EARLIEST MEGAFOSSIL EVIDENCE OF FAGACEAE: PHYLOGENETIC AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS

Fossil evidence of Fagaceae from the Paleocene/Eocene boundary of western Tennessee is described and discussed. These fossils include a newly discovered pistillate inflorescence and dispersed fruits of subfamily Castaneoideae as well as a taxon that resembles modern trigonobalanoids (pistillate inflorescences and dispersed mature fruits). Fossil staminate catkins with fagaceous pollen, which we suggest may be conspecific with the trigonobalanoid infructescences, are also found at the locality. Two distinct types of fagaceous leaves are present at the locality. The reproductive structures are the oldest megafossils unequivocally assignable to Fagaceae and represent the oldest remains of subfamily Fagoideae and the oldest megafossil remains of Castaneoideae. In addition, the fossils provide insights into the chronology of diversification, biogeography, and phylogeny of Fagaceae. The trigonobalanoid remains may also provide insights into the timing and circumstances of the evolution of wind pollination in Fagaceae.     

生物生产力的“4P”概念、估算及其相互关系

生物生产力是指从个体、群体到生态系统、区域乃至生物圈等不同生命层次的物质生产能力,它决定着系统的物质循环和能量流动,也是指示系统健康状况的重要指标。表示生物生产力的概念有总初级生产力（GP P）、净初级生产力（NPP）、净态生态系统生产力（NEP）和净生物群区生产力（NBP）,本文简称“4P”。主要探讨了“4P”概念的内涵和估算以及全球变化对它们的影响;通过生态系统的碳循环,建立“4P” 之间的相互联系,并对若干衍生概念进行定义。尽管生态系统的最终产物（NBP或现存量）占光合总产量的很少一部分,但它是决定物质再生物的资本,维持和决定生态系统的物质再生产。     

氯化胆碱对小麦光合性能及生长的影响

盆栽和田间试验结果表明：经喷施有效作用浓度范围（２００—５００ｐｐｍ）氯化胆碱（ＣＣ）后的小麦叶片叶绿素含量略有增加,希尔反应和光合速率增高：促进了游离叶绿体非环式光合电子传递活性;叶绿体片展的发育有所改善;Ｃａ（２＋）－ＡＴＰ酶和Ｍａ（２＋）－ＡＴＰ酶活性均有所提高;对正常呼吸代谢活力无影响．但降低了光呼吸的关键酶乙醇酸氧化酶活性,利于光合提高。对田间小麦株高无明显影响,但叶面积明显增加,功能叶寿命延长;千粒重和小区产量增加;对籽粒含氮量、蛋白质、粗脂肪等含量无明显影响,但总糖量明显增加。本文对ＣＣ促进小麦光合性能之原因和有效作用浓度作了讨论。     

RHODOLITHS: BETWEEN ROCKS AND SOFT PLACES

Rhodoliths (maërl) are widely distributed in the worlds' oceans and have an excellent fossil record. Individuals are slow growing, may be long lived (>100 years), and are resilient to a variety of environmental disturbances. Their external morphology and internal growth bands are potential archives of environmental variation at scales of within years to tens of years. At high densities, these free-living non-geniculate coralline algae form rhodolith beds, communities of high diversity that can be severely impacted by resource extraction.     

PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SARDINES (SARDINOPS SPP.): ASSESSING BIOGEOGRAPHIC MODELS AND POPULATION HISTORIES IN TEMPERATE UPWELLING ZONES

Sardines (Sardinops spp.) occupy temperate upwelling zones in the coastal regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, including locations in Japan, California, Chile, Australia, and South Africa. East and West Pacific populations are separated by vast expanses of open ocean, and northern and southern hemisphere populations are separated by tropical waters which are lethal to sardines. The relative importance of these barriers has been the focus of a longstanding debate between vicariance and dispersal schools in biogeography. Comparisons of a 500 bp fragment of the mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region reveal strong geographic structuring of mtDNA lineages but shallow divergence both within and between regional populations. Regional populations are related to one another in a stepping-stone pattern, the apparent result of a series of Pleistocene dispersal events around the continental margins of the Indian-Pacific Basin. These mtDNA data, combined with an electrophoretic survey of variability at 34 nuclear loci (Grant and Leslie 1996), indicate that the five regional forms of Sardinops (considered separate taxa by most authorities) probably diverged within 500,000 years BP, a much shorter timeframe than predicted by vicariance models based on plate tectonics. High mtDNA haplotype diversity, coupled with an excess of rare alleles in the protein electrophoretic dataset, may indicate exponential growth from a small ancestral population. The mtDNA and allozyme data are concordant with climate records and fossil evidence in portraying regional populations as recent, unstable, and ephemeral. Regional populations of sardines have probably been extinguished and recolonized over short evolutionary timescales in response to changes in climate and the oceanography of coastal upwelling zones.     

CONCEPTACLE STRUCTURE OF THE PARASITIC CORALLINE RED ALGA CHOREONEMA THURETII (CORALLINALES) AND ITS TAXONOMIC IMPLICATIONS1

The major diagnostic features for erecting the red algal subfamily Choreonematoideae (Corallinales) were a combination of 1) absence of both cell fusions and secondary pit connections, 2) conceptacle roof and wall comprised of a single cell layer, and 3) presence of tetrasporangial pore plugs within a uniporate conceptacle in the monotypic taxon Choreonema thuretii (Bornet) Schmitz. Because this alga is a parasite, the absence of secondary cell connections is most likely an adaptation to a reduced thallus. This study shows that all conceptacles are not composed of a file of cells but rather a single layer of epithallial cells that are underlain by a thick layer of calcified acellular material; both epithallial cells and the calcified layer are produced by peripheral sterile cells. Although the outermost tetrasporangial pore canal is uniporate, there is a calcified acellular multiporate plate recessed just below the rim. The plate is produced by interspersed sterile cells and is continuous with the calcified layer supporting the conceptacle. These unique structures are likely due to parasitism rather than to the ancestral state. Based on these results and a reexamination of published micrographs depicting lenticular cells in Austrolithon intumescens Harvey et Woelkerling, we propose that both subfamily Choreonematoideae and Austrolithoideae are closely allied with subfamily Melobesioideae. This distant relationship to its host (Corallinoideae) plus a combination of unique conceptacle and unusual type of parasitism indicates that C. thuretii is an alloparasite and that it is likely the most ancient red algal parasite studied to date.     

不同光强下焕镛木和观光木的光合参数变化

 生长在全日光强下的焕镛木(Woonyoungia septentrionalis)和观光木(Tsoongiodendron lotungensis)幼树叶片的最大光合速率、表观量子产率和光能转换效率均较生长在40%和20%日光强的高。当生长光强从全日光强降低至40%日光强时,焕镛木的表观量子产率和光能转换效率分别降低13.1%和6.3%,而观光木则相应分别降低23.8%和33.4%。生长光强降低至40%日光强时,焕镛木的Rubisco最大羧化速率(Vcmax)未见变化;而最大电子传递速率（Jmax）则降低14.1%,表明Jmax对光强降低的响应较Vcmax敏感。当生长光强从全日光强降低到40%和20%日光强时,观光木的Vcmax分别降低7.7%和31.7%,而Jmax则分别降低9.7%和42%。光强从全日光强降低至40%日光强,焕镛木叶氮在Rubisco和捕光叶绿素蛋白复合体中的分配系数没有明显改变,而叶氮在生物力能学组分中的分配系数降低则较为明显（20.4%）,表明生长光强降低对叶氮在光合电子传递链组分分配的影响较在Rubisco的大。结果表明,焕镛木表现阳生树种特性,在迁地保育中宜选择向阳小生境种植,而观光木较耐荫,可种植在较遮荫的环境。     

A PRELIMINARY PHYLOGENETIC AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE DYAKIIDAE (GASTROPODA: STYLOMMATOPHORA) AND A BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF OTHER SUNDALAND TAXA

Abstract — The phylogeny of the Dyakiidae, an early diverging lineage of the Limacoidea sensu lalo , is reconstructed. In the Dyakiidae a unique transformation series of different genital accessory organs, the so-called "stimulators", is preserved which is an important argument for the hypothesis that the different stimulator types of the Stylommatophora are homologous. The biogeographic distribution patterns of the genera of the Dyakiidae are summarized and the ancestral areas of the major clades are analysed. The analysis of the area cladograms of the Dyakiidae and of several butterfly and heteroptera genera occurring in Sundaland revealed neither a general pattern of relationship between the areas of endemism in Sundaland, nor a general pattern of relationship between Sundaland and other areas. The area cladogram of the rather immobile Dyakiidae endemic to Sundaland might reflect older events than the area cladograms of the more mobile and widespread butterfly and plant bug genera. The general incompatibility of the area cladograms involving Sundaland taxa suggests that dispersal across barriers has played a major role in the historical biogeography of the analysed groups and challenges the hypothesis of vicariance biogeography that the distribution patterns of organisms are largely due to the fragmentation of an ancestral biota.     

羊草种群净光合速率的日变化及其与环境条件之间的相互关系

本项研究的对象是东北羊草草原的建群种群——羊草种群。研究结果表明,羊草种群净光合速率的日变化为双峰型曲线。第一次高峰出现在上午10点,为2.64g CO₂/m²(地面)·hr,第二次高峰出现在下午15点,为2.29g CO₂/m²(地面)·hr;全天的净光合速率为25.74g CO₂/m²(地面)·d.羊草种群净光合速率的日变化与测定时环境条件的日变化密切相关。各环境因子对羊草种群净光合速率的日变化发生综合影响.中午空气湿度降低和土壤含水量减少是羊草种群净光合速率中午降低的主要限制因素。     

温度对桃蚜、萝卜蚜体重及种群参数的影响

桃蚜Myrus perslcae、萝卜蚜Lipaphis crystml在能正常产仔的整个恒温范围内,成蚜和新产仔蚜体重随温度的变化都符合二次抛物线,但体重最高值出现较低的温度下．即体重变化主要表现为随温度升高而下降的趋势．在组建蚜虫的生命生殖力表时,以新产仔蚜体重对其在各温度下的生殖事进行校正。并未对计算所得的内禀增长能力rm值及其随温度的变化情况产生明显的影响,不仅没有提供新的信息。相反。这一方法使计算所得rm的值含义模糊。故建议不予采用。     

DISTRIBUTION AND RECRUITMENT OF SUBTIDAL GENICULATE CORALLINE ALAGE1

Geniculate coralline algae are common members of kelp forest communities. The structure provided by their stiff branches greatly influences the abundance and species composition of benthic animals and can affect associated algae by inhibiting recruitment, but the branches are themselves substrate for a large number of other taxa. However, other than qualitative observations, little is known about the within-site distribution, recruitment, and growth of these algae. We examined the distribution of the dominant corallines at a subtidal site in central California. Abundances of Calliarthron tuberculosum (Post. & Rupr.) Dawson, Bossiella californica ssp. schmittii (Manza) Johans., Calliarthron cheilosporioides Manza, Corallina vancouveriensis Yendo, and unidentifiable juveniles were determined at depths of 10, 15, and 20 m and on horizontal rock, vertical rock, and cobble. Calliarthron tuberculosum was most abundant (≤39% cover) at all depths, growing primarily on horizontal surfaces. Vertical surfaces and cobbles were dominated by B. californica ssp. schmittii (40 and 15% cover, respectively). These two most abundant species had the highest cover at 15 m. Calliarthron cheilosporioides and C. vancouveriensis were relatively rare (<1% cover) and generally grew on horizontal rocks and at shallower depths. Unidentified juveniles were also rare and occurred mainly on horizontal rocks and cobbles at 20 m. The settlement and growth rates of coralline crusts and the initiation and growth rates of young erect fronds from these crusts were determined in clearings made in the spring and fall at the three depths. Crust densities and diameters were highest at 10 m and in spring clearings. Settlement and growth tended to decrease with increasing depth. Trends were similar in fall clearings, but initial settlement was lower. Initiation and growth of fronds decreased with depth and were also higher in fall clearings. These variations in depth and substrata distribution, as well as settlement and growth, suggest there is considerable variation in the population biology between species in this group of subtidal plants.     

PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS OF PSEUDOSCOURFIELDIA MARINA AND SELECT GREEN FLAGELLATES AND COCCOID ULTRAPHYTOPLANKTON: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SYSTEMATICS OF THE MICROMONADOPHYCEAE (CHLOROPHYTA)1

Photosynthetic pigments of the green flagellate Pseudoscourfieldia marina (Throndsen) Manton (Micromonadophyceae) are similar to those of the coccoid Pycnococcus provasolii Guillard; prasinoxanthin is the predominant carotenoid. Other organisms that possess prasinoxanthin also possess additional pigments not found in either P. marina or P. provasolii. Uriolide, a xanthophyll previously described from the coccoid done URI 266G, was also found in Mantoniella squamata (Manton et Parke) Desikachary, Micromonas pusilla Manton et Parke and Mamiella gilva (Parks et Rayns) Moestrup, all flagellate members of the Mamiellales, and the coccoid clone IV E5G. Other unidentified carotenoids were also present in M. squamata, M. pusilla, and M. gilva. These results suggest that P. marina and the coccoid organisms URI 266G and IV E5G may be related to the Mamiellales, and that P. provasolii may be more closely related to P. marina than to M. squamata, M. pusilla, and M. gilva.     

抗药性叶螨的种群参数和相对适合度

朱砂叶螨对氧化乐果、三氯杀螨醇、双甲脒和哒螨灵产生抗性后（抗药性系数分别为152．83倍、55．59倍、62．61倍和15．67倍）,繁殖力均显著降低,且发育加速。通过组建各品系生命表得知,该螨抗氧化乐果品系、抗三氯杀螨醇品质、抗双甲脒品系和抗哒螨灵品系的相对适合度分别为0．53、0．62、0．59和0．64,均小于1,具有明显的适合度缺陷。抗药性系数和相对适合度呈直线负相关。     

CLADISTIC AND BIOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE "BLUE ASH' EUCALYPTS

Abstract— A cladistic analysis of the "blue ash" eucalypts ( Eucalyptus , Myrtaceae) is presented. Five equally parsimonious trees were found, and a strict consensus tree constructed. A revised informal classification, recognizing five series ( Planchonianinae, Sphaerocarpinae, Piperitinae, Fraxininae and Haemastominae , informal subgenus Monocalyptus ) is based on the consensus cladogram. A biogeographic analysis applies a new implementation of Assumptions 0 and 1, coding data in the form of three-area statements and using parsimony analysis. These results are used to evaluate hand resolution of Assumption 2. In comparison, Brooks parsimony analysis did not produce area cladograms that best fit the data. Series and subseries were analysed separately for area relationships, which showed a repeated pattern across the blue ash clade; combining all the data in one analysis was seen as equivalent to confounding paralogy and orthology in molecular studies. A resolved area cladogram is presented for southeastern Australia.     

Jolly-Seber法对大仓鼠和黑线仓鼠种群若干参数的估算

本文利用Jolly-Seber法估算了1986和1988年河北省饶阳县大仓鼠和黑线仓鼠的种群大小、存留率等参数。结果表明,大仓鼠的存留率比黑线仓鼠小,而且和密度负相关。大仓鼠和黑线仓鼠对铁丝活捕笼均不存在非等捕性。该方法对大仓鼠和黑线仓鼠种群参数估计是可行的。     

多刺裸腹溞在不同盐度下的种群增长参数及其驯化

在25±1℃及小球藻、酵母、牛粪+稻草+沃土3种食物条件下,研究了多刺裸腹溞在海水盐度为2‰、3‰、4‰、6‰和淡水5个浓度下的种群增长参数.实验表明无论投喂何种食物,在淡水至4‰盐度范围内,多刺裸腹溞种群的内禀增长率(rm无显著差异为0.725-1.070(d-1);净增殖率(Rn)以小球藻组平均数最高为55.13(ind.);世代时间(T)以酵母组最长,平均为5.38(d).6‰为多刺裸腹溞的生殖盐度上限.经过短期的海水驯化,其生殖的盐度上限可达9-10‰.     

凤眼莲、水花生若干光合作用参数与酶类的研究

在正常的生长条件下,凤眼莲有较高的叶面系数、叶绿素含量和光合强度。叶片可溶性糖含量也高。在低温胁迫下,凤眼莲和水花生根系活力和过氧化物酶、过氧化氢酶、细胞色素氧化酶、淀粉酶等酶活性均明显下降。试验结果表明,凤眼莲对低温胁迫较水花生更为敏感。