Changing water regime and adaptation strategies in Upper Mustang Valley of Upper Kaligandaki Basin in Nepal     

Prem Sagar Chapagain  Jagat K. Bhusal 《寒旱区科学》2013,5(1):0133-0139

Recent climate change has brought changes to the water regime that has affected the traditional agro-pastoral production systems and livelihoods in the Upper Kaligandaki Basin of the Nepal Himalayas. Based on fieldwork and available meteorological and hydrological data, this paper examines the changing water regime and various adaptation strategies that local farmers have adopted in this cold arid region. Increasing temperature and decreasing rainfall and snowfall have resulted in a negative water balance. In this scenario, farmers have implemented six major adaptive strategies in the trans-Himalayan Upper Mustang Valley.  相似文献   

Study About Ocean Eddy Effect on Strong Convection in Local Atmosphere over the Kuroshio Extension Region     

Qinyu Liu  Suping Zhang  Yinglai Jia 《地球科学进展》2020,35(5):441-451

The Kuroshio Extension （KE） is the key area where the water heats the atmosphere in the northwestern Pacific Ocean in winter. Previous studies show that the active eddies in the KE area can affect sea surface temperature and thus sea surface winds. The present study reviewed the progress about the influences of the eddies on local atmosphere in recent years. Analysis and comparison were made especially for the achievements from shipboard sounding data, satellite observations and numerical experiments. Based on the geostrophic adaptation theory involved in atmospheric anomalies induced by the eddies, the following new scientific deductions were suggested: Air pressure adjustment mechanism dominated in the atmospheric response to eddies under the conditions of weaker wind speed over the eddies. The influence of eddies was often limited in the atmospheric boundary layer. On the other hand, vertical mixing mechanism played a major role in the response of the atmosphere to warm (cold) eddies when air moved faster over the eddies. Surface wind speed increased (decreased) over the warm (cold) water. Significant wind convergence took place downwind the warm water, and large amount of water vapor was transported also downwind from the warm water surface. The positive feedback between water vapor condensation and rising air forced by the surface convergence provided necessary conditions for the development of strong convection in atmosphere. These deductions will be conducive to further depicting the impact of oceanic eddies on the atmosphere quantitatively.  相似文献   

The behavioral and antioxidant response of the bivalve Gomphina veneriformis to sediment burial effect     

Xiaojing Li  Linlin Chen  Zhengquan Zhou  Baoquan Li  Xin Liu 《海洋学报(英文版)》2021,40(6):75-82

A laboratory-based microcosm experiment was carried out to examine both the behavioral and antioxidant response of the clam Gomphina veneriformis under the conditions of 3 types of burial material(sand,silt,silt-sand mixture) with 3 burial depths(5 cm,15 cm,30 cm).The concentration of dissolved oxygen decreased significantly after 3 d of burial in all experimental groups.In silt and sand-silt mixture groups,the interstitial water quality became worsened with lower pH,and higher NH_4~+-N concentration,where clam mortality occurred simultaneously.However,clam samples in all sand groups and 5 cm,15 cm sand-silt mixture groups survived well for 8 d.Obviously fewer individuals left in the bottom sand in the 15 cm,30 cm silt groups and 30 cm sand-silt mixture groups than in the 5 cm groups.Therefore,it suggests that adding silt and increasing burial depth could stimulate the vertical movement of organisms and cause lethal effects.It was found that the burial depth was the key factor that influenced the activities of antioxidant enzymes,such as superoxide dismutase(SOD) and catalase(CAT).The SOD and CAT activities in the gills and hepatopancreases of organisms both showed significant upregulation in 30 cm burial depth after buried for 8 d.Higher enzyme activities were found in gills than in hepatopancreases,which indicated that the gills of the bivalve G.veneriformis were more susceptible to burial effects than hepatopancreases.Overall,this study shows that sediment burial could cause effects on the biological behavior and antioxidant enzyme activities.  相似文献   

裂腹鱼类系统进化及高原适应性研究进展     

马宝珊  魏开金  赵天一  裴福成  霍斌 《湖泊科学》2023,35(3):808-820

裂腹鱼类是分布于青藏高原及其周边地区的一群鲤科鱼类,随着青藏高原的隆升由原始的鲃亚科鱼类逐渐演化为适应于寒冷、高海拔和急流等恶劣环境的一个自然类群,其共同特征是肛门和臀鳍基部两侧各有一列特化的鳞片(臀鳞),具有生长缓慢、性成熟晚、寿命较长、繁殖力低等生活史特征。裂腹鱼类是四倍体起源,多倍体化事件在其进化过程中发挥了重要的作用。裂腹鱼类特殊的地理分布、形态特征、遗传结构和生活史对策使其成为研究多倍体鱼类和高原适应机制的重要材料,并受到科学家们的广泛关注。本文综合分类学、系统发育与生物地理学、遗传学和生物学等领域,重点从考古学和系统学等多角度对裂腹鱼类的起源与进化进行论述,基于转录组学阐述裂腹鱼类高原适应的分子机制,较为全面地总结了高原多倍体鱼类的系统进化及极端环境适应。  相似文献   

What happens after climate change adaptation projects end: A community-based approach to ex-post assessment of adaptation projects     

《Global Environmental Change》2023

Over the last decade, hundreds of climate change adaptation projects have been funded and implemented. Despite the importance of these first-generation adaptation projects for establishing funders and implementors’ “best practices,” very little is known about how early adaptation projects have endured, to what ends, and for whom. In this article, I propose a community-based methodology for ex-post assessment of climate change adaptation projects. This methodology contributes to recognitional justice by asking the individuals and collectives tasked with sustaining adaptation initiatives to define adaptation success and what criteria for success should be assessed. I apply this subjective assessment approach in 10 communities across Ecuador that participated in an internationally funded adaptation project that concluded in 2015. My analysis draws together participatory mapping, walking interviews with local leaders, participant observation, and surveys with former project participants. The results highlight that even adaptation projects that were deemed highly successful at their closure have uncertain futures. I find that the sustainability mechanisms that were envisioned by project implementors have not functioned, and communities are shouldering the burden of reviving failing adaptation interventions. These findings highlight that the current model of episodic funding for climate change adaptation projects and evaluation processes needs to be revisited to acknowledge the long-term challenges faced by communities. This analysis also calls attention to the importance of ex-post assessment for adaptation projects and the potential of subjective assessment approaches for building more ontological and epistemological pluralism in understandings of successful climate change adaptation.  相似文献   

热带地转适应运动的动力学基础   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

巢纪平 《气象学报》2000,58(1):1-10

文中讨论了热带斜压大气地转适应过程中的若干动力学约束关系 ,在不考虑行星位势涡度梯度的前提下给出了三维重力惯性波的频散方程、位势涡度时间不变式。在这基础上指出由于 Taylor- Proudman定理成立 ,运动将趋于水平化。同时指出 ,在热带纬圈半地转平衡更易出现。地转适应后的运动 ,一般是水平无辐散的 ,虽然垂直运动趋于零 ,但物理场随高度仍然有变化 ,即是层结的。  相似文献   

南极低温降解菌的筛选、鉴定与低温降解适应性分析          下载免费PDF全文

刘芳明  缪锦来  董春霞  王以斌  臧家业 《海洋与湖沼》2010,41(5):692-697

以南极海洋细菌为研究对象,采用2216E和MMC液体培养基结合的方法,从菌种库里筛选南极低温降解菌,进行石油烃降解率测定、表型特征确定和16SrRNA分子鉴定,构建系统发育树,并对南极低温降解菌NJ49的低温降解适应性进行了初步研究。结果表明,3株南极海洋细菌NJ41、NJ49和NJ289可以在以柴油为惟一碳源和能源的培养基中生长,被视为南极低温降解菌;16SrRNA分子鉴定结果表明,南极低温降解菌NJ41、NJ49和NJ289分别属于Planococcus、Shewanella和Pseudoalteromonas属;NJ49通过改变脂肪酸组分的膜修饰方式适应低温降解。  相似文献   

Evaluating the benefits of national adaptation to reduce climate risks and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals     

《Global Environmental Change》2022

Scaling up national climate adaptation under the Paris Agreement is critical not only to reduce risk, but also to contribute to a nation’s development. Traditional adaptation assessments are aimed at evaluating adaptation to cost-effectively reduce risk and do not capture the far-reaching benefits of adaptation in the context of development and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By grounding adaptation planning in an SDG vision, we propose and demonstrate a methodological process that for the first time allows national decision-makers to: i) quantify the adaptation that is needed to safeguard SDG target progress, and ii) evaluate strategies of stakeholder-driven adaptation options to meet those needs whilst delivering additional SDG target co-benefits. This methodological process is spatially applied to a national adaptation assessment in Ghana. In the face of the country’s risk from floods and landslides, this analysis identifies which energy and transport assets to prioritise in order to make the greatest contribution to safeguarding development progress. Three strategies (‘built’, ‘nature-based’, ‘combined SDG strategy’) were formulated through a multi-stakeholder partnership involving government, the private sector, and academia as a means to protect Ghana’s prioritised assets against climate risk. Evaluating these adaptation strategies in terms of their ability to deliver on SDG targets, we find that the combined SDG strategy maximises SDG co-benefits across 116 targets. The proposed methodological process for integrating SDG targets in adaptation assessments is transferable to other climate-vulnerable nations, and can provide decision-makers with spatially-explicit evidence for implementing sustainable adaptation in alignment with the global agendas.  相似文献