The influence of local elevation on the effects of secondary salinity in remnant eucalypt woodlands: Changes in understorey communities

Increasing land salinization in Australia is predicted to lead to severe declines in species diversity in affected areas, and perhaps significant numbers of species extinctions. Much of the diversity that will be lost consists of understorey and mid-storey species, yet the overwhelming majority of research has focussed on salinity tolerance in tree species. We investigated how the presence of a shallow, saline water table affected the understorey species composition, species richness and species diversity in two remnant Eucalyptus wandoo Blakely woodlands in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Species richness and species diversity were significantly lower in areas with a shallow water table at elevations < 0.5 m above the lowest local elevation, compared with both higher elevations and with areas of low elevation without a shallow water table. Species composition (Bray-Curtis similarities) was also significantly different in low elevation, saline areas. At one site, saline areas were colonized by native and alien species that were not present in the surrounding vegetation, yet the community that has developed does not contain either the species or structural diversity of the surrounding system. At the other site, no colonisation of saline areas by new species occurred. Even though small differences in elevation (< 0.5 m) at our study sites were important in moderating the impacts of salinity in areas with a shallow water table, the loss of species diversity, species richness and structural complexity in low-lying elevations indicated that the ecological risk from secondary salinity to species associated only with drainage lines, seasonally wet flats and other low-lying areas is severe. The priority is to identify those vegetation communities that are restricted to only low relative elevations within the landscape and that only occur in remnants predicted to be at a high risk of developing a shallow and saline water table.     

干旱地区斑块状植被格局形成的水分驱动机制及其研究进展

斑块状分布是植被在水分匮乏环境中长期适应的结果,其演替过程可以作为生态系统响应气候变化和人类活动产生突变的"指示器"。本文通过对斑块状植被的起源、生态水文过程及其对干旱区植被恢复的启示等方面进行综述,提出了我国干旱区植被恢复中目前尚存在的主要问题。认为斑块状植被的形成可能受气候变化、人类活动、植物自身的生物学特性及其对环境胁迫的适应等方面的影响,但不是主要因素,植被斑块和裸地斑块之间在不同空间尺度的水分再分配是其在干旱半干旱地区形成并且能够维持稳定的关键。斑块状植被是一个高效的雨水集流系统,裸地斑块是整个系统径流的"源",而植被斑块是整个系统径流的"汇",保护植被斑块的同时维持一定面积的裸地对于整个生态系统的稳定都具有极其重要的意义。斑块状植被也是一个非常脆弱的生态系统,气候的剧烈波动以及人类的过度活动都可能导致生态系统功能丧失,最终产生不可逆转的影响,因此需要加以严格保护。     

Timing and abundance as key mechanisms affecting trophic interactions in variable environments

Climatic changes are disrupting otherwise tight trophic interactions between predator and prey. Most of the earlier studies have primarily focused on the temporal dimension of the relationship in the framework of the match–mismatch hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that predator's recruitment will be high if the peak of the prey availability temporally matches the most energy‐demanding period of the predators breeding phenology. However, the match–mismatch hypothesis ignores the level of food abundance while this can compensate small mismatches. Using a novel time‐series model explicitly quantifying both the timing and the abundance component for trophic relationships, we here show that timing and abundance of food affect recruitment differently in a marine (cod/zooplankton), a marine–terrestrial (puffin/herring) and a terrestrial (sheep/vegetation) ecosystem. The quantification of the combined effect of abundance and timing of prey on predator dynamics enables us to come closer to the mechanisms by which environment variability may affect ecological systems.     

西双版纳人工雨林群落结构及其林下降雨侵蚀力特征

通过与本地典型的橡胶林和季节雨林进行对比,研究了在橡胶林基础上抚育、恢复而来的人工雨林群落结构及林下降雨侵蚀力特征.通过16a的抚育管理,人工雨林Shannon-Wiener多样性指数达到3.652,接近当地季节雨林的一般情况.对6a的降雨侵蚀力计算发现,人工雨林7月林内降雨侵蚀力达962.2 MJ mm hm-2 h-1 a-1,对旷地降雨侵蚀力的削减量是橡胶林的2.08倍.人工雨林初步重现了类似热带自然雨林的群落结构和叶面积指数特征,能够有效对削减降雨侵蚀力,这有利于林内水土保持和进一步的植被恢复.因此,人工雨林的抚育、恢复模式是热带退化山地地区植被恢复与重建的一条较为可行的途径.     

Ten years primary succession on a newly created landfill at a lagoon of the Mediterranean Sea (Lake Burullus RAMSAR site)

This study was carried out on the transported bed soil dredged from the outlet of Lake Burullus to the Mediterranean Sea and deposited nearby, forming by this way new land that underwent a primary plant succession. The multi-methodological approach comprised floristic inventories, vegetation sampling and soil composition analyses of the study site in order to detect the crucial parameters controlling the plant resettlement on recently deposited soil as related to time, local micro-topography and substrate characteristics. Floristic composition was assessed for the first 10 years of primary succession (2001–2010) on 18 stands of the area, distributed on basement, slope stands and plateau of the landfill, respectively. Vegetation surveys were the basis of multivariate analyses of the vegetation and soil data using TWINSPAN, DCA and CCA. Relationships between the edaphic gradients, floristic composition and species diversity were assessed.     

山东省不同植被区内野生植物根围AM菌的生态分布

ＡＭ菌是土壤习居菌 ,生态适应性强 ,可发生在各种生态环境。寄主范围也十分广泛 ,除少量植物如莎草科、苋科、灯心草科、藜科、石竹科等 2 0余科植物不能或不易形成ＡＭ外 ,大多数植物包括苔藓、蕨类、裸子植物、被子植物都能被菌根菌侵染。当前人们十分重视对野生植物上ＡＭ菌的调查[3 ,4 ,1 0 ,1 1 ,1 4 ]。研究发现 ,野生植物上可能有比栽培作物更多的ＡＭ菌种类[1 ]。我国野生植物资源丰富 ,开发和利用野生寄主植物上的ＡＭ菌潜力巨大。由于ＡＭ菌对寄主植物的选择性及对环境条件的适应性不同 ,或进化过程中的历史原因 ,造成了自然生态…     

黄土丘陵区不同植被土壤氮素转化微生物生理群特征及差异

采用最大或然计数法(most probable number, MPN)对黄土高原洞子沟流域不同植被恢复阶段土壤氮素微生物生理群(氨化细菌、亚硝化细菌、反硝化细菌)数量分布特征进行了测定,结果表明:1)土壤氨化细菌、亚硝化细菌和反硝化细菌数量随植被恢复而增加,三者最大值分别为最小值的74、4和31倍,其中氨化细菌和反硝化细菌的数量在铁杆蒿群落最低,辽东栎群落最高,亚硝化细菌数量在丁香群落最低,辽东栎群落最高;2)植被恢复对各氮素生理群影响不同,对氨化细菌影响最大,其次分别为反硝化细菌和亚硝化细菌;3)各氮素生理群数量差异较大,氨化细菌>反硝化细菌>亚硝化细菌。研究区氨化细菌占总数的75%-80%,反硝化细菌占20%-25%时,生态系统最为稳定;4)土壤理化性质与各功能菌关系紧密,其中,土壤容重和硝态氮含量与微生物数量相关性最大,全钾、矿化氮和微生物量氮也表现出很大的相关性。     

库布齐沙漠东部不同生物结皮发育阶段土壤温室气体通量

以流动沙地为对照,采用时空替代法分析库布齐沙漠东部固定沙地上不同发育阶段生物结皮藻类结皮和地衣结皮土壤温室气体通量特征及其与环境因子之间的关系,研究生物结皮发育对荒漠土壤温室气体通量的影响.结果表明: 荒漠土壤CO₂排放通量大小为地衣结皮(128.5 mg·m^-2·h^-1)>藻结皮(70.2 mg·m^-2·h^-1)>流动沙地(48.2 mg·m^-2·h^-1),CH₄吸收通量大小为地衣结皮(30.4 μg·m^-2·h^-1)>藻结皮(21.2 μg·m^-2·h^-1)>流动沙地(18.2 μg·m^-2·h^-1),N₂O排放通量大小为地衣结皮(6.6 μg·m^-2·h^-1)>藻结皮(5.4 μg·m^-2·h^-1)>流动沙地(2.5 μg·m^-2·h^-1).CO₂排放具有明显的季节变化,生长季显著大于非生长季;CH₄和N₂O季节变化差异不显著,前者生长季吸收大于非生长季,后者非生长季排放大于生长季.土壤有机碳和全氮含量、土壤微生物数量均是影响温室气体通量的重要因素,环境水热因子是影响土壤CO₂排放的关键因子,但CH₄和N₂O通量对水热因子的变化不敏感.随着植被恢复和生物结皮发育,荒漠土壤温室气体累积通量的不断增大导致其百年尺度的全球增温潜势亦显著提高,依次为地衣结皮(1135.7 g CO₂-e·m^-2·a^-1)>藻结皮(626.5 g CO₂-e·m^-2·a^-1) >流动沙地(422.7 g CO₂-e·m^-2·a^-1).     

南京城市公园绿地不同植被类型土壤呼吸的变化

子2007年10月-2008年9月,利用Li-6400便携式光合作用仪配合土壤呼吸气室对南京中山植物园内草坪、疏林和近自然林3种植被类型的土壤呼吸速率的季节变化及其影响因子进行了测定.结果表明:不同植被类型土壤呼吸速率具有明显的季节变化,夏季(8月)较高,近自然林、疏林和草坪类型分别为3.28、4.07和7.58 μmol·m~(-2)·s~(-1),冬季(12月)最低,近自然林、疏林和草坪类型分别为0.82、0.99和1.42 μmol·m~(-2)·s~(-1);不同植被类型的年均土壤呼吸速率有显著差异(P＜0.05),平均土壤呼吸速率大小排序为草坪>疏林>近自然林;不同植被类型的土壤呼吸速率与土壤温度呈显著性指数相关关系,与土壤含水率无显著相关关系;Q_(10)值均随着土层深度的增加而增加;不同植被类型的Q_(10)值存在一定程度的差异,近自然林类型的Q_(10)值大于草坪和疏林类型的Q_(10)值.研究表明,城市如果大量发展草坪可能增加土壤CO_2的排放.

Abstract：

By using Li-6400 portable photosynthetic apparatus connected to soil chamber,the soil respiration rate under three vegetation types(lawn,open woodland,and close-to-nature forest)in Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden was measured from October 2007 to September 2008,with related affecting factors analyzed.The soil respiration rate had obvious seasonal fluctuation,being the highest in summer(August)and the lowest in winter(December).For the close-to-nature forest,open woodland,and lawn,their soil respiration rate in summer was 3.28,4.07,and 7.58μmol·m~(-2)·s~(-1),and that in winter was 0.82,0.99,and 1.42μmol·m~(-2)·s~(-1),respectively.The annual mean soil respiration rate differed significantly with vegetation type(P＜0.05),which was in order of close-to-nature forest＜open woodland＜lawn.The soil respiration rate had significant exponential correlation with soil temperature,but no correlation with soil moisture.The Q_(10) value increased with increasing soil depth,and was larger in close-tonature forest than in open woodland and lawn.Our results indicated that the rapid development of lawn in urban green space could increase the urban soil CO_2 emission.