林,凉温性针叶林,暖温性针叶林,暖性针叶林、落叶阔叶林、常绿阔叶落叶阔叶混交林、常绿苔藓林、常绿硬叶林、常绿阔叶林、热带雨林、热带季雨林海岸林、暖性竹林、常绿针叶灌丛、革叶灌从、落叶阔叶灌丛、常绿阔叶灌丛、刺肉灌从、竹灌丛、草甸、疏灌草地、干热旱生草地、岩屑堆稀疏群落、石隙植被、木本沼泽、草本沼洋、藓类沼泽、淡水水生植被和成水水生植被),53个植被型。列举了各个植被型中的重要群团。     

台湾植被分类方案

复杂的自然条件导致面积仅为36 000多平方公里的台湾兼有热带和寒温带的群落类型,堪称中国乃至世界植被之缩影.它的植被分类也是对中国乃至世界植被分类的补充.台湾植被分类采用的是外貌-区系原则,分类单位和系统自上而下是:植被型纲、植被型目、植被型、群团组、群团和群丛.高级单位(植被型纲、植被型目和植被型)以群落的生态外貌为依据;中、低级单位主要依据种类组成,兼顾优势种和标志种的指示意义.在中级单位中(群团组、群团),重视优势种的作用,在低级单位中(群丛)更重视特征种(或标志种)的意义.按此原则将台湾植被划分为5个植被型纲(森林、灌丛、草本植被、岩原植被、沼泽和水生植被),29个植被型目(寒温性针叶林,凉温性针叶林,暖温性针叶林,暖性针叶林、落叶阔叶林、常绿阔叶落叶阔叶混交林、常绿苔藓林、常绿硬叶林、常绿阔叶林、热带雨林、热带季雨林海岸林、暖性竹林、常绿针叶灌丛、革叶灌丛、落叶阔叶灌丛、常绿阔叶灌丛、刺肉灌丛、竹灌丛、草甸、疏灌草地、干热早生草地、岩屑堆稀疏群落、石隙植被、木本沼泽、草本沼泽、藓类沼泽、淡水水生植被和咸水水生植被),53个植被型.列举了各个植被型中的重要群团.     

Invisible Elites? Authority and the Dream

This paper seeks to develop a perspective on the dynamic interplay between dreaming, culture and identity. A spectrum of examples show that dream imagery has had and still has today tremendous cultural significance across a whole array of historical, religious and contemporary political and personal contexts. The visionary dream is shown to have underpinned the charter myths of both Israel and Serbia/Kosovo as well as having been the generative source of a core body of hierarchically organised spiritual knowledge in Islamic societies, possibly including the Taliban. Annunciation and calling dreams are commonplace in shamanic and some other societies and individuals can have dreams that prefigure aspects of their developing personal myths. The power and politics of dreaming is further exemplified in the author's example from his dreamwork group that suggest we can dream within the cultural and oppressive stereotypes of our gendered and racist time. Our experience of reality is presented as being dynamically co-created out of both the normative events of everyday life as well as from the human experience of the dream in its powerful and politically evocative forms.     

台湾、海南与大陆鸟类的亲缘关系

本研究利用过去的文献,整理台湾、海南和大陆鸟类的亲缘关系。结果发现,海南有78%的鸟类与大陆相同,有40%的鸟类与台湾相同。依此数据,显示海南成为岛屿的时间比台湾晚,与大陆鸟类的亲缘关系也比台湾较为密切。然当孤立成为岛屿之后,栖于岛上的鸟类,乃各自发展为地方特色。台湾仍保有一些古北界的寒带鸟类,不见于海南。海南则有一些东洋界的热带鸟类,也没有分布到台湾。     

The Veil of Objectivity: Prophecy, Divination, and Social Inquiry

It is possible for folk inquiry to become a source for the modification of anthropological thought. This paper discusses two alternative knowledge systems: traditional divination and syncretic prophecy in Central Africa. The processes of scientific discovery, causal reasoning, and the evaluation of evidence are compared with oracular reasoning and prophetic prediction. The oracular aspects of scientific reasoning are delineated along with the problems of reformulating and presenting basic data. Part of this presentational process is the "translation" of events from the context of their occurrence into a theoretical framework. The modifications generated by data analysis affect the explanatory adequacy of the method of inquiry. A rapprochement between folk inquiry and Western scientific assumptions diminishes the forms of theoretical reductionism that inhibit the possibility for describing and analyzing contrasting belief systems within an anthropological framework . [folk inquiry, prophecy, divination, scientific reasoning, Africa]     

中国台湾斜盖伞属的一个靴耳型新变种

<正>INTRODUCTION Clitopilus(Fr.ex Rabenh.)P.Kumm.is a small genus of Entolomataceae(Basidiomycota,Agaicales)with 30 species recognized(Kirk et al.2008).     

Character Analysis in Cladistics: Abstraction, Reification, and the Search for Objectivity

The dangers of character reification for cladistic inference are explored. The identification and analysis of characters always involves theory-laden abstraction—there is no theory-free “view from nowhere.” Given theory-ladenness, and given a real world with actual objects and processes, how can we separate robustly real biological characters from uncritically reified characters? One way to avoid reification is through the employment of objectivity criteria that give us good methods for identifying robust primary homology statements. I identify six such criteria and explore each with examples. Ultimately, it is important to minimize character reification, because poor character analysis leads to dismal cladograms, even when proper phylogenetic analysis is employed. Given the deep and systemic problems associated with character reification, it is ironic that philosophers have focused almost entirely on phylogenetic analysis and neglected character analysis.     

台湾海峡两岸生物地理学现状与展望

对生物地理学的内涵、研究领域以及进展进行了简要介绍,认为近期海峡两岸生物地理学研究的目标应当集中在:末次冰期以来的海陆变迁对海峡两岸生物分布格局的影响、海峡两岸现代动植物区系的渊源、台湾最后与大陆保持陆地连接的时间与范围、东亚岛弧对台湾生物分布格局的影响以及海峡两岸生物的物种分化与生态适应性五个方面。同时认为海峡两岸现代生物分布格局关系的一种历史生物地理学解释,应当是一个在末次冰期期间存在于长江以南的大区系片断化后对海峡两岸各自不同环境适应的结果。     

海南和台湾蕨类植物多样性及其大陆性特征

海南和台湾是我国南部和东部两个最重要的大陆性岛屿,具有极为丰富的蕨类植物多样性。特有现象揭示着植物区系和植物多样性的历史,间断分布揭示着与邻近或相关植物区系的联系;特别是在岛屿地区,这种现象和意义尤其明显。海南有蕨类植物区系55科、135属、466种,其中特有种有32种,台湾蕨类植物区系57科、142属、599种,其中特有种达66种。在海南与台湾两地,有共有属104属,共有种仅有176种。台湾海峡出现始于晚白垩世,持续至第四纪;琼州海峡出现于早第四纪,因此,两地的特有现象远少于种子植物(台湾有801种,海南有501种),原因与蕨类植物具有更广的散布性相关,而且在被子植物中起重要作用的物种生物学障碍(机制)在蕨类是缺乏的;形态学的、生殖生物学特征导致蕨类植物具有较缓慢的物种演化历史和较低的灭绝率(Smith,1972)。海南和台湾蕨类植物区系的比较还表明,地理位置和海拔高度对植物区系的物种分化和物种多样性产生了极大的影响。     

中国台湾海峡两岸原始被子植物的起源、分化和关系

文章分析了中国台湾海峡两岸共有20个原始被子植物科的地理分布,区系分化,起源以及它们之间的关系,进一步证明台湾海峡两海的植物区系是一个统一的区系,台湾省是一个东亚植物区系的马来西亚植物区系交汇,而以东亚植物区系成分占优势的地区,台淡丰富的原始被子植物特有种,大多种是在台湾同大陆分离以后形成的,带有新特有的种的性质,中国大陆同台湾现存的原始被子植物科属在区系上是共同起源的,起源的时间和地区可以追溯到中生代的华夏古陆,即在白垩纪末台湾同大陆第一次分裂之前就已经表成了,第四纪冰期大陆同台湾之间的陆桥,对两岸原始被子植物的分布几乎没有影响。     

Maritime Legislation of Mainland China and Taiwan: Developments,Comparison, Implications,and Potential Challenges for the United States

In January 1998, Taiwan promulgated the Law of the Republic of China (ROC) on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone and the Law of the Republic of China on the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the Continental Shelf, both of which came into force on January 21, 1998. On June 26, 1998, China adopted the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Exclusive Economic Zone and the Continental Shelf, which is the most significant maritime legislation since its 1992 Law on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. This article studies the recent maritime legislation developments in Mainland China and Taiwan, the differences and similarities between the two sets of laws, their implications for the Asia-Pacific region, and the potential challenges for the United States.     

Numbers and the Natural History of Imagining the Self in Taiwan and China

In the Chinese cultural tradition, numbers may be seen as meaningful, creative, even poetic things, and they figure prominently in accounts of the self. Rather than ‘reducing people to numbers’, quantification is used – by at least some people some of the time – as a mode of differentiating themselves from others, a means of narrating unique life experiences. This paper explores the role of numbers in accounts of the self, drawing primarily on a case study of one woman from rural Taiwan. It is suggested that a natural historical framework can help illuminate numbers and number systems as Chinese technologies of the imagination.     

New species of Atomaria Stephens, 1829 (Coleoptera,Cryptophagidae) from China and Taiwan

Two new species of Atomaria Stephens, 1829 from China and Taiwan are described and illustrated: Atomaria (Atomaria) cooterisp. nov. and Atomaria (Atomaria) johnsoni sp. nov. New records for China and Taiwan are added: Atomaria (Atomaria) klapperichi Johnson, 1971 and Atomaria (Atomaria) plecta Lyubarsky, 1995. New subgeneric combinations are proposed for Atomaria (Atomaria) klapperichi, Atomaria (Atomaria) plecta and Atomaria (Atomaria) torrida Johnson, 1971.LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6A3DCCBE-8978-4D2C-B366-56C9ECEA51A4.     

海峡西岸经济区生态系统健康评价

基于活力、组织结构、恢复力、生态功能、人类健康等区域生态系统健康标准,综合考虑人为压力、响应措施等因素,构建了海峡西岸经济区(海西区)生态系统健康评价指标体系;针对区域生态系统健康的自然特性与人工特性,采用均方差法和层次分析法,确定了各指标权重;运用模糊综合评价法,建立了海西区生态系统健康评价模型.结果表明： 2008年,海西区生态系统健康状态优越,人为压力较轻,区域生态系统健康状况总体较好,但具有显著的空间差异;受固定资产投资、教育经费支出等响应指标的制约,部分地市生态系统健康状况劣于其健康状态.与1992年相比,2000和2008年海西区生态系统健康状况相对较优,驱动要素以经济活力、组织结构、人类健康、人口压力和投资调整等为主;但受建设用地扩张及其引起的自然景观减少、人类干扰增强等制约,2008年海西区生态系统健康状况劣于2000年.     

Two new species of lepocreadiid trematodes of marine fishes from the Taiwan Straits,China

Two new species of lepocreadiid trematodes are reported from marine fishes from the Taiwan Straits, China: Diploproctodaeum spinosus n. sp. from the intestine of Takifugu oblongus (= Fugu oblongus) and Preptetos parapristipomae n. sp. from Parapristipoma trilineatum. Diploproctodaeum spinosus differs from the known species of Diploproctodaeum, with 1 spine at the base of the ejaculatory duct. Preptetos parapristipomae is most similar to Preptetos rotto in having an entire ovary but differs from it in the sucker ratio, distribution of the uterus, position of the cirrus sac, and locality.