CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN METROPOLITAN AREAS *     

Henry W. Lawrence 《The Professional geographer》1988,40(2):159-175

Different types of farming in metropolitan areas show both negative and positive responses to urban and nonurban forces of change. The variety of impacts has been neglected by most spatial intensity models and land use studies. This study examines census data from 1949 to 1982 in seven major U.S. metropolitan areas for six commodity types to detect regular patterns of changes in sales value, area harvested, number of animals, and intensity of production. Results show large declines in dairy farming, followed by poultry and fruit and nuts; some recent recovery in vegetable crops; and steady increases in both low value field crops and high value horticultural specialties. A trend toward polarization of metropolitan agriculture is indicated. Results also show differences between inner and outer urban fringe areas and a decline in the differential in intensity of production between metropolitan and non-metropolitan agriculture.  相似文献   

Detection of individual normal modes of oscillation of the Sun in the period range from 2 hr to 10 min in solar diameter studies     

Bos  Randall J.  Hill  Henry A. 《Solar physics》1983,82(1-2):89-102

Solar Physics - New observations of solar oscillations are reported. Power density spectra derived from these observations reveal narrow-band oscillations that are spatially global, have spatial...  相似文献   

An operational method for the real-time monitoring of E. coli numbers in bathing waters     

Lebaron P  Henry A  Lepeuple AS  Pena G  Servais P 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,50(6):652-659

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential application of the beta-d-glucuronidase (GLUase) activity measurement for the routine detection and quantification of E. coli in marine bathing waters. GLUase activity was measured as the rate of hydrolysis of 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-d-glucuronide. Culturable E. coli were quantified by the most probable number (MPN) microplate method. Both methods were applied to a large set of seawater samples. Significant correlation was found between the log of GLUase activity and the log of culturable E. coli. The mean coefficient of variation (CV) of the GLUase activity was less than 15% at concentrations around the current standards of International regulations whereas the CV of the microplate method was around 30%. When samples were stored at 4 degrees C and 20 degrees C, the mean CV of the GLUase activity remained below 15% up to 6 hours after sample collection whereas the range of variation of the microplate method varied between 10 and 50%. We concluded that the GLUase activity is an operational, reproducible, simple, very rapid and low cost method for the real-time enumeration of E. coli in bathing waters and should be preferred to the microplate method. The GLUase activity method should be routinely applied to the rapid enumeration of E. coli in recreational waters and recommendations for its application were suggested to water quality managers.  相似文献   

    

W. A. Heiskanen  J. Lamar Worzel  G. Lynn Shurbert  Paul Herget  Clair E. Ewing  Carl I. Aslakson  Simo Laurila  John R. Williams  David T. Williams  Bertil Hallert  Robert C. Fitzpatrick  W. M. Markowitz  S. P. Worden  Henry Wild Jr  W. Kneissl 《Journal of Geodesy》1955,29(2):55-78

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我国东北地区降水空间分布及干湿驰豫时间的研究   总被引：8，自引：2，他引：6  

刘会玉  张明阳  林振山 《南京气象学院学报》2004,27(1):97-105

根据东北地区24个典型测站1951—2001年的降水量资料,利用EOF方法分析了我国东北地区的降水空间分布;同时,通过子波诊断技术结合突变点数建模技术,研究了我国东北地区的降水演变周期特征,并对干湿态之间转换的驰豫时间做了定量的研究。结果表明：东北地区的降水空间分布具有整体一致的性质,同时还存在南北及东西的差异;大部分站点都具有干→湿的驰豫时间长于湿→干的驰豫时间的特征,体现了东北地区容易维持干旱状态的特性。  相似文献   

藏北祖尔肯乌拉山地区新生代高钾钙碱岩系火山岩同位素地球化学研究   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3  

林金辉  伊海生  时志强  赵兵  李葆华  黄继钧 《矿物岩石》2004,24(4):59-64

通过对藏北祖尔肯乌拉山地区新生代高钾钙碱岩系火山岩Sr,Nd,Pb同位素成分的系统测试分析表明,火山岩具有相对高的^87Sr／^86Sr和低的^143Nd／^144Nd值及高的Pb同位素组成特点,且Sr,Nd,Pb同位素比值变化范围很窄,反映了其具有同源岩浆的特点,并且经历了类似的地球化学动力学过程。Sr,Nd,Pb同位素组成及相关图解判别表明,藏北祖尔肯乌拉山地区新生代高钾钙碱岩系火山岩来源于被大洋沉积物和地壳物质所混合的不均一富集地幔源区,显示源区具有壳幔混源性质,与EMⅡ型富集地幔源特征一致。  相似文献   

江西金山金矿田东蒋金矿床地质特征及找矿远景   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

林忠良 《矿产与地质》2004,18(6):567-570

阐述了东蒋金矿床的成矿地质背景,通过对该金矿区地质特征的分析和总结,认为东蒋韧性剪切带为一卓具规模的控矿、容矿构造,其具有构造岩分带、蚀变分带及金矿化强度分带“三位一体”的规律性分布特点。指出该区业已发现韧性剪切带中的似层状金矿体和陡倾斜断裂带(F1)中的脉状金矿体,而该带目前无矿的东段分布有物探激电、航磁、重力异常及化探异常,这些都显示该区尚具有良好的找矿前景。  相似文献   

云南德钦羊拉铜矿床构造特征   总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13       下载免费PDF全文

林仕良  王立全 《沉积与特提斯地质》2004,24(3):48-51

羊拉铜矿床的构造混杂岩由几个不同时代、不同岩性组合的构造岩片组成,主要矿体局限在二叠系构造岩片中,二叠纪的构造混杂形成矿区的叠瓦式构造。燕山晚期-喜马拉雅期的构造活动表现为矿区内的左行走滑断层、斑岩侵入,并伴生铜钼矿化。  相似文献   

高光谱--遥感测绘的新机遇   总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13  

余旭初  冯伍法  林丽霞 《测绘科学技术学报》2006,23(2):101-105

通过对高光谱遥感技术的主要优势、基本特征和地理空间信息探测潜力的分析,展示了高光谱数据在遥感测绘领域大规模应用的可能性.同时,还分析了围绕高光谱测绘应用相关的一系列问题,包括高光谱数据的测绘需求、面向测绘应用的高光谱影像分析的关键技术、高光谱遥感测绘模式以及实用化系统建立的设想等.通过对这些问题的进一步深化研究,高光谱技术就可充分与现有的遥感测绘手段有机结合,并对地理空间信息的遥感探测技术产生有力的推动.  相似文献   

Carbonate biomineralization induced by soil bacterium Bacillus megaterium     

Bin Lian  Jun Chen  H. Henry Teng 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2006,70(22):5522-5535

Biogenic carbonates spawned from microbial activities are common occurrences in soils. Here, we investigate the carbonate biomineralization mediated by the bacterium Bacillus megaterium, a dominant strain separated from a loess profile in China. Upon completing bacterial cultivation, the ensuring products are centrifuged, and the resultant supernatant and the concentrated bacterial sludge as well as the un-separated culture are added separately into a Ca-CO₃ containing solution for crystallization experiments. Results of XRD and SEM analysis indicate that calcite is the dominant mineral phase formed when the bacteria are present. When the supernatant alone is used, however, a significant portion of vaterite is also precipitated. Experimental results further reveal that the bacteria have a strong tendency to colonize the center area of the calcite {1 0  4} faces. Observed crystal morphology suggests that the bacterial colony may promote the growth normal to each individual {1 0  4} face of calcite when the cell concentration is high, but may retard it or even cause dissolution of the immediate substrate surfaces when the concentration is low. SEM images taken at earlier stages of the crystallization experiments demonstrate the nucleation of calcite on the bacterial cell walls but do not show obvious morphological changes on the nanometer- to submicron-sized nuclei. δ¹³C measurements unveil that the crystals grown in the presence of bacteria are further enriched in the heavy carbon isotope, implying that the bacterial metabolism may not be the carbon sources for the mineralization. Based upon these findings, we propose a mechanism for the B. megaterium mediated calcite mineralization and conclude that the whole process involves epi- and inter-cellular growth in the local microenvironments whose conditions may be controlled by cell sequestration and proton pumping during bacterial respiration.  相似文献