白背飞虱种群密度效应的研究

本研究证明白背飞虱卵期不存在密度效应,卵孵化率平均为86.58％;若虫、成虫期密度效应明显,随着密度增加,若虫存活率、成虫产卵量和寿命呈幂函数曲线下降。     

Possible mechanisms underlying fluctuations in the Far Eastern sardine population inferred from time series of two biological traits

A cycle of fluctuation in the Far Eastern sardine, Sardinops sagax, population is accompanied by an abrupt drop and recovery of fish size and lipid content of parent fish, which may reflect a phase variation from coastal to oceanic and its reverse. The cycle begins with the survival success of a smaller number of eggs produced by high-quality parents, which is triggered by a global climate change (density-independent process), and finally ends in the survival failure resulting from an overexpansion of an enormous number of fish produced by low-quality parents (density-dependent process).     

密度调控对女贞人工林土壤铵态氮和硝态氮季节变化的影响

以江苏扬州市江都区7年生女贞人工林为对象,研究密度调控对其土壤铵态氮（NH4＋-N）和硝态氮（NO3--N）含量剖面分布特征及季节变化的影响。结果表明：不同调控密度下女贞人工林土壤NH4＋-N和NO3--N含量均随着土层深度的增加而逐渐降低,且表现出明显的季节变化;3种密度调控下土壤NH4＋-N 含量均是秋冬两季较高,春季最低,夏季又有明显回升,且3种密度中的2275株/hm2下NH4＋-N含量在4个季节均高于另外2种密度;土壤NO3--N 季节变化与NH4＋-N大体一致,在春季含量最低,但不同密度间变化趋势差异较大;土温、含水量及有机质均与土壤NH4＋-N和NO3--N含量存在显著的相关关系（p＜0.05）,且在夏季均达到极显著相关（p＜0.01）。     

Long-term modelling of weed control strategies: analysis of threshold-based options for weed species with contrasted competitive abilities

A simple life-cycle-based demography model was adapted for two contrasting weed species ( Alopecurus myosuroides and Poa annua ). This model included a seed production function that accounted for population self-regulation through weed:weed interactions. The A. myosuroides version of the model was tested with field data. Long-term simulations of population demography were then performed to investigate the relationship between weed control strategies based on density thresholds and both the frequency of herbicide use and the long-term economic profitability. This study confirms that threshold-based weed management strategies are more cost-effective than spraying every year and may allow important reductions in herbicide use. However, after the first transient years of either systematically spraying or withholding herbicide, the long-term spraying frequency was insensitive to threshold values between 0.01 and 100 plants m⁻². The highest long-term profitability was obtained for the lowest threshold tested, and the profitability decreased rapidly when the threshold was raised above 4–6 and 10–20 plants m⁻² for A. myosuroides and P. annua respectively. The study thus indicates that the exact threshold value is of little importance for the long-term reliance of the system on herbicide, provided that it is reasonably low. For species with low competitive ability, high thresholds may be used in some cropping systems to reduce the spraying frequency for environmental considerations, but those options would also reduce the profitability if no compensatory measures were taken.     

密度制约效应对啮齿动物繁殖的影响

啮齿动物种群动态调节是生态学中关键的问题之一,它与制定鼠害防治策略密切相关。目前,国内外学者已在相关领域取得大量的研究成果。整理了密度制约效应对啮齿动物繁殖影响的文献,包括在性器官、性成熟、性周期、繁殖指数、激素和行为的调节作用,同时分析该领域的研究途径及研究前景,旨在为今后的研究提供更多的思路。     

刈割扰动下半干旱区豆科牧草种间关系的反应

以苜蓿和沙打旺根据生物替代设计组成的简单混播种群为对象,通过调查2种牧草在刈割扰动下的生长反应,比较了单混播处理条件下3种播种密度刈割处理的种间关系和补偿性反应特点,探讨了种群稳定与演替的可能机制。结果表明苜蓿和沙打旺在刈割条件下,土壤水分利用竞争空间上移 20 cm,并且水分利用呈增加趋势,土壤平均水分为15%。刈割诱导低密度混播处理和高密度苜蓿单播处理土壤水分最高,分别达15.6%和15.8%。单播下,刈割可诱导中高密度单播沙打旺处理产量分别增加33%和29%,而混播方式下,刈割均导致沙打旺和苜蓿株高、分枝数和地上部生物量小于对照。在刈割干扰下,相比对照,苜蓿与沙打旺两者仍然为资源共享关系,但互利共生程度下降了21%,而混播种群中苜蓿对沙打旺的相对竞争力增加了17%。不论单播还是混播,刈割均可引发2种牧草显著的补偿机制。同时发现刈割干扰可激发更强的自疏作用。2种牧草的生长指标呈下降趋势可能是干旱、刈割和种间竞争或化感协同胁迫作用的结果,但共存与补偿机制有利于减缓这种负面效应。沙打旺和苜蓿的更新补偿时间上的异质性,实现资源利用生态位的分离,从而调控着2种牧草组成的种群稳定性,这对理解生物多样性维持机制具有重要的参考意义。     

竹裂爪螨实验种群密度效应研究

系统研究了竹裂爪螨实验种群的密度效应,结果表明,竹裂爪螨卵期不存在密度效应,在卵密度为5～60粒/叶,温度25℃±0.5℃,光照14L10D条件下,孵化率为92.22%～100%,卵发育历期为4.4天～4.7天。但初始幼螨密度对幼若螨的存活率、发育速率以及羽化成螨性比、繁殖力、寿命都均有明显影响,即在3～48头/叶的幼虫密度下,幼若螨的存活率与发育速率随密度的增高而呈现下降或减慢的趋势;而相继的成螨种群随密度的增高表现为雌性比增加;雌成螨的每雌产卵量(Y)与初始幼螨密度(X)之间呈线性关系Y=79.8779-1.3657X(R=0.9647**)。     

Change in chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) stomach contents associated with fluctuation of pink salmon (O. gorbuscha) abundance in the central subarctic Pacific and Bering Sea

The abundance and stomach contents of salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) and the biomass of prey organisms were examined in the central subarctic Pacific and Bering Sea in the summer of 1991 and 1992. Salmonids were caught by surface longline using the same level of fishing effort. Chum (O. keta) and pink (O. gorbuscha) salmon were the predominant species, representing 44% and 36% sof the total catch (n = 1275) in 1991. In 1992, chum salmon composed 85% of the total catch (n = 603), but the catch of pink salmon decreased to 1% of the total catch due to the odd/even year fluctuation of Asian pink salmon abundance in the study area. It was found that chum salmon changed their dominant diet from gelatinous zooplankton (pteropods, appendicular-ians, jellyfishes, chaetognaths, polychaetes and unidentified materials) in 1991, when pink salmon were abundant, to a diet of crustaceans (euphausiids, cope-pods, amphipods, ostracods, mysids and decapods) in 1992, when pink salmon were less abundant. Local crustacean biomass (wet weight; mg m^-3) had significant negative correlation with the CPUE (catch number per 30 hachi) of pink salmon in 1991 (r = -0.586; P = 0.026) and that of chum salmon in 1992 (r =–0.616; P = 0.014). There may be a limitation in the available prey resource for production of salmonids.     

Density-dependent habitat selection and the ideal free distribution in marine fish spatial dynamics: considerations and cautions

Current methods and theory used in the study of the spatial dynamics of marine fish are problematic. Positive relationships between population abundance and occupied area are typically interpreted as evidence of density‐dependent habitat selection. However, both abundance and area may co‐vary with an un‐parameterized variable, such as a density‐independent effect. In addition, if density‐dependent habitat selection is present, population growth rates in optimal habitats would be expected to be lower than in marginal habitats. This same pattern can also evolve from a large‐scale, spatially autocorrelated change in a density‐independent factor. The theory underlying density‐dependent habitat selection, the ideal free distribution, can be tautological when no a priori information of how habitat suitability changes with density is known. In this case, an ideal free distribution can be defined for any pattern of habitat‐specific population growth rates. However, these problems are not insurmountable and solutions may be found by considering spatial variation in proxies of fitness and explicitly allowing for the relative importance of habitat selection (density dependent) and environmental (density independent) effects to vary with spatial scale.