林分光照空间异质性对水曲柳更新的影响

 光照是森林更新动态中极为关键的环境因子。本研究在东北天然次生林中选择样地,应用地统计学理论结合实验生态学方法,定量分析林分光照空间异质性特征,同时进行林下播种水曲柳（Fraxinus mandshurica）的更新实验,探测更新格局特征。通过空间关联性分析,研究探讨是否林分光照的空间变异对水曲柳更新有重要影响作用。研究结果表明： 1）生长季林分平均光照仅为全光照的4.2%～4.6%,在空间分布上呈现非常明显的异质性特征,空间自相关变异（62.5%～78.2%）主要体现在10.9～12.4 m的尺度上。2）林分光照不同的空间样点上,水曲柳更新幼苗发生数量和秋季幼苗存活数量均存在显著差异,光照相对强的微生境中,更新苗发生数量较多且存活率高,而在光照较弱的微生境中则更新较差,更新具有十分明显的空间格局。3）更新格局与林分光照空间异质性特征紧密关联。在光照空间异质性程度较高、空间变异较复杂的条件下,更新相应呈现出较复杂的空间格局,自相关的变异表现在较小尺度范围（2.12～6.97 m）。在光照空间异质性程度较低、空间变异复杂性较小的条件下,更新格局的复杂程度明显变小,空间自相关变异（>83%）表现在较大的尺度上（30 m）,对更新格局起主要的影响作用,随机变异的影响很小（<17%）。这些研究结果说明,林分光照环境在水曲柳更新中的作用十分关键,林分光照的空间异质性对更新格局起决定性作用。     

Community structure in north temperate ants: temporal and spatial variation

Summary Ant communities in Vermont and New York woods were sampled in four time periods to determine species composition, relative abundances, and nest locations in space. The Vermont community was richer, containing more species and higher nest densities than New York. Both communities followed the geometric distribution of species abundances, suggesting that a single resource was mediating competition. The resource most clearly implicated was suitable nest sites, principally pre-formed plant cavities. Nonrandom species associations, underdispersion in every season, and the occurrence of incipient nests overwintering aboveground all implicated shortage of such cavities. Furthermore, microhabitat differences which produce suitable nest sites occur over a very small scale in these communities.     

森林更新与空间异质性

森林更换是一个重要的生态学过程,一直是森林生态系统动态研究中的主要领域之一。森林更新受物理环境、自然干扰、人为干扰、更新树种特性、树种对干扰的反应等因素及其相互作用的影响。这些生物和非生物的因素随空间和时间而不断变化,构成了森林的空间异质性和时间异质性,使森林更新具有空间和时间上的变化特点,表现在异质性的格局和过程中。探索森林更新与空间异质性的内在规律,可揭示空间格局对更新的生态学过程的潜在作用机制。本文主要综述了近年来有关森林更新与空间异质性研究的主要内容和一些观点,分析了更新中空间异质性的来源,着重评述了空间异质性的生境及更新树种的反应、小尺度的空间异质性与更新动态、林分中光有效性的空间异质性与更新格局以及土壤和更新的空间异质性尺度的关联性等方面的研究。     

How to cope with negative estimates of components of variance in ecological field studies

Ecologists often need to estimate components of spatial or temporal variation. The most widely used method in ecology uses the observed and expected mean squares in an analysis of variance. A more general approach, which can be used for balanced and unbalanced designs, is based on residual maximal likelihood (REML). This method is less well known by ecologists and requires specialist software. If the design is balanced, the two methods are equivalent, except for one important respect: estimates from analysis of variance can be negative whereas REML estimates cannot. The purpose of this note is to point out a simple modification to the analyses of variance which yields the same estimates as REML for many of the designs commonly used in ecological studies. This modification has been available in the mathematical literature for over 30 years, but appears not to be well known amongst ecologists. It is useful in many cases of balanced analytical designs.     

零配比正交试验设计与结果分析

发现了正交配比试验的一种特殊情况-零配比正交试验,极差与平方和特征分析表明:常规正交(配比)试验极差与方差分析法均不能直接用于零配比正交试验结果分析．推导了3因素、3水平、无互作零配比正交试验极差估计与平方和分解校正方法,可有效提高试验结果分析的可靠性．     

Prey-taxis destabilizes homogeneous stationary state in spatial Gause–Kolmogorov-type model for predator–prey system

We consider a continuous taxis-diffusion-reaction system of partial-differential equations describing spatiotemporal dynamics of a predator–prey system. The local kinetics of the system is defined by general Gause–Kolmogorov-type model. The predator ability to pursue the prey is modelled by the Patlak–Keller–Segel taxis model, assuming that movement velocities of predators are proportional to the gradients of specific cues emitted by prey (e.g., odour, pheromones, exometabolites). The linear stability analysis of the model showed that the non-trivial homogeneous stationary regime of the model becomes unstable with respect to small heterogeneous perturbations with increase of prey-taxis activity; an Andronov–Hopf bifurcation occurs in the system when the taxis coefficient of predator exceeds its critical bifurcation value that exists for all admissible values of model parameters. These findings generalize earlier results obtained for particular cases of the Gause–Kolmogorov-type model assuming logistic reproduction of the prey population and the Holling types I and II functional responses of the predator population. Numerical simulations with theta-logistic growth of the prey population and the Ivlev functional response of predators illustrate and support results of the analytical study.     

Scales of spatial patterns of distribution of intertidal invertebrates

Few comparative studies of spatial patterns at different scales have examined several species in the same habitat or the same species over a range of habitats. Therefore, variability in patterns among species or among habitats has seldom been documented. This study quantifies spatial patterns of a suite of intertidal snails and a species of barnacle using a range of statistical techniques. Variability in densities was quantified from the scale of adjacent quadrats (over a distance of centimeters) to tens of kilometers. Significant differences in abundances occurred primarily at two spatial scales. Small-scale differences were found at the scales of centimeters or 1–2 m and, for many species on many shores, these accounted for most of the variability in abundances from place to place. These are likely to be determined by behavioural responses to small-scale patches of microhabitat. Large-scale differences in abundance were also found in most species at the scale of hundreds of meters alongshore. These are likely to be due to variation in recruitment (and/or mortality) because of limited dispersal by adults of these species. There was little or no additional variation among shores, separated by tens of kilometers, than was shown among patches of shore separated by hundreds of meters. Identification of the scale(s) at which significant differences in abundance are found focus attention on the processes (and the scales at which these processes operate) that influence patterns of distribution and abundance. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of various procedures are discussed.     

The spatial structure of the physical environment

There is substantial environmental variance at small spatial scales (1 m or less) in both natural and disturbed environments. We have investigated the spatial structure of physical variables at larger scales (up to 10⁶ m). We analysed surveys of edaphic properties of Wisconsin forest soils, of the water chemistry of lakes in Ontario and Labrador, and of temperature and precipitation in northeastern North America. We found no clear indication that the variance among sites approaches some maximal value as the distance between them increases. We suggest instead that the variance of the physical environment tends to increase continually with distance. The slope of the log-log regression of variance on distance provides a means of comparing the heterogeneity of different environments with respect to a given factor, or of comparing different factors within a given environment. This slope provides a useful measure of environmental structure that can be related to the biodiversity or plasticity of native organisms.     

神农架天然针阔混交林乔木更新的空间格局

为深入了解神农架天然针阔混交林群落乔木树种的更新特征,于神农架国家公园设置1 hm²森林动态监测样地对树种更新进行调查,利用Ripley的L函数分析优势更新树种的空间分布格局、种间空间关联性以及与大树的空间分布关系。结果显示：（1）更新个体共有35 752株,隶属于19科29属45种。更新优势种基本是乔木层优势树种,物种更新数量表现为：巴山冷杉（Abies fargesii Franch.） > 华山松（Pinus armandii Franch.） > 四蕊槭（Acer stachyophyllum subsp.tetramerum（Pax）A.E.） > 华中山楂（Crataegus wilsonii Sarg.）,混交林群落更新良好。（2）随着尺度增加,巴山冷杉、华山松更新空间格局由聚集分布向随机分布和均匀分布发展;华中山楂、四蕊槭更新的空间格局在整个尺度上均为聚集分布,表明针叶、阔叶树种更新在空间生态利用策略上出现分化。（3）巴山冷杉与其余3个优势更新树种、华山松与华中山楂更新呈显著正相关,表现出对微生境的共同喜好;四蕊槭分别与华山松、华中山楂更新的空间关系表现为显著负相关,种间竞争激烈。（4）巴山冷杉、华中山楂、四蕊槭的更新个体与大树的空间分布总体为显著正相关,这可能与种子传播限制相关;华山松幼苗、幼树与大树的空间分布在小尺度上呈负相关,存在资源不对称竞争。     

樟子松人工固沙林天然更新特征

采用比较分析与野外调查的方法。对沙地樟子松人工林天然更新特征进行了研究,能够进行天然更新的引种地区天然更新在时间上是不连续的,与特定年份的某些降水因子密切相关;在空间上主要有3种更新方式;林隙更新,林缘更新,阔叶林下更新;天然更新幼树生长情况与人工林的生长差异不大。     

Relative importance of within-habitat environment,land use and spatial autocorrelations for determining odonate assemblages in rural reservoir ponds in Japan

To clarify the major factors affecting odonate assemblages in rural reservoir ponds among within-habitat environments, land use around ponds and spatial autocorrelation, we surveyed odonate adults (Zygoptera and Anisoptera) in 70 study ponds in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, during three sampling periods in 2005. Redundancy analyses (RDA) for these three factor groups were executed to determine their strength in explaining the odonate species composition. Their relative contributions were also evaluated by the method of variation partitioning. A total of 41 odonate species were recorded in the study ponds, and 24 of them, excluding rare species, were used for our analysis. Summed effects including all three factor groups explained approximately 39% of the variation in odonate species composition. We found that spatial autocorrelation was the most important, though the within-habitat environment and land use had comparable effects. We conclude that spatial autocorrelation should be considered in this type of analysis, though we could not clearly explain what caused such a spatial structure. Pond area and debris that had accumulated at the bottom of ponds were selected as the within-habitat environment, and the forests and paddy fields around ponds were selected for land use after the procedure of forward stepwise selection. These results suggest that the recent decrease of forests around the ponds has had a negative effect on the odonate assemblages.     

樟子松人工固沙林天然更新障碍因子分析

采用比较分析与野外试验的方法,对沙地樟子松人工林天然更新障碍因子进行了分析。结果表明,影响天然更新的环境因子主要有郁闭度、枯枝落叶层、植被盖度和立地条件。天然更新的障碍主要是由于引种地降雪覆盖少,温度偏高等原因,使土壤蒸发大、苗木蒸腾大,造成水分的亏缺,从而导致1－2年生更新幼苗死亡。针对樟子松人工固沙林天然更新障碍及其更新特点,提出在适宜立地上采取人工促进措施,如埋土、灌水等方法,以保证天然更新有效进行。