矮嵩草草甸主要植物气孔分布及开闭规律与蒸腾强度的关系

本文研究了高寒矮嵩草草甸6种植物叶片气孔的分布、密度和开闭日变化规律与蒸腾强度的关系。结果表明：多数植物上下表皮均有气孔分布,而矮嵩草的气孔集中分布在下表皮,羊茅的气孔集中分布在上表皮。同一植物类群中,叶片气孔密度大者,植物蒸腾强度也相对较高。气孔日变化是在日出后,随气温和大气湿度的变化而变化,在9时和午后3时气孔几乎全部张开,然后逐渐关闭。植物蒸腾强度随气孔开闭而发生变化,矮嵩草的蒸腾强度在11时左右达到峰值;垂穗披碱草和美丽风毛菊是在午后1时达到峰值,植物没有“午睡” 现象。     

气孔下腔间的水汽扩散

本文把气孔及其下腔看作截面为椭圆形的柱形区域,提出一个水汽从气孔下腔内所有细胞表面扩散到气孔外端的三维扩散模型。根据 Fick 定律和质量守恒定律建立了支配该模型的水汽扩散方程。用有限差分法,借助于计算机求得水汽从气孔下腔的所有细胞表面扩散到气孔内端所遇到的阻力及其近似表达式。并从理论上对该阻力的倒数——导度随气孔面积而变化的方式做了分析和解释。通过将本模型求得的气孔下腔阻力计算公式与 Brown 等以及 Cooke 的公式比较,发现在气孔开度变化相当大的范围内用后面两公式计算的阻力偏大0.5—1倍左右。此外,计算结果还表明:在气孔下腔水散失总量中,腔内表皮细胞表面上的水散失量占86—96%,而保卫细胞表面上的水散失量又占后者的88—93%,副卫细胞表面上的水散失量仅7—12%。     

Coordination of leaf and stem water transport properties in tropical forest trees

Stomatal regulation of transpiration constrains leaf water potential (Ψ_L) within species-specific ranges that presumably avoid excessive tension and embolism in the stem xylem upstream. However, the hydraulic resistance of leaves can be highly variable over short time scales, uncoupling tension in the xylem of leaves from that in the stems to which they are attached. We evaluated a suite of leaf and stem functional traits governing water relations in individuals of 11 lowland tropical forest tree species to determine the manner in which the traits were coordinated with stem xylem vulnerability to embolism. Stomatal regulation of Ψ_L was associated with minimum values of water potential in branches (Ψ_br) whose functional significance was similar across species. Minimum values of Ψ_br coincided with the bulk sapwood tissue osmotic potential at zero turgor derived from pressure–volume curves and with the transition from a linear to exponential increase in xylem embolism with increasing sapwood water deficits. Branch xylem pressure corresponding to 50% loss of hydraulic conductivity (P ₅₀) declined linearly with daily minimum Ψ_br in a manner that caused the difference between Ψ_br and P ₅₀ to increase from 0.4 MPa in the species with the least negative Ψ_br to 1.2 MPa in the species with the most negative Ψ_br. Both branch P ₅₀ and minimum Ψ_br increased linearly with sapwood capacitance (C) such that the difference between Ψ_br and P ₅₀, an estimate of the safety margin for avoiding runaway embolism, decreased with increasing sapwood C. The results implied a trade-off between maximizing water transport and minimizing the risk of xylem embolism, suggesting a prominent role for the buffering effect of C in preserving the integrity of xylem water transport. At the whole-tree level, discharge and recharge of internal C appeared to generate variations in apparent leaf-specific conductance to which stomata respond dynamically.     

The new Arctic side-gilled sea slug genus <Emphasis Type="Italic">Boreoberthella</Emphasis> (Gastropoda,Opisthobranchia): Pleurobranchoidean systematics and evolution revisited

Most of the ca. 100 known pleurobranchoid side gilled sea slug species are confined to temperate and warm coastal waters worldwide. Exceptions were five enigmatic Antarctic and southern deep sea species. Herein the first Arctic deep water pleurobranchid, Boreoberthella augusta gen. et spec. nov., is anatomically described. To reveal the origin, relationships and phylogeography of Boreoberthella, a cladistic analysis of 24 pleurobranchoid taxa representing all genera and traditional higher groups was prepared. The morphological data set includes 72 characters; many of them, such as details of the copulatory apparatus, were explored for the first time. The monophyly of both Pleurobranchoidea and Pleurobranchaeidae is confirmed. In contrast to an earlier study, the southern Ocean deep-water species Tomthompsonia antarctica results as basal offshoot of the monophyletic though poorly supported Pleurobranchidae which show a secondary, internal shell. The traditional genus Berthella with worldwide temperate and tropical members may represent an evolutionary grade rather than a clade. The monotypic genera Parabathyberthella and Polictenidia are synonymized with Bathyberthella according to taxonomic and phylogenetic evidence. The basal pleurobranchaeid genus Pleurobranchella, together with Tomthompsonia, Bathyberthella, and Boreoberthella are discussed as potential relics of a cold-water related early nudipleuran radiation in Antarctica, with subsequent dispersal through the depths of the world oceans. The ancestor of Pleurobranchus species, the closest relatives of Boreoberthella, colonized coastal and warmer waters and radiated there.     

弱光下生长的葡萄叶片蒸腾速率和气孔结构的变化

 植物能够对生长环境产生生态适应性,这种适应性可从气孔导度、光合速率、水分利用效率等生态指标上反映出来。为了研究葡萄蒸腾特性对弱光环境的适应性变化,本试验以‘京玉’葡萄幼苗（Vitis vinefera cv. Jingyu）为试验材料,通过遮光处理（2个处理,分别遮光65%和85%）营造弱光环境,测定了在弱光环境下生长的葡萄叶片蒸腾速率、气孔导度、水分利用效率对光照强度的响应,同时用扫描电镜技术观察了气孔的发育。结果表明,弱光环境下生长的葡萄幼苗,叶片的水势较高,但水分利用效率较低,叶片蒸腾速率和气孔导度变化对光照强度的响应缓慢,而自然光下生长的葡萄叶片则反应较迅速。通过对气孔结构的研究发现,与自然光照环境下生长的植株相比,在弱光环境下生长的葡萄幼苗,叶片下表皮的气孔横轴变宽,大小气孔之间差异减少,气孔外突,表皮细胞变大甚至扭曲,角质层变薄。说明葡萄幼苗能够对弱光环境产生适应性变化,其蒸腾特性的变化与其气孔结构的变化相关,具有一致性。     

Environmental and physiological regulation of transpiration in tropical forest gap species: the influence of boundary layer and hydraulic properties

Environmental and physiological regulation of transpiration were examined in several gap-colonizing shrub and tree species during two consecutive dry seasons in a moist, lowland tropical forest on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Whole plant transpiration, stomatal and total vapor phase (stomatal + boundary layer) conductance, plant water potential and environmental variables were measured concurrently. This allowed control of transpiration (E) to be partitioned quantitatively between stomatal (g _s) and boundary layer (g _b) conductance and permitted the impact of invividual environmental and physiological variables on stomatal behavior and E to be assessed. Wind speed in treefall gap sites was often below the 0.25 m s^–1 stalling speed of the anemometer used and was rarely above 0.5 m s^–1, resulting in uniformly low g _b (c. 200–300 mmol m^–2 s^–1) among all species studied regardless of leaf size. Stomatal conductance was typically equal to or somewhat greater than g _b. This strongly decoupled E from control by stomata, so that in Miconia argentea a 10% change in g _s when g _s was near its mean value was predicted to yield only a 2.5% change in E. Porometric estimates of E, obtained as the product of g _s and the leaf-bulk air vapor pressure difference (VPD) without taking g _b into account, were up to 300% higher than actual E determined from sap flow measurements. Porometry was thus inadequate as a means of assessing the physiological consequences of stomatal behavior in different gap colonizing species. Stomatal responses to humidity strongly limited the increase in E with increasing evaporative demand. Stomata of all species studied appeared to respond to increasing evaporative demand in the same manner when the leaf surface was selected as the reference point for determination of external vapor pressure and when simultaneous variation of light and leaf-air VPD was taken into account. This result suggests that contrasting stomatal responses to similar leaf-bulk air VPD may be governed as much by the external boundary layer as by intrinsic physiological differences among species. Both E and g _s initially increased sharply with increasing leaf area-specific total hydraulic conductance of the soil/root/leaf pathway (G _t), becoming asymptotic at higher values of G _t. For both E and g _s a unique relationship appeared to describe the response of all species to variations in G _t. The relatively weak correlation observed between g _s and midday leaf water potential suggested that stomatal adjustment to variations in water availability coordinated E with water transport efficiency rather than bulk leaf water status.     

Short-term and long-term effects of plant water deficits on stomatal response to humidity in Corylus avellana L.

Short-term (hours) changes in plant water status were induced in hazel (Corylus avellana L.) by changing the evaporative demand on a major portion of the shoot while maintaining a branch in a constant environment. Stomatal conductance of leaves on the branch was influenced little by these short-term changes in water status even with changes in leaf water potential as great as 8 bars. Long-term (days) changes in plant water status were imposed by soil drying cycles. Stomatal conductance progessively decreased with increases in long-term water stress. Stomata still responded to humidity with long-term water stress but the range of the conductance response decreased. Threshold responses of stomata to leaf water potential were not observed with either short-term or long-term changes in plant water status even when leaves wilted. It is suggested that concurrent measurements of plant water status may not be sufficient for explaining stomatal and other plant responses to drought.     

Regulation of water flux through trunks, branches, and leaves in trees of a lowland tropical forest

We studied regulation of whole-tree water use in individuals of five diverse canopy tree species growing in a Panamanian seasonal forest. A construction crane equipped with a gondola was used to access the upper crowns and points along the branches and trunks of the study trees for making concurrent measurements of sap flow at the whole-tree and branch levels, and vapor phase conductances and water status at the leaf level. These measurements were integrated to assess physiological regulation of water use from the whole-tree to the single-leaf scale. Whole-tree water use ranged from 379 kg day⁻¹ in a 35 m-tall Anacardium excelsum tree to 46 kg day⁻¹ in an 18 m-tall Cecropia longipes tree. The dependence of whole-tree and branch sap velocity and sap flow on sapwood area was essentially identical in the five trees studied. However, large differences in transpiration per unit leaf area (E) among individuals and among branches on the same individual were observed. These differences were substantially reduced when E was normalized by the corresponding branch leaf area:sapwood area ratio (LA/SA). Variation in stomatal conductance (g _s) and crown conductance (g _c), a total vapor phase conductance that includes stomatal and boundary layer components, was closely associated with variation in the leaf area-specific total hydraulic conductance of the soil/leaf pathway (G _t). Vapor phase conductance in all five trees responded similarly to variation in G _t. Large diurnal variations in G _t were associated with diurnal variation in exchange of water between the transpiration stream and internal stem storage compartments. Differences in stomatal regulation of transpiration on a leaf area basis appeared to be governed largely by tree size and hydraulic architectural features rather than physiological differences in the responsiveness of stomata. We suggest that reliance on measurements gathered at a single scale or inadequate range of scale may result in misleading conclusions concerning physiological differences in regulation of transpiration. Received: 1 October 1997 / Accepted: 6 March 1998     

玉米生育期土壤-植物-大气连续体水流阻力与水势的分布

根据玉米生育期的田间试验资料分析了土壤-植物-大气连续体中水势和水流阻力的分布,结果表明土壤与植物叶片之间的水势差在玉米抽雄期前达0.8—1.0MPa,到抽雄期以后达1.0—1.5MPa,叶片与大气之间的水势差则在抽雄期前后分别达80—120MPa和60—80MPa;连续体内的水流阻力主要在叶片与大气之间.建立了连续体中玉米叶片水势的动态模拟公式,模拟叶水势具有较高的精度.最后,揭示了叶片蒸腾速率与叶-气系统水势差和水流阻力的关系,当叶片与大气之间的水势差达90—100MPa之后,蒸腾速率随叶-气间水势差增加而减小.     

Xylem hydraulic physiology: The functional backbone of terrestrial plant productivity

Land plants are completely dependent on a passive system of water transport for their survival. The great bulk of the xylem tissue is non-living and consequently has no short term capacity to acclimate or adjust to changes in hydraulic demand. Yet there exists an extraordinary degree of coordination between the hydraulic and photosynthetic systems of plants that defies developmental explanation. The connection between hydraulic capacity and photosynthetic assimilation arises as a product of the shared stomatal pathway for water and CO₂ exchange in the leaf. A combination of optimization in both water use and structural xylem investment has led to a situation in vascular plants where the form and function of all individuals is moulded by the link between hydraulic and photosynthetic systems. Unlike competing models of hormonal control of gas exchange, hydraulic limitation of productivity under optimal and drought conditions accounts for much of the observed variation in plant gas exchange in natural systems. The plant water transport system places a hard physical limit to plant productivity and survival. Identifying the developmental control of key xylem traits will yield the potential for achieving new performance capabilities in plants.     

玉米生育期土壤—植物—大气连续体水流阻力与水势的分布

根据玉米生育期的田间试验资料分析了土壤-植物-大气连续体中水势和水流阻力的分布,结果表明土壤与植物叶片之间的水势差在玉米抽雄期前达0.8—1.0MPa,到抽雄期以后达1.0—1.5MPa,叶片与大气之间的水势差则在抽雄期前后分别达80—120MPa和60—80MPa;连续体内的水流阻力主要在叶片与大气之间。建立了连续体中玉米叶片水势的动态模拟公式,模拟叶水势具有较高的精度。最后,揭示了叶片蒸腾速率与叶-气系统水势差和水流阻力的关系,当叶片与大气之间的水势差达90—100MPa之后,蒸腾速率随叶-气间水势差增加而减小。     

Hatena arenicola gen. et sp. nov., a katablepharid undergoing probable plastid acquisition

Hatena arenicola gen. et sp. nov., an enigmatic flagellate of the katablepharids, is described. It shows ultrastructural affinities to the katablepharids, including large and small ejectisomes, cell covering, and a feeding apparatus. Although molecular phylogenies of the 18S ribosomal DNA support its classification into the katablepharids, the cell is characterized by a dorsiventrally compressed cell shape and a crawling motion, both of which are unusual within this group. The most distinctive feature of Hatena arenicola is that it harbors a Nephroselmis symbiont. This symbiosis is distinct from previously reported cases of ongoing symbiosis in that the symbiont plastid is selectively enlarged, while other structures such as the mitochondria, Golgi body, cytoskeleton, and endomembrane system are degraded; the host and symbiont have developed a morphological association, i.e., the eyespot of the symbiont is always at the cell apex of Hatena arenicola; and only one daughter cell inherits the symbiont during cell division, resulting in a symbiont-bearing green cell and a symbiont-lacking colorless cell. Interestingly, the colorless cells have a feeding apparatus that corresponds to the location of the eyespot in symbiont-bearing cells, and they are able to feed on prey cells. This indicates that the morphology of the host depends on the presence or absence of the symbiont. These observations suggest that Hatena arenicola has a unique "half-plant, half-predator" life cycle; one cell divides into an autotrophic cell possessing a symbiotic Nephroselmis species, and a symbiont-lacking colorless cell, which later develops a feeding apparatus de novo. The evolutionary implications of Hatena arenicola as an intermediate step in plastid acquisition are discussed in the context of other examples of ongoing endosymbioses in dinoflagellates.     

海岸带林草复合系统环境及其效应研究

在江苏东台海岸带防护林内设置5个林分密度小区,记录各小区不同生长季节的光照、地面温度和地面相对湿度及其日变化,测定牧草的蒸腾作用、营养价值及其生物量的变化,分析林草复合系统的环境特征及其生态效应,结果表明：林分郁闭度对光照强度变化的影响可分为3个阶段,低郁闭度时,郁闭度的变化对光照影响较小,中等郁闭度时影响最大,高郁闭度时影响又会减弱。生长季盛期,试区平均温度最高,为23.09±5.93℃,分别比初期和末期高24.3％和62.4％;此时平均相对湿度为91.61％±1.57％,分别高于初期24.4％和末期32.9％。生长季盛期苏丹草(Sorghum sudonense)的平均蒸腾强度为3659.82％±489.44g·dm-2·h-1,比末期高1.72％。在IV区茅叶荩草(Arthraxon pricnodes)单位面积的代谢能、饲料单位最高,分别为4.877×103kJ·m-2和3890.64FU·hm-2,比最低的Ⅰ区高77.54％和80.87％。不论是单个生长季的温度,还是几个生长季温度的组合,对于狗尾草(Setaria faberii)和苏丹草干重的影响都是不显著的,相对湿度也是如此。生长季初期的光照(L)对狗尾草生物量(Y)回归是显著的：Y= –724.19+0.063L;生长季末期的光照对苏丹草的生物量是显著的：Y= –1093.30+0.11 L。对于狗尾草,在生长季初期,试区内温度(T)、相对湿度(RH)和光照对其生物量的影响都是极显著的,其关系为：Y＝–3859.39+25.35T+23.03RH+0.11L;盛期时,只有相对湿度和光照的作用显著,关系为：Y＝1205.16+0.05L–14.84RH末期时,三因子中没有一个因子或因子的组合有显著作用。对于苏丹草,在生长季初期,温度和相对湿度的作用明显,其回归方程为：Y＝6186.48–69.38T–62.64RH;盛期时,温度、相对湿度和光照的作用都是显著的,其关系是：Y＝–3777.95+11.61 T+16.36RH+0.15L;而在末期,光照和相对湿度与苏丹草干重呈显著回归：Y＝–779.92+0.116L–5.59RH。     

Some effects of long-term ozone fumigations on Norway spruce

Summary Potted cuttings of a 12-year-old, and grafts of an 80-year-old, Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) were subjected to 100 or 300 g O₃·m^–3 for 1215 h (45 h of daylight per week) during the growing season of 1985. At the end of the fumigation the plants did not exhibit any visible signs of injury. Whereas in the fumigation with 100g O₃·m^–3 we did not detect any significant change in gas exchange, 300 g O₃·m^–3 did alter the CO₂ uptake after 27 weeks, and in one clone transpiration was also altered. Stomatal reaction to a change of light suggested sluggishness, but the change was not statistically significant.     

几种枝角类的卵鞍形态及表面超微结构

用光镜和扫描电镜对浙东地区八种常见淡水枝角类卵鞍形态和表面结构进行了观察和比较。卵鞍形态多为三角形或豆荚形,表面大都具特定的纹饰,内储冬卵1－2枚。卵鞍的形态、表面纹饰、冬卵的数量的排列方向具有种的特异性。枝角类的分类地位相距越远,卵鞍形态和表面结构相差越大,相近种和亚种间的卵鞍在光镜下难以区别,亚显微结构却有一定的差异。卵鞍的形态和结构作为枝角类的分类依据是有意义的。     

Scanning electron microscopy of the posterior spiracles of cattle grubs Hypoderma bovis and Hypoderma lineatum

Posterior spiracles of newly hatched first instar larvae of Hypoderma bovis (L.) and H. lineatum (DeVill.) consist of two pairs of spiracular openings. Each pair is surrounded by a rima bearing three spines. Posterior spiracles of second instar larvae are composed of a pair of medial ecdysial scars bounded laterally by spiracular plates. H. bovis spiracular plates have twenty-nine to forty openings, each surrounded by a slightly raised rima. H. lineatum spiracular plates have eighteen to twenty-five openings. Spiracular openings lead to posterior felt chambers which are connected to a common anterior felt chamber filled with a meshlike network. In third instar H. bovis each medial ecdysial scar is surrounded by a strongly concave spiracular plate. Spiracular openings are surrounded by slightly raised rima. Most rimae bear a spine. Spiracular plates of H. lineatum are flat and rimae are without spines. Each spiracular opening leads to a posterior felt chamber, several of which are confluent with a larger anterior felt chamber. Anterior felt chambers open into the dorsal longitudinal tracheal trunk. Felt chambers in third instar larvae are also filled with a complex mesh.