Marginality: scale determined processes and the conservation of the British butterfly fauna

Marginality describes the impact that environmental and landscape factors have in decreasing the probability of population survival and persistence. It may be imposed by extreme conditions or resource scarcity. Typically, it affects populations at the range edge but can also affect populations within the core of ranges, and produces a number of symptoms: characteristically demographic, but also morphological, physiological, biochemical and genetic. In this paper, the causes and effects of marginality on British butterflies are compared in edge and centre of range populations. Issues of temporal and spatial scales are examined, as is the relevance of marginality to the conservation of single and multiple species populations. The recognition of marginality questions the appropriateness of many so-called spatially realistic models of populations and highlights areas of research which have hitherto been ignored. Projected changes in land use and climate have implications for marginality in core and peripheral populations; in view of this, current scales of mapping are found to be unsuitable for monitoring fragmentation and the increasing marginalization of butterfly species in the British landscape.     

黑龙江省低额溞属的种类及分布（鳃足纲：双甲目）

本文对黑龙江省低额属Ｓｉｍｏｃｅｐｈａｌｕｓ的种类及分布进行了初步的调查。鉴定出低额９种,即锯顶低额Ｓｉｍｏｃｅｐｈａｌｕｓｓｅｒｒｕｌａｔｕｓ,老年低额Ｓ．ｖｅｔｕｌｕｓ,拟老年低额Ｓ．ｖｅｔｕｌｏｉｄｅｓ,棘爪低额Ｓ．ｅｘｓｆｉｎｏｓｕｓ,西伯利亚低额Ｓ．ｓｉｂｉｒｉｃｕｓ,角壳低额Ｓ．ｌｕｓａｔｉｃｕｓ,微齿低额Ｓ．ｈｉｍａｌａｙｅｎｓｉｓｍｉｃｒｏｄｕｓ,黑龙江低额Ｓ．ｈｅｉｌｏｎｇｊｔａｎｇｅｎｓｉｓ和北安低额Ｓ．ｂｅｉａｎｅｎｓｉｓ。对各种低额的形态特征及分布特点作了概括并编制了种的检索表。对所述各种的模式形态及已获种中雄体的精子形态提供活体照片。对部分低额生活环境中的几种主要因子进行了测试,其结果表明,本属各种多生活在水质清洁溶解氧较高且偏碱的水环境中,其水质多在寡污到β中污之间。     

中国大鲵乳酸脱氨酶同工酶研究I组织分布

采用垂直板聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳和紫外分光光度法分析大鲵１５种组织的乳酸脱氢酶（ＬＤＨ）同工酶后发现：在正常生理条件下,大鲵体内只有Ｈ４和Ｍ４两种同工酶,红细胞只有Ｍ４一种同工酶;大鲵体内ＬＤＨ同工酶中,以Ｍ４占绝对优势;除生殖腺及脑外,在幼体至成体的发育过程中,ＬＤＨ同工酶未见变化;大鲵体内各组织ＬＤＨ含量及前述两种同工酶相对含量不同。     

升流厌氧污泥层反应器动力学模型

用碘离子作示踪剂,采用矩形脉冲示踪法测定升流厌氧污泥层(UASB)反应器的流动分布。建立了申级返混加沟流模型。模型简单,能够反映反应器流动分布,具有较强的拟合能力和良好的适用性。运用流动模型和Monod方程,建立了UASB反应器稳态模型,并对模型参数进行了估计。通过灵敏度分析,进水基质浓度S。,废水流量Q,最大比基质降解速率,μmax 对出水基质浓度有较大影响。在稳态模型的基础上又建立了UASB反应器动态模态,利用此模型,对出水基质浓度序列Se,和产气量序列Qg进行计算预测,平均偏差分别5．40％和7．46％,标准偏差分别为7．02％和9．66％。     

湖北、河南、安徽三省大别山区地理新分布植物

湖北、河南、安徽三省大别山区地理新分布植物何家庆（安徽大学生物系合肥２３００３９）关键词大别山区,种子植物,地理新分布ＴＨＥＮＥＷＧＥＯＧＲＡＰＨＩＣＡＬＤＩＳＴＲＩＢＵＴＩＯＮＯＦＳＰＥＲＭＡＴＯＰＨＹＴＥＩＮＤＡＢＩＥＳＨＡＮＴＨＥＲＥＧＩＯＮＳ...     

质体在非均衡分裂下传递分配的概率

质体非均衡分裂时,其传递和分配情况复杂,重组状态多。本文分析了突变质体在各种分配情况下得到的概率,条件概率、联合概率和一细胞至少含m_0个突变质体的概率公式及计算示例。讨论了它们在生物学中的重要意义。     

林带中阻力分布的理论与实验研究

推导了风向垂直于林带走向时林带内的阻力分布的解析式,比较了３种所面形状林带的阻力分布特点,并用风洞实验资料进行了验证,简析了在实际生产中的应用．     

Purification and immunological properties of cathepsin B in carpCyprinus carpio

Cathepsin B was purified from the crude extract of carp (Cyprinus carpio) hepato-pancreas by the method involving ammonium sulfate fractionation and five sequential chromatographies monitored the activity with Z-Arg-Arg-MCA as a substrate, and the specific activity increased about 11,400 fold with a 2% recovery. Although the homogeneity of the purified cathepsin B was established on Native-PAGE, it migrated as two bands of 29,000 and 25,000 molecular weights by the single and heavy chains on SDS-PAGE, respectively. The monospecific antibody against the homogeneous cathepsin B was purified by the affinity chromatography on cathepsin B-Sepharose 4B, and did not immunologically react with rat cathepsin B, carp cathepsins H and L but only with carp cathepsin B by immunoelectrophoretic blot analysis. As the result of the tissue and liver distributions of cathepsin B, the remarkable immunological reactivities in the extracts of spleen, kidney and hepato-pancreas in carp and those of pacific cod, yellow fin tuna, skip jack tuna and common mackerel in pisces were detected with the anti-carp hepato-pancreas cathepsin B at molecular weight of nearby 29,000 or 25,000.     

High-elevation rock outcrop vegetation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains

Abstract. Species composition patterns and vegetation-environment relationships were quantified for high-elevation rock outcrops of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, an infrequent and insular habitat in a forested landscape. Outcrops occur over a wide geographic range encompassing extensive variation in both geology and climate. Geographic-scale factors interact with site-scale factors to produce variation in vegetation among outcrops. Similarly, site-scale factors interact with micro-scale factors to produce variation in vegetation within outcrops. To provide a quantitatively-based classification of outcrop vegetation we used a TWINSPAN analysis of 154 100-m² plots. We recognized nine communities that primarily correspond to different combinations of elevation, bedrock type, geography, and moisture. Within outcrops of a single bedrock type, vegetation composition of 100-m² plots was consistently correlated with elevation and solar radiation, but relationships to soil nutrients varied with bedrock type. Both site-scale (100 m²) factors (e.g. elevation, slope, aspect, and bedrock type) and plot-scale (1-m²) microsite factors (e.g. soil depth, vegetation height, soil nutrients) were strongly correlated with species composition at the 1-m² level. Environment can be used to predict composition more effectively for 100-m² plots on a single bedrock type than either across bedrock types or at a 1-m² scale. Composition-environment relationships resemble those described for outcrop systems from other regions with pronounced topographic relief more than they do those described for the nearby but flatter and lower-elevation outcrops of the Southeastern Piedmont. There is strong spatial autocorrelation in this community, perhaps owing to dispersal limitation. Consequently, a comprehensive conservation strategy must include reservation of both a range of geologic types and a range of geographic locations.     

The zygote and proembryo of alfalfa: quantitative,three-dimensional analysis and implications for biparental plastid inheritance

Summary Genetic studies have demonstrated biparental inheritance of plastids in alfalfa. The ratio of paternal to maternal plastids in the progeny varies according to the genotypes of the parents, which can be classified as strong or weak transmitters of plastids. Previous cytological investigations of generative cells and male gametes have provided no consistent explanation for plastid inheritance patterns among genotypes. However, plastids in the mature egg cells of a strong female genotype (6–4) were found to be more numerous and larger than in mature eggs of a weak female genotype (CUF-B), and the plastids in 6–4 eggs are positioned equally around the nucleus. In CUF-B, the majority of plastids are positioned below (toward the micropyle) the mid level of the nucleus, which is the future division plane of the zygote. Since only the apical portion of the zygote produces the embryo proper, plastids in the basal portion were predicted to become included in the suspensor cells and not be inherited. In the present study, we examined zygotes and a two-celled proembryo from a cross between CUF-B and a strong male genotype (301), a cross that results in over 90% of the progeny possessing paternal plastids only. Our results indicate that the distribution of plastids observed in the CUF-B egg cell is maintained through the first division of the zygote. Further, paternal plastids are similarly distributed; however, within the apical portion of the zygote and in the apical cell of the two-celled proembryo, the number of paternal plastids is typically much greater than the number of maternal plastids. These findings suggest that maternal and paternal plastid distribution within the zygote is a significant factor determining the inheritance of maternal and paternal plastids in alfalfa.