应用GGE双标图筛选理想棉花区域试验点

以2008年长江流域棉花区域试验皮棉产量数据为例,初步筛选出对皮棉产量鉴别力最高的前5个试点依次为九江、合肥、慈溪、简阳和荆州,代表性最强的前5个试点为九江、慈溪、盐城、南通和江陵,以及对皮棉产量性状选择最理想的前5个试点为南通、江陵、盐城、九江和慈溪,从而为育种家在特定条件下选择试验点提供参考依据.     

一种基于样点代表性等级的土壤采样设计方法

采样设计是获取土壤空间分布信息的关键环节,直接影响到土壤制图的精度。目前常用的采样设计方法大多存在着设计样本量大、采样效率不高的问题。当可投入资源难以完成一次性大量采样时,采样往往需要多次、分批进行。然而现有分批采样方法多考虑各批采样点在地理空间的互补性,可能造成样本点在属性空间的重叠,影响采样资源的高效利用。鉴于此,本研究通过对与土壤在空间分布具有协同变化的环境因子进行聚类分析,寻找可代表土壤性状空间分布的不同等级类型的代表性样点,建立一套基于代表性等级的采样设计方法。将该采样方法应用于位于黑龙江省嫩江县鹤山农场的研究区,利用所采集的不同代表性等级的样点进行数字土壤制图并进行验证,探讨采样方案与数字土壤制图精度的关系,以评价本文所提出的采样方法。结果表明,通过代表性等级最高的少量样点可获取研究区的大部分主要土壤类型(中国土壤系统分类的亚类级别),且制图精度较高;随着代表性等级较低样点的加入,土壤图精度提高;但当样点增加到一定数量时,土壤图的精度变化不大。因此,与样点数相比,样点的代表性高低对制图精度的影响更大。该方法所提出的代表性等级可以为样点采集顺序提供参考,有助于设计高效的逐步采样方案。     

Environmentally biased fragmentation of oak savanna habitat on southeastern Vancouver Island, Canada

Quantifying the degree to which natural or protected areas are representative of a specified baseline provides critical information to conservation prioritization schemes. We report results on southeastern Vancouver Island, Canada, where we compared environmental conditions represented across the entire landscape, in oak savanna habitats prior to European settlement (<1850), and in both protected and unprotected oak savannas in the present-day. In this region, oak savannas represent a rare habitat type, harboring many threatened species. Before European settlement, oak savannas occurred in a distinctly different subset of environmental conditions than they do today. Compared to the entire landscape, oak savannas were historically found predominantly in warm, dry, flat, and low-lying areas, but habitat destruction has left oak savannas in largely the exact opposite set of conditions at present. Thus, the range of conditions in both protected and unprotected oak savannas at present are highly unrepresentative of historical conditions. It appears that fire management by indigenous peoples maintained oak savannas historically across large areas of flat low-lying conditions with deep soils, where succession otherwise produces closed coniferous forest. These areas have since been almost entirely converted to agricultural and urban areas, leaving remnant oak savannas largely on steep, rocky hilltops, where the habitat is maintained by shallow soils. Our results provide quantitative guidance for setting conservation priorities for oak savannas in this region, while highlighting the important general issue of the major role traditional land-use practices can play in shaping landscapes, and therefore in influencing the baselines used to set conservation priorities.