3种中型蜘蛛卵袋形态特征与纤维组成结构

采用扫描电镜和氨基酸自动分析仪对球蛛科(Theridiidae)温室拟肥腹蛛(Parasteatodatepidariorum)、肖蛸蛛科(Tetragnathidae)肩斑银鳞蛛(Leucauge blanda)及狼蛛科(Lycosidae)猴马蛛(Hippasa holmerae)3种中型蜘蛛卵袋的超微结构和氨基酸组成进行了观察。形态观察表明,这3种蜘蛛的卵袋形态各异,温室拟肥腹蛛卵袋一头尖,呈梨状;肩斑银鳞蛛卵袋呈扁平状;猴马蛛卵袋呈椭球形。扫描电镜观察表明,温室拟肥腹蛛卵袋外覆盖层仅仅由一种均一直径的柱状腺丝组成,而另外2种蜘蛛卵袋外覆盖层主要由柱状腺丝与少量其他丝腺纺出的丝纤维组成。氨基酸组成分析表明,温室拟肥腹蛛卵袋外覆盖层的丝纤维的氨基酸组成与具有保守性的其他种类蜘蛛柱状腺丝心蛋白的氨基酸组成差异较大,这表明其可能含有新的丝心蛋白家族成员。本文根据氨基酸组成与扫描电镜的结果分析探讨了不同直径丝纤维的丝腺来源。     

中国南方肖蛸科蜘蛛的研究（蛛形纲：蜘蛛目）

本文记述我国云南省、湖南省、广西省产的肖蛸科蜘蛛,共6新种,其中银鳞蛛属5新种,肖蛸属1新种。文内对各新种均作了详细描述,并绘制有外雌器和触肢器等结构图。全部模式标太保存在湖南师范学院生物系。种名为:三角银鳞蛛,新种Leucauge trigonosa sp.nov.纽银鳞蛛,新种Leucauge lygisma sp.nov.瘤银鳞蛛,新种Leucouge tuberculata sp.nov.楔银鳞蛛,新种Leucauge sphenoida sp.nov.筒银鳞蛛,新种Leucauge cylindrata sp.nov.钩形肖蛸,新种Tetragnatha aduncata sp.nov.     

不同体重肩斑银鳞蛛和大腹园蛛圆网的结构特征

对在自然条件下不同体重肩斑银鳞蛛Leucauge blanda和大腹园蛛Araneus ventricosus所织圆网的结构特征进行测量研究.结果表明:体重小于35.1 mg的肩斑银鳞蛛所织圆网的捕丝长度、捕食面面积、捕丝间距和半径丝根数均与个体体重呈显著正相关,而体重大于35.1 mg的个体中,这种关系并不显著,但其圆网的上、下部捕丝长度比与体重呈显著负相关,即圆网随个体的体重增加而表现出更强的不对称性;体重小于144.9 mg的大腹园蛛所织圆网的捕丝长度和捕食面面积均与个体体重呈显著正相关,体重小于103.8 mg的大腹园蛛所织圆网的半径丝根数与个体体重呈显著正相关,而大于这一体重分界值的个体中,这种关系同样不显著.大腹园蛛圆网的平均捕丝间距与体重未呈现出相关关系,体重大于85.4 mg的个体中,其网的上、下部捕丝长度比与体重呈显著负相关.两种蜘蛛圆网结构特征的变化及圆网结构特征与个体体重关系变化的不同体重分界值,可能反映了它们在不同生境下不同生长阶段的捕食投入与捕食策略.     

我国狼蛛科5种记述

记述我国蜘蛛目狼蛛科5种,包括1种豹蛛(罩豹蛛Pardosa vulvitecta)雄性新发现,1种豹蛛(意大利豹蛛Pardosa italica)中国新纪录,以及我国已记载的2种豹蛛和1种舞蛛的修订。     

中国数种熊蛛研究(蜘蛛目:狼蛛科)

记述我国狼蛛科熊蛛属５种,其中２新种为：沟谷熊蛛,三齿熊蛛,１种雄性新发现：湄潭熊蛛１９９３,中国２新纪录种;掠熊蛛富士熊蛛。     

中国微蛛亚科3新纪录属5新纪录种（蜘蛛目：皿蛛科）

记述了采自我国吉林省、新疆维吾尔自治区和湖北省皿蛛科微蛛亚科蜘蛛3新纪录属5新纪录种:双头蛛属,奇异双头蛛,盾大蛛属,尖盾大蛛;微玛蛛属,小突微玛蛛,双舟蛛属,叉胫双舟蛛,胫毛双舟蛛。     

中国肺音蛛属2种记述（蜘蛛目：皿蛛科）

记述我国皿蛛科微蛛亚科新纪录属:肺音蛛属Latithorax Holm,1943;1新种:栖霞肺音蛛L.qixeiensis sp.nov。和1新纪录种:窄缝肺音蛛L.faustus (O.P.—Cambriage,1900)。     

中国皿蛛科2新纪录属及2新纪录种（蜘蛛目：皿蛛科：微蛛亚科）

记述产于新疆的我国皿蛛科微蛛亚科2新纪录属:双舟蛛属Dicymbium Mcnge 1867和长插蛛属Silometopus Simon 1926,2新纪录种:黑双舟蛛Dicymbium nigrum(Blackwall,1834)和罗氏长插蛛Silometopus reussi(Thorell,1871)。     

湖南省5种皿蛛的记述（蜘蛛目：皿蛛科）

记述采自我国湖南省南岳、道县和双桥的皿蛛科皿蛛亚科蜘蛛５种,其中有４个新种：南岳斑皿蛛ｌｅｐｔｈｙｐｈａｎｔｅｓ ｎａｎｙｒｅｎｓｉｓ、衡山斑皿蛛Ｌｅｐｔｈｙｐｈａｎｔｅｓ ｈｅｎｈｓｈａｎｅｎｓｉｓ、双刺长指蛛Ｋａｅｓｔｎｅｒｉａ ｂｉｃｕｌｔｒａｔａ和双板指蛛Ｂａｔｈｙｐｈａｎｔｅｓ ｄｉｐｅｔａｌｕｓ,１个既有种：天目中指蛛Ｃｅｎｔｒｏｍｅｒｕｓ ｔｉａｎｍｕｓｈａｎｕｓ Ｃｈｅｎ ｅｔ Ｓ     

中国盾板蛛属一新种及一新纪录种：蜘蛛目：皿蛛科：微蛛亚科

本文记述我国皿蛛科微蛛亚种蜘蛛的一新纪录属盾板蛛属ＰｅｌｅｃｏｐｓｉｓＳｉｍｏｎ,１８６４,一新种黑突盾板蛛Ｐ．ｎｉｇｒｏｇｌｏｂａｓｐ．ｎｖｏ．,及一新纪录种平行盾板蛛Ｐ．ｐａｒａｌｌｅｌａ（Ｗｉｄｅｒ,１８３４）。     

Function of being colorful in web spiders: attracting prey or camouflaging oneself?

Bright body colorations of orb-weaving spiders have been hypothesizedto be attractive to insects and thus function to increase foragingsuccess. However, the color signals of these spiders are alsoconsidered to be similar to those of the vegetation background,and thus the colorations function to camouflage the spiders.In this study, we evaluated these 2 hypotheses by field experimentsand by quantifying the spiders' visibility to insects. We firstcompared the insect interception rates of orbs constructed bythe orchid spider, Leucauge magnifica, with and without thespider. Orbs with spiders intercepted significantly more insectsthan orbs without. Such a result supported the prey attractionbut not the camouflaging hypothesis. We then tested whetherbright body colorations were responsible for L. magnifica'sattractiveness to insects by manipulating the spiders' colorsignals with paint. Alteration of color signals significantlyreduced L. magnifica's insect interception and consumption rates,indicating that these spiders' bright body parts were attractiveto insects. Congruent with the finding of field manipulationswere the color contrasts of various body parts of these spiders.When viewed against the vegetation background, the green bodyparts were lower, but the bright parts were significantly higherthan the discrimination threshold. Results of this study thusprovide direct evidence that bright body colorations of orbweavers function as visual lures to attract insects.     

Memory of distances and directions moved as cues during temporary spiral construction in the spiderLeucauge mariana (Araneae: Araneidae)

The spider Leucauge marianaprobably uses the presence of temporary spiral (TSP) lines already in place to determine sites of attachment of currently produced loops of temporary spiral, but less rigidly than has been previously supposed for orb weavers. Memory of distances and directions traveled recently to and from TSP lines is implicated by the fact that adjustments to experimental and natural discontinuities in previous TSP lines occur gradually rather than being abrupt. Distances and directions traveled along both radii and previous TSP lines correlate with relative amounts of adjustment. Body size may also be used as a reference measure, but not in the simple, inflexible way suggested by R. W. G. Hingston (A Naturalist in Himalaya,Small, Maynard, Boston, 1920). Tensions on radii are not used as cues in any simple way, and may not be used at all, since experimental changes in tensions produced effects consistent with resulting changes in thread positions but inconsistent with tension differences.     

Comparative study of the erythrocytes and haemoglobins in nototheniid fishes from Antarctica

The blood of seven Antarctic nototheniid species and representatives from three other families contained low haemoglobin concentrations compared with non-polar marine teleosts. Haematocrit values were slightly lower than values from other teleosts, while haemoglobin and erythrocyte counts were substantially reduced by comparison. Interspecific variation in haemoglobin concentration seemed to be a function of activity level. Mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration of all Antarctic species was strikingly low by comparison with species from lower latitudes and was not correlated with the habits of the species. Haemoglobin componentry was compared using celluslose-acetate electrophoresis and, unlike many temperate species, only one major haemoprotein was isolated from each benthic species, but four components were evident in the pelagic species Trematomus borchgrevinki . The possible functional significance of these findings was discussed in relation to the ecology of each species.     

用浮游动物评价巢湖东湖区的水质和营养类型

于2005年6月至2006年6月对巢湖东湖区的浮游动物进行了采样调查,初步研究了巢湖东湖区的浮游动物的种类组成、群落结构特征以及浮游动物物种的多样性,并对巢湖东湖区的水质状况和营养类型作出了评价。研究结果显示浮游动物153种,其中原生动物43属59种,占总种数的38.56%;轮虫类20属48种,占总种数的31.37%;枝角类14属26种,占总种数的16.99%;桡足类20种,占总种数的13.07%。浮游动物的物种多样性随着季节的变化而变化;污生指数法评价结果表明巢湖东湖区的水质状况从2005年6月至2006年6月均处于β-中污带级;用浮游动物数量(ind·L^-1)作为湖泊水体营养程度的生物量指标,其结果显示巢湖东湖区水体从2005年6-9月和2006年3-6月巢湖东湖区水体的营养状况处于富营养状态。     

云南西部实蝇的多样性

2005和2006年,在云南西部瑞丽、潞江坝、六库、保山、大理5个地区,采用信息素引诱法及被害瓜果内实蝇收集法对5个地区实蝇多样性进行分析.结果表明,5个地区实蝇丰富度的发生模式明显分为2种类型:瑞丽和潞江坝实蝇全年发生;六库、保山和大理实蝇季节性发生;瑞丽的实蝇种类丰富度最高,有20种,其次是潞江坝,11种,而保山、大理的实蝇种类丰富度低,分别为4种和3种;该区域实蝇优势种为桔小实蝇(Bactrocera dorsalis)和南亚果实蝇(B. tau);2年实蝇多样性指数均以六库最低,以潞江坝最高.各地实蝇种类相似性变化较大, 相似性系数在0.15～1.00 之间.结果为了解云南西部实蝇种类分布以及预防实蝇危害提供了基础数据.     

Local filters limit species diversity,but species pools determine composition

In a series of three experiments, we tested for effects of species pools, resource stress, and species interactions on four aspects of community structure: species richness, evenness, species composition, and functional group composition. We also examined whether the impacts of species interactions on the community varied with resource availability or species pool. Communities of sand dune annuals grew from seed bank samples collected from two sites in three different years, so that the species pool differed at two levels: the source site and the year of seed bank collection. Communities experienced one of three irrigation treatments and a range of sowing densities, which varied resource supply (stress) and the potential for species interactions, respectively.Species richness and evenness were most affected by local factors: higher densities and lower water availability decreased species diversity. In contrast, species composition was influenced most by the species pool. Functional group composition had an intermediate response, and was affected by both species pools and local filters.Resource stress and species interactions strongly filtered species from the community, but the identity of species remaining was variable. Furthermore, the magnitude of species interaction effects on richness and evenness varied with species pools. Thus, the outcome of species sorting among biotic and abiotic environments was dependent on the pool of available species. Contrary to predictions from theory, the effects of species interactions on the community did not vary consistently with resource levels.     

Frequent successful multiparasitism by five parasitoids attacking the scale insectNipponaclerda biwakoensis

Successful multiparasitism by five parasitoid wasps of the scale insectNipponaclerda biwakoensis was investigated at a reed bed in Lake Biwa. The wasps were gregarious endoparasitoids consuming the entire body of the host. The rate of successful multiparasitism for a parasitoid species was defined as the proportion of the number of individual hosts from which the species emergedwith other species to the total number of hosts from which the species emerged. The rates were high for each parasitoid species, ranging from 17 to 82%. Successful multiparasitism frequently involved two species with similar adult size, but rarely involved species with different adult size. For four of the five species, the number of wasps per host was significantly less when wasps emerged from a host with other species relative to when emerged alone. For the other one species, the number of wasps was less, but the difference was not significant. With only one species, female wasps were significantly smaller when they emerged from a host with other species relative to when emerged alone.     

长白山红松阔叶混交林林冠空隙树种更新动态规律的研究

分析了长白山红松阔叶混交林林冠空隙(Gap)内更新树种的数量特征.结果表明, 在34个林冠空隙中, 更新乔木树种出现频度为7.27%, 更新灌木树种出现频度为21.02%, Gap形成后, 阳性先锋树种首先侵入, 出现频度较高, 占据较宽的生态位, 随着Gap年龄的增加, 树种间的竞争逐渐增大, 阳性树种的生长逐渐受到限制, 阴性树种逐渐增多;Gap年龄与Gap郁闭度和Gap面积呈负相关, Gap面积与树种出现频度呈负相关;Gap年龄主要分布在5～15a和46～55a两段期间, 树种出现频度与Gap年龄存在着密切关系, 当Gap年龄小于25a时, 二者呈正相关;当Gap年龄在25～40a时, 二者呈负相关;当Gap年龄大于40a时, 树种出现频度趋于稳定;34个Gap内4种主要乔木更新树种和4种主要灌木更新树种的胸径均基本上呈正态分布, 乔木更新树种的最高点胸径为4～6cm径级, 灌木更新树种的最高点胸径为1.2cm径级.     

Trophic structure stability and extinction dynamics of beetles (Coleoptera) in tropical forest fragments

A first analysis of the stability of trophic structure following tropical forest fragmentation was performed in an experimentally fragmented tropical forest landscape in Central Amazonia. A taxonomically and trophically diverse assemblage of 993 species of beetles was sampled from 920 m² of leaf litter at 46 sites varying in distance from forest edge and fragment area. Beetle density increased significantly towards the forest edge and showed non-linear changes with fragment area, due to the influx of numerous disturbed-area species into 10 ha and 1 ha fragments. There was a marked change in species composition with both decreasing distance from forest edge and decreasing fragment area, but surprisingly this change in composition was not accompanied by a change in species richness. Rarefied species richness did not vary significantly across any of the sites, indicating that local extinctions of deep forest species were balanced by equivalent colonization rates of disturbed-area species. The change in species composition with fragmentation was non-random across trophic groups. Proportions of predator species and xylophage species changed significantly with distance from forest edge, but no area-dependent changes in proportions of species in trophic groups were observed. Trophic structure was also analysed with respect to proportions of abundance in six trophic groups. Proportions of abundance of all trophic groups except xylomycetophages changed markedly with respect to both distance from forest edge and fragment area. Local extinction probabilities calculated for individual beetle species supported theoretical predictions of the differential susceptibility of higher trophic levels to extinction, and of changes in trophic structure following forest fragmentation. To reduce random effects due to sampling error, only abundant species (n = 46) were analysed for extinction probabilities, as defined by absence from samples. Of these common species, 27% had significantly higher probabilities of local extinction following fragmentation. The majority of these species were predators; 42% of all abundant predator species were significantly more likely to be absent from samples in forest fragments than in undisturbed forest. These figures are regarded as minimum estimates for the entire beetle assemblage because rarer species will inevitably have higher extinction probabilities. Absolute loss of biodiversity will affect ecosystem process rates, but the differential loss of species from trophic groups will have an even greater destabilizing effect on food web structure and ecosystem function.