Ecological constraints on and consequences of land use heterogeneity: A case study of the Mongolian Gobi     

《Journal of Arid Environments》2013

Mongolian herders are transhumant and therefore follow a specific land use pattern. To understand their movements through a case study, we mapped and superimposed their seasonal camps on a vegetation map and a digital elevation model. We also questioned them about the reasons justifying the locations of their camps, and how they use the surrounding land. It appears that vegetation quality may play a role only in summer, whereas topography is a key driver during 3 seasons. In winter, herders seek shelter against cold winds in rugged places exposed to the south, while in spring and summer, they seek flat places. In spring, to have a clear view of their newborns and in summer, to allow wind to reduce the insect discomfort. Moreover, most of the livestock species stay within a certain distance of the camps depending on the season, but which never exceeds 5.1 km. This leads to a land use pattern where livestock is restrained to specific areas according to the season. Interestingly, during the growing season, when plants are most sensitive to defoliation, most livestock is concentrated on 30.92% of the site surface. Such information is important for range scientists working on grazing impacts at large scales.  相似文献   

COMMENTS ON “SPATIAL VARIATION OF HILLSLOPE PROFILES IN THE CUMBERLAND PLATEAU,KENTUCKY” BY EDMUND B. WOOOS     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):488-489

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Main Street: Northeastern Oregon: The Founding and Development of Small Towns. Barbara Ruth Bailey.

Food Politics: The Regional Conflict. David N. Balaam and Michael J. Carey, eds.

The International Economy and Industrial Development: Trade and Investment in the Third World. R. Ballance, J. Ansari and H. Singer.

Neighborhoods in Urban America. Ronald H. Bayor, ed.

The English Heartland. By Robert Beckinsale and Monica Beckinsale.

Regional Dimensions of Industrial Policy. Michael E. Bell and Paul S. Lande, eds.

Tension Areas of the World. D. Gordon Bennett, ed.

Latin America: an Introductory Survey. B. W. Blouet and O. M. Blouet, eds.

Integration and Division: Geographical Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Problem. Frederick W. Boal and J. Neville H. Douglas, eds.

Energy and Land Use. Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin, eds.

Slopes and Weathering. Michael Clarke and John Small.

Alaska's Rural Development. Peter G. Cornwall and Gerald McBeath, eds.

The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America. Galen Cranz.

World Congress on Land Policy, 1980, Proceedings. Matthew Cullen and Sharon Woolery, eds.

Oregon Divided: A Regional Geography. Samuel N. Dicken and Emily F. Dicken.

Urban Food Marketing and Third World Rural Development. T. Scarlett Epstein.

South Africa: Spatial Frameworks for Development. T. J. D. Fair.

Institutions and Geographical Patterns. Robin Flowerdew, ed.

Industrialization of U.S. Agriculture, An Interpretive Atlas. Howard F. Gregor.

Planning Theory: Prospects for the 1980s. Patsy Healy, Glen McDougall and Michael J. Thomas, eds.

Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response. Jeffrey R. Henig.

The American Urban System: A Geographical Perspective. R. J. Johnston.

Climate, History and the Modern World. Hubert H. Lamb.

Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and Their Impact on Man. T. M. L. Wigley, M. J. Ingram and G. Farmer.

China: Railways and Agricultural Development, 1875–1935. Ernest P. Liang.

A Desirable Energy Future—A National Perspective. Robert S. Livingston, T. D. Anderson, T. M. Besmann, M. Olszewski, A. M. Perry, and C. D. West.

Topothesia: Essays Presented to T. S. Ó Máille. B. S. Mac Aodha, ed.

Transportation for the Poor: Research in Rural Mobility. Hal S. Maggied.

Land Uses in American Cities. Harold M. Mayer and Charles R. Haves.

Industrial Organisation and Location. Philip McDermott and Michael Taylor.

Human Adaptability: an Introduction to Ecological Anthropology. Emilio F. Moran.

Regional Analysis and the New International Division of Labor. Frank Moulaert and Patricia W. Salinas, eds.

The Nuclear War Atlas. Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada:

Urbanization and Environmental Quality. Isao Orishimo.

The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re-Creation of Paradise. John Prest.

Earthfire, The Eruption of Mount St. Helens. Charles Rosenfeld and Robert Cooke.

Contest for the South China Sea. Marwyn S. Samuels.

The Future of the Wetlands: Assessing Visual-Cultural Values. Richard C. Smardon, ed.

Tucson: the Life and Times of An American City. C. L. Sonnichsen.

The Geography of Multinationals. Michael Taylor and Nigel Thrift, eds.

Impact of Marine Pollution on Society. Virginia Tippie and Dana Kester.

Reviving the Industrial City: the Politics of Urban Renewal in Lyon and Birmingham. Jerry A. Webman.

Andean Reflections: Letters from Carl O. Sauer While on a South American Trip under a Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, 1942. Robert C. West, ed.

Cartographic Drawing with Computers. P. Yoeli.  相似文献   

评估集合卡曼滤波反演土壤湿度廓线的性能     

苟浩锋  刘彦华  张述文  李得勤 《地球科学进展》2010,25(4):400-407

集合卡曼滤波由于易于使用而被广泛地应用到陆面数据同化研究中,它是建立在模型为线性、误差为正态分布的假设上,而实际土壤湿度方程是高度非线性的,并且当土壤过干或过湿时会发生样本偏斜.为了全面评估它在同化表层土壤湿度观测来反演土壤湿度廓线的性能,特引入不需要上述假设的采样重要性重采样粒子滤波,比较非线性和偏斜性对同化算法的影响.结果显示:不管是小样本还是大样本,集合卡曼滤波都能快速、准确地逼近样本均值,而粒子滤波只有在大样本时才能缓慢地趋近;此外,集合卡曼滤波的粒子边缘概率密度及其偏度和峰度与粒子滤波完全不同,前者粒子虽不完全满足正态分布,但始终为单峰状态,而后者粒子随同化推进经历了单峰到双峰再到单峰的变化.  相似文献   

基于LHS方法的地下水随机模拟及开采量风险性 评价          下载免费PDF全文

崔亚莉  王婉丽  杨广元 《地学前缘》2010,17(6):134-140

地下水流数值模拟过程中,水文地质参数的不确定性对模拟结果影响很大。以内蒙古鄂尔多斯市某水源地为例,利用拉丁超立方抽样(LHS)方法获得了含水层渗透参数的随机组合,进行地下水流随机模拟。通过对观测资料与计算水位的绝对值平均(MAE)误差和误差均方根(RMSE)的统计分析,获得了模型较为稳定的随机模拟次数是243次。利用该随机模型对水源地设计开采量进行水位预测,并给出允许降深的风险性分布图。结果表明,预测水位和标准差分布符合实际情况,水位降深大于35 m的风险性最大达到75%。  相似文献   

Scales of heterogeneity of water quality in rivers: Insights from high resolution maps based on integrated geospatial, sensor and ROV technologies     

Andrew F. Casper  Barnali DixonEric T. Steimle  Mike L. HallRobyn N. Conmy 《Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England)》2012,32(2):455-464

While the spatial heterogeneity of many aquatic ecosystems is acknowledged, rivers are often mistakenly described as homogenous and well-mixed. The collection and visualization of attributes like water quality is key to our perception and management of these ecosystems. The assumption of homogeneity can lead to the conclusion that data collection from discrete, discontinuous points in space or time provide a comprehensive estimate of condition. To counter this perception, we combined high-density data collection with spatial interpolation techniques to created two-dimensional maps of water quality. Maps of four riverine transitions and habitats - wetland to urban, river to reservoir, river to estuary and a groundwater intrusion - were constructed from the continuous data. The examples provided show that the most basic water quality parameters - temperature, conductivity, salinity, turbidity, and chlorophyll florescence - are heterogeneous at spatial scales smaller than those captured by common point sampling statistical strategies. The 2-dimensional, interpolation-based maps of the Hillsborough River (Tampa, FL) show significant influences of a variety of geographic features including tributary confluences, submarine groundwater inflow, and riparian interfaces. We conclude that many sampling strategies do not account for the type of patchy heterogeneity observed. The integration of existing in-situ sensors, inexpensive autonomous sampling platforms, and geospatial mapping techniques provides high resolution visualization that can adds a more comprehensive geographic perspective needed for environmental monitoring and assessment programs.  相似文献   

基于回归克里格的生态水文无线传感器网络布局优化   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

葛咏  王江浩  王劲峰  晋锐  胡茂桂 《地球科学进展》2012,27(9):1006-1013

在黑河上游八宝河流域建立自动化、时空协同、智能观测的生态水文无线传感器网络,实现分布式的地面观测,对于定量刻画流域尺度时空异质性较强的生态水文要素的动态特征及其不确定性具有重要意义。在观测网设计过程中,节点的空间布局将直接影响到无线传感器网络的观测水平。为准确捕捉流域内关键生态水文要素的时空变异性和场分布,探讨了一种基于回归克里格模型的空间采样布局优化方法,并以地表温度观测网优化为例,应用到八宝河流域生态水文无线传感器网络布局方案设计中。研究结果表明,该优化方法同时考虑了目标变量与环境变量之间的相关关系以及残差在空间上的自相关特征,可以同时优化目标变量的地理空间和属性空间。优化后的无线传感器网络可以较好地捕捉流域内生态水文要素的时空动态特征。  相似文献   

Application of vertically integrated sampling approach to study of new production via ²³⁴Th-²³⁸U disequilibria     

Chen Feizhou  Huang Yipu  Chen Min 《海洋学报(英文版)》2000,19(2):37-44

I~IOWBecause of the imPOrtance of new production in the studies of the structure and function ofmarine eCOSystem and carhan cycleS, one should pay great attention tO the study of new production in biological oceanography, biogeOChendstry, and especially in the study of global change(Plait et al., 1992; Jiao and Wang, 1993; Wang, 1992). With the deepening of the study ofnew production, it has been found that the spatial and temporal distributions of new preductionvary largely in different…  相似文献   

一个标量场的客观分析方法和资料点空间结构的设计     

杨世莹  白珊 《海洋预报》1995,12(4):18-25

这是一个根据Ｇａｕｓｓ－Ｍａｒｋｏｖ原理建立的标量场客观分析方法，并在资料的模拟中得到了应用。在这个方法的推导过程中还给出了计算ｒ．ｍ．ｓ误差的公式。通过试错调整格点的空间结构，可以设计出有效的空间取样阵列。本文使用这个方法对温度场、气压场和高度场分别进行了分析．试验结果表明这个方法简单、方便，分析结果令人满意。  相似文献   

莱州湾西部地区环境条件的联合概率分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

孟祥东 《海岸工程》1997,16(1):18-24

在海洋环境条件联合概率分析理论的基础上，对莱州湾西部海的羊角沟地区进行了综合环境条件的联合概率分析，以模拟技术中的重点抽样法为理论根据峄该地区为水位ζ、风速Ｕ及波高Ｈ的三维随机变量作了统计分析，得出了多年一遇的各环境条件联合出现的数值，模拟结果令人满意。  相似文献   

拉丁方正交完全系和常用正交表的简捷构造法   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘长安 《海洋湖沼通报》1995,(4):1-8

本文根据两个同阶拉丁方正交的定义和正交表的定义以及有关的数学理论，编制出拉丁方正交完全系和常用正交表的简捷构造法，提供给实验工作者使用并以此加深对拉丁方设计和正交设计的理解和掌握。设正整数ｍ〉２，本文在以下两种情形分别使用不同的方法构造ｍ阶拉丁方正交完全系：（１）ｍ为质数：以自然顺序的第１列为起点，从第２列开始，在列中依次进行数置换；（２）ｍ为质数幂：首先构造一个特定的标准拉丁方作为起点，然后从第  相似文献