Globose cacti (Mammillaria) living on cliffs avoid high temperatures in a hot dryland of Southern Mexico     

《Journal of Arid Environments》2007,68(4):541-552

Succulent plants are prone to overheating due to their massive organs and lack of daytime transpiration. Thus, they frequently grow in cool microenvironments. Due to their verticality, cliffs avoid sunlight at noon, providing a cool refuge during the hottest hours of the day. We test the hypothesis that species in the genus Mammillaria (Cactaceae) are associated with cliffs in hot areas. We compared the temperatures and light interception of Mammillaria crucigera experimentally placed on a cliff and on the plateau above it. Through comparative analysis of 10 species we tested if those living in warmer areas inhabit steeper slopes. We found that plants and soil on the cliff were 9.9 and 14.4 °C cooler than their counterparts in the plateau at noon. While the temperatures on the plateau were within the range that has been found to inhibit photosynthetic activity, those on the cliff were closer to the optimal ones for CO₂ fixation in other cacti. Living on the cliff may be costly because radiation is reduced by 38.2%. A comparative analysis revealed an evolutionary trend toward living on steeper slopes when the climate is hot. This may contribute to explain why cliff-dwellers have evolved in so many succulent-plant families.  相似文献   

海洋青鳉鱼专用型基因芯片的设计及其在生态毒理学上的应用研究   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

陈瑶  方志俊  郑金树  张琦  曾志雄  胡绍燊  杨梦甦 《台湾海峡》2010,29(3):359-366

以生物芯片技术为核心,结合生态毒理学与功能基因组学的方法,制备了海洋青鳉鱼专用型生物芯片,包含180个与细胞分裂、解毒反应、缺氧反应、氧化应激反应、凋亡、生长和发育、性别决定和性腺分化以及生殖激素分泌等功能相关的基因.我们提取了雌性海洋青鳉鱼成体在正常培养和缺氧处理12周后的肝脏和卵巢组织总RNA,利用自制的基因芯片进行了基因表达谱分析,结果显示海洋青鳉鱼在缺氧压力环境下,肝脏和卵巢组织的差异性表达基因分别检测出9个和6个,表明应用此类自制良好的芯片可有效获得海洋青鳉鱼的组织特异性基因表达图谱,也将加强对海洋缺氧状态、氧化应激等反应的分子生物学机制的理解.本研究对于识别异常环境状态下的基因表达模式和组织特异性标志物,进一步开展监测海洋生态毒理因素的研究奠定良好的基础.  相似文献   

Compact and tunable mid-infrared source based on a 2 μm dual-wavelength KTiOPO₄ intracavity optical parametric oscillator     

耿优福  谭晓玲  李学金  姚建铨 《海洋学报(英文版)》2010,29(11)

Using a double resonant KTiOPO₄ (KTP) intracavity optical parametric oscillator operating at degenerated point of 2 μm, we demonstrate a unique mid-infrared source based on difference frequency generation in GaSe crystal. The output tuning range is 8.42-19.52 μm, and a peak power of 834 W for type-I phase matching scheme and 730 W for type-II phase matching scheme are achieved. Experimental results show that this oscillator is a good alternative to the generator of a compact and tabletop mid-infrared radiation with a widely tunable range.  相似文献   

Remote detection of bare soil moisture using a surface-temperature-based soil evaporation transfer coefficient     

Shaohua Zhao  Yonghui Yang  Guoyu Qiu  Qiming Qin  Yunjun Yao  Yujiu Xiong  Chunqiang Li 《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2010

An approach for estimating soil moisture is presented and tested by using surface-temperature-based soil evaporation transfer coefficient (h_a), a coefficient recently proposed through the equation h_a = (T_s − T_a)/(T_sd − T_a), where T_s, T_sd, and T_a are land surface temperature (LST), reference soil (dry soil without evaporation) surface temperature, and air temperature respectively. Our analysis and controllable experiment indicated that h_a closely related to soil moisture, and therefore, a relationship between field soil moisture and h_a could be developed for soil moisture estimation. Field experiments were carried out to test the relationship between h_a and soil moisture. Time series Aqua-MODIS images were acquired between 11 Sep. 2006 and 1 Nov. 2007. Then, MODIS derived h_a and simultaneous measured soil moisture for different soil depths were used to establish the relations between the two variables. Results showed that there was a logarithmic relationship between soil moisture and h_a (P < 0.01). These logarithmic models were further validated by introducing another ground-truth data gathered from 46 meteorological stations in Hebei Province. Good agreement was observed between the measured and estimated soil moisture with RMSE of 0.0374 cm³/cm³ and 0.0503 cm³/cm³ for surface energy balance method at two soil depths (10 cm and 20 cm), with RMSE of 0.0467 cm³/cm³ and 0.0581 cm³/cm³ for maximum temperature method at two soil depths. For vegetated surfaces, the ratio of h_a and NDVI suggested to be considered. The proposed approach has a great potential for soil moisture and drought evaluation by remote sensing.  相似文献   

Exploring spatio-temporal variations of habitat loss and its causal factors in the Shenzhen River cross-border watershed     

《Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England)》2013

Understanding the mechanisms that underlie habitat loss is fundamental to nature conservation. Habitat loss and its related factors are location dependent, but their spatial variations across geographical space are poorly understood. This research attempts to explore the spatio-temporal variations of human and biophysical factors of habitat loss in the Shenzhen River watershed, a border region shared by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Shenzhen in China. Habitat loss was quantified through the comparison of historical land cover maps in 1988/1998/2008, derived from the Landsat imagery. The different degree of habitat loss is further considered by referring to loss of ecosystem services during habitat alteration or destruction processes. In order to examine how influencing factors change with space, the model of geographically weighted regression (GWR) was employed. The GWR model was proved to be effective in revealing a spatially varying relationship, and has better performance compared with the global regression model. The results also provided the detailed site information of the different roles of the related factors across the different locations. Various factors, especially the human-related ones, played a significant role in determining both the “rate” and “location” of habitat loss, and the influences also varied during the entire study period. These results could provide comprehensive information for future habitat conservation and cross-border watershed management.  相似文献   

TIN DEM线性内插不确定性的随机过程模型     

钟剑龙  花向红  陈华安 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》2010,(2)

基于随机过程模型导出了TIN DEM线性内插的随机过程模型,给出了不规则随机空间三角形的不确定性描述,讨论了TIN节点误差在线性内插中的传播问题。通过理论推导和实际算例,得到了TIN DEM线性内插点的点位方差和误差椭球半轴的解析表达式、线性内插精度最高点坐标的解析表达式,该结论与三角形的形状无关;对DEM线性外推导致精度急剧下降的必然性结论进行了理论证明;得到TIN线性内插的平均点位方差解析式,从理论上说明了本文结论的有效性。  相似文献   

Photogrammetric modeling of underwater environments     

Gili Telem  Sagi Filin 《ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing》2010,65(5):433-444

Underwater photogrammetry provides an efficient nondestructive means for measurement in environments with limited accessibility. With the growing use of consumer cameras, its application is becoming easier, thus benefiting a wide variety of disciplines. However, utilizing cameras for underwater photogrammetry poses some nontrivial modeling problems due to refraction effect and the extension of the imaging system into a unit of both the camera and the protecting housing device. This paper studies the effect that the underwater environment has on the photogrammetric process, and proposes a model for describing the geometric distortions and for estimating the additional parameters involved. The proposed model accounts not only for the multimedia effect, but also for inaccuracies related to the setting of the camera and housing device. The paper shows that only a small number of additional parameters is needed to model both elements and to preserve the collinearity relation. The results show that no unique setup is needed for estimating the additional parameters and that the estimation is insensitive to noise or first approximations. Experiments show that high levels of accuracy can be achieved.  相似文献   

Metagenetic methane generation in gas shales I. Screening protocols using immature samples     

《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2012,32(1):27-42

The gas generative potential of organic matter is one key parameter for the calculation of total gas in place (GIP) when evaluating thermogenic shale gas plays. Having first demonstrated that late gas-forming structures are present in coals of anthracite rank (>2% R₀) we go on to examine other rocks at the immature stage of maturity and report on how to recognise which might generate significant amounts of late dry gas at geologic temperatures well in excess of 200 °C in the zone of metagenesis (R₀ > 2.0%), i.e. subsequent to primary and secondary gas generation by thermal cracking of kerogen or retained oil. Such a distinction could clearly be of major value when assessing risks and pinning down “sweet spots”. A large selection (51 samples) of source rocks, i.e. shales and coals, stemming from different depositional environments and containing various types of organic matter which contribute to the formation of petroleum in putative gas shales were investigated using open- and closed-system pyrolysis methods for the characterisation of kerogen type, molecular structure, and late gas generative behaviour. A novel, rapid closed-system pyrolysis method, which consists of heating crushed whole rock samples in MSSV-tubes from 200 °C to 2 different end temperatures (560 °C; 700 °C) at 2 °C/min, provides the basis for a newly proposed approach to discriminate between source rocks with low, high, or intermediate late gas potential. It is noteworthy that late gas potential goes largely unnoticed when only open-system pyrolysis screening-methods are used. High late gas potentials seem to be mainly associated with heterogeneous admixtures or structures in terrestrially influenced, in some cases marine, Type III and Type II/III coals and shales. Aromatic and/or phenolic signatures are therefore indicative of the possible presence of elevated late gas potential at high maturities. High temperature methane was calculated to potentially contribute an additional 10–40 mg/g TOC, which would equal up to 30% of the total initial primary petroleum potential in many cases. Low late gas potentials are associated with homogeneous, paraffinic organic matter of aquatic lacustrine and marine origin. Source rocks exhibiting intermediate late gas potentials might generate up to 20 mg/g TOC late dry gas and seem to be associated with heterogeneous marine source rocks containing algal or bacterial derived precursor structures of high aromaticity, or with aquatic organic matter containing only minor amounts of aromatic/phenolic higher land plant material.  相似文献   

Assess hydrological responses to a warming climate at the Lysina Critical Zone Observatory in Central Europe     

Wenjuan Zheng  Anna Lamačová  Xuan Yu  Pavel Krám  Jakub Hruška  Pavel Zahradníček  Petr Štěpánek  Aleš Farda 《水文研究》2021,35(9):e14281

Climate warming is having profound effects on the hydrological cycle by increasing atmospheric demand, changing water availability, and snow seasonality. Europe suffered three distinct heat waves in 2019, and 11 of the 12 hottest years ever recorded took place in the past two decades, which will potentially change seasonal streamflow patterns and long-term trends. Central Europe exhibited six dry years in a row since 2014. This study uses data from a well-documented headwater catchment in Central Europe (Lysina) to explore hydrological responses to a warming climate. We applied a lumped parameter hydrologic model Brook90 and a distributed model Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model (PIHM) to simulate long-term hydrological change under future climate scenarios. Both models performed well on historic streamflow and in agreement with each other according to the catchment water budget. In addition, PIHM was able to simulate lateral groundwater redistribution within the catchment validated by the groundwater table dynamics. The long-term trends in runoff and low flow were captured by PIHM only. We applied different EURO-CORDEX models with two emission scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathways RCP 4.5, 8.5) and found significant impacts on runoff and evapotranspiration (ET) for the period of 2071–2100. Results from both models suggested reduced runoff and increased ET, while the monthly distribution of runoff was different. We used this catchment study to understand the importance of subsurface processes in projection of hydrologic response to a warming climate.  相似文献   

多级应急响应地理信息服务平台的应用技术     

张黎明  汤代佳  宋爱红 《测绘软科学研究》2010,(5):77-80

提出一个支持多级分布、服务级联的信息服务综合架构和集成机制,并应用于应急响应地理信息服务平台的设计,探讨了应急响应地理数据虚拟化、分布式异构环境下应急响应地理信息数据/功能服务技术、多级应急地理信息目录服务构建技术等,为构建有效的多级应急响应地理信息服务平台提供技术支撑。  相似文献