Historical range of variability in eastern Cascades forests,Washington, USA

The historical range of variability (HRV) has been suggested as a coarse filter approach to maintain ecosystem sustainability and resiliency. The historical range of variability in forest age structure for the central eastern Cascade Range in Washington State, USA was developed from historical fire return intervals and the manner in which fire acted as both cyclic and stochastic processes. The proportions of seven forest structural stages calculated through these processes were applied to the area of each forest series within the central eastern Cascades landscape. Early successional forest stages were more common in high elevation forest than low elevation forest. The historical proportion of old growth and late successional forest varied from 38 to 63 percent of the forested landscape. These process-based estimates are consistent with those developed from forest structural information. HRV is a valuable planning tool for ecosystem conservation purposes, but must be applied to real landscapes with consideration of both temporal and spatial scale. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Logging pattern and landscape changes over the last century at the boreal and deciduous forest transition in Eastern Canada

Forestry practices associated with the industrial era (since ~1900) have altered the natural disturbance regimes and greatly impacted the world’s forests. We quantified twentieth century logging patterns and regional scale consequences in three sub-boreal forest landscapes of Eastern Canada (117,000, 49,400 and 92,300 ha), comparing forestry maps depicting age and forest cover types for early industrial (1930) and present-day (2000) conditions. Results were similar for the three landscapes, indicating large-scale forest change during the twentieth century. In 1930, previous logging activities had been concentrated in the lowlands and along the main hydrographical network, as compared to a more even distribution over the landscapes in 2000, reflecting a decreasing influence of the environmental constraints on forest harvesting. In 1930, old-aged forests (>100 years) accounted for more than 75% of the unlogged areas of the three landscapes, as compared to less than 15% for the present-day conditions. Logging practices have thus inverted the stand age distribution of the landscapes that are currently dominated by young and regenerating stands. The 1930 forest cover types showed a clear relationship with elevation, with conifers located in the lowlands and mixed and deciduous stands restricted to the upper slopes. Between 1930 and 2000, 58–64% of the conifer areas transformed to mixed and deciduous forests, such that no clear altitudinal relationships remained in 2000. We conclude that twentieth century logging practices have strongly altered the preindustrial vegetation patterns in our study area, to the point that ecosystem-based management strategies should be developed to restore conifer dominance, altitudinal gradients, as well as the irregular structure inspired from old forest stands.     

论南通海洋文化产业发展历程及其历史借鉴

南通因天然独特的地理条件,海洋文化发展历史悠久,内涵丰富,与之相比,海洋文化产业的发展则起步较晚。南通海洋文化产业的发展历程,大致可以分为发端、改革和快速发展3个阶段。目前,南通市沿海地区已基本形成了海洋旅游文化产业、海洋节庆会展业、海洋文艺产业等共同发展的新格局,并成为引领南通海洋经济发展的重要增长点。这得益于政府对历史遗存的保护、对新海洋产业资源的开发以及海洋产业基础配套设施的建设。与此同时,南通在海洋文化产业格局等方面还有待调整。     

Changes in anthropogenic impervious surfaces,precipitation and daily streamflow discharge: a historical perspective in a mid-atlantic subwatershed

Aerial photography provides a historical vehicle for determining long-term urban landscape change and, with concurrent daily streamflow and precipitation records, allows the historical relationship of anthropogenic impervious surfaces and streamflow to be explored. Anthropogenic impervious surface area in the upper Accotink Creek subwatershed (near Annandala, Virginia, USA) was mapped from six dates of rectified historical aerial photography ranging from 1949 to 1994. Results show that anthropogenic impervious surface area has grown from approximately 3% in 1949 to 33% in 1994. Coincident to this period, analysis of historical mean daily streamflow shows a statistically significant increase in the streamflow discharge response (per meter of precipitation) associated with normal and extreme daily precipitation levels. Significant changes were also observed in the frequency of daily streamflow discharge at given volumes above and below the historical daily mean. Simultaneously, the historical magnitude, frequency and pattern of precipitation values 0 mm, 6.0 mm and 35.0 mm show either no statistically significant change or influence on streamflow. Historical changes in streamflow in this basin appear to be related to increases in anthropogenic impervious surface cover. Historical aerial photography is a viable tool for revealing long-term landscape and ecosystem relationships, and allows landscape investigations to extend beyond the temporal and spatial constraints of historical satellite remote sensing data.This revised version was published online in May 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Postcards from the past: charting the landscape-scale conversion of tropical Australian savanna to closed forest during the 20th century

Repeated sequences of digitised and geo-referenced historical aerial photography provide a powerful means of understanding landscape change. We use this method to demonstrate a landscape wide expansion of closed forest (42% increase in total coverage) in the Australian monsoon tropics over the past five decades. Retrospective habitat suitability models (HSI) of closed forest derived using four landscape measures (drainage distance, slope angle, aspect and elevation) for imagery taken in 1947 correctly forecast the subsequent spatial distribution of the expansion, with topographic fire protection primarily determining the closed-forest distribution. The dynamics of the closed forest-savanna boundary were predicted accurately by generalised linear models, with closed-forest expansion in fire-protected sites along forest edges and regression in the more fire-prone areas. Two factors may plausibly explain the expansion of closed forests. First, eco-ethnographic records stress the skilful use of fire by Aboriginal people in protecting isolated and locally resource-rich closed-forest patches. Second, the recent global increase in atmospheric CO₂ may be changing the competitive balance between savanna and forest by enabling C₃ trees to grow fast enough to escape the fire trap presented by flammable C₄ grasses.     

三大区域村庄类型分布的刻画：历史移民解读

中国农村存在巨大的区域差异,从社会结构上看,可以分为华南宗族团结型地区、中部原子化分散型地区和华北小亲族分裂型地区三大区域.通过数据挖掘和分析,发现我国出生性别比的分布极具规律性,显示出区域上的差异.结合中国南方方言形成及南方宗族型文化发育的共同历史移民根源,笔者将南方方言分布图与出生性别比地图及三大区域划分进行比较研究,具体分析了三者间高度关联性的共同历史移民根源.     

从中全新世古森林探讨生物多样性变化

本文从历史植物地理学的角度、根据川西南山地冕宁县沉黄沼泽地层中发掘出中全新世以来保存完好的大量古森林遗迹资料，通过多学科综合性研究证实，中全新世“沉黄古森林”距今约７０００多年，是由４４科、５５属、７３种森林植物组成，以铁杉为主要建群种，林内混生有多种常绿和落叶针阔叶树种。从该森林的演变和种类组成变化得知，在距今４５００年～２８００年间，铁杉和阔叶树种数量减少，云南松数量增加，杉木已从森林中消失；距今２８００年后铁杉进一步减少，云南松显著增加，黄杉、华山松、油杉、桦木、木荷、桤木逐渐从森林中消失；距今２０００年左右，铁杉和雪松从森林中消失。目前该地区森林已演变成云南松林或松栎混交林。森林生态环境演变大致分为４个阶段：（１）温暖多雨阶段（距今７０００年以前）；（２）温暖湿润阶段（距今７０００年～４５００年）；（３）温暖潮润阶段（距今４５００年～２８００年）；（４）温暖干燥阶段（距今２８００年以来）。由上可见，沉黄中全新世古森林及生态环境的演变，提供了这一森林生态系统在时间和空间上物种多样性变化的实例。     

中国历史时期的森林文化及其发展

详述了森林文化的概念及内涵，系统总结了森林文化在不同历史时期的特征及相应历史背景。     

基于研学视角的广州钱岗古道保护与发展策略研究

在粤港澳人文湾区建设背景下,南粤古驿道与文化旅游已成为发展重点和热点,文化遗产与旅游的融合发展研究对推动古驿道的活化利用具有重要意义。在剖析古驿道与研学旅游相关研究及融合发展交互关系的基础上,选取广州钱岗古道为研究对象,针对古道沿线资源和保护发展困境,以研学旅游为切入点,提出拓展多元需求的研学群体、打造空间复合的研学旅游基地、完善功能齐全的配套服务设施、发展古驿道“文化+旅游”产业链、复原和整合历史文化资源、营造类型多样的主题活动游线 6 个方面的古驿道保护与发展策略。     

An unholy disease in the Holy Land: The history of anthrax between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (1909–2012)

The history of recorded cases of anthrax in human beings and animals from 1909 to 2012 in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is reviewed. The disease was endemic until the middle of the 20th century, but the incidence decreased thereafter, with only sporadic cases from the 1980s onwards. Human cases have not been diagnosed in the region since 1984 and the number of episodes of animal disease has reduced to less than one per year. This decline is mostly due to the disruption of the infective cycle by improved veterinary control, including vaccination, treatment and outbreak management. A policy of reactive vaccination for 10 years of affected herds and herds grazing in their proximity has been applied. No new outbreaks have been observed in such herds after the cessation of vaccination, despite continued grazing on the same sites, so it is assumed that spore survival in such areas is shorter than 10 years. This is independent of the soil composition, which is calcareous throughout most of the relevant area. However, reemergence of anthrax, even after decades, has occurred following disturbance and heavy rainfall.