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Benjamin L. Branoff 《水文科学杂志》2020,65(8):1326-1343
ABSTRACT In this study, water level models are constructed to characterize mangrove flooding across urban gradients in Puerto Rico. The most urban sites exhibited 95% longer hydroperiods, 23% lower flood frequencies, and 110% lower depths than the least urban sites. Rainfall importance was explained more by geomorphology and tidal connectivity than by urbanization, but there was evidence for changes in tidal amplitudes along the urban gradient. Relationships between surface water chemical metrics and land cover contradicted previous studies by suggesting lower nutrients and biochemical oxygen demand with increasing urbanization. However, much of this changed with the exclusion of potential outlier sites, as well as under different statistical comparisons. These results reinforce the understanding that the most important drivers of urban mangrove hydrology and water quality in Puerto Rico are likely geomorphology and tidal connectivity, with some influence from surrounding land cover. Results should be considered alongside the reported errors stemming from digital elevation and rainfall response models. 相似文献
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Latin America has long played a key role in the global provision of natural resources. Most of the continent's economies are net exporters of low-value, primary products and importers of manufactured goods at a high price. This pattern of specialised trade has highly negative consequences for economic development, the environment, and the local population’s wellbeing. Yet to date, little empirical evidence has been collected on Latin America’s total contribution to the rest of the world's regions in historical perspective. Applying the Material Flow Accounting methodology, this paper estimates the physical and monetary trade of 16 Latin American economies between 1900 and 2016. Our results show that: (i) yearly net exports of materials went from 4 Mt to 610 Mt between 1900 and 2016, and greatly accelerated since the World War II. (ii) Latin America is a net exporter of most types of materials (fossil fuels, non-energy minerals and biomass), so it harbours socio-environmental problems associated with different types of extractivism. (iii) Different regional export patterns exist: Andeans export subsoil (mining and energy carriers) while the rest export soil (land-based products). The countries with the lowest net exports are the smallest in size and with the highest population density. (iv) Europe and the USA have historically received most of the imports, but since the end of the twentieth century, the Southeast Asia region is the biggest importer of materials from Latin America. (v) The price received for exported material is much lower than the price paid for imported material; and (vi) various historical periods can be differentiated regarding the relationship between economic growth and physical trade balance. 相似文献
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地理协同论——从理解“人—地关系”到设计“人—地协同” 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
本文从地球进入"人类世"(Anthropocene)之后,实现世界可持续发展、建设人类命运共同体的角度出发,就地表系统的复杂性、人类面临的各种灾难以及将要面临的各种资源短缺和环境风险等问题,提出发展"地理协同论",即:地球表层系统与区域可持续性机理、过程与动力学,以实现地理学研究从理解"人—地关系"到设计"人—地协同"的转变。着眼于"人类世"时代地球表层系统由多尺度、多过程等组成的复杂性,回顾了区域论、综合论、系统论等经典地理学理论,从自然单元与社会单元的结合、自然资源利用与自然灾害防御、人类功与过的评价、自然地图与行政地图间的关系、动力学与非动力学的耦合等主题入手,深入讨论了现代地理科学与技术问题。通过理解灾害系统及其致灾成害机理、过程和动力学,构建凝聚度指标,量化综合减灾系统的复杂性。利用协同宽容、约束、放大和分散原理,以灾害风险防范共识最高、成本最低、福利最大、风险最小化为目标,构建以政府为主导、企业为主体和社区全面参与的综合灾害风险防范凝聚力模式。在分析都江堰工程如何实现除害与兴利并举的基础上,综合阐释了"人类世"时代"适度改造自然",以实现人与自然的协同。 相似文献
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Phosphorus(P) is a key biological nutrient and probably the ultimate limiter of marine productivity during Earth history.In recent years,a wealth of new knowledge has revolutionized our understanding of the global P cycle,yet its longterm evolution remains incompletely documented.In this paper,we review the effects of three major controlling factors on the long-term evolution of the global P cycle,i.e.,tectonics,marine redox conditions,and bio-evolution,on the basis of which a five-stage model i... 相似文献
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Food security for a growing world population is high on the list of grand sustainability challenges, as is reducing the pace of biodiversity loss in landscapes of food production. Here we shed new insights on areas that harbor place specific social memories related to food security and stewardship of biodiversity. We call them bio-cultural refugia. Our goals are to illuminate how bio-cultural refugia store, revive and transmit memory of agricultural biodiversity and ecosystem services, and how such social memories are carried forward between people and across cohorts. We discuss the functions of such refugia for addressing the twin goals of food security and biodiversity conservation in landscapes of food production. The methodological approach is first of its kind in combining the discourses on food security, social memory and biodiversity management. We find that the rich biodiversity of many regionally distinct cultural landscapes has been maintained through a mosaic of management practices that have co-evolved in relation to local environmental fluctuations, and that such practices are carried forward by both biophysical and social features in bio-cultural refugia including; genotypes, artifacts, written accounts, as well as embodied rituals, art, oral traditions and self-organized systems of rules. Combined these structure a diverse portfolio of practices that result in genetic reservoirs—source areas—for the wide array of species, which in interplay produce vital ecosystem services, needed for future food security related to environmental uncertainties, volatile financial markets and large scale conflicts. In Europe, processes related to the large-scale industrialization of agriculture threaten such bio-cultural refugia. The paper highlights that the dual goals to reduce pressures from modern agriculture on biodiversity, while maintaining food security, entails more extensive collaboration with farmers oriented toward ecologically sound practices. 相似文献
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In this present era of the Anthropocene, human activities affect hydrology and droughts. Quantifying this human influence improves our understanding and builds fundamental knowledge for water resource management. Analysis of observation data is useful in progressing this knowledge as these human activities and feedbacks are intrinsically included. Therefore, here we present an observation-based approach, the upstream–downstream comparison, to quantify changes in hydrological drought downstream of a human activity. We demonstrate this approach in a basin in northern Chile, where a reservoir was introduced. A sensitivity analysis is performed to assess how different choices of drought analysis threshold can affect the results and interpretation. We find that many commonly used choices do not exclude human activities from the threshold and therefore could be underestimating the change detected due to the human influence. The upstream–downstream comparison avoids this through the application of the upstream station threshold rather than the human-influenced downstream station. 相似文献
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The Institute of Australian Geographers Urban Study Group and Australian Geographer present the first essay in our Leading Insights/Thinking Space partnership. We discuss Dr Natalie Osborne's 2018 essay, flag Dr Marilu Melo's 2019 essay and talk about creating a thinking space for the rising stars of Australian urban geography. 相似文献
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The value of a formally defined Anthropocene for geomorphologists is discussed. Human impacts have been diachronistic, multifaceted and episodic, as demonstrated by the record of alluvial deposition in the UK. Rather than boxing time into discrete eras or periods, modern research uses calendar dates and multiple dating techniques to explore co‐trajectories for a range of human impacts. Despite the value of ‘The Anthropocene’ as an informal concept and as a prompt to useful debate, arriving at a single, generally acceptable formal definition is impractical, and has some disadvantages. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Empirical models for describing recent sedimentation rates in lakes distributed across broad spatial scales 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Soren Brothers Jesse C. Vermaire Irene Gregory-Eaves 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2008,40(4):1003-1019
Over the last 20 years there has been a surge of interest in paleolimnology and as a result a large accumulation of lake sedimentation
records. This emerging archive has allowed us to develop empirical models to describe which variables explain significant
variation in sedimentation rates over the past ∼150 years across large spatial scales. We hypothesized that latitude would
be a significant explanatory variable of profundal zone lake sedimentation rates across a temperate to polar gradient. We
further hypothesized that along a more longitudinally-constrained dataset (i.e. east coast of North America), latitude would
explain a greater proportion of the variance. To test these hypotheses, we collated data from 125 natural, average-sized lakes
(with surface area <500 km2) by recording authors’ estimates of sedimentation rates (measured as mm/year) or by digitizing recent sediment profiles and
calculating sedimentation rates over the past ∼150 years. We found that, at both scales, latitude was the strongest predictor
of lake sedimentation rates (full dataset: r
2 = 0.28, P = 0.001, n = 125; east coast dataset: r
2 = 0.58, P < 0.001, n = 43). By conducting a multiple linear regression analysis, we found that 70% of the variance in sedimentation rates from
the east coast transect was explained by latitude and elevation alone. This latter model is of sufficient strength that it
is a robust predictive tool. Given that climate and land-use strongly co-vary with latitude and that both of these factors
have previously been shown to influence lake sedimentation rates, it appears that latitude is a surrogate measure for climate
and land-use changes. We also show support for land-use as an important variable influencing sedimentation rates by demonstrating
large increases in recent versus Holocene accumulation rates. These results indicate that it is possible to make generalizations
about sedimentation rates across broad spatial scales with even limited geographic data. 相似文献
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呼伦贝尔沙质草原风蚀坑研究（1）——形态、分类、研究意义 总被引：17，自引：8，他引：9
采用野外调查和测量、航片判读、室内制图、统计分析等方法对呼伦贝尔沙质草原典型地带的风蚀坑及坑后风沙沉积进行了研究。发现:①风蚀坑是由一个沙坑和坑后沙丘共同组成,两者具有一一对应关系;②风蚀坑和坑后沙丘可以根据形态特征、发展阶段、诱发原因进行分类;③呼伦贝尔三大沙带均由风蚀坑洼地及其坑后沙丘和背景沙质草原组成;④沙质草原风蚀坑的发生与人类活动关系密切,为气候干旱化与人类大范围强度活动干扰土层相耦合的环境事件所造成。该研究对沙质草原沙漠发生学,沙质草原地貌演化和沙漠化监测研究具有科学意义,对草原合理利用和沙漠化防治具有现实意义。 相似文献