Response of alluvial fan systems to the late Pleistocene to Holocene climatic transition: contrasts between the margins of pluvial Lakes Lahontan and Mojave, Nevada and California, USA

Dated shorelines of late Pleistocene pluvial Lakes Lahontan (Great Basin Desert, northwest Nevada) and Mojave (Mojave Desert, eastern California) provide timelines for the assessment of alluvial fan sedimentation at the lake margins during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene. Two sets of alluvial fan systems have been mapped: the Stillwater fans, feeding Lake Lahontan; and the Zzyzx fans, feeding Lake Mojave. Their contrasting morphologies suggest different responses of the two fan systems to late Pleistocene to early Holocene climatic change. At the time the Stillwater fan systems underwent minimal sedimentation, with the catchment hillslopes apparently stable. The Zzyzx fans experienced major changes in water and sediment supply from the catchment hillslopes. There was a major phase of hillslope debris-flow activity, followed by fanhead trenching and distal fan progradation. Both areas were wetter and colder in the late Pleistocene than they are today, but during the transition to the Holocene the Zzyzx area was more likely to experience intense rains associated with the monsoonal penetration of warm moist tropical air into the Southwest. Vegetation reconstructions for the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene suggest that catchment hillslopes in the Mojave supported a desert shrub vegetation, but those in the Stillwaters supported juniper woodland and grasses at low elevations and pine at higher elevations. Contrasts in hillslope vegetation cover together with storm activity may account for the different responses of the alluvial fans to climatic change during the Pleistocene to Holocene climatic transition. After the falls in lake levels of Lakes Lahontan and Mojave in the early Holocene, both areas underwent aridification, resulting in reductions in hillslope vegetation cover. Increased storm runoff led to fanhead trenching and distal progradation of the alluvial fans. Variations in fan style at that time may relate primarily to base-level conditions resulting from different gradients on the exposed lake shores.     

基于地统计学和GIS的太湖典型地区土壤属性制图研究——以土壤全氮制图为例

在地理信息系统(GIS)支持下，运用地统计学方法对太湖典型地区耕层土壤全氮含量的空间变异特征进行分析，探讨了适用于研究区域土壤全氮制图的最佳邻域，并在此基础上利用块段克立格(Block Kriging)法绘制了土壤全氮含量空间分布图。结果表明，土壤全氮的空间变异性在40km步长变化域上表现为明显的各向同性，超出这个范围，土壤全氮空间变异的各向异性明显增强，以40km步长变化域上土壤全氮的空间结构特征作为Kriging插值依据有助于提高制图精度。制图结果表明，研究区域土壤全氮含量在江阴和宜兴两市境内普遍较高，锡山和武进两市相对较低；且高值斑块区主要分布在地势低洼的圩田区，这是人为施肥和土壤特性共同影响的结果。Kriging估值标准差分布图可为评价和提高制图精度提供十分有用信息。     

磷在富营养化湖泊沉积物-水界面的循环

沉积物中部分固定的磷可通过分解或溶解作用而释放磷酸盐到沉积物间隙水中;再生的磷可能释放到上覆水体中,或在沉积物中作为一种自生相而再沉淀,或被沉积物的其它组分所吸附。本文描述了磷在沉积物-水界面的迁移过程,并对影响磷循环的因子及其磷自沉积物释放的机制作一简要概述。     

Historical Trace Metal Accumulation in the Sediments of an Urbanized Region of the Lake Champlain Watershed, Burlington, Vermont

This study documents the history ofpollution inputs in the Burlington region of LakeChamplain, Vermont using measurements of anthropogenicmetals (Cu, Zn, Cr, Pb, Cd, and Ag) in four age-datedsediment cores. Sediments record a history ofcontamination in a region and can be used to assessthe changing threat to biota over time and to evaluatethe effectiveness of discharge regulations onanthropogenic inputs.Grain size, magnetic susceptibility, radiometricdating and pollen stratigraphy were combined withtrace metal data to provide an assessment of thehistory of contamination over the last 350 yr inthe Burlington region of Lake Champlain. Magneticsusceptibility was initially used to identify land-usehistory for each site because it is a proxy indicatorof soil erosion. Historical trends in metal inputs inthe Burlington region from the seventeenth through thetwentieth centuries are reflected in downcorevariations in metal concentrations and accumulationrates. Metal concentrations increase above backgroundvalues in the early to mid nineteenth century. Themetal input rate to the sediments increases around1920 and maximum concentrations and accumulation ratesare observed in the late 1960s. Decreases inconcentration and accumulation rate between 1970 andthe present are observed for most metals. Theobserved trends are primarily a function of variationsin anthropogenic inputs and not variations in sedimentgrain size. Grain size data were used to removetexture variations from the metal profiles and resultsshow trends in the anthropogenic metal signals remain. Radiometric dating and pollen stratigraphy providewell-constrained dates for the sediments therebyallowing the metal profiles to be interpreted in termsof land-use history.     

太湖地区典型水稻土中速效磷变化规律研究

为了定量研究太湖地区农田土壤中速效磷的变化情况,本文对不同季节太湖地区三种典型水稻土(白土、黄泥土和乌栅土)中土壤速效磷的含量进行了分析。结果表明:速效磷含量在土壤剖面中由上层到下层呈现逐渐递减的趋势。三种土壤均以耕层含量为最高,在45cm以下基本上趋于稳定,但在接近地下水时又略有上升。季节性变化方面,速效磷含量一般在2月份的小麦分蘖-拔节期和9月份的水稻齐穗期较高。影响土壤速效磷含量的因素很多,经分析:土壤速效磷的含量与土壤的有机质含量呈极显著的线性正相关关系;旱作条件下与全磷含量之间呈显著的幂函数相关关系,在水作条件下与全磷含量之间呈极显著的线性正相关关系;与土壤的pH又有显著的线性负相关关系。     

鄱阳湖生态经济区土地生态安全研究

土地生态安全评价是生态安全评价的的重要组成部分,也是当前土地可持续利用研究的前沿课题,对其进行研究有着极其重要的意义。利用2001-2007年的相关数据,借助于物元模型对鄱阳湖生态经济区的土地生态安全进行研究。结果表明:（1）鄱阳湖生态经济区土地生态安全状况,由2001年较安全状态下降到2005不安全状态。（2）2005-2007年土地生态安全由不安全状态到临界安全状态,状态有所好转。研究也证明了利用物元模型进行区域土地生态安全评价是可行的,这种方法可作为土地生态安全评价研究的新方法。     

岳阳南湖水环境现状评价及对策

为促进岳阳市南湖的开发建设与水环境保护协调发展，以南湖水环境监测资料为依据，利用有关数学模式南湖污染源与水质进行了评价，结果表明，影响南湖水质的主要污染源为城市生活污水，主要污染物分别为总磷，总氮，CODcr,BOD5，湖南水质呈现富营养化与有机物污染，处于重度污染水平，已达不到特殊保护水域功能要求，据此提出南湖水环境保护对策建议。     

滇池水生植被调查

对滇池水生植被的调查结果表明：现有水生植物15种，分布面积约为滇池总面积的6．8％；与20世纪60年代至80年代的分布情况相比较，可从水生植物的变化滥测滇池水体的污染程度。     

冬季两种舍饲模式对羔羊生长性能、免疫和抗氧化功能的影响

为探讨冬季两种不同舍饲方式对羔羊生长性能、血液热休克蛋白、免疫和抗氧化功能的影响,将30只2月龄、体重相近((16.42±2.52)kg)的杜泊×蒙古杂交母羔羊随机分为2个处理组:一组为封闭式舍饲组(CHG),另外一组为开放式舍饲组(OHG).试验期28 d,每天记录舍内外温度、湿度、风速、氨气及二氧化碳含量和两组试验...     

南漪湖银鱼资源衰退原因及对策

南漪湖具有银鱼生长繁衍的良好生态条件,１９８１～１９８７年总产银鱼１１５０ｔ。１９８８年后由于过度捕捞,经济鱼类种类组成改变;加上多年旱灾低水位的影响,造成资源严重衰退。通过分析认为：合理调整经济鱼类种类组成,开展放流移植增殖,加强资源保护管理等将使银鱼年产量达到历史最高水平的２．６９倍。