应用TM卫星像片进行树种分布解析的研究

本文论述了ＴＭ卫星像片的图像处理技术，以日本北海道苫小牧地区森林为例，进行不同树种的计算机自动分类，并给出多光谱图像上不同年龄树种的灰度与年龄之间的相关图。研究结果表明：云杉属、冷杉、落叶松的反射率随年龄增大而降低，用最大似然法监督分类，可以很好地区分不同树种，得出苫小牧地区森林分布情况的遥感图像。     

冷箭竹更新幼龄种群生长发育特性的初步研究

本文分析了卧龙自然保护区冷箭竹更新幼龄种群的生长发育特性，结果表明：冷箭竹幼龄种群的地径和株高生长分别为0.15cm和13.713cm，且随着龄级的增加，其地径、株高生长反而趋于递降趋势，不同林分类型的生长发育指数相异，各指数的排序递次是岷江冷杉－冷箭竹林＞铁杉＋梃皮桦－冷箭竹林＞铁杉＋红桦－冷箭竹林；而且随着海拔高度的变化，种群的生长发育特性具有明显的空间分布规律。     

浙南次生阔叶林群落结构特征研究

浙南次生阔叶树种资源丰富,常见的自然恢复乔木阔叶树种达60余个,频度大于10%的有青冈、木荷、苦槠、白栎、甜槠、枫香、红楠、野漆、栲树、樟、冬青、檫木、野柿和杨梅14个;但树种总量较为集中,其中青冈、木荷、苦槠和白栎4个树种的立木总量占全部阔叶树种的65.14%。天然恢复条件下林分一般由1～5个乔木树种组成,其中乔木树种4个以下的占48.3%,乔木阔叶树种4个以下的占乔木树种4个以下的57.4%,只有10%的样地乔木树种数量超过10个;单位面积的乔木树种在3000株/hm2以下的占89.9%,不足2000株的占78.7%,1000株以下的占32.6%。根据各样地乔木层主要树种的重要值,浙南次生常绿阔叶林中青冈、苦槠、木荷、甜槠、枫香、石栎、米槠等种群为群落的优势种群。     

突脉青冈林主要植物种群的竞争研究

在突脉青冈及其伴生树种为优势种组成的阔叶林中,以其优势度为环境容纳量,采用重要值百分数求取群落内的种间竞争系数,用Lotka-Volterra竞争方程研究突脉青冈林共优种群(突脉青冈与其伴生树种)的种间竞争关系。结果表明:在平衡状态下,突脉青冈、少叶黄杞、罗浮栲的相对优势度分别为10.19%、20.47%和69.35%,说明未来的突脉青冈林仍将由罗浮栲、少叶黄杞、突脉青冈为共优组成,而罗浮栲种群将支配整个群落。     

亚高山暗针叶林的土壤呼吸

以贡嘎山国家级自然保护区中峨眉冷杉(Abies fabri)林为研究对象,采用LI-6400-09便携式土壤呼吸室对其土壤呼吸速率进行了连续定位观测。结果表明:(1)峨眉冷杉成熟林和中龄林的土壤呼吸速率和土壤温度在各个月份存在差异;(2)两种林分的土壤呼吸速率具有明显的季节变化特征,表现为夏季>秋季>春季>冬季;成熟林的月平均土壤呼吸速率在0.82μmol·s^-1·m^-2～5.88μmol·s^-1·m^-2之间,季节变差系数为50.6%,中龄林的月平均土壤呼吸速率在0.52μmol·s^-1·m^-2～3.52μmol·s^-1·m^-2之间,季节变差系数为48.5%;(3)两种林分的土壤呼吸速率季节变化与土壤5 cm温度呈显著性正相关;(4)峨眉冷杉成熟林和中龄林土壤CO_2释放率的Q₁₀值分别为3.2和2.6,峨眉冷杉成熟林土壤呼吸对温度的敏感性指数要大于中龄林。     

红腹柄天牛危害对罗浮栲可溶性糖含量的影响

对受红腹柄天牛不同危害程度的罗浮栲韧皮部和木质部中可溶性糖含量进行测定,分析可溶性糖含量与红腹柄天牛危害之间的关系。结果表明:在天牛取食活动期,不同受害程度罗浮栲的韧皮部和木质部可溶性糖含量差异明显,尤其韧皮部的变化比木质部更加强烈;受害初期的植株,可溶性糖含量与未受害相比显著减少,冬季当幼虫和成虫进入休眠期后,不同受害程度罗浮栲韧皮部和木质部中可溶性糖的含量与未受害植株相比差异程度趋向缓和。表明可溶性糖含量可作为监测罗浮栲植株受红腹柄天牛为害程度的参考。     

峨眉山不同海拔冷杉径向生长对气候变化的响应

【目的】研究峨眉山不同海拔冷杉Abies fabri径向生长对气候变化的响应规律。【方法】以冷杉为研究对象,用树轮生态学的方法对峨眉山不同海拔的冷杉进行年轮采样、处理与分析,比较不同海拔冷杉径向生长特征及其与各气候因子之间的关系。【结果】年表统计数据表明,4个年表均具有较高的可靠性,可以用于树木生长与气候关系的研究。不同海拔冷杉径向生长与气候的关系具有明显的海拔差异,海拔2 400 m处冷杉径向生长与当年7月的温度呈显著正相关;海拔2 800 m处冷杉径向生长与当年4-9月的帕尔默干旱指数(PDSI)呈显著正相关;海拔2 900 m处冷杉径向生长与前一年9月和当年4月的温度呈显著负相关,与当年1-9月的PDSI均呈显著正相关;海拔3 000 m处冷杉径向生长和当年3-4月温度呈显著负相关,与当年6-7月的PDSI和当年4月平均相对湿度呈显著正相关。【结论】峨眉山高海拔的冷杉包含有更多的环境信息,对气候变化的响应也更为敏感;高海拔区域冷杉径向生长受到水分的强烈限制,而低海拔区域冷杉径向生长主要受温度影响;冷杉衰亡与气候因子的变化密切相关,随着区域气候的变暖,高海拔地区冷杉可能会进一步衰退。该研究揭示了峨眉山不同海拔冷杉生长动态及其对气候变化响应的敏感性差异,为全球气候变化背景下冷杉林的保护与适应性管理提供科学参考。     

水土流失地区小流域水土保持林可持续经营技术研究

文章通过对德庆县马墟镇深涌小流域地区典型森林群落生长量、丰富度、多样性指数及各群落林地土壤条件状况、枯枝落叶层的调查分析,提出了防护地段以针阔混交林为主,沟谷缓坡发展果园,以林果结合为主的生态经济型防护系统,实现生态与经济和谐发展。防护地段马尾松 木荷,罗浮栲 木荷的混交林有较好的防护效能,乔木层丰富度分别为针叶纯林的3倍和2倍,生物多样性指数为针叶纯林的153%和183%,林下土壤微生物含量和枯枝落叶层吸水系数也远高于针叶纯林。     

松栎混交林中马尾松与白栎光合作用的日变化

自然条件下使用开放式气体交换LI-6400便携式光合测定系统对松栎混交林中的马尾松和白栎的光合速率、蒸腾速率、气孔导度等光合特性进行了测定．结果表明：马尾松与白栎之间的光合速率日变化有明显差异，马尾松呈双峰型，白栎呈单峰型；白栎光合特性对大气CO2浓度增加和温度升高等生态因子变化的响应比马尾松敏感，它的气孔导度与蒸腾速率的变化直接影响本身光合速率的变化．     

Mobile carbohydrates in Himalayan treeline trees I. Evidence for carbon gain limitation but not for growth limitation

To test whether the altitudinal distribution of trees is determined by a carbon shortage or an insufficient sugar fraction (sugar:starch ratio) in treeline trees, we studied the status of nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) and their components (total soluble sugars and starch) in Abies fabri (Mast.) Craib and Picea balfouriana var. hirtella Rehd. et Wils. trees along three elevational gradients, ranging from lower elevations to the alpine treeline, on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. For comparison, we investigated a low-altitude species (Tsuga yunnanensis (Franch.) Pritz.) which served as a warm-climate reference because it is distributed in closed montane forests below 3100 m a.s.l. in the study area. The carbon status of T. yunnanensis responded to altitude differently from that of the treeline species. At the species level, total NSC was not consistently more abundant in treeline trees than in trees of the same species growing at lower elevations. Thus there was no consistent evidence for carbon limitation of growth in treeline trees. For the three treeline species studied (P. balfouriana and A. fabri in the Kang-Ding Valley and A. fabri in the Mo-Xi Valley), winter NSC concentrations in treeline trees were significantly lower than in lower-elevation trees of the same species, suggesting that, in winter, carbon is limited in treeline trees. However, in no case was there total overwinter depletion of NSC or its components in treeline trees. Treeline and low-altitude species had similar sugar:starch ratios of about three at their upper-elevational limits in April. We conclude that survival and growth of trees at the elevational or latitudinal climate limit depend not only on NSC concentration in perennial tissues, but also on the maintenance of an overwintering sugar:starch ratio greater than three.     

Long-term influence of fire and harvesting on boreal forest age structure and forest composition in eastern Québec

In boreal forests, historical variations in the area disturbed by natural disturbances or harvesting have rarely been compared. We measured temporal and spatial variations in areas affected by severe fires and clearcutting throughout the 20th century in a 57, 332 km² section of the eastern Canadian boreal forest. We examined the effects of these disturbances on spatio-temporal variations in the abundance of forests >60 years. Natural variability for the abundance of forests >60 years was estimated from simulations of natural disturbance regimes. We also measured compositional and structural differences between three categories of stands originating from relatively recent disturbances (∼50 years; clearcutting, fires, and clearcutting followed by fires), and one category of stands that were undisturbed for at least 200 years. At the regional level, we observed that forests >60 years gradually became scarcer throughout the 20th century due to a gradual expansion of harvested areas, an effect most pronounced in the southern part of the region, where mature and old forest abundance was clearly outside the range of natural variability at the end of the studied period. At the stand level, forest composition and structure differed between stand-origin categories: clearcutting-origin stands contained more balsam fir (Abies balsamea), fire-origin stands more black spruce (Picea mariana), and fire/clearcutting-origin stands more hardwoods (Betula papyrifera and Populus tremuloides). Overall, we estimate that strict forest management targets based on natural disturbance regimes will be difficult to achieve in eastern North-American boreal forests, most notably because contemporary disturbance rates, including both clearcutting and fire, have gradually become higher than the fire rates observed during the preindustrial period.     

Age distribution patterns in open boreal Dahurican larch forests of Central Siberia

Tree age distribution determines stand size structure and is related to disturbance history and stand dynamics. Data are presented from 40 pure larch stands from six locations on the Taimyr peninsula and Evenk region in the northern open forests of Russian Siberia. A Weibull density function was used to describe actual age distribution and to simulate age distribution. Larch age distributions have similar patterns in different locations over the study area. All stands were found to have a multi-aged structure. The average coefficient of variation for age is about 48%. The range of tree ages exceed 400 years in the oldest forests. The patterns of age distribution change for different age groups. For the youngest stands (40–80 years old) the age distribution was leptokurtic and positively skewed, whereas for middle-aged forests (80–180 years old) it tended to be more mesokurtic and symmetric. In the oldest stands (more than 180 years old) the distribution had a platykurtic form. A high correlation was found between the Weibull function coefficients and the coefficient of age variation and for the mean age. The oldest forests were found in river valleys. Middle-aged forests occur more commonly on middle slopes and the youngest forests occupy top slopes and uplands. A more normal tree age distribution assumes a study area less damaged by forest fires than in the more southern parts of the boreal forest.     

A comparative analysis of spatial, temporal, and ecological characteristics of forest fires in seasonally dry tropical ecosystems in the Western Ghats, India

The Western Ghats in India is one of the 25 global hotspots of biodiversity, and it is the hotspot with the highest human density. This study considers variations in the regional fire regime that are related to vegetation type and past human disturbances in a landscape. Using a combination of remote sensing data and GIS techniques, burnt areas were delineated in three different vegetation types and various metrics of fire size were estimated. Belt transects were enumerated to assess the vegetation characteristics and fire effects in the landscape. Temporal trends suggest increasingly short fire-return intervals in the landscape. In the tropical dry deciduous forest, the mean fire-return interval is 6 years, in the tropical dry thorn forest mean fire-return interval is 10 years, and in the tropical moist deciduous forest mean fire-return interval is 20 years. Tropical dry deciduous forests burned more frequently and had the largest number of fires in any given year as well as the single largest fire (9900 ha). Seventy percent, 56%, and 30% of the tropical moist deciduous forests, tropical dry thorn forests, and tropical dry deciduous forests, respectively have not burned during the 7-year period of study. The model of fire-return interval as a function of distance from park boundary explained 63% of the spatial variation of fire-return interval in the landscape. Forest fires had significant impacts on species diversity and regeneration in the tropical dry deciduous forests. Species diversity declined by 50% and 60% in the moderate and high frequency classes, respectively compared to the low fire frequency class. Sapling density declined by ca. 30% in both moderate and high frequency classes compared to low frequency class. In tropical moist deciduous ecosystems, there were substantial declines in species diversity, tree density, seedling and sapling densities in burned forests compared to the unburned forests. In contrast forest fires in tropical dry thorn forests had a marginal positive effect on ecosystem diversity, structure, and regeneration.     

不同种源白栎果实形态特征和营养成分含量变异分析

[目的]研究不同种源白栎果实形态特征和营养成分变异规律,为白栎品种选育和种质资源开发利用提供科学依据。[方法]收集白栎自然分布区14个天然种源368个单株果实,分别测定4个形态特征指标和6个营养成分含量指标,并进行统计学分析、主成分分析和聚类分析。[结果](1)白栎4个形态特征在种源间和种源内均差异极显著,6个营养成分含量在种源间均差异极显著。白栎果实形态特征的Shannon-Wiener指数(H)均值为1.839,其中,果实宽度(1.886)>果实长度(1.837)>长宽比(1.832)>百粒质量(1.801);(2)白栎果实10个特征参数间大多存在显著或极显著相关性,其与地理气候因子间仅个别存在显著相关性;(3)对10个特征参数进行Q型聚类分析,可将14个白栎种源划分为3大类群:湖北利川、四川邻水、四川阆中、贵州黄平、湖南新晃、江西宜黄和广西全州种源为第一类;重庆万州、重庆江津、湖南龙山、福建武夷山、浙江武义、浙江西湖种源为第二类;浙江遂昌种源单独归为一类。[结论]白栎果实形态特征在种源内和种源间均差异极显著,种源内的变异高于种源间的变异,营养成分含量在种源间均差异极显著,说明其存在着丰富的遗传变异;果实特征参数与地理气候因子间存在一定的相关性。综合聚类分析和营养成分含量分析结果,可以看出浙江遂昌种源果实综合品质最好。     

Farms in the black forest of Baden-Württemberg: A historical review

Today the Black Forest is an internationally renowned tourist region in Germany. For centuries the Black Forest remained as a low mountain range regarded as not suitable for settlement due to its unfavourable climatic conditions and difficult terrain. Clearing the dense forests and settlement therefore started at a historically late stage compared to other regions of Germany, about 1000 years ago. Due to the special conditions in this area, the structure of the settlement had to be quite different to those landscapes with more favourable conditions for agriculture. A single-farm settlement developed, farms situated 200 to 400 m away from each other, surrounded by meadows, agricultural land and forests and owned by the farmer’s family. This structure has remained in some areas until today; in other areas different types of settlement took place, and great changes occurred during history. A special type of agroforestry — a slash-and-burn-management of forests — also took place 150 to 200 years ago.     

观赏槭树的苗期试验初报

观赏槭树育苗试验表明,不同树种、种源间种实发芽率差异较大。发芽率较高的种类有樟叶槭(92%)、鸡爪槭(90%)、三角枫(90%),其次是复叶槭(85%)、红花槭(82%)、橄榄槭(76%)和元宝槭(75%);茶条槭、五角槭、罗浮槭发芽率均小于70%。1年生苗高生长量以复叶槭最大(113.98 cm),其次是三角枫(101.21 cm);樟叶槭和鸡爪槭1年生苗生长量中等,当年生长量分别为62.43 cm和71.74 cm;罗浮槭、青榨槭和橄榄槭1年生苗高生长量较小。季节生长节律有3种类型:橄榄槭、鸡爪槭、元宝槭、茶条槭等几种槭树表现为第1类型(前期生长型),即5月前苗木缓慢生长,6~7月进入速生期,7月以后苗木渐渐停止生长,速生期较短。复叶槭和青榨槭表现为第2种类型:1年生苗全年高生长有2次高峰,出现在6月和9月;樟叶槭和三角枫季节生长节律表现为第3种类型:5月生长缓慢,6月生长开始加快进入速生期,一直持续到8月底,速生期长。三角枫、橄榄槭、鸡爪槭、元宝槭、茶条槭、复叶槭和青榨槭等几种槭树表现出较强的抗寒性,樟叶槭和罗浮槭抗寒性较差。     

中国南部九连山常绿阔叶林的区系组成和林分结构

在中国南部的九连山研究了天然的和择伐过的常绿阔叶林的树种组成和林分结构.主要构成树种是常绿阔叶的栲树(Castanopsis fargesii)、罗浮栲(C.fabri)、甜槠栲(C.eyrei)、米槠栲(C.carlesii)、南岭栲(C.fordii)、鹿角栲(C.lamontii)和木荷(Schima superba).常绿针叶树种的马尾松(Pinus massoniana)和杉木(Cunninghamia lanceolata)也是主要成分.马尾松在坡脊和坡的上部占优势.许多落叶阔叶树种,如光皮桦(Betula luminifera)和拟赤杨(Alniphyllum fortunei)以较低的优势与常绿阔叶树种共同出现.它们补丁状分布在择伐过的林分中.种内的分布格局和种间的空间分布关系表明,主要构成种之间的空间集中分布地的分离是在一个小的尺度上.     

Sustainable management of planted forests: some comparisons between Central Europe and the United States

Following the introduction of planned forestry and the regular high forest system more than 250 years ago, forests in Central Europe became increasingly shaped by plantation silviculture. Many natural woodlands were replaced by planted forests, and forest plantations are still being established through afforestation of extensive land areas. Nowadays, forests are managed for many different purposes, including wood production, recreation, ecological, cultural, and amenity values, biodiversity, and soil and groundwater protection. This brings new challenges to forest management and silviculture. To reach a sustainable forestry, in the sense of Brundtland (WCED 1987), we are now reshaping European forestry toward a more nature oriented silviculture. Maybe forestry in the United States and elsewhere can benefit from the mistakes made in Europe during the last two centuries and take a shortcut toward sustainable forestry.     

Species richness in sugi (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Cryptomeria japonica</Emphasis> D. DON) plantations in southeastern Kyushu,Japan: the effects of stand type and age on understory trees and shrubs

 The species richness of trees, shrubs and climbing plants was investigated in 41 sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) plantations of different stand age and area in southern Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Altogether 174 species were found, of which 145 infrequent species were selected for analysis. Two groups were extracted from the species list according to their occurrence in older (49 spp.) or younger (28 spp.) stands, the latter containing a higher percentage of climbing plants and species with wind-dispersed seeds. In contrast, the older stand group contained major tree components typical of seminatural, evergreen broadleaved forests in the region and was more heavily dependent on stand age, especially for species with gravity- and frugivore-dispersed seeds, showing a gradual increase up to 60 years old. The species richness was less correlated with edge perimeter facing seminatural forests and the years after latest thinning. The juxtaposition of plantation compartments with stands of seminatural forest or other plantations, as well as the compartment's origin as former plantation site or a seminatural stand, had relatively little influence on species richness. However, topographic variation was important in determining the species composition, with valley stands having higher species richness and containing many plants typical of the regional seminatural forests. These results suggest that (1) the major trend of species richness is determined by the presence of old stand type species, (2) topographic variation of species richness remains even after establishment of plantations, and (3) the normal rotation period of sugi plantations (35–40 years) may therefore be too short to conserve the maximum potential species diversity within the working forest. Received: June 4, 2001 / Accepted: August 26, 2002 Acknowledgments We wish to thank the staff of the Miyazaki University Forests for cooperation in the fieldwork. A part of this study was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Study from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan (no. 09041071 and no. 10460068). Correspondence to:S. Ito     

Dynamics of ecosystem services in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pinus sylvestris</Emphasis> stands under different managements and site quality classes

Timber and biodiversity are considered two antagonistic ecosystem services (ES), largely influenced by silviculture and site ecological conditions. In order to address the trade-offs between these two ES over time, we performed a retrospective study at compartment level in the Pinus sylvestris forests of the Spanish Central Mountain System. Archival data from Management Plans for eight forests with contrasting silvicultural systems (uniform shelterwood system, group shelterwood system, irregular shelterwood system,) and three different site quality classes were analysed. Timber production was assessed through stand volume, harvested timber volume and a stand volume index. Biodiversity was examined through structural diversity (Gini index, Shannon tree size diversity index, Simpson’s reciprocal index and evenness index, all applied to diameter classes) and the abundance of large living trees. For all silvicultural systems investigated, stand volume and harvested timber volume have grown since the beginning of the management plans (beginning of the twentieth century in some forests). The largest yields of timber corresponded to the best quality sites with more intensive silvicultural treatments (uniform and group shelterwood systems). The uniform shelterwood system showed lower figures for structural diversity, though not always significant. The best site qualities maintained notable structural diversity values, even under the most intensive management system. The application of the different management systems over decades has revealed a synergy between timber production and structural diversity, particularly in those systems maintaining more than one age class, although results are conditioned by forest harvesting history. The interaction between historical silvicultural treatment and site quality has been identified as an important source of information to understand forest dynamics and functioning of ES provision.