黄土高原南部人工林林冠对降雨特征的影响分析

林冠降雨特征是森林水文作用的重要机制,同时也是植被在水土保持作用中的重要内容。以黄土高原南部常见乔木刺槐、元宝枫、桉树为研究对象,以滤纸色斑法为基本实验原理,观测了该地区天然降雨15场,分别取得3种乔木冠下雨滴谱200份。通过对比分析林冠内外降雨特征,得到以下结论:林冠降雨特征与林外降雨特征有显著区别;林下雨滴分布呈现近似的正态分布,大雨滴数量较林外明显增多;林冠下雨滴中数直径（D₅₀）受降雨强度的影响很小,且在降雨强度小于0.1 mm/min时,林冠下D₅₀大于林冠外,当雨强大于0.1 mm/min,林外D₅₀有大于林内的趋势;降雨动能与雨滴中数直径有着相似的变化趋势。     

辽河三角洲泥质海岸防护林小气候效益研究

利用常规观测与梯度观测相结合的方法,对辽河三角洲典型泥质海岸的片状防护林和单片防护林带的风速、土壤温度、光照强度、空气湿度等气象因子进行观测。结果表明：片状林带透风系数为0.26,属于疏透结构,在林带背风区1H-5H（H为树高）范围内风速降低最明显,降低幅度为38.51%～57.25%,10H-20H范围内比较缓和,风速降低8.19%～20.57%,林内风速平均比林外对照降低62.86%;单林带1H-5H风速平均降幅为41.54%～59.53%,10H-20H平均降幅为9.26%～16.14%。林内各层土壤温度比林外低,日平均空气湿度林内比林外高30.6%,日平均光照强度林内比林外降低40.4%。单片、片状林带的有效防风距离为20H;片状海防林带具有改善森林小气候的功能,能够增加林带内空气湿度,降低光照强度,调控土壤温度。     

Effects of fragmentation on pollinator assemblage, pollen limitation and seed production of Mediterranean myrtle (Myrtus communis)

Pollinator assemblages may shift as a consequence of the destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats. The scarcity of mates and pollinators can lead plant populations to suffer from pollen limitation and a decrease in reproductive performance within fragmented areas. We studied the shift in pollinator assemblages along with pollen limitation and seed production patterns in the Mediterranean shrub Myrtus communis. Our study included six populations contrasting in patch and population size (Large vs. Small) within a fragmented landscape characterized by ∼1% of potential forest coverage. The breeding system in Myrtus communis was self-compatible, but compared with natural pollination, fruit set increased with pollen addition (quantity limited), and seed set (brood size) increased with outcross pollen addition (quality limited). While the pollinator assemblage in Large patches was taxonomically diverse, it was almost monopolized by honeybees in Small patches, where visitation rates were highest and wild bee species were almost absent. In general, Small populations were less pollen limited for fruit set than Large populations, particularly those that received the highest rates of honeybee visits. However, despite differences in fragmentation and pollinators between Large and Small populations, seed production patterns (brood size and seed mass) were rather similar among them, in agreement with similar pollen limitation levels found for brood size. A higher susceptibility of native pollinators to the presence of honeybee hives was found in Small patches, suggesting that the pollinator assemblage may be severely altered when fragmentation occurs in combination with beekeeping. We discuss its implications and effects on plant reproduction in fragmented areas.     

Plant carbon inputs and environmental factors strongly affect soil respiration in a subtropical forest of southwestern China

Soil respiration is a large component of global carbon fluxes, so it is important to explore how this carbon flux varies with environmental factors and carbon inputs from plants. As part of a long-term study on the chemical and biological effects of aboveground litterfall denial, root trenching and tree-stem girdling, we measured soil respiration for three years in plots where those treatments were applied singly and in combination. Tree-stem girdling terminates the flow of carbohydrates from canopy, but allows the roots to continue water and nutrient uptake. After carbon storage below the stem girdles is depleted, the girdled trees die. Root trenching immediately terminates root exudates as well as water and nutrient uptake. Excluding aboveground litterfall removes soil carbon inputs, but allows normal root functions to continue. We found that removing aboveground litterfall and the humus layer reduced soil respiration by more than the C input from litter, a respiration priming effect. When this treatment was combined with stem girdling, root trenching or those treatments in combination, the change in soil respiration was indistinguishable from the loss of litterfall C inputs. This suggests that litterfall priming occurs only when normal root processes persist. Soil respiration was significantly related to temperature in all treatment combinations, and to soil water content in all treatments except stem girdling alone, and girdling plus trenching. Aboveground litterfall was a significant predictor of soil respiration in control, stem-girdled, trenched and stem-girdled plus trenching treatments. Stem girdling significantly reduced soil respiration as a single factor, but root trenching did not. These results suggest that in addition to temperature, aboveground carbon inputs exert strong controls on forest soil respiration.     

Compartmentalization of the soil animal food web as indicated by dual analysis of stable isotope ratios (N/N and C/C)

The soil animal food web has become a focus of recent ecological research but trophic relationships still remain enigmatic for many taxa. Analysis of stable isotope ratios of N and C provides a powerful tool for disentangling food web structure. In this study, animals, roots, soil and litter material from a temperate deciduous forest were analysed. The combined measurement of δ¹⁵N and δ¹³C provided insights into the compartmentalization of the soil animal food web. Leaf litter feeders were separated from animals relying mainly on recent belowground carbon resources and from animals feeding on older carbon. The trophic pathway of leaf litter-feeding species appears to be a dead end, presumably because leaf litter feeders (mainly diplopods and oribatid mites) are unavailable to predators due to large size and/or strong sclerotization. Endogeic earthworms that rely on older carbon also appear to exist in predator-free space. The data suggest that the largest trophic compartment constitutes of ectomycorrhizal feeders and their predators. Additionally, there is a smaller trophic compartment consisting of predators likely feeding on enchytraeids and potentially nematodes.     

荒漠草原区固沙人工柠条林生长过程中土壤性质演变规律

开展荒漠草原区固沙人工林生长过程中土壤性质研究,对于沙化草地土壤质量演变规律分析和人工林有效管理均具有重要的指导价值。通过野外调查取样和室内分析,测定6,15,24,36年柠条林地土壤机械组成、土壤养分、pH和电导率以及土壤水分与温度等指标变化,分析荒漠草原区种植固沙柠条人工林对土壤性质的影响。结果表明,从6年到15年柠条林地,土壤粗沙粒和细沙粒成分显著升高(P<0.05),但从24年柠条林地开始土壤粗沙粒和细沙粒含量显著下降(P<0.05),土壤极细沙粒和粘粉粒含量开始显著增加(P<0.05)。从24年柠条林地开始,土壤有机碳、全N和全P含量显著升高,土壤电导率和水分含量呈现增加趋势,而土壤pH和温度显著下降;而且土壤全N积累量高于土壤有机碳,土壤C/N随着柠条林龄的增加呈逐渐下降趋势。在荒漠草原区,人工柠条林发育生长有利于土壤肥力的提高和土壤环境的改善,而且需要经历一个较长的发育过程。     

黄土丘陵区几种退耕还林地土壤固存碳氮效应

探讨了黄土丘陵区退耕10 a和30 a的柠条、刺槐、油松及侧柏林地0～60 cm不同土层有机碳、氮数量和分布的变化特征。结果表明：相比坡耕地,退耕还林10 a后,仅侧柏与油松林地各土层有机碳、氮含量和密度显著提升。退耕还林30 a与10 a相比,各土层有机碳含量增幅表现为侧柏＞油松＞刺槐＞柠条,总体0～60 cm土层碳固存速率分别达到1.06、0.71、0.43、0.36 mgC·hm-2·a-1;氮固存速率以刺槐最高,达到0.051 mgN·hm-2·a-1,其他还林地固存氮速率接近,为0.014～0.026 mgN·hm-2·a-1。30 a还林有机碳的增加主要来自0～20 cm土层,平均贡献达51.9%,而全氮增加除刺槐林地外,主要来自40～60 cm土层,平均贡献达42.5%。各还林地C/N仅在0～20 cm表层均有显著提高,但有机碳与氮均表现出显著的回归相关性。综上,长期退耕还林地能够固存碳氮,且以侧柏林地提升有机碳库较佳,而刺槐林地提升氮库较好。     

不同退耕年限撂荒地植物多样性及生物量分析

退耕还林(草)作为黄土高原水土流失综合治理的主要生态建设措施,经过几十年的开展,黄土高原生态环境得到极大恢复,林草覆盖率明显增加。以安塞县纸坊沟流域为研究区,选取坡耕地(0a)为对照,研究了退耕年限(3～5,10,18,28,37a)对撂荒地植物多样性和生物量的影响。结果表明,随退耕年限的延长,物种丰富度指数、多样性指数、均匀度指数、相同土层根长密度都表现为增大—减小—增大的趋势;植被盖度和地上生物量表现为37a>28a>18a>3～5a>10a>0a;撂荒地植被根系生物量、根长密度均随土层深度增加而减少;不同退耕年限撂荒地,相同层根系生物量表现为28a>37a>18a>3～5a>10a>0a。     

灰质白云岩土壤有机碳的团聚体保护

采集喀斯特地区灰质白云岩发育的乔木林下土壤,全部湿筛分为>5mm,5～2mm,2～1mm,1～0.5mm,0.5～0.25mm共5个粒级团聚体,再将5个粒级团聚体进行碳水化合物提取后后再次分别湿筛,收集>5mm,5～2mm,2～1mm,1～0.5mm,0.5～0.25mm共5个粒级的团聚体样品.对两次湿筛中5个粒级的土壤分别进行团聚体含量、土壤有机碳、土壤可氧化态有机碳测定,分析土壤团聚体稳定性与土壤有机碳、土壤可氧化态有机碳的关系.结果表明:灰质白云岩乔木林下土壤在经过提取碳水化合物的第二次湿筛后,大粒级团聚体(>5mm,5～2mm)向小粒级(2～1mm,1～0.5mm,0.5～0.25mm)转移;有机碳主要存在于较大粒级团聚体中,但各粒级团聚体有机碳并不随之转移;各粒径团聚体可氧化态碳含量均减少,但较大粒级(>5mm,5～2mm)可氧化态有机碳含量多,较小粒级(2～1mm,1～0.5mm,0.5～0.25mm)可氧化态有机碳含量少,故推测较大粒级团聚体(>2mm)保护土壤活性有机碳能力比较小粒级团聚体(<2mm)强.     

苏北低山丘陵区典型森林生态脆弱性评价

生态脆弱性评价是当前全球变化与可持续发展研究中的热点问题。以苏北低山丘陵区典型性森林植被为研究对象,通过层次分析法构建了适合苏北低山丘陵区典型性森林生态脆弱性评价指标体系,制定了生态脆弱性评价标准,并根据生态脆弱度将森林植被划分成5个不同的脆弱级别;最后通过加权综合法对该地区典型性森林群落生态脆弱性进行评价。结果表明:该地区典型性森林生态脆弱度排序为侧柏(75.92)>麻栎(54.95)>栓皮栎(53.61)>黑松(49.63)>刺槐(47.68)>黄连木(45.69)>黄檀(44.92)>赤松(43.34)。