三峡水库消落区模拟水淹对4种草本植物生长的影响

通过对狗牙根(Cynodon dactylon)、香附子(Cyperus rotundus)、芦苇(Phragmites australis)和羊茅(Festuca ovina)等4种草本植物在长江实际水域进行模拟水淹试验,水淹深度为5 m、10 m、15 m、20 m和25 m,水淹时间为180 d,出水恢复时间为50 d,观测其水淹期间以及出水后盖度的变化,揭示不同水淹条件对4种试验植物生长的影响,从而进一步探讨每种植物在三峡水库消落区植被修复过程中适宜种植的高程。结果表明:水淹导致植株盖度下降,水淹深度越低盖度下降越显著;出水后,除香附子和芦苇在深度为25 m的处理组不能进行恢复生长外,其余皆能恢复生长,但随着水淹深度的加深,越难恢复至淹前水平;各适生植物在消落区的适宜生存范围和最适生存范围:狗牙根和羊茅,175 m～150 m和175 m～155 m;芦苇,175 m～155 m和175 m～160 m;香附子,175 m～155 m和175 m～165 m。     

密云水库的浮游生物群落

2002年4～10月对密云水库浮游生物群落的调查结果显示：浮游植物有6门,58属,122种,细胞密度为565．30～10^4cells／L,4月份硅藻(Bacillariophyta)占优势,6～10月蓝藻(Cyanophyta)占绝对优势．浮游植物优势种群有水华微囊藻(Microcystis flas-aquae)、颗粒直链藻(Melosira granulata)、梅尼小环藻(Cyclotella meneghiniana)、角甲藻(Ceratium hirundinella)等。浮游动物有36种,密度为4761ind/L;浮游动物具有原生动物在数量上占绝对优势．轮虫次之,枝角类与桡足类数量较少的特点。浮游动物的优势种群有弹跳虫(Halteria grandinella)、急游虫(Stromlridium uiHde)、针簇多肢轮虫(Polyarthra trigla)、螺形龟甲轮虫(Keratella cochlearis)、广布中剑水蚤(Mesocyclops leuckarti)、长额象鼻蚤(Bosmlna longirostris)等．与1980年监测结果相比,密云水库浮游生物总密度上升较快,群落结构和优势种群也发生了明显变化．浮游生物优势种群的指示作用显示,在植物生长季节,库区水体已进入富营养状态。     

Conspicuous impacts of inconspicuous hosts on the Lyme disease epidemic

Emerging zoonotic pathogens are a constant threat to human health throughout the world. Control strategies to protect public health regularly fail, due in part to the tendency to focus on a single host species assumed to be the primary reservoir for a pathogen. Here, we present evidence that a diverse set of species can play an important role in determining disease risk to humans using Lyme disease as a model. Host-targeted public health strategies to control the Lyme disease epidemic in North America have focused on interrupting Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (ss) transmission between blacklegged ticks and the putative dominant reservoir species, white-footed mice. However, B. burgdorferi ss infects more than a dozen vertebrate species, any of which could transmit the pathogen to feeding ticks and increase the density of infected ticks and Lyme disease risk. Using genetic and ecological data, we demonstrate that mice are neither the primary host for ticks nor the primary reservoir for B. burgdorferi ss, feeding 10% of all ticks and 25% of B. burgdorferi-infected ticks. Inconspicuous shrews feed 35% of all ticks and 55% of infected ticks. Because several important host species influence Lyme disease risk, interventions directed at a multiple host species will be required to control this epidemic.     

大庆油田油藏采出水的细菌群落结构

采用ARDRA (扩增性rDNA限制性酶切片段多态性分析)技术对大庆油田聚驱、水驱和过渡带3种油藏采出水中的细菌群落的基因组总DNA的16S rDNA克隆文库进行分析,研究了细菌群落结构.结果表明：随机挑取的596个阳性克隆可分为85个操作分类单元 (OTUs),其中聚驱、水驱和过渡带文库分别含有28、41和33个.通过对优势OTUs测序,并与GenBank进行序列比对,发现油藏采出水中的优势菌群为不动杆菌属、弓形杆菌属、厚壁菌门、假单胞菌属和硫磺单胞菌属.聚驱样品中细菌群落组成最简单,优势菌群为不动杆菌属,占库容的85%,假单胞菌属占7%;水驱样品中的优势菌群也是不动杆菌属,占库容的62%,假单胞菌属和硫磺单胞菌属各占20%和6%;过渡带文库的细菌群落的优势菌群为弓形杆菌属,占库容的50%,不动杆菌属和厚壁菌门各占19%和18%.     

Equitable and reasonable freshwater allocation based on a multi-criteria decision making approach with hydrologically constrained bankruptcy rules

Effective water allocation among multiple jurisdictions is a key instrument to improve water use efficiency within the basin scale. To achieve equitable and reasonable water allocation, natural, socio-economic, and ecological conditions within a specific basin need to be systematically considered. Based on the main principles of equitable and reasonable water allocation that were defined by UN Watercourses Convention, an integrated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) with bankruptcy rules (IMCDM-BR) under multiple hydrological constraints were proposed to allocate trans-jurisdiction water resources in Guanting reservoir basin (GRB), a shared basin between Zhangjiakou and Beijing in China. Projection pursuit (PP), as one of an effective MCDM approach, was employed to synthesize values of the related principles, which were ranked as weights for the corresponding water claims by relevant agents. Then, the weighted bankruptcy rules (BR) with multiple hydrological constraints were applied to allocate water among the related agents of the studying basin. The results of ordinary bankruptcy rules, bankruptcy rules with regular and hydrological constraints, and the proposed methods were compared and discussed. Among them, the proposed IMCDM-BR was recommended as an effective tool to support practical water allocation. Moreover, factors of equitable and reasonable water allocation were comprehensively considered. The results can thus be used for facilitating negotiation in trans-jurisdiction water allocation among agents within basins.     

Molecular analysis of invasive Cichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae) populations from neotropical ecosystems

Invasive Cichla populations in the São João River basin were genetically analysed and compared with Cichla populations from other neotropical hydrographic basins. Polymorphic sequences within the mitochondrial DNA D-loop region confirmed the introduction of different populations to the regions under analysis. Cichla kelberi was introduced to the Juturnaíba reservoir and a downstream area of the São João River, with Cichla monoculus restricted to downstream river areas. Results from this study will be useful for monitoring invasive Cichla populations in the coastal basin since it elucidated the taxonomic units in the reservoir and an areas downstream.     

水库生态系统调节小气候及净化空气细菌的服务功能——以深圳梅林水库和西丽水库为例

生态系统服务功能已成为生态学研究的热点,但水库生态系统服务功能的研究较少.对深圳市梅林水库和西丽水库调节小气候和净化空气细菌的服务功能进行了实地研究,并对调节小气候的服务功能进行了价值评估.结果表明水库生态系统有一定的降温、增湿和净化空气细菌效应.在炎热的夏季,梅林水库和西丽水库的平均温度和最高温度比市区分别降低1.59、2.35℃和2.56、4.10℃.在干燥的冬季,梅林水库和西丽水库相对湿度的平均值和最大值较市区分别提高了6.01%、11.10%和7.38%、7.80%.梅林水库、西丽水库和市区空气细菌数量分别为9、10cfu/皿· 5min和107cfu/皿· 5min,库区空气细菌数量远远少于市区.梅林水库和西丽水库调节小气候的服务价值分别为1249.13×104元· a-1和5441.83×104元· a-1.     

Diel and distributional abundance patterns of fish embryos and larvae in the lower Columbia and Deschutes rivers

Diel and distributional abundance patterns of free embryos and larvae of fishes in the lower Columbia River Basin were investigated. Ichthyoplankton samples were collected in 1993 during day and night in the main-channel and a backwater of the lower Columbia River, and in a tributary, the Deschutes River. Fish embryos and larvae collected in the main-channel Columbia River were primarily (85.6%) of native taxa (peamouth Mylocheilus caurinus, northern squawfish Ptychocheilus oregonensis, suckers Catostomus spp., and sculpins Cottus spp.), with two introduced species (American shad Alosa sapidissima and common carp Cyprinus carpio) comprising a smaller percentage of the catch (13.3%). Similarly, in the Deschutes River native taxa [lampreys (Petromyzontidae), minnows (Cyprinidae), and suckers Catostomus spp.] dominated collections (99.5% of the catch). In contrast, 83.5% of embryos and larvae in the Columbia River backwater were of introduced taxa [American shad, common carp, and sunfishes (Centrarchidae)]. In all locations, all dominant taxa except sculpins were collected in significantly greater proportions at night. Taxon-specific differences in proportions of embryos and larvae collected at night can in some instances be related to life history styles. In the main-channel Columbia River, northern squawfish and peamouth were strongly nocturnal and high proportions still had yolksacs, suggesting that they had recently hatched and were drifting downriver to rearing areas. In contrast, sculpin abundances were similar during day and night, and sculpins mostly had depleted yolksacs, indicating sculpins were feeding and rearing in offshore limnetic habitats. Taxon-specific diel abundance patterns and their causes must be considered when designing effective sampling programs for fish embryos and larvae.     

Head anatomy of adult Sisyra terminalis (Insecta: Neuroptera: Sisyridae) – Functional adaptations and phylogenetic implications

The external and internal head anatomy of Sisyra terminalis is described in detail and compared with data from literature. A salivary pump consisting of a peculiar reservoir and a hitherto unknown muscle, M. ductus salivarii, is newly described for Neuroptera. The upward folded paraglossae form a secondary prolongation of the salivary system. These structures are discussed as functional adaptations for feeding on aphids and desiccated honeydew. In a phylogenetic analysis the basal position of the Sisyridae within Neuroptera is retrieved. The following new synapomorphies are postulated: (1) for Neuropterida, the presence of a M. submentomentalis and prepharyngeal ventral transverse muscles, and the absence of a M. submentopraementalis; (2) for Neuroptera and Sialidae, the presence of a mandibular gland; (3) for Neuroptera, the presence of four scapopedicellar muscles; (4) for Neuroptera exclusive Nevrorthidae and Sisyridae, the weakening of dorsal tentorial arms, the presence of a M. tentoriomandibularis medialis superior and the shifted origin of M. tentoriocardinalis.