Mixed Land Use and Obesity: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Land Use Measures and Geographic Scales     

Ikuho Yamada  Barbara B. Brown  Ken R. Smith  Cathleen D. Zick  Lori Kowaleski-Jones  Jessie X. Fan 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(2):157-177

Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United States. Walkable neighborhoods, characterized as having the three Ds of walkability (population Density, land use Diversity, and pedestrian-friendly Design), have been identified as a potentially promising factor to prevent obesity for residents. Past studies examining the relationship between obesity and walkability vary in geographic scales of neighborhood definitions and methods of measuring the three Ds. To better understand potential influences of these sometimes arbitrary choices, we test how four types of alternative measures of land use diversity measured at three geographic scales relate to body mass index for 4,960 Salt Lake County adults. Generalized estimation equation models demonstrate that optimal diversity measures differed by gender and geographic scale and that integrating walkability measures at different scales improved the overall performance of models.  相似文献   

Integrating landscape connectivity into the evaluation of ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation and its implications for landscape planning     

《Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England)》2013

This paper examines the integration of landscape connectivity and ecosystem services. It is based on the assumption that if a habitat within a landscape has a more significant role in connecting with other habitats, it would have a higher ecosystem services value for biodiversity conservation. The Shenzhen River watershed, a cross-border region shared by the city of Shenzhen and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in China, was used as a case study. An area-based functional connectivity index, known as the possibility of connectivity (PC), was implemented to examine the temporal and spatial dynamics of the value of ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation over the period from 1988 to 2008. To evaluate the effectiveness of the PC index, a comparison was made between the conventional assessment method for ecosystem services and the proposed method. Results suggest that our proposed method can identify significant reduction of ecosystem services that was not only due to the decrease of habitat size, but also caused by the damage of connectivity among habitat patches. Also, it can identify sites which should have a high priority in restoring the ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation. In conclusion, this study provides a way to consider landscape connectivity in the evaluation of ecosystem services which is essential for landscape planning and nature conservation.  相似文献   

Reducing the non-axisymmetry of a planetary dynamo and an application to saturn     

D. J. Stevenson 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(1-2):113-127

Abstract

If a conducting fluid shell is undergoing spin-axisymmetric differential rotation and overlies the dynamo generating region of a planet then it is capable of greatly reducing the non-spin-axisymmetric components of the generated field, provided the appropriate magnetic Reynolds number is large. The model, closely related to the electromagnetic skin effect, is quantified and applied to Saturn. The observed small dipole tilt (～ 1°) of Saturn's magnetic field can be explained because of the presence of a stably stratified conducting layer overlying the dynamo region. This layer is a predicted consequence of the thermal evolution, arises because of the limited solubility of helium in metallic hydrogen (Stevenson, 1980), and appears to be required by the Voyager infrared observations indicating depletion of helium from Saturn's atmosphere. The much larger dipole tilt angles of Jupiter and the Earth indicate the absence of any such stable, differentially rotating layer with a large magnetic Reynolds number.  相似文献   

Autumn NDVI contributes more and more to vegetation improvement in the growing season across the Tibetan Plateau     

《International Journal of Digital Earth》2013,6(11):1098-1117

ABSTRACT

Detecting changes in vegetation, distinguishing the persistence of changes, and seeking their causes during multiple periods are important to gaining a deeper understanding of vegetation dynamics. Using the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) version NDVI_3g dataset in the Tibetan Plateau, the trends in the seasonal components of NDVI and their linkage with climatic factors were analyzed over 14 asymptotic periods of 18–31 years since 1982. Dynamic trends in vegetation experienced an obvious increase at regional scale, but the increases of vegetation activity mostly tended to stall or slow down as the studied time period was extended. At pixel scale, areas with significant browning significantly expanded over 14 periods for all seasons, but for significant greening significantly increased only in autumn. The changes of vegetation activity in spring were the most drastic among three seasons. Increased increments of NDVI in summer, spring, and autumn took turns being the main reason for the enhanced vegetation activity in the growing season in the nested 14 periods. Vegetation activity was mainly regulated by a thermal factor, and the dominant climatic drivers of vegetation growth varied across different seasons and regions. We speculate that the increase of NDVI will continue but the increments will decline in all seasons except autumn.  相似文献   

利用GRACE时变重力场探测2010年中国西南干旱陆地水储量变化   总被引：19，自引：4，他引：15       下载免费PDF全文

李琼  罗志才  钟波  汪海洪 《地球物理学报》2013,56(6):1843-1849

GRACE(Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)卫星计划为监测陆地水储量变化提供了有效技术手段.本文采用2003至2010年共计8年的GRACE月重力场模型反演中国西南区域陆地水储量变化,与GLDAS(Global Land Data Assimilation System)全球水文模型进行对比分析,其结果在时空分布上均符合较好,同时在2009年秋至2010年春该区域陆地水储量均呈现明显减少,与该时段云贵川三省的干旱事件相一致;比较分析了2009年秋至2010年春GRACE反演陆地水储量变化与TRMM(Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)合成数据计算的月降雨量的时空分布,两组结果均与西南干旱事件对应时段与区域十分吻合;对近8年的陆地水储量变化与月降雨量数据进行相关性分析,其结果表明陆地水储量变化与降雨量强相关,即降雨量是导致陆地水储量变化的主要因素;分析该区域地表温度变化,结果显示2009年9月至2010年3月地表温度均比历史同期高,地表温度的升高加剧了陆地水储量的减少.  相似文献   

地震时空丛集程度的度量及震前异常特征初探          下载免费PDF全文

张晓东  江志萍 《地震工程学报》1996,18(3):37-41

从Ｍｏｒｉｓｈｉｔａ空间丛集度出发，定义出其时间丛集度的表达式，并计算了几次大震前空间丛集度Ｊｓ和时间丛集度Ｊｔ的时间扫描曲线。从计算结果分析，无论是空间丛集度Ｊｓ还是时间丛集度Ｊｔ在大震发生前大都会出现高值异常。将Ｊｓ和Ｊｔ做了对比，从而对Ｍｏｒｉｓｈｉｔａ指数的含义进行了探讨，分析了各自的优缺点。结果表明，Ｊｓ和Ｊｔ可以做为一项地震活动性指标引入到地震预报中来  相似文献   

NDVI与气候因子关系在不同时间尺度上的结果差异     

沈斌  房世波  余卫国 《遥感学报》2016,20(3):481-490

植被指数是反映地表植被覆盖状况的重要参数,分析气候因子与植被指数间的相互关系有助于揭示气候变化对植被的影响,然而当前研究有两种分析植被指数与气候因子关系的方法,分别为分析植被指数与生长季内和生长季间气候因子的关系,然而这两种法差异如何,何种方法更为合适需要进一步分析。利用2000年—2009年生长季的MODIS的归一化植被指数NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)数据集和藏北那曲地区3个气象站逐月气象资料(月平均气温、≥0℃活动积温和月降水量),分析比较了生长季内和生长季间气候因子对植被生长影响的差异,并分析了两种方法的优劣。结果表明:(1)生长季内植被NDVI与同期气温和降水量均呈高度正相关,生长季内时滞时间尺度为1个月时,植被NDVI对月平均气温及降水响应均最为强烈。(2)生长季间NDVI与同期降水量相关性并不明显,气候因子的滞后效应在生长季间也较弱。(3)生长季内和生长季间植被NDVI与气候因子的关系所得出的结论有一定差异性,可能是因为两方面的原因:生长季内植被NDVI与水热因子的高相关性与中国季风季候造成的高温多雨出现在夏季有关,而生长季内高水热条件与高植被指数对应的多年重复必然造伪的高相关系数,但这种相关性不一定能真实反映植被与水热条件的关系,而生长季间水热等气候因子与植被指数年际变化相关性分析不存在水热与高植被指数同期问题,更能真实反映气候因子年际变化对植被的影响。  相似文献   

世界各国日像仪主要性能比较     

姬国枢  王威  何俊波 《天文研究与技术》2010,7(2)

本文是世界各国日像仪的天线阵性能汇集,包括日、俄、法、中、美等专用日像仪及美国、印度、巴西等兼作日像仪的天线阵,列出了几个典型天线阵列排列及接收系统。附录中列出了等口径及不等口径天线阵列的灵敏度及动态范围计算公式,同时列出了视场、角分辨率等公式。便于读者自行分析,计算,比较各天线阵列性能。  相似文献   

变差函数在赣杭构造带火山岩型铀矿田(床)评价中的应用     

李瀚波  潘蔚  毛玉仙 《铀矿地质》2010,26(5):301-305

在简要介绍变差函数的原理、算法和研究区地质情况的基础上,将变差函数引入火山岩型铀成矿作用与地形相关性研究中。详细描述了赣杭构造带中不同成矿规模矿田(床)区地形高程变差统计的过程,初步分析了变差统计结果的地质意义。研究结果表明,地形高程值变差函数的长轴方向可以反映研究区的主要构造方向,变差函数的长短轴半径与铀矿床的成矿规模在一定程度上具有对应关系。  相似文献   

区域沙漠化程度评价研究进展、问题及分析   总被引：7，自引：1，他引：6  

康相武  吴绍洪  杨勤业  夏富强  马欣  刘自强  杨佩国 《干旱区地理》2005,28(3):330-335

通过回顾景观尺度及区域尺度的沙漠化程度评价发展过程,概括了国内外典型的区域沙漠化程度评价方法,通过假设各种情景分析、总结了目前各类区域沙漠化程度评价方法中存在的典型共性问题：(1)当被比较评价的几个区域中各类沙化土地面积相等时,目前所有的评价模型失去比较能力;(2)忽略了不同类型沙化土地空间分布的生态学意义及其对区域沙化整体程度的影响;(3)目前考虑了不同类型沙化土地空间分布的模型由于指标因子选择不恰当其评价结果在有些情况下与实际情况有距离。提出了在现有评价方法的基础上根据景观生态学原理引进景观生态学方法,特别是景观格局分析的方法,可以弥补现有区域沙漠化程度评价方法中存在的缺陷和不足,并且可以使区域沙漠化程度评价具有生态学意义。  相似文献