Is there such a thing as landscape genetics?

For a scientific discipline to be interdisciplinary, it must satisfy two conditions; it must consist of contributions from at least two existing disciplines, and it must be able to provide insights, through this interaction, that neither progenitor discipline could address. In this study, I examine the complete body of peer‐reviewed literature self‐identified as landscape genetics (LG) using the statistical approaches of text mining and natural language processing. The goal here was to quantify the kinds of questions being addressed in LG studies, the ways in which questions are evaluated mechanistically, and how they are differentiated from the progenitor disciplines of landscape ecology and population genetics. I then circumscribe the main factions within published LG studies examining the extent to which emergent questions are being addressed and highlighting a deep bifurcation between existing individual‐ and population‐based approaches. I close by providing some suggestions on where theoretical and analytical work is needed if LGs is to serve as a real bridge connecting evolution and ecology sensu lato.     

生境破碎化对植物-昆虫及昆虫之间相互关系的影响

生境破碎化对生物多样性和生态系统功能影响是当前国内外生态学家研究的热点问题之一。文章针对生境破碎化的内涵、量度指标进行介绍,着重分析生境破碎化对植物-昆虫关系的影响,包括植物与植食性昆虫的关系、植物与传粉昆虫的关系、种子与种子捕食者的关系,植物及其分解者的关系,还分析生境破碎化对昆虫-昆虫关系的影响,包括昆虫及其拟寄生物的关系、捕食者与猎物的关系。通过对上述方面的阐述,旨在更好地理解生境破碎化对动植物群落相互关系产生的深刻影响,并提出今后研究中应注意的问题和研究热点。     

生态学系统的空间异质性

空间异质性是生态学系统的一个普遍牧场生,生态学家对它在生态学中的重要性已取得了比以往更深刻的认识。试图从空间异质性的含义,空间异质性与尺度和等级的关系,空间异质性的定量描述,空间异质性对生物和非生物过程的影响,以及空间异质性的动态等5个方面综述了有关空间异质性的生态学研究的新进展。     

Multi-scale Data Used to Analyze the Spatial Distribution of French Grunts, Haemulon Flavolineatum, Relative to Hard and Soft Bottom in a Benthic Landscape

We evaluated the day-time distribution of juvenile and adult French grunts, Haemulon flavolineatum, relative to the spatial configuration of hard and soft bottom areas in a benthic landscape. Probability of juvenile presence on hard bottom sites was inversely correlated with distance to soft bottom. Adults presence at hard bottom sites showed no significant relationship with distance to soft bottom. A significant and positive relationship was found between presence of juveniles on hard bottom sites and area of soft bottom within 100m, but no significant relationship was found for area of soft bottom within 500m. Adults exhibited no significant relationship with area of soft bottom for either distance tested. These distributions are suspected to be the result of the combined influence of larval settlement patterns and foraging behaviors associated with hard and soft bottom. This study indicates that data collected at very fine scales can be analyzed in the context of the broad-scale mosaic of habitats in the benthic landscape to predict patterns of fish distribution. Such spatially explicit conclusions are not possible through analysis of fine-scale or broad-scale data alone.     

粒度变化对上海市景观格局分析的影响

采用1989年上海市1∶50 000彩红外航空遥感影像解译的土地利用数据,系统分析了粒度变化对中心城区、郊区和城郊结合部3类景观格局分析的影响.结果表明:景观格局指数对粒度具有尺度依赖性,随粒度的变粗,格局指数的变化可归为单调下降、阶梯上升或单峰变化以及不规则变化3类;景观格局指数随粒度变化的曲线存在多个拐点,并对应于合适的景观格局分析尺度,上海城市景观格局分析的合适尺度为10～20 m;不同城市景观类型对景观格局指数的粒度效应具有较大影响,景观格局指数在城郊结合部表现出与城区和郊区不同的变化趋势.     

景观格局指数相关性的幅度效应

以TM遥感图像为数据源,选择江苏盐城大丰地区一块1764km2的研究区,运用地理信息系统技术处理得到该研究区的景观类型图,选取景观水平上4种类型的32个景观指数进行计算,分析了不同幅度对景观指数间相关关系的影响。结果表明:随着研究幅度由0.5km到14km的逐渐增加,同类型景观指数间相关性幅度效应最为显著的为面积、周长、密度指数,其次是蔓延度、指数和形状指数,最后是多样性指数;不同类型景观指数间相关关系的幅度效应中,面积、周长、密度指数与其他类型指数间的相关关系较好,形状指数与多样性指数间的相关性则较差;且大部分景观指数间相关关系发生质变的空间幅度为3km×3km后,且随着研究幅度的增加,大部分发生质变的指数逐渐表现出不相关。该研究为不同幅度下景观指数的选取提供了参考。     

Hedgerows and Their Role in Agricultural Landscapes

Hedgerows, rows of trees or shrubs enclosing or separating fields, are man made. They are part of rural landscapes and should not be studied without considering the farming systems and the rural society as a whole. Their species composition depends on the history of the countryside, as well as current farming practices. Land use and boundary management play a major role in determining the floristic composition of hedgerows, and are strongly related to the grain size of the field's mosaic. Hedgerow networks, due to their rectilinear shape, and with their high degree of connection, enhance or interrupt many fluxes in the landscape. Hedgerows act as a corridor of movement and dispersal for many forest species, such as carabids, small mammals, and plants. On the other hand, hedgerows interrupt or slow down air fluxes and the propagules they carry. In the heterogeneous mosaic of fields and wooded patches, hedgerows often increase the functional connectivity of rural landscapes. The future of hedgerows depends on the changes of the rural society, which includes more and more nonfarmers. Hedgerows will be considered not only as a part of a productive area, but also as an element of a multifunctional landscape.     

甘肃永登县土地利用景观格局的空间尺度效应

依据“斑块-廊道-基质”模式,研究了甘肃省兰州市永登县景观格局的空间尺度效应.结果表明:草地为整个研究区景观结构的基质;廊道包括道路和河流;其余景观组分(耕地、林地、园地,住宅用地、工矿用地、公共管理与服务用地和其他土地)均为斑块.斑块类型水平指数与景观水平指数均表现出明显的空间幅度依赖性.不同景观组分的斑块类型指数的尺度效应在不同幅度区间存在差异性,景观水平指数的尺度效应在不同幅度区间也存在差异性.在1～20 km幅度区间,尺度效应的组分类型、指标类型之间差异最为明显;在21～90 km幅度区间,尺度效应的组分类型、指标类型之间差异较小;在>90 km幅度后,尺度效应消失.90 km×90 km为研究景观格局尺度依赖性的有效幅度.     

地形因子对森林景观格局多尺度效应分析

以TM影像和野外调查为数据源,3S技术为研究手段,分析了泰山的森林景观结构动态变化以及景观格局沿高程的分异。选择相对高差较大的区域设计了8个地形方位,采用3种由连续样方组成的辐射状样带,在遥感影像上进行信息采集,研究地形对森林景观格局的多尺度效应,分析了不同地形因子对森林景观分异的影响。结果表明,在景观尺度上,地形方位、海拔、山地类型是影响森林景观镶嵌格局的控制因素,坡向、坡度是重要因素,坡形、坡位是不明显因素。以TM影像为信息源,从森林景观分异和梯度分析上,首先要考虑海拔坡向指数、坡形坡位指数和海拔,并立足于地形方位。地形主要因子间存在着稳定的显著正相关,为森林分异多尺度格局提供了较强的综合解释能力。     

Cultural ecology and the genetical structure of Nicobar island populations

The population of Nicobar is not a single random mating population but divided into a number of subpopulations within each of which essentially random mating takes place. Heterogeneity tests indicate that there is a significant difference among subpopulations for the ABO blood group system but not for the MN system. The overall gene frequencies of the ABO system were: r = 0·914; p = 0·033; q = 0·053. The gene frequencies of the MN system are much more consistent in the area as a whole than in the ABO system. The gene frequencies of the MN system were: M = 0·92 and N = 0·08. The Wahlund's principle yields the value of Ø = 0·0358 for the MN system and the unweighted mean value of Øs equals 0·0301 for the ABO system. The founder effect may have a far greater effect than the effects of chance in the genetical structure of Nicobar subpopulations.     

科尔沁沙地景观研究中的尺度效应

从研究区域取样尺度和分析尺度两个方面入手 ,对科尔沁沙地景观的尺度效应进行了分析 ,结果表明 :取样尺度的尺度效应可以通过回归分析和统计分析来判断其变化趋势和范围。回归分析的结果表明 ,景观中斑块数量 ( y)与取样面积 ( x)之间有很好的拟合关系 y=- 7.1 2 82 x+ 2 2 0 .31 ( R=0 .95 8>0 .70 8=α0 .0 1(10 ) ) ;最大斑块面积 ( y)和取样面积 ( x)二者的关系为 y=0 .0 0 4 x2 - 0 .0 0 96x+ 0 .3346( R=0 .947>0 .70 8=α0 .0 1(10 ) ) ,关系密切。取样面积对景观结构特征的影响分析显示 ,在取样面积最小为 0 .2 8的情况下 ,景观多样性指数的变化为抛物线型 ,在取样面积约为研究区面积的一半左右时 ,景观多样性最高 ,为1 .931。不同取样面积的平均多样性指数为 1 .863(± 0 .0 75 )。从景观优势度指数的变化来看 ,呈倒抛物线型。在取样面积约为研究区面积的一半左右时 ,优势度最低 ,为 0 .467。不同取样面积的平均优势度指数为0 .5 34(± 0 .0 75 )。在取样面积不变的情况下 ,研究尺度的分析表明 ,沙地景观间隙度具有分形结构。间隙度与研究斑块的占有概率有关 ,占有概率越高 ,分维数越大。在研究对象占有概率相同的情况下 ,不同分布格局存在不同的景观间隙度 ,研究尺度越大 ,差别越大。相对而     

景观破碎化对植物种群的影响

景观破碎化是目前存在的一种普遍现象,是由于人为因素或其它非人为因素的干扰所导致的景观破碎分离并由简单趋向复杂的过程。它直接或间接影响着景观的结构、功能及其动态。本文首先简要介绍景观破碎化的成因和不同研究角度与水平上景观破碎化影响的表现;然后着重分析景观破碎化对植物种群的大小和灭绝速率、扩散和迁入、遗传和变异以及存活力等的影响;同时归纳现阶段研究景观破碎化对植物种群影响的主要方法和模型;最后提出目前景观破碎化对植物种群影响研究中存在的三个主要问题：缺乏原始的资料、成熟的模型和破碎化与其他因素,如污染、气候变化等,交互作用的识别。     

黄土丘陵小流域景观格局指数的粒度效应

采用基于GIS的景观格局分析法,研究了1975-2007年黄土丘陵沟壑区大南沟小流域景观格局指数在1～50 m粒度范围内的粒度效应.结果表明：研究区小流域景观格局指数的粒度效应明显,不同年份之间的差异显著;该区景观格局指数的粒度效应可分为5种类型,即稳定不变型、平稳降低型、波动降低型、波幅增强型和不规则变化型.研究区景观的斑块丰富度属于稳定不变型,即随着粒度增大保持不变;边界长度、边界密度、景观形状指数、聚合度指数和蔓延度指数属于平衡降低型,即随着粒度增大呈显著的线性降低趋势;分维数随粒度增大呈波动递减趋势,属于波动降低型粒度效应;景观总面积、Shannon多样性指数和Shannon均匀度指数的波幅呈显著增大趋势,属于波幅增强型粒度效应;不规则变化型粒度效应的景观格局指数包括斑块数、斑块密度、平均斑块面积、最大斑块指数、破碎度指数和景观分离度指数.1975年研究区上述景观格局指数的粒度效应与其他年份之间的差异显著,甚至截然相反.