The Demographic Constraints on Future Population Growth in Regional Australia     

Tom Wilson 《The Australian geographer》2015,46(1):91-111

Concern about rapid population growth in Australia's large cities and slower growth in many non-metropolitan areas has stimulated a range of government policies attempting to lift non-metropolitan growth rates. However, there is relatively little research on which to base these policies. It would be helpful to understand more about the consequences of current demographic trends continuing and the effects of alternative migration patterns. This paper presents sub-national population projections for Australia over the horizon 2011–2041, basing the projections on more socially meaningful Remoteness Areas instead of common statistical geographies. Three sets of projections were generated: a Current Direction scenario in which recent demographic trends are maintained, a Regional Immigration scenario in which more immigrants settle in regional and remote areas, and a Metro Exodus scenario in which there is increased internal migration from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas. The future of Australia's population geography is shown to be one of spatially varying growth and population ageing, and continued metropolitanisation. In regional areas rapid population ageing will lower natural increase rates and thus reduce overall growth, resulting in a falling share of the national population. Policy measures attempting to increase the share of growth in regional areas will struggle against natural demographic forces operating in the opposite direction.  相似文献   

贵州喀斯特区草地生态条件下石灰(岩)土的发生特性及系统分类研究   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

杨柳  何腾兵  舒英格  刘元生  卜通达 《中国岩溶》2011,30(1):93-99

选取贵州喀斯特区草地生态条件下5个不同区域的石灰(岩)土为研究对象,根据相应的理化性质及发生特性,探讨了影响土壤发育的因素,确定了土壤的诊断层和诊断特性。其中,供试土壤的诊断层包括:暗沃表层、雏形层和粘化层等,诊断特性包括:热性土壤温度状况、常湿润土壤水分状况、均腐殖质特性、腐殖质特性、盐基饱和、碳酸盐岩岩性、铁质特性、石灰性等,并在此基础上对其进行了土壤系统分类,结果显示:5个供试土壤分别属于中国土壤系统分类中的普通黑色岩性均腐土、腐殖钙质常湿雏形土和腐殖钙质常湿淋溶土等亚类。   相似文献   

The long-term impacts of fisheries on epifaunal assemblage function and structure, in a Special Area of Conservation     

E.M.A. Strain  A.L. AllcockC.E. Goodwin  C.A. MaggsB.E. Picton  D. Roberts 《Journal of Sea Research》2012,67(1):58-68

Fisheries can have profound effects on epifaunal community function and structure. We analysed the results from five dive surveys (1975-1976, 1980, 1983, 2003 and 2007), taken in a Special Area of Conservation, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland before and after a ten year period of increased trawling activity between 1985 and 1995. There were no detectable differences in the species richness or taxonomic distinctiveness before (1975-1983) and after (2003-2007) this period. However, there was a shift in the epifaunal assemblage between the surveys in 1975-1983 and 2003-2007. In general, the slow-moving, or sessile, erect, filter-feeders were replaced by highly mobile, swimming, scavengers and predators. There were declines in the frequency of the fished bivalve Aequipecten opercularis and the non-fished bivalves Modiolus modiolus and Chlamys varia and some erect sessile invertebrates between the surveys in 1975-1983 and 2003-2007. In contrast, there were increases in the frequency of the fished and reseeded bivalves Pecten maximus and Ostrea edulis, the fished crabs Cancer pagurus and Necora puber and the non-fished sea stars Asterias rubens, Crossaster papposus and Henricia oculata between the surveys in 1975-1983 and 2003-2007. We suggest that these shifts could be directly and indirectly attributed to the long-term impacts of trawl fishing gear, although increases in the supply of discarded bait and influxes of sediment may also have contributed to changes in the frequency of some taxa. These results suggest that despite their limitations, historical surveys and repeat sampling over long periods can help to elucidate the inferred patterns in the epifaunal community. The use of commercial fishing gear was banned from two areas in Strangford Lough in 2011, making it a model ecosystem for assessing the long-term recovery of the epifaunal community from the impacts of mobile and pot fishing gear.  相似文献   

Replacement of culvert styles has minimal impact on benthic macroinvertebrates in forested,mountainous streams of Northern California     

《Limnologica》2014

Culvert styles are being replaced on many road-stream crossings to provide long-term (>2 years) benefits, but these projects may result in short-term (0–2 years) biological impacts. We quantified the short-term effects of replacing steel-pipe culverts with open-arch structures on the benthic-macroinvertebrate communities of 6 streams in the Klamath National Forest of Northern California USA. Physical habitat showed notable site-specific effects in channel form and sedimentation, but no significant change among sites. In contrast, we observed small though significant impacts of the culvert style replacement on benthic macroinvertebrates among sites, including a statistically significant reduction in both taxa richness (p = 0.012) and abundance of intolerant taxa (p = 0.004). Moreover, there was also modest evidence of slightly elevated variability in the benthic-macroinvertebrate communities downstream following the replacement of culvert style. The long-term benefits of culvert style replacement that have been observed in other studies may outweigh the minor, short-term biological impacts observed in these streams.  相似文献   

Over 10 years of variation in Mediterranean reef benthic communities          下载免费PDF全文

Federico Betti  Giorgio Bavestrello  Marzia Bo  Valentina Asnaghi  Mariachiara Chiantore  Simone Bava  Riccardo Cattaneo‐Vietti 《Marine Ecology》2017,38(3)

During the last several decades, the Mediterranean littoral shallow water benthic communities have suffered significant changes in their structure and taxa composition. Despite numerous studies conducted to characterize these changes at various levels, it has always been very difficult to disentangle the effects of natural factors from anthropic ones. The main purpose of this work was to evaluate possible changes, over a 10‐year scale, in diversity and abundance of the most representative species of the benthic communities considered to be primarily and potentially affected by natural stressors in a highly protected area. Sets of macro‐photographs were taken in 2002–2003 of three sites inside a small bay called Ca’ dell'Oro, which is the “no entry—no take” zone of the Marine Protected Area of Portofino, in order to analyse the structure of the benthic communities at different depths over a short time scale. The same sampling was repeated 10 years later in 2013. In the 10‐year span, a significant change in the macroalgal coverage and composition was observed, while the overall richness and coverage of species remained almost unchanged. This process resulted in a significant reduction of the habitat complexity of the three‐dimensional algal components. Likewise, a remarkable change in terms of presence and abundance occurred among all zoobenthic components. The benthic communities seem to have suffered from detrimental effects probably caused by climatic events that have been occurring in recent years in the Ligurian Sea.  相似文献   

不同岩溶生态系统中元素的地球化学迁移特征比较——以广西弄拉和弄岗自然保护区为例   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

邓艳  蒋忠诚  罗为群  陆瑞群  曾玉和  黄红慧 《中国岩溶》2006,25(2):168-171

研究了广西弄拉和弄岗自然保护区两种不同岩溶生态系统的元素地球化学循环特点,结果表明,弄拉、弄岗的成土过程都表现为Si和Fe相对累积,而其它化学元素则表现为相对淋失。弄岗与弄拉相比,其元素的淋失程度更为强烈,但在植物中两者表现出比较相似的元素地球化学特点。弄岗泉水p H比弄拉的低,水的溶蚀能力增大,水中可溶物增多,元素循环也比弄拉的快。   相似文献   

Satellite interferometric data for landslide intensity evaluation in mountainous regions     

《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2020

Multi-Temporal Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MTInSAR) data offer a valuable support to landslide mapping and to landslide activity estimation in mountain environments, where in situ measures are sometimes difficult to gather. Nowadays, the interferometric approach is more and more used for wide-areas analysis, providing useful information for risk management actors but at the same time requiring a lot of efforts to correctly interpret what satellite data are telling us. In this context, hot-spot-like analyses that select and highlight the fastest moving areas in a region of interest, are a good operative solution for reducing the time needed to inspect a whole interferometric dataset composed by thousands or millions of points. In this work, we go beyond the concept of MTInSAR data as simple mapping tools by proposing an approach whose final goal is the quantification of the potential loss experienced by an element at risk hit by a potential landslide. To do so, it is mandatory to evaluate landslide intensity. Here, we estimate intensity using Active Deformation Areas (ADA) extracted from Sentinel-1 MTInSAR data. Depending on the localization of each ADA with respect to the urban areas, intensity is derived in two different ways. Once exposure and vulnerability of the elements at risk are estimated, the potential loss due to a landslide of a given intensity is calculated. We tested our methodology in the Eastern Valle d’Aosta (north-western Italy), along four lateral valleys of the Dora Baltea Valley. This territory is characterized by steep slopes and by numerous active and dormant landslides. The goal of this work is to develop a regional scale methodology based on satellite radar interferometry to assess the potential impact of landslides on the urban fabric.  相似文献   

基于地质建造的土壤地质调查及应用前景分析——以大凉山区西昌市为例   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

刘洪  黄瀚霄  欧阳渊  张景华  张腾蛟  李富  肖启亮  曾建  侯谦  文登奎  段声义 《沉积与特提斯地质》2020,40(1):91-105

为探索适合中—高山区的土壤地质调查方法,选择兼具高寒山区、干热峡谷和中山宽谷盆地等不同地貌单元,以及沉积建造、岩浆建造和变质建造等不同地质建造类型的大凉山区西昌市进行试点研究。本次工作基于地质建造,将西昌市成土母质划分为7大类14个类,土壤地质单元分为31个类,并探讨了他们的互馈机制。研究认为,地质建造是土壤的物质基础,大体控制了土壤的平面分带,而海拔等地理因素则控制土壤的垂向分带。本项研究可为地方政府的规划布局提供数据支持和科学依据,也为高山区的土壤地质调查和生态地质调查提供了思路与范例。  相似文献   

美国海洋保护区国家管理体系及其对我国的启示   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

李静  杨晓飞 《海洋科学》2019,43(7):139-147

从美国海洋保护区的立法基础、管理机构和职能分工、纳入国家管理体系的资质要求和流程等方面探析美国海洋保护区的国家管理体系。结合我国海洋保护区管理工作中存在的问题,提出完善我国海洋保护区的法律法规、建立健全海洋保护区综合管理网络体系、完善海洋保护区监督协调机制等对策建议,以期进一步提升我国海洋保护区管理的系统性和规范性,完善我国海洋保护区的管理体系,从而更好地保护我国的海洋生态,实现海洋资源的更有效利用,推进我国海洋生态文明建设的发展。  相似文献   

贡嘎山区主要植物群落分布与气候的关系     

郑远长 《山地学报》1994,(4)

选取贡嘎山区３５种主要植物群落，对它们的垂直分布与水分、温度条件进行了分析。结果表明，贡嘎山区水分条件较好，温度条件是植物群落垂直分布的限制因子，亚高山针叶林，针叶阔叶混交林，常绿阔叶林的分布上限，其温暖指数，生物学温度分别为８－１２１，４０，６０－６８（℃·月）和３．０－３．５，６．５－７．０，９．０－１０．０（℃）。  相似文献