白腐菌协同热水预处理对毛白杨化学组分和酶水解效果的影响

【目的】增强真菌预处理的效率和降低热水预处理对反应条件的要求。【方法】综合利用白腐菌和热水预处理毛白杨,分析此方法对毛白杨化学组分和酶水解效果的影响。【结果】白腐菌Lenzites betulinus C5617协同热水处理,损失率最高达70.70%。纤维素在2个预处理阶段都有损失,其中L.betulinus C5617达到29.62%。木质素的降解主要集中在白腐菌预处理阶段,其中L.betulinus C5617降解的酸不溶木素较多,达到了16.98%。综合预处理显著改善了毛白杨的酶水解效果。与只经热水预处理的样品相比较,L.betulinus C5617和P.sanguineus D9497协同热水处理分别引起还原糖得率上升了20.60%和12.23%。【结论】综合预处理降低了热水解对反应条件的要求,节约了预处理成本。     

基于Maxent模型的未来气候变化情景下胡杨在中国的潜在地理分布

胡杨(Populus euphratica)是全世界干旱和半干旱区急需优先保护的林木基因资源,预测未来气候变化情景下胡杨在中国的潜在地理分布将为胡杨种群资源的保护和管理提供科学依据,并为绿洲恢复过程中胡杨的合理种植和配置提供有价值的理论指导。本研究基于胡杨在中国地区的92条有效分布记录和10个环境因子变量,利用Maxent模型和ArcGIS软件预测了未来气候变化情景下胡杨在中国的潜在地理分布,综合环境因子变量贡献率及置换重要值、刀切法检验评估制约现代胡杨潜在地理分布的重要因子,采用响应曲线确定环境因子变量的适宜区间,定量确定胡杨未来受威胁的潜在地理分布区域和面积。结果表明：（1）Maxent模型的预测准确度极高,受试者工作曲线面积（AUC值）达0.932,现代胡杨潜在地理分布的总适生区面积为289.94×104km2,主要位于内蒙古中西部地区（额济纳旗和阿拉善地区）、新疆大部分地区、甘肃北部和西北部地区、青海中西部地区和宁夏北部地区;（2）影响胡杨的潜在地理分布的主要环境因子变量为气温因子变量（年均温和最冷月最低温）和降水因子变量（最湿月降水量和最干季降水量）,最湿月降水量是影响胡杨潜在地理分布的关键因素;（3）在未来4种气候变化情景下,胡杨不同等级潜在地理分布区的面积较现代潜在地理分布区面积均有不同程度的缩小,且整体上看胡杨的潜在地理分布区有向高海拔区域迁移的趋势。     

塔里木河上游荒漠河岸胡杨林树洞型空心树发生过程与形成机制

空心树是森林生态系统的重要组成部分,它在维系森林生态系统的动物或微生物多样性方面起着重要作用,但树木空心的发生过程和形成机制仍是一个悬而未决的科学问题。通过野外实调,解析了塔里木河上游肖夹克荒漠林区胡杨树洞型空心树数量特征、类型与分布格局,探讨了空心树的发生与形成过程。结果表明：1）胡杨幼林空心树发生频率较低,为10.34%,但成熟林空心树发生频率达到了83.78%;2）空心树树洞分为主干型和分枝型两大类,其中主干和分枝断口造成树洞是树洞型空心树形成的两种主要表现方式,分别占树洞类型的41.94%和19.35%;3）推断树洞发生过程为"外伤-分泌物外泄-木质部被腐蚀、消融-伤口扩大-形成树洞";4）树木发生外伤的主要起因可能为长期的风沙侵扰,造成树木小枝或者分枝折断。     

新疆艾比湖胡杨凋落物与裸斑土壤代谢物差异比较

在干旱区荒漠胡杨疏林中,胡杨冠下存在草本植物极其稀疏的裸露斑块(简称裸斑)。为研究胡杨冠下裸斑形成化感机理,以裸斑内、外土壤以及冠下凋落物为研究对象,利用液相色谱-质谱联用技术对不同样本进行代谢组分析,使用PLS-DA鉴定并筛选各组代谢物差异,筛选出裸斑内、外土壤样本中差异显著的代谢物质及其代谢相关通路。研究结果显示,土壤样品中共鉴定出总代谢物质908种(615正,293负);凋落物样品中共鉴定出总代谢物质1291种(760正,531负)。通过筛选、注释并分类各组间差异显著的代谢物发现曲酸、微囊藻毒素、茶碱、辛二酸、花生四烯酸以及反式肉桂酸等化感物质相对定量值均为裸斑内显著大于裸斑外土壤;儿茶素、咖啡酸、吲哚、棕榈油酸、孜然醛、阿魏酸、反式肉桂酸、花生四烯酸、水杨醇以及香豆素等化感物质相对定量值均为凋落物样中显著大于土壤样品。以上胡杨潜在化感物质的积累可能增强植物的化感效应,导致胡杨冠下草本植物种子萌发及生长受到限制。     

Differing influences of natural and artificial disturbances on riparian cottonwoods from prairie to mountain ecoregions in Alberta, Canada

Aim Ecoregions represent biophysical zones where environmental factors enable the development of particular plant communities. Ecoregions are generally large but abrupt transitions occur in areas with rapid physical change. A particularly abrupt transitional sequence occurs in the Rocky Mountain region of south‐western Alberta where fescue prairie, aspen parkland and mountain ecoregions occur within 15 km. To investigate plant adaptation across ecoregions, our study investigated the influences of a natural disturbance (flooding) and an artificial disturbance (cattle grazing) on reproductive and population processes of black cottonwood (Populus balsamifera subsp. trichocarpa, Torr. & Gray), the dominant riparian tree. Location We studied cottonwoods throughout their elevational range along two free‐flowing, first‐order streams, Yarrow and Drywood creeks. Cottonwood was the only prominent tree in the prairie ecoregion, the dominant riparian tree in the parkland and extended upward through the montane ecoregion where it was a pioneer species for the mixed coniferous–deciduous woodland. Cottonwoods did not occur in the higher elevation sub‐alpine ecoregion. Methods Thirty‐six cross‐sectional sampling transects were located across the three ecoregions with cottonwoods, and in ungrazed and grazed areas of each ecoregion. Rectangular 100 m² tree and 2 m² seedling quadrats were positioned along the transects, and substrate and vegetation were assessed. Historic hydrological data were analysed relative to flood recurrences and seasonal flow patterns. Results Overall, the cottonwoods displayed a sawtooth shaped ‘punctuated progressive age structure’ with many young trees, progressively fewer older trees, and about four pulses of increased recruitment over the past century. This was considered to provide a healthy cottonwood population and recruitment pulses were apparently associated with flood events with appropriate peak timing and magnitude and a gradual post‐flood stage recession. However, analyses of tree, sapling and seedling data indicated that flood‐associated seedling recruitment was less important and clonal processes were more important for cottonwood recruitment in the montane ecoregion, the highest ecoregion with cottonwoods. The correlation between flood events and cottonwood recruitment was strongest in the mid‐elevation parkland ecoregion suggesting greater reliance on flood‐associated seedling recruitment. There was little correlation with flooding and limited recruitment in the fescue prairie ecoregion in recent decades and the disturbed age structure probably results from cattle impacts that have prevented recruitment and produced a decrepit cottonwood forest population. Main conclusions These analyses suggested that a healthy cottonwood population displayed a sawtooth shaped ‘punctuated progressive age structure’ and that cottonwood reproduction processes varied across ecoregions with increased clonality in the highest montane ecoregion. Cattle grazing impacts on reproduction were most severe in the lowest prairie ecoregion that is treeless except for the riparian zone. We conclude that appropriate strategies of instream flow regulation, land‐use policies and practices, and conservation and restoration efforts should be refined according to ecoregion to recognize the differences in cottonwood reproductive and population ecology.     

Un gisement a plantes des formations pliocènes des environs de Rasteau près Vaison-la-Romaine (Vaucluse): Stratigraphie,faune, étude des macrorestes végétaux,palynologie

A new Pliocene deposit with vegetal impressionswas discovered at Rasteau (near Vaison-la-Romaine, Vaucluse. The study of these impression and the sporopollinic analysis from many levels allows us to specify its stratigraphical position in the Pliocene of the Rhone valley. So, the above mentioned levels settled just before the Hautimagne deposit (Neogene zone MN 14 for the mammals). The macroflora and the microflora appear to be related with a temperate warm and wet climate.     

Vital Parameters Assessments of Starvation Tolerance of <i>in vitro Populus alba</i> Culture

Populus alba is a large woody deciduous plant. The plant has been introduced to shooting, then multiplication of rooting on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium. This work was designed to estimate the effect of two factors (low levels of 1-Naphthaleneacetic acid NAA and sucrose) on P. alba response resulting in 6 treatments compared to the control, with twelve measured responses. There was a significant difference in some measurements in morphology, like plantlets fresh-weight, shoot-, root-length, and leaf number. In the physiological measurements, there were significant differences in all the measured parameters. The low concentrations of sucrose and media composition/power (MS grams/L) led to starvation in plants; however, these conditions led to enhancement in some morphological and physiological parameters to overcome the starvation effect, compared to the control. The RAPD-PCR molecular marker (four decamers) was used to evaluate the new individuals’ genetic variation (instability), resulting in a total polymorphism percentage of 50.83%. It was formerly known that the plantlets were identical to each other and to the mother plant. In this study, however, the use of distinct media power, hormonal and sucrose levels resulted in molecular variation reflected in P. alba’s morphological and physiological responses.