The face of conservation responding to a dynamically changing world

In its 40‐year history, the science of conservation has faced unprecedented challenges in terms of environmental damage and rapid global change, and environmental problems are only increasing as greater demands are placed on limited natural resources. Conservation science has been adapting to keep pace with these changes. Here, we highlight contemporary and emerging trends and innovations in conservation science that we believe represent the most effective responses to biodiversity threats. We focus on specific areas where conservation science has had to adjust its approach to address emerging threats to biodiversity, including habitat destruction and degradation, climate change, declining populations and invasive species. We also document changes in attitudes, norms and practices among conservation scientists. A key component to success is engaging and maintaining public support for conservation, which can be facilitated through the use of technology. These recent trends in conservation and management are innovative and will assist in optimizing conservation strategies, increasing our leverage with the general public and tackling our current environmental challenges.     

基于改进YOLO v7的轻量化樱桃番茄成熟度检测方法

为在自然环境下自动准确地检测樱桃番茄果实的成熟度,实现樱桃番茄果实自动化采摘,根据成熟期樱桃番茄果实表型特征的变化以及国家标准GH/T 1193—2021制定了5级樱桃番茄果实成熟度级别(绿熟期、转色期、初熟期、中熟期和完熟期),并针对樱桃番茄相邻成熟度特征差异不明显以及果实之间相互遮挡问题,提出一种改进的轻量化YOLO v7模型的樱桃番茄果实成熟度检测方法。该方法将MobileNetV3引入YOLO v7模型中作为骨干特征提取网络,以减少网络的参数量,同时在特征融合网络中加入全局注意力机制(Global attention mechanism, GAM)模块以提高网络的特征表达能力。试验结果表明,改进的YOLO v7模型在测试集下的精确率、召回率和平均精度均值分别为98.6%、98.1%和98.2%,单幅图像平均检测时间为82 ms,模型内存占用量为66.5 MB。对比Faster R-CNN、YOLO v3、YOLO v5s和YOLO v7模型,平均精度均值分别提升18.7、0.2、0.3、0.1个百分点,模型内存占用量也最少。研究表明改进的YOLO v7模型能够为樱桃番茄果实的自...     

设施番茄土壤温室气体排放对水氮管理的响应

[目的]探讨不同水、氮管理设施番茄产量和土壤温室气体排放的相互关系,构建最适水、氮组合模式,以期达到"节水、减氮、高产"的目的.[方法]设置4种氮肥梯度(F0:0 kg/hm2、F1:150 kg/hm2、F2:300 kg/hm2、F3:450 kg/hm2)与3种灌水定额(W1:0.5 Epan、W2:0.7Epa...     

基于信任成本的社员对合作社信任的影响研究

为提高社员对合作社的信任程度,运用因子分析法分析了社员对合作社信任成本的内容结构,然后运用结构方程模型从信任成本的角度分析了社员对合作社信任的影响。结果表明:信息成本、制度成本、心理成本和监督成本构成了社员对合作社的信任成本,其中心理成本对社员对合作社信任的影响最大,其次是监督成本和信息成本,制度成本影响最小。     

论地方渔民协会在我国海洋渔业可持续发展中的作用——来自海安老坝港镇捕捞协会的启示

近年来海洋渔业面临资源衰退、渔场减少、因渔民众多而监管成本高等问题，严重阻碍了我国海洋渔业经济的可持续发展。文章首先从交易成本的视觉对渔民协会在实现海洋渔业经济可持续发展中的作用进行了理论分析，然后以江苏海安县老坝港镇捕捞协会为对象，对理论推演的结论进行了实证检验。研究表明，老坝港捕捞渔民协会的成立，一方面能够在保证转业者福利不低于捕捞业的情况下，协助转业者寻找替代性就业机会，从而有利于降低捕捞业的劳动力人数，减轻对渔业资源的压力；另一方面能使政府在市场经济条件下提高管理效率、降低政府和渔民的交易成本，有利于促进海洋捕捞渔业的可持续发展。     

Effects of changing temperature on benthic marine life in Britain and Ireland

• 1. The coastal waters surrounding Britain and Ireland became warmer during the 20th century and, according to the UK Climate Impact Programme 2002 scenarios of change and other sources, average annual seawater temperatures may rise a further 2°C or more by the 2050s. This warming is part of a global rise in sea‐ and air‐surface temperatures that will cause changes in the distribution and abundance of species.
• 2. Initially, there will not be a wholesale movement northwards of southern species or retreat northwards of northern species, because many additional factors will influence the responses of the different organisms. Such factors include the hydrodynamic characteristics of water masses, the presence of hydrographical and geographical barriers to spread and the life history characteristics (reproductive mode, dispersal capability and longevity) of species. Survey data over the past century show how organisms react to changes of the order of 0.5°C, and in the last two decades, when sea temperatures have risen by as much as 1°C, there have been significant local changes in the distribution of intertidal organisms. These past changes provide a clue to more extensive changes expected in the future if global warming develops as predicted.
• 3. Where species affected by climate change are dominant or key structural or functional species in biotopes, there may be a change in the extent and distribution of those biotopes. Some, dominated by predominantly northern species such as the horse mussel Modiolus modiolus, may decline and reduce their value as rich habitats for marine life. Others, characterized by southern species, for example the sea fan Eunicella verrucosa and the alcyonacean Alcyonium glomeratum, may increase in extent.
• 4. Using information on the life history characteristics of species, their present distribution and other factors, a key supported by a decision tree has been constructed to identify ‘types’ of organism according to their likely response to temperature rise. Conspicuous and easily identified rocky substratum species are good candidates to track change. Using the key, many species are shown as likely to increase their range northwards significantly. In contrast, fewer will decline in abundance and extent in the north. If, as anticipated, global warming continues, then species with distributions already accurately mapped, or being mapped at present, will provide baseline data to test forecasts.

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Sardine and anchovy regime fluctuations of abundance in four regions of the world oceans: a workshop report

Regimes of high abundance of sardine (Sardinops sagax and Sardina pilchardus) have alternated with regimes of high abundance of anchovy (Engraulis spp.) in each of the five regions of the world where these taxa co-occur and have been extensively fished. When one taxon has been plentiful, the other has usually been at a reduced level of abundance, and vice versa. Changes in the four heavily fished regions that support S. sagax–the Japanese, Californian, Humboldt, and Benguela systems–from a regime dominated by one taxon to a high level of abundance of the other have occurred more or less simultaneously. In the Pacific Ocean, sardines have tended to increase during periods of increasing global air and sea temperatures and anchovies to decrease. The Japanese system is dominated by sardines to a greater extent than the other systems, and sardines off Japan appear to increase as the Kuroshio Current cools. At the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean, sardines colonize cooler areas during periods of warming. The Benguela system is out of phase with the three Pacific systems. The four systems all appeared to be in a state of flux in the 1980s. Increased abundance of the subdominant taxon is often one of the first signs of change. Sardines are relatively sedentary in refuge areas when scarce but change behavior to become highly migratory and colonize cooler areas when abundant. Anchovies, by contrast, expand around a fixed geographic center.     

Bioeconomy – an emerging meta-discourse affecting forest discourses?

The term bioeconomy and closely related notions like bio-based economy or knowledge-based bioeconomy (KBBE) are increasingly used by scientists and politicians in the last years. It does therefore have the potential of becoming an influential global discourse. Its role is however so far unclear. The general assumption that guides this paper is that discourses, resulting ideas and arguments are generally said to have performative power. They shape actors' views, influence their behaviour, impact on their beliefs and interests and can cause institutional change in a given society. Thus, the aim of this paper is twofold: first, it aims to analyse whether the ideas used in a bioeconomy discourse differs from those in other global meta-discourses of the last decades affecting forest discourses, such as the ecological modernization discourse or the sustainable development discourse. Second, this paper aims to analyse whether and how the bioeconomy discourse has started (or not) to reshape or overshadow the “classical” forest discourses, such as sustainable forest management, forest biodiversity or forest and climate change.     

具有两类靶细胞的病毒感染模型的全局稳定性

研究了具有两类靶细胞和CTL免疫应答与抗体免疫反应的时滞病毒感染模型的动力学行为.模型描述了病毒和两类细胞的相互作用：CD4＋T淋巴细胞与巨噬细胞.通过构造适当的Lyapunov泛函,使用LaSalle不变性原理,证明了CD4＋T淋巴细胞和巨噬细胞的基本再生总数R0、CTL免疫再生数R1、抗体免疫再生数R2、CTL免疫竞争再生数R3和抗体免疫竞争再生数R4决定了模型的全局性态.若R0≤1,病毒在体内清除.若R0〉1,正解在R1≤1,R2≤1时趋于无免疫平衡点,在R1〉1≥R4时趋于CTL主导平衡点,在R2〉1≥R3时趋于抗体主导平衡点,在R3〉1且R4〉1时趋于正平衡点,获得了无病平衡点、无免疫平衡点、CTL主导平衡点、抗体主导平衡点和正平衡点全局渐近稳定的充分条件.