The dynamics of tourist excursion ratios in Slovakia show caves from 2000 to 2014     

Alena Gessert  Janetta Nestorová–Dická  Ivo Sninčák 《Geografisk tidskrift / udgivet af Bestyrelsen for Det Kongelige danske geografiske selskab》2013,113(2):173-183

Show caves are one of the most important targets in developing local ecotourism strategies. This work focuses on a tourism visit rate incidence through an Attractiveness Index concerning 12 selected show caves in Slovakia. Our study focuses on visitor counts published from 2000 to 2014. A set of eight criteria were selected in order to analyse and determine the appeal that each cave may have for visitors. Establishing the “degree” of appeal as an indicator of the tourism and geographic absolute attractiveness value is based on a principal components factor analysis; the resultant single factor was correlated with our selected criteria. We find a strong correlation between touristic cave attractiveness and cave locations, ease of cave passage access (vehicle and trail) infrastructures, cave location in main tourism regions, and the growth of urban areas as they encroach on show cave locations. Similar studies in valorization of show caves tourism have not been attempted in Slovakia or Eastern Europe. The data and result from this study are also clearly important from a managerial perspective. This general framework could be easily expanded to include additional attributes that might be relevant for other market segments or other vacation experiences.  相似文献   

The validity of the monocentric city model in a polycentric age: US metropolitan areas in 1990, 2000 and 2010     

Daniel Arribas-Bel  Fernando Sanz-Gracia 《Urban geography》2013,34(7):980-997

In this article, we use local indicators of spatial association (LISA) and other spatial analysis techniques to analyze the distribution of centers with high employment density within metropolitan areas. We examine the 359 metropolitan areas across the United States at three points in time (1990, 2000, and 2010) to provide a spatio-temporal panoramic of urban spatial structure. Our analysis highlights three key findings. (1) The monocentric structure persists in a majority of metropolitan areas: 56.5% in 1990, 64.1% in 2000, and 57.7% in 2010. (2) The pattern of employment centers remains stable for most metropolitan areas: the number of centers remained the same for 74.9% of metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2000 and for 85.2% between 2000 and 2010. (3) Compared with monocentric metropolitan areas, polycentric metros are larger and more dense, with higher per-capita incomes and lower poverty rates.  相似文献   

A land-use-based modelling chain to assess the impacts of Natural Water Retention Measures on Europe’s Green Infrastructure     

Sarah Mubareka  Christine Estreguil  Claudia Baranzelli  Carla Rocha Gomes  Carlo Lavalle  Barbara Hofer 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(9):1740-1763

This article details the process of integrating models to answer a specific policy-driven question: ‘What could be the impact of proposed Natural Water Retention Measures (NWRMs) on Europe’s Green Infrastructure (GI)?’ It describes the new Land Use Modelling Platform (LUMP), now enabling a high spatial scale (100-m) and large coverage (pan-European), whereby several sector-specific models contribute to assessing the impact of regional-level policy on a given spatial topic of concern. The configuration (land claims and land allocations modules) and calibration (accessibility and biophysical suitability) of the LUMP are explained. Four NWRM scenarios (riparian areas, afforestation, grassland and baseline scenario) are configured to run the simulations. For the reference: year 2006, the spatial representation of GI is based on land-use features of a refined version of the CORINE Land Cover (CLC), and resumed as connected components made of nodes and links.

Mathematical morphological image processing and network graph theory model, available from the free software package GUIDOS (the Joint Research Center of the European Commission), enabled the measurement of the GI connectivity and identified most critical links. Results show that the competition for land claimed by different economic sectors, combined with policy-driven rule-sets for the implementation of different NWRMs, yields very different results for the 2030 land-use projections, and subsequently for the morphology of GI. Three indicators associated with the morphology of GI are computed in order to assess the model outputs for 2030. The indicators are computed to answer the following questions: (1) How is the quantity of GI affected by each of the NWRM, and what proportion of that GI is most valuable? (2) What is the location of the most critical nodes and connectors of GI, and what land-use conversions occur under these? (3) Are the average components getting larger or smaller?

Whereas the grassland measure results in the largest net increase of GI, the afforestation measure results in the overall largest number of hectares of key nodes and links within the network. Land conversions occur under the critical GI nodes and links, with a large increase in agricultural areas, especially for the riparian measure under critical nodes and the grassland measure under critical links. Also predominant is the swapping of land from pasture to forest under critical links with the afforestation measure. The riparian measure most increases the average size of GI components, and all three measures contribute to bridging two large components which were divided in the 2006 land-use map, thus increasing the size of the largest component by more than 50%.  相似文献   

福建省顺昌县山后铅锌矿床地质特征及找矿标志     

刘乃忠 《地质与勘探》2012,48(3):570-579

[摘 要]山后铅锌矿床位于福建省顺昌县高阳乡境内,目前已发现12 个铅锌矿体和3 个低品位矿体,矿体呈层状、似层状、透镜状产于F₁₃、F₁₄断裂之间的东岩组透辉(透闪) 石岩中,铅+锌品位7.21×10^-2,求得铅+锌(332)+(333)金属量12.46 万吨,矿床达中型规模。通过对山后铅锌矿的地层、构造、岩体以及围岩蚀变等地质特征分析,认为铅锌矿体受东岩组绿片岩层位控制,并受热液叠加改造,属海底火山喷发-沉积变质(热液改造)块状硫化物型矿床;总结出中-晚元古代东岩组绿片岩层、地表矿体氧化后常见有黑色的褐铁矿斑点、围岩常伴有绿泥石化、绿帘石化、黄铁矿化、硅化等蚀变以及物化探异常等找矿标志,其对省内乃至华南地区寻找同类型矿床具重要意义。  相似文献   

Ductile Shearing in Attur Shear Zone and its Relation with Moyar Shear Zone, South India     

B.K. Bhadra 《Gondwana Research》2000,3(3)

In the eastern part of southern Peninsular India, the charnockitic hills of the Madras block are cut across by the E-W trending Attur shear zone (ASZ) which is characterised by a thick (1 to 1.5 km) phyllonite zone, showing intense mylonitisation due to ductile shearing. Steeply plunging (70°–80°) stretching lineation on steeply dipping mylonitic foliation within this zone indicates a relative vertical upliftment of the adjacent blocks. A dextral shearing event from west to east is envisaged from the kinematic analysis of shear sense indicators such as S-C fabric, asymmetric folds, asymmetric augens and asymmetric porphyroclasts. Simultaneous development of these features, related to vertical and horizontal movements may be explained by the mechanism of transpressional deformation. The Attur shear zone may be correlated with the Moyar shear zone based on distinct lithological and structural similarities.  相似文献   

盐度对威氏海链藻生长和生化指标的影响     

陈墅鑫  罗莎莎  张吉澳  李长玲  黄翔鹄 《广东海洋大学学报》2021,(2)

【目的】研究威氏海链藻在不同盐度条件下的生长和生化组分变化。【方法】设置盐度梯度为5、15、25、35、45,采用血细胞计数板计数法、热乙醇提取法、尼罗红染色法、苯酚硫酸法和考马斯亮蓝法,分别测定威氏海链藻在不同盐度下的生物量、叶绿素a、类胡萝卜素、中性脂质、总糖和蛋白质含量。【结果】盐度对威氏海链藻细胞密度影响显著(P<0.05),当盐度25和盐度35时,培养8 d细胞密度最高,均为2.0×10⁶ mL^-1;盐度对威氏海链藻叶绿素a和类胡萝卜素含量有显著影响(P<0.05),当盐度15时,细胞叶绿素a和类胡萝卜素含量均最高,分别为3.4814μg/mL(4 d)、2.3549μg/mL(8 d)。盐度对威氏海链藻可溶性总糖含量有显著影响(P<0.05),当盐度15时,8 d时可溶性总糖积累含量最高,为123μg/mL。当盐度35时,6 d时可溶性蛋白积累含量最高,为142.9μg/mL,且显著高于其他实验组(P<0.05)。盐度45时,8 d时中性脂含量最高,显著高于其他实验组(P<0.05)。【结论】盐度为15~35时,威氏海链藻生长速度较快,生化组成较为稳定,盐度15时最有利于藻细胞叶绿素a和类胡萝卜素、总糖的合成;盐度25和盐度35时,藻细胞平均增长速度较快,盐度35时最有利于藻细胞可溶性蛋白积累。  相似文献   

Ecological status of seagrass ecosystems: An uncertainty analysis of the meadow classification based on the Posidonia oceanica multivariate index (POMI)     

Bennett S  Roca G  Romero J  Alcoverro T 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,62(8):1616-1621

Quantifying the uncertainty associated with monitoring protocols is essential to prevent the misclassification of ecological status and to improve sampling design. We assessed the Posidonia oceanica multivariate index (POMI) bio-monitoring program for its robustness in classifying the ecological status of coastal waters within the Water Framework Directive. We used a 7-year data set covering 30 sites along 500 km of the Catalonian coastline to examine which version of POMI (14 or 9 metrics) maximises precision in classifying the ecological status of meadows. Five factors (zones within a site, sites within a water body, depth, years and surveyors) that potentially generate classification uncertainty were examined in detail. Of these, depth was a major source of uncertainty, while all the remaining spatial and temporal factors displayed low variability. POMI 9 matched POMI 14 in all factors, and could effectively replace it in future monitoring programs.  相似文献   

震害评估系统中的宏观经济指标的网格化技术及实现   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘双庆  赵国敏  姚兰予 《震灾防御技术》2011,6(1):59-68

国内当前的地震灾害应急评估系统基础数据库以具有空间面属性的乡镇级行政区为最小统计单元,乡镇人口及各类房屋建筑面积在评估时一般按照行政区面积进行了平均化处理,而未考虑实际人口分布的差异.本文采用前人在人口密度与城乡空间分布及城乡GDP分布之间的统计模型,以及基于宏观经济指标的地震灾害快速评估思路,深入探讨了以乡镇行政区为...  相似文献   

Origin and biochemical cycling of particulate nitrogen in the Mandovi estuary   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Loreta Fernandes 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2011,94(3):291-298

Mandovi estuary is a tropical estuary strongly influenced by the southwest monsoon. In order to understand, sources and fate of particulate organic nitrogen, suspended particulate matter (SPM) collected from various locations, was analyzed for particulate organic carbon (POC) and particulate organic nitrogen (PON), δ¹³C_POC, total hydrolysable amino acid enantiomers (l- and d- amino acids) concentration and composition. δ¹³C_POC values were depleted (−32 to −25‰) during the monsoon and enriched (−29.6 to −21‰) in the pre-monsoon season implying that OM was derived from terrestrial and marine sources during the former and latter season, respectively. The biological indicators such as C/N ratio, d-amino acids, THAA yields and degradation indices (DI) indicate that the particulate organic matter (POM) was relatively more degraded during the monsoon season. Conversely, during the pre-monsoon, the biological indicators indicated the presence of relatively fresh and labile POM derived from autochthonous sources. Amino acids such as alanine, aspartic acid, leucine, serine, arginine, and threonine in monsoon and glutamic acid, glycine, valine, lysine, and isoleucine in pre-monsoon were relatively abundant. Presence of bacterial biomarker, d-amino acids in the SPM of the estuary during both the seasons signifies important contribution of bacteria to the estuarine detrital ON pool. Based on d-amino acid yields, bacterial OM accounted for 16-34% (23.0 ± 6.7%) of POC and 29-75% (47.9 ± 18.7%) of PON in monsoon, and 30-78% (50.0 ± 15%) of POC and 34-79% (51.2 ± 13.3%) of the PON in pre-monsoon in the estuary. Substantial contribution of bacterial-N to PON indicates nitrogen (N) enrichment on terrestrial POM during the monsoon season. Transport of terrestrial POM enriched with bacterial OM to the coastal waters is expected to influence coastal productivity and ecosystem functioning during the monsoon season.  相似文献   

日本蟳血细胞及血液生化指标的研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

许星鸿  阎斌伦  郑家声  邵营泽  徐加涛  徐国成  周盟  周黎 《海洋科学》2011,35(8):51-57

以光镜和电镜观察了日本蝠（Charybdisjaponica）血细胞的形态结构,分析了各类血细胞的大小、数量比例及功能,并测定了不同发育时期及饥饿状态的日本蝽血清主要生化指标。结果表明：日本蝠血细胞可分为4种类型,从小到大依次为：无颗粒细胞、小颗粒细胞、中间型细胞和大颗粒细胞;其核质比分别为：53．23％、33．64％...  相似文献