中国农牧交错带研究进展

通过分析中国在农牧交错带研究领域公开发表的学术成果,从中透视中国农牧交错带研究关注的重点、研究方法、存在问题和发展趋势。研究表明：1）中国农牧交错带的研究主要集中在自然条件、土地利用与景观、生态系统、产业经济与区域发展等领域;2）地理信息系统、遥感、卫星定位系统和模型分析等逐渐成为农牧交错带研究的重要方法;3）基于多学科综合的交叉研究、多尺度研究和时空综合研究及现代信息技术平台的应用等是今后农牧交错带研究的发展趋势。     

森林-沼泽交错群落组成结构与物种多样性的研究

通过对2种类型沼泽地进行调查，研究，发现沼泽与森林之间的过渡区，随着空间地势的逐渐升高，沼泽化程度由强到弱，群落的物种多样性沿着沼泽至森林的方向，随着环境梯度的增加，也逐渐增多，邻近森林的群落达最大值。     

Human-mediated vegetation switches as processes in landscape ecology

Switches are processes in which there is positive feedback between vegetation and environment. Landscape features can be created and modified by switches. The concept has previously been used with physical factors and non-human animals as the switch mediator, i.e. the factor which the vegetation modifies and which in turn affects the vegetation. Here, the switch concept is extended to include some types of human behaviour as possible switch mediators. With this extension, the switch concept can explain the impact on the landscape of some types of human behaviour. Examples are given of the behaviour of mower drivers, mowing up to a boundary which they create and/or maintain, and of walkers trampling tracks which they create and/or maintain. Other possibilities are discussed briefly. It is concluded that the concept of a human-mediated switch can unify the study of human behaviour, vegetation processes and landscape ecology.     

Effects of feedbacks and seed rain on ecotone patterns

Ecotones can be abrupt changes in vegetation on gradual abiotic gradients, such as some treelines, and so have been considered as potential indicators of response to climatic change and regulators of fluxes across landscapes. Factors of positive feedback for growth and establishment and seed rain from source areas have been suggested as playing a role in such patterns and dynamics. The effects of variation in feedback strength and seed rain on the abrupt pattern have not, however, been assessed. A spatially explicit computer simulation is used to represent an ecotone as might occur at a mountain treeline. The steepness of the abiotic gradient determines the general location of the treeline, while the strength of feedback determines how abrupt it is. Increased seed rain and seedling survival modify the dominant patterns by creating patches of krummholz or small seedings. The feedbacks are spatially autocorrelated and so create waves of mortality and regeneration on the simulated slopes comparable to dynamics observed on some mountains. These dynamics may mean that the pattern at the ecotone at any point in time is ephemeral and may respond differently to environmental change.     

Stability of subalpine forest-meadow boundary inferred from size and age structure ofAbies mariesii thickets on a Japanese snowy mountain

Subalpine forest zone in the Japanese snowy mountains is characterized by a mosaic of coniferous forests and meadows.Abies mariesii thickets surround mesic meadows, forming a forest-meadow ecotone. Size and age structure of the thickets were studied to examine the stability of the forest-meadow boundaries on Mount Aizukomagatake in central Japan. The age structure indicates that the small height ofA. mariesii in the thickets was not due to the early stage of succession but due to adverse site conditions. In spite of their small stem height, they were as old as canopy trees in neighboringA. mariesii forests. Snow settling pressure madeA. mariesii thickets with broken main stems on the crest slopes, while snow glide pressure formed those with bending stems on leeward slopes. No evidence was found to show any major changes in the position of the forest-meadow boundaries in the size and age structure. The boundary position appears to have been almost steady for at least this century.     

塔克拉玛干沙漠北缘荒漠过渡带风沙流结构特征分析

利用多种集沙仪,通过野外实时输沙观测,对塔克拉玛干沙漠北缘荒漠过渡带的地表风沙流特征进行了分析,结果表明：① 100 cm高度范围内,总输沙量的47.3%分布在30 cm高度内,这一比例小于前人的研究结果;输沙量随高度的变化比较符合幂函数分布。② 风沙流输沙的粒径以细砂、极细砂与粉砂为主,各高度层所占比例均达99%以上;风沙流输沙平均粒径随高度增加而减小,沙尘的含量随高度增加呈现“象鼻”状分布。③ 风沙流中贴地层风速廓线受风沙相互作用的影响,不再符合对数分布,更加符合幂函数u=az^b分布。     

策勒绿洲-荒漠过渡带风沙前沿近地面不同方向的输沙特征

利用策勒绿洲-荒漠过渡带风沙前沿输沙资料及风速风向资料,分析这一区域近地面输沙的方向分布特征。结果表明：① 风沙前沿起沙风风向以W、WNW为主,风向变化比较单一;② 观测点输沙量集中于NW、WNW、W、SW、WSW 5个方位,合计占总输沙量的68.3%;0～40 cm高度年输沙量为96.0 kg,年合成输沙量为45.9 kg,合成输沙方向为102.5°;③ 观测点年输沙势为43.2 VU,年合成输沙势为31.04 VU,输沙势的方向分布与实测输沙量存在较大差异。     

森林-草原交错带土壤节肢动物物种相对多度模型拟合研究

应用群落物种多度分布模型:对数级数分布模型、对数正态分布模型、几何级数分布模型和分割线段分布模型研究了森林草原交错带土壤节肢动物群落的种-多度分布关系。结果表明:对数级数分布模型和对数正态分布模型能够较好的拟合交错带大型土壤节肢动物群落的种-多度分布,中小型土壤节肢动物仅能用对数级数分布模型来拟合;几何级数分布模型和分割线段分布模型则不适于描述该区土壤节肢动物群落物种多样性。对数级数分布的参数α和对数正态分布的参数λ是反映群落结构特征内在性质的量,可以作为物种多样性指数运用,能较好地反映群落的物种丰富度。研究结果可为交错区群落物种多样性保护提供理论基础。     

内蒙古东部过渡带大型土壤节肢动物多样性调查

利用样带法对河北北部,内蒙古东部林牧过渡带不同生境中大型土壤节肢动物群落进行调查,研究过渡带大型土壤节肢动物群落结构及多样性变化。共获得大型土壤节肢动物2 134只,隶属6纲18目,其中优势类群为膜翅目和蜘蛛目,常见类群为同翅目、鳞翅目、鞘翅目成虫、鞘翅目幼虫、双翅目幼虫、石蜈蚣目和地蜈蚣目,其余类群为稀有类群。大型土壤节肢动物在3个地带中的森林带的种类最高(17类),且对土壤环境响应敏感的稀有类群数最多的出现在植被丰富、土壤疏松和枯枝落叶层厚度最高的森林带(8类),初步认为这些稀有类群对指示土壤肥力质量变化具有巨大潜力。在土壤动物群落多样性研究中,DG指数比Shannon-Wiener多样性指数(H′)更能体现土壤动物群落多样性。群落聚类及排序结果显示,9种不同生境的大型土壤节肢动物群落可以分为3大类:森林类、森林-草甸类和草甸-草原类,同时土壤pH值对土壤节肢动物的类群数影响较大,而土壤温度对土壤节肢动物的个体数影响较大。     

干旱区绿洲荒漠交错带土地退化及生态重建

由于经济的发展，土地资源受到越来越大的压力。当这种压力超过了土地资源的承载能力，就导致了土地退化的发生。作为陆地生态系统的基础，土地资源的退化表现为：土壤肥力降低，生物多样性降低，以及伴随的经济发展的落后。当前世界范围内对土地退化的治理，基本方法仍是基于生态学理论的生物方法。但对土地退化的恢复与生态系统的重建的研究，需要经过谨慎设计的长期实验。绿洲荒漠交错带的重要性，不仅表现为是绿洲的保护屏障，而且在绿洲经济的发展中也起到巨大的作用。通过对国内外大量研究的回顾，讨论了在不同地区进行的长期实验所采用的方法。有人为因素参与的退化土地恢复与生态重建，可以在短期内取得明显效果。产生土地退化的原因，不仅仅是土地资源特点与自然环境这样一些自然因素，还包括一些社会与经济因素。因此退化土地的恢复与生态重建的成功，需要一种考虑自然、社会和经济因素的综合的方法。