关于我国农田福寿螺生物入侵需要加以研究的生态学问题

福寿螺已成为我国南方稻区主要的入侵生物之一,近年来,对水稻等农作物以及农业生物多样性和生态环境的危害日趋加重。本文对我国农田福寿螺的生物入侵危害状况进行了概述,提出了今后关于农田福寿螺生物入侵需要加以研究的生态学问题,包括农田福寿螺的生态适应性与耐性规律、农田福寿螺的种群暴发规律与预测预警、福寿螺的生态风险、农田福寿螺的综合防治与生态控制等。     

入侵生物的防治研究进展

全球经济一体化使得国际国内贸易往来越来越频繁,再加上生态观光旅游业的蓬勃发展,使得生物成功入侵变得更加容易。现已成为生态学家关注的焦点之一。通过分析近几年国内外关于生物入侵的研究现状及生物入侵的防治措施,指出了该领域目前及将来的研究趋势。     

生物入侵对我国农业的影响

介绍了生物入侵的一些机制和途径,分析了生物入侵对我国农业正面和负面的影响,其中正面影响主要指利用生物入侵进行生物防治等,负面影响包括农业病虫害的大规模爆发、生物多样性的严重破坏,以及带来的巨大的经济损失等。     

浙江省农业生物多样性的保护、利用与WTO

本文论述了生物多样性的重要作用及保护现状，分析了浙江省农业生物多样性的特点，并针对我国加入WTO后，面对“农产品市场萎缩”、“绿色壁垒”、“生物入侵”等新问题、新挑战，结合实例，提出了浙江省加强农业生物多样性保护、利用，提高农产品国际市场竞争力，促进效益农业、精品农业发展，维护生态安全的措施、对策。     

外来入侵生物风险评估与管理制度研究

外来生物入侵对我国社会和经济发展造成了巨大的危害。开展外来入侵生物风险评估和管理是外来入侵生物防治的重要措施之一。本文论述了外来入侵生物风险评估的指导思想和原则,并借鉴其他国家对外来入侵生物风险评估的做法和经验,提出了外来入侵生物风险评估程序和指标体系,并在此基础上提出了外来生物风险管理的具体措施。     

试论生物多样性与海南农业

生物多样性在保护农业生态环境和促进农业经济健康发展中扮演着无可替代的重要角色;丰富的生物多样性为农业生产和农村经济发展提供优越条件;在保护生物多样性的同时,也应关注生物入侵问题。     

坚持科学发展观 做好新形势下外来生物入侵防范工作

在当前新的国内外经济和贸易形势下,我国外来生物入侵态势十分严峻,防范外来生物入侵的任务相当艰巨。对此,本文强调,必须用科学发展观来统领和指导新形势下外来生物入侵的防范工作,并从“提高全民参与意识、完善执法体系、加强国家管理职能”等方面阐述了防范外来生物入侵的应对措施和建议。     

浅谈水土保持生态经济小流域建设

水土流失是我国的头号生态环境问题。建设具有良好生态环境和较高经济效益的生态经济小流域是社会经济发展的客观需要和基本手段。黑龙江省克山县新安小流域和联兴小流域通过治理水土流失、建设水土保持生态经济小流域 ,既改善了生态环境又提高了经济收入。在水土保持生态经济小流域建设途径方面 ,首先要发展生态立体农业 ,有效利用土地资源 ;其次要丰富生物种类 ,提高单位面积生物产量 ;第三加强基础建设 ,为生态良性循环提供保障 ;第四完善产业化体系 ,提高生态经济小流域运行质量。     

生物入侵的现状与对策思考

系统分析了生物入侵危害现状及产生的原因,并在总结目前防治生物入侵所采取的技术措施的基础上,提出了防治生物入侵的长远对策。     

基于生物多样性和生态系统服务的生态农场景观设计

近年来随着民众对良好生态环境和优质食品需求的增加,生态农场在我国蓬勃兴起。如何设计和建造生态农场成为新的研究领域。其中将生物多样性和生态系统服务整合到生态农场设计被认为是保障生态农场可持续生产的关键。本研究在回顾生态农场发展历程,分析生态农场中生物多样性的内涵,总结生态农场的景观结构、生物多样性和生态系统服务的关系及其应用的基础上,提出了以提升和利用生物多样性和生态系统服务为目标的生态农场景观结构优化的设计原则。研究建议生态农场的景观设计应主要包括农场与周围景观的关系、种植系统设计和有益生物栖息地的保护和重建3方面的内容,并具体提出了每个方面需遵循的一般设计原则。同时,研究以我国南方水稻主产区新建水稻生态农场设计为例,印证了上述原则和方法在实践中的可行性。研究表明,为了更好地将生物多样性整合到生态农场建设中,未来需要深入认识生物多样性及其生态功能,认识生物多样性与农业产量和收益的关系,开发利用能够促进有益生物多样性和生态系统服务的功能植物,并推动生态农场实施生物多样性保护的生态补偿政策的制定。本研究对推动将生物多样性保护和生态服务管理整合到生态农场设计提供了方法指导和实证,对生态农场的发展建设具有参考借鉴意义。     

Exotic annuals reduce soil heterogeneity in coastal sage scrub soil chemical and biological characteristics

Exotic plant invasions alter ecosystem structure and function above- and below-ground through plant–soil feedbacks. The resistance of ecosystems to invasion can be measured by the degree of change in microbial communities and soil chemical pools and fluxes, whereas their resilience can be measured by the ability to recover following restoration. Coastal sage scrub (CSS) is one of the most highly invaded ecosystems in the US but the response of CSS soils to exotic plant invasion is little known. We examined resistance and resilience of CSS soil chemical and biological characteristics following invasion of exotic annual grasses and forbs and restoration of the native plant community. We hypothesized that invasion of exotic plant species would change biological and chemical characteristics of CSS soils by altering soil nutrient inputs. Additionally, we expected that if exotic plants were controlled and native plants were restored, native soil characteristics would recover. We sampled two locations with invaded, restored and native CSS for plant community composition, soil chemistry and microbial communities, and phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiles. Communities invaded by exotic annuals were resistant to some measured parameters but not others. Extractable nitrogen pools decreased, nitrogen cycling rates increased, and microbial biomass and fungal:bacterial ratios were altered in invaded soils, and these effects were mediated by the phenological stage of the dominant plant species. The largest impact of invasion on soils was an overall reduction of spatial heterogeneity in soil nutrients, nutrient cycling and microbial communities. Restored plots tended to recover in most biotic and chemical parameters including increased resource heterogeneity compared to invaded plots, suggesting that CSS soils are resilient but not resistant to invasion.     

Predicting the rate of range expansion of an invasive alien bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) using a stochastic spatio-temporal model

To develop effective strategies for managing biological invasions, it is important to understand and be able to predict patterns of invasion and range expansion, and particularly the rate of spread and factors controlling this rate. To predict the spatial dynamics of invasion by an alien bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in Hokkaido, Japan, we explicitly constructed a stochastic spatio-temporal model that incorporates immigration and establishment processes. Using a Bayesian approach, we parameterized the model based on spatio-temporal presence/absence data collected by citizen volunteers and used the model to predict control of the near-future spread of the bumblebee under several management strategies. The range expansion dynamics of B. terrestris were significantly negatively affected by two aspects of environmental heterogeneity: the land-use pattern (the proportion of woodland) and climate (the snow depth). Of the several spatial management strategies, suppressing the outlying (edge) colonies would be the most efficient strategy to reduce the bumblebee’s spread, irrespective of the level of effort, and would significantly slow the bumblebee’s range expansion during the next 30 years. The modeling approach employed in the present study will be broadly useful for studying real-world biological invasion problems, for which prediction of the progress of an invasion, even in the very near future, is urgently needed to support effective spatial management options and countermeasures. In addition, the model demonstrates that incorporating the dynamics of environmental heterogeneity is a fundamental requirement for prediction and risk assessment during biological invasions, especially in the context of recent rapid changes in the environment at regional and global scales.     

植物化感物质对种子萌发的影响及其生态学意义

化感现象作为植物之间的一种相互作用方式,在农林业生产中广泛存在。合理利用植物之间的化感作用,对于生产实践具有重要的指导意义。研究表明,化感物质可促进或抑制不同物种种子的萌发过程,这对于植物的生长发育、植物群落的组成与分布以及生态系统的平衡有着重要影响。本文从化感物质对种子萌发的影响与其生态学意义两个方面进行了综述。一方面,在阐述化感作用影响种子萌发的基础上,进一步总结了化感物质抑制植物种子萌发的生理生化机制。包括:化感物质通过抑制胚根和胚轴的伸长,破坏亚细胞结构,干扰植物激素及活性氧的合成与代谢,造成细胞损伤,从而阻碍种子萌发;抑制种子中储存物质的代谢,阻碍种子萌发过程中的物质以及能量转换,导致种子萌发受阻等。另一方面,本文从化感作用在抑制农田杂草及影响生态系统稳定性两个方面,阐述了化感物质调控种子萌发的生态学意义。讨论了农作物的化感抑草作用,农林业生产中的化感自毒作用以及化感作用造成的生物入侵等,以期为农林业生产提供借鉴。最后,根据目前研究进展,对本领域未来研究方向进行了展望和讨论。     

Impact of an invasive plant (Elymus athericus) on the conservation value of tidal salt marshes in western France and implications for management: Responses of spider populations

As a result of Elymus athericus (Poaceae) invasion in the last 10 years, a major change in vegetation cover has occurred in salt marshes of the Mont Saint-Michel bay (France). Such invasions are known to modify biodiversity and consequently ecosystem proprieties and functions as well as the conservation value of invaded areas. In this study, we especially focus (1) on the impact of the invasive species on the conservation value of the invaded ecosystems and (2) on the impact of mowing in the invaded parts of salt marshes. Among the various biological models, spiders were selected for the present study because they are an abundant, diversified, taxonomic group of generalist predators. Furthermore, data are available on this group since 1984, allowing a comparison of species distribution ranges in salt marshes before and after the E. athericus invasion. This diachronic approach showed that the invasion of salt marshes promoted the progression of non-coastal species, web-building spiders and cursorial spiders, but did not interfere with resident species distributions, finally resulting in higher spider densities and species richness in the entire area.The species composition, functional groups, abundances and densities of spider assemblages were also compared using complementary sampling techniques (i.e., pitfall traps, collecting by hand and quadrat technique) between natural and invaded stations in 2002 for synchronic approach. One main result is that some halophilic species decreased in abundances and densities in invaded plots, which is thought to alter the marine character of salt marsh arthropod assemblages. Lastly, mowing, by reducing non-coastal species and enhancing halophilic ones, tends to reduce the negative effects of Elymus on salt marsh conservation value. The relation between the treatments tested (invasive species and mowing) and the spider assemblages by changes in environmental variables confirms the high value of this group as bioindicators.     

An assessment of the effectiveness of a large,national-scale invasive alien plant control strategy in South Africa

This paper presents an assessment of a large, national-scale alien plant control program that has operated in South Africa for 15 years. We reviewed data from three national-level estimates of the extent of invasion, records of the costs and spatial extent of invasive species control operations, assessments of the effectiveness of biological control, and smaller-scale studies. The 19 most important invasive taxa, mainly trees, in terrestrial biomes were identified. The effectiveness of control efforts on the extent of invasion of these taxa was assessed. Control costs over 15 years amounted to 3.2 billion rands (US$457 million), more than half of which was spent on 10 taxa, the most prominent being in the genera Acacia, Prosopis, Pinus and Eucalyptus. Despite substantial spending, control operations were in many cases applied to a relatively small portion of the estimated invaded area, and invasions appear to have increased, and remain a serious threat, in many biomes. Our findings suggest that South Africa’s national-scale strategy to clear invasive alien plants should be substantially modified if impacts are to be effectively mitigated. Rather than attempting to control all species, and to operate in all areas, a more focused approach is called for. This would include prioritising both the species and the areas, and setting goals and monitoring the degree to which they are achieved, within a framework of adaptive management. A greater portion of funding should also be directed towards biological control, where successes have been most notable.     

毛竹入侵森林对固氮微生物群落结构和丰度的影响

【目的】 毛竹入侵能够对生态系统的各个方面产生影响,包括森林生态系统氮循环。生物固氮是森林生态系统氮循环的重要一环,研究毛竹入侵过程中土壤固氮微生物的变化,可为毛竹入侵对生态功能影响的评价提供理论依据。 【方法】 选取天目山自然保护区的三个毛竹入侵带 (青龙山、石门洞和进山门),分别在三个入侵带中沿毛竹入侵方向采集毛竹纯林、毛竹与原林混交林以及原林地的表层土壤,分析pH、有机碳、碱解氮、有效磷和速效钾等土壤化学性质,应用基于nifH功能基因的末端限制性片段长度多态性 (T-RFLP) 和荧光定量PCR (qPCR) 技术,分析土壤固氮微生物群落结构和丰度的变化。 【结果】 毛竹入侵后土壤化学性质呈现三种不同情况,在三个入侵带中总体上升的有pH、有机碳、碱解氮、有效磷,下降的为速效钾,而硝态氮的变化均不显著,总体上,土壤养分含量在毛竹入侵后有所上升。土壤固氮微生物的丰度随毛竹入侵过程降低,其中进山门入侵带的变化显著 (P < 0.05)。土壤固氮微生物T-RFLP的结果显示,48 bp在三个入侵带中均为优势片段;不同的T-RFs在毛竹入侵过程中变化各异,有的片段在毛竹入侵后消失,有的片段在毛竹入侵后出现,有的片段变化不显著。土壤固氮微生物群落的Shannon指数和均匀度指数随毛竹入侵降低,Simpson指数相反,这些指标只在石门洞入侵带的不同林分之间存在显著差异 ( P < 0.05);多响应置换过程分析 (MRPP) 显示,石门洞和进山门入侵带毛竹入侵前后土壤固氮微生物群落结构有显著变化 ( P < 0.05);冗余分析 (RDA) 结果表明,土壤性质对固氮微生物群落变化的解释率普遍较低 (低于30%),三个入侵带显著影响土壤固氮微生物群落变化的土壤化学性质各不相同,并且三个入侵带的样点在RDA坐标图中分布格局并不统一。 【结论】 即使同一自然保护区的三个毛竹入侵带,土壤固氮微生物群落随着入侵过程的变化并不一致,母岩和原有植被产生的综合作用导致土壤固氮微生物群落发生变化,但需结合更多的因素进行进一步地探讨。      

Inhibitory effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester on angiogenesis, tumor invasion, and metastasis

Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) derived from honeybee propolis has been used as a folk medicine and has several proven biological activities. The present study investigated the effect of CAPE on angiogenesis, tumor invasion, and metastasis. A cytotoxicity assay of CAPE in CT26 colon adenocarcinoma cells showed a dose-dependent decrease in cell viability but no significant influence on the growth of human umbilical vein epithelial cells (HUVEC). A low concentration of CAPE (1.5 microg/mL) inhibited 52.7% of capillary-like tube formation in HUVEC culture on Matrigel. CAPE (6 microg/mL)-treated CT26 cells showed not only inhibited cell invasion by 47.8% but also decreased expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and -9. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) production from CT26 cells was also inhibited by treatment with CAPE (6 microg/mL). Intraperitoneal injection of CAPE (10 mg/kg/day) in BALB/c mice reduced the pulmonary metastatic capacity of CT26 cells accompanied with a decreased plasma VEGF level. CAPE treatment also prolonged the survival of mice implanted with CT26 cells. These results indicate that CAPE has potential as an antimetastatic agent.     

洪水对紫茎泽兰入侵繁殖的影响

紫茎泽兰是我国危害最严重的外来入侵植物之一。对四川省宜宾市境内金沙江岸边一个极特殊的人工建筑内的紫茎泽兰进行了调查，发现调查区域内紫茎泽兰同时以有性和无性两种方式繁殖。紫茎泽兰植株的空间分布特征表明，风、人类活动、交通运输等在其他区域对紫茎泽兰入侵影响较大的因素，对该区域内的紫茎泽兰入侵无明显影响；种种迹象表明，洪水是该区域紫茎泽兰繁殖体最重要的来源，即洪水是紫茎泽兰入侵的重要促进因素。最后，根据金沙江流域水土流失严重和紫茎泽兰在该流域大面积分布的特点，探讨了洪水对紫茎泽兰扩散入侵的影响。     

Plant invasion of native grassland on serpentine soils has no major effects upon selected physical and biological properties

Plant invasions alter soil microbial community composition; this study examined whether invasion-induced changes in the soil microbial community were reflected in soil aggregation, an ecosystem property strongly influenced by microorganisms. Soil aggregation is regulated by many biological factors including roots, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae, and microbially-derived carbon compounds. We measured root biomass, fungal-derived glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), and aggregate mean weight diameter in serpentine soils dominated by an invasive plant (Aegilops triuncialis (goatgrass) or Centaurea solstitialis (yellow starthistle)), or by native plants (Lasthenia californica and Plantago erecta, or Hemizonia congesta). Root biomass tended to increase in invaded soils. GRSP concentrations were lower in goatgrass-dominated soils than native soils. In contrast, starthistle dominated soil contained a higher amount of one fraction of GRSP, easily extractable immunoreactive soil protein (EE-IRSP) and a lower amount of another GRSP fraction, easily extractible Bradford reactive soil protein (EE-BRSP). Soil aggregation increased with goatgrass invasion, but did not increase with starthistle invasion. In highly aggregated serpentine soils, small increases in soil aggregation accompanying plant invasion were not related to changes in GRSP and likely have limited ecological significance.     

An Invasive Succulent Plant (Kalanchoe daigremontiana) Influences Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization in a Neotropical Semiarid Zone

It has long been recognized that plant invasions may alter carbon(C) and nitrogen(N) cycles, but the direction and magnitude of such alterations have been rarely quantified. In this study, we quantified the effects caused by the invasion of a noxious exotic plant,Kalanchoe daigremontiana(Crassulaceae), on C and N mineralization and enzymatic and microbial activities in the soil of a semiarid locality in Venezuela. We compared soil parameters associated with these processes(C and N mineralization time and the cumulative values, fluorescein diacetate hydrolytic activity, and activities of dehydrogenase, β-glucosidase, glucosaminidase, and urease) between invaded and adjacent non-invaded sites. In addition, correlations among these parameters and the soil physical-chemical properties were also examined to determine if a positive feedback exists between nutrient availability and K. daigremontiana invasion. Overall,our results showed that C mineralization and transformation of organic compounds to NH_4~+ were favored at sites colonized by K.daigremontiana. With this species, we found the highest cumulative amounts of NH_4~+-N and C and the lowest mineralization time.These results could be explained by higher activities of urease and glucosaminidase in soils under the influence of K. daigremontiana.In addition, higher amounts of organic matter and moisture content in invaded soils might favor C and N mineralization. In conclusion,invasion of Neotropical semiarid zones by K. daigremontiana may influence the chemical and biological properties of the soils covered by this species, increasing nutrient bioavailability, which, in time, can facilitate the invasion process.