景观规划对滩地型旅游地旅游资源类型的多样化促进分析——以郑州黄河滩地为例

景观规划可以有效增加滩地型旅游地的旅游资源的类型。以郑州市黄河滩地为例,定量化分析景观规划前后旅游资源类型的变化。郑州黄河滩地原旅游资源有主类7、亚类16、基本类型25。通过景观规划使旅游资源类型达到主类8、亚类25、基本类型68,较景观规划前分别增加了14%、56%、172%。地文景观、水域景观、生物景观、天象与气候景观、遗址遗迹、建筑与设施、旅游商品、人文活动等的基本类型新增数分别占总数的20%、33%、45%、67%、0、80%、100%、80%。郑州黄河滩地的旅游资源主类、亚类、基本类型占全国的比例分别由景观规划前的87.5%、51.6%、16.1%提高到100%、76%、43.9%,分别增加了12.5%、24.4%和27.8%。     

霍林河下游洪泛区湿地土壤中铵态氮水平运移模拟研究

选择二百方子洪泛区湿地作为典型研究区,以NH4Cl为示踪剂,模拟研究了铵态氮在洪泛区湿地不同土层中的水平运移过程。结果表明,沼泽湿地土壤中铵态氮的运移通量随运移距离的增加呈一阶衰减指数变化;0-10cm土层中铵态氮的运移通量最小,20~60cm土层次之,10~20cm土层具有最高的铵态氮通量。各层土壤运移通量在0~6cm内最大,而后迅速下降,到18cm时3层土壤中铵态氮的运移通量相近并趋近于零。各层土壤中铵态氮的运移通量与土壤水扩散率及土壤含水量都呈一阶指数增长变化;在土壤水扩散率或土壤含水量达到一定数值前,铵态氮运移通量增长缓慢,之后则开始骤然增加。     

Assemblage patterns of fish functional groups relative to habitat connectivity and conditions in floodplain lakes

Miyazono S, Aycock JN, Miranda LE, Tietjen TE. Assemblage patterns of fish functional groups relative to habitat connectivity and conditions in floodplain lakes.
Ecology of Freshwater Fish 2010: 19: 578–585. © 2010 John Wiley & Sons A/S Abstract – We evaluated the influences of habitat connectivity and local environmental factors on the distribution and abundance patterns of fish functional groups in 17 floodplain lakes in the Yazoo River Basin, USA. The results of univariate and multivariate analyses showed that species–environmental relationships varied with the functional groups. Species richness and assemblage structure of periodic strategists showed strong and positive correlations with habitat connectivity. Densities of most equilibrium and opportunistic strategists decreased with habitat connectivity. Densities of certain equilibrium and opportunistic strategists increased with turbidity. Forested wetlands around the lakes were positively related to the densities of periodic and equilibrium strategists. These results suggest that decreases in habitat connectivity, forested wetland buffers and water quality resulting from environmental manipulations may cause local extinction of certain fish taxa and accelerate the dominance of tolerant fishes in floodplain lakes.     

Development and practical test of a weighable groundwater lysimeter for floodplain sites

Presently, the soil water balance of flood‐influenced soils in fluvial plains is insufficiently described. The new development of a weighable groundwater lysimeter is the basis for recording the water‐balance components precipitation, evapotranspiration, groundwater recharge, capillary rise, and interaction with the water course. Soil‐hydrologic measuring setups at two floodplain sites of the Elbe river serve for direct comparability of lysimeter measurements with data obtained on site. A groundwater control was designed for lysimeters that automatically adjusts the current groundwater level at the floodplain measuring setups and quantifies inflow into or outflow from the lysimeter. It turned out that the lysimeter developed is capable of identifying the individual water‐balance quantities at high accuracy. Contrary to previous assumptions, it was possible to prove groundwater recharge for the floodplain sites.     

A political tsunami hits Amazon conservation

1. The history of conservation of the Amazon can be viewed as a war involving many battles with interests in agribusiness on one side and in biodiversity conservation and sustainability on the other side. Trends in large-scale deforestation in the 1970s spurred a series of policies, stakeholder alliances and international and grass-roots movements, which decades later led to the establishment of protected areas and interventions in soy and beef supply chains of agribusiness. Together, these advances epitomized a conservation framework for the Amazon, which at one point nearly curbed deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, although it included very few protections for freshwater ecosystems.
2. While those conservation advances were taking place, however, a series of policy changes started to undermine them through expansions in deforestation, river regulation and mining activities. The election of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 then hit the Amazon conservation framework much like a tsunami of policy setbacks and the re-establishment of the economic policies that sparked the Amazon war in the past.
3. The current trajectory is one of large-scale degradation of Amazonian ecosystems and biodiversity with consequent impacts on local people. Because freshwater ecosystems are highly sensitive to human activities on water and on land, these growing impacts are particularly large.
4. It is too early to know, but four decades of institutional and policy developments to conserve the Brazilian Amazon may soon be pushed past the point from which they will be able to recover. Four conditions will be pivotal to allowing the Amazon conservation framework to recoup: (a) the end of Bolsonaro’s mandate in 2022 or earlier; (b) remobilization of stakeholders; (c) investments in environmental research, policy and multiple collaborations; and (d) moving conservation beyond terrestrial landscapes to also encompass freshwater ecosystems and their people.

     

Science and conservation of Amazonian crocodilians: a historical review

1. Crocodilians represent one of the oldest extant vertebrate lineages. They have co-existed with humans throughout the Amazon basin for thousands of years, often having a strong cultural and economic influence on people's lives. Shifts in the socio-economic and political reality of the Amazon basin during the last century have led crocodilian populations to face large variations in their numbers according to different levels of exploitation and strategies for their conservation.
2. This article reviews the scientific knowledge obtained between 1945 and 2019 on the biology, conservation and management for the four Amazonian crocodilian (caiman) species (Caiman crocodilus, Melanosuchus niger, Paleosuchus palpebrosus and Paleosuchus trigonatus). It provides a general overview on past and current population status and research efforts involving caimans in the Amazon basin and discusses perspectives for the future.
3. The most significant studies on the ecology, genetics and management strategies are examined in more detail and this information is contextualized to provide an overview of the most relevant findings that might explain caiman population trends over the last 75 years.
4. Systems for sustainable management in the Amazon basin have been discussed for the past 20 years, but remain rarely applicable. It is necessary to develop new ways to maintain healthy caiman populations through innovative management programmes. Sustainable harvesting of wildlife has been shown to promote conservation targets, especially those initiatives based on community co-management. In this article, we propose some general guidelines for future management schemes, in the expectation that the information provided by the scientific community will be considered fully without political agendas determining the priorities.

     

黄河中下游河岸缓冲带土壤粒径分形特征

在人类活动与自然因素的共同作用下,黄河中下游河岸缓冲带土壤结构和植被等受到不同程度的破坏.本研究选择黄河中下游郑州一开封段河岸缓冲带作为研究区,探讨河岸人工林表层0～20 em土壤颗粒组成和分形维数在不同植被类型和河岸缓冲距离的分布特征及其与群落特征的关系.结果表明:1)研究区土壤颗粒质量分数呈非均匀分布,土壤质地空间分布表现为同质性,不同植被类型和河岸缓冲距离对土壤颗粒组成与土壤颗粒分形维数D值的影响差异不显著,D为2.75左右,土壤结构良好;2)D值与黏粒质量分数均与土壤全碳(TC)、总有机碳(TOC)和全氮(TN)的质量分数显著正相关(P＜0.01),砂粒质量分数则与TC、TOC和TN质量分数呈显著的负相关(P＜0.01),粉粒质量分数只与TN质量分数在0.05水平显著正相关;3)草本高度、乔木胸径、高度和郁闭度与D值、粉粒和黏粒质量分数呈正相关,与砂粒质量分数呈负相关.说明河岸人工林覆盖和生物量越大,土壤结构越好.     

Seasonality of energy sources of Colossoma macropomum in a floodplain lake in the Amazon – lake Camaleão, Amazonas, Brazil

Abstract  Stomach content and stable isotopes of tambaqui, Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier), were use to determine seasonality of energy sources in a floodplain lake in the central Amazon. The turnover time of carbon in young tambaqui was fast enough to detect a broad seasonal variation both in stomach content and tissue isotopic signal of carbon and nitrogen. The relative importance of food items varied with water level. C₃ plants (seeds and fruits) contributed between 55% and 95% of the biomass fraction of tambaqui. Zooplankton contributed a minimum of 26% of the nitrogen fraction during periods of flooding, and a maximum of 67% in the dry season. C₄ plants (macrophyte leaves and roots) contributed a maximum of 26% of the biomass fraction and 13% of the N fraction mainly during the flooding period. The feeding habits and behaviour of tambaqui are complex and linked to the flood pulse.     

Persistence of fish populations in the upper Paraná River: effects of water regulation by dams

Abstract –  River–floodplain systems present intense temporal variations in physical, chemical and biological factors. These variations are closely related to alterations in water levels, which have been attributed to the flood pulse. As several species are strictly related to the flood pulse to fulfil their life cycle, the pulse may be seen as a dispersal mechanism of species onto a floodplain. In this study, we determine how dam construction influenced the persistence of Prochilodus lineatus population, a large migratory fish species from the upper Paraná River floodplain. Data used were collected in two distinct periods, from April 1992 to March 1993 and from January 1999 to December 2001. Fish were collected using seining nets in six (monthly in the first period) and seven (quarterly in the second period) isolated lagoons. The fraction of occupied lagoons was high in the first period (higher than 0.65), when flood was intense. However, in the second period, when the flood pulse did not happen or was short, the fraction of occupied lagoons sharply decreased over time (from 0.85 to 0.22). For the first period, no model fitted to data, but for the second period, a negative linear model (named drought-dependent model) presented good fit ( r ² = 0.97). Therefore, it is possible to infer that long and intense flood pulses are important to maintain the persistence of P. lineatus populations in the floodplain. The artificial control of water levels prompted by dams disrupts this dynamic, reducing persistence to critical levels.     

Population structure and reproduction of the African bonytongue Heterotis niloticus in the Sô River-floodplain system (West Africa): implications for management

Abstract –  Population structure of the African bonytongue, Heterotis niloticus , was examined in southern Benin within Lake Hlan and a region of the Sô River floodplain located approximately 60 km downstream from the lake. Both locations support important fisheries in which Heterotis is the principal target species during the flood period. Ripe adults comprised over 40% of the population in Lake Hlan, whereas only 3.5% of individuals captured from river sites were adults. Monthly averages for the gonadosomatic index and percentages of individuals with mature gonads peaked as water levels increased during the wet season then declined during the peak flood period. Oocyte size frequency distributions from ovaries suggested a potential to produce an additional cohort in the event of nesting disruption. During the peak spawning period (May to August), between 37 and 51 active nests per hectare per month were observed in Lake Hlan. The number of larvae per nest ranged from 3953 to 6125. Lake Hlan bonytongues appear to constitute an important source subpopulation that exports new recruits to river/floodplain areas downstream where intense fisheries harvest mostly juveniles and subadults. Consequently, restriction of harvest of adult bonytongues in Lake Hlan may be essential for sustenance of commercial fishing in downstream reaches of the Sô River.