黄土高原土壤干层形成原因分析

以丰水年洛川人工林地深层土壤水分恢复为依据,采用高精度土壤含水量测量与逐层分析技术,以含水量变化率为主要指标,研究洛川2004年1月-2005年5月不同植被土壤水分的季节变化与水量平衡.结果显示,降水渗深以内表层土壤水分受气候和植被生长影响,呈明显季节变化;渗深以下深层土壤水分,中产农田和梨树林砍伐后基本维持平衡,苹果林地持续减少并以春季减少最多.研究表明,黄土高原深层土壤水分呈低水平循环状态,易形成土壤干层,而季节干旱是土壤干层形成的直接驱动力;"低降水、高蒸发"的气候特点是黄土高原土壤干层形成的决定因素,半湿润半干旱气候中的干旱特征对黄土高原自然地理环境产生广泛而深刻的影响.     

干旱区绿洲土壤含水量季节性变异分析——以于田绿洲为例

土壤水分对水圈、生物圈以及大气圈之间的相互作用有着及其重要的影响,是土壤物理学、水文学研究的重要内容。干旱区生态环境脆弱,土壤水分是干旱区植物生长发育所需水分的唯一来源。以和田地区于田绿洲为例,对研究区春、夏、秋季节土壤含水量水平和垂直空间变异性进行分析,揭示干旱区绿洲土壤水分空间变化规律。结果表明:(1)于田绿洲土壤含水量具有季节性规律,春季含水量均值为0.139%,夏季为0.110%,秋季为0.123%,春季含水量高于秋季高于夏季。垂直分布上随着土壤深度的增加,土壤含水量呈逐渐增大的趋势。(2)各个季节、不同深度的土壤含水量的空间自相关性上表示出相似的变化趋势,在空间单元为1时,具有强空间自相关性。(3)研究区垂直空间分布相关性较弱,变异主要由随机因子作用而产生;绿洲内部土壤含水量明显高于外围地区。     

干旱半干旱区山地土壤水分动态变化

水分是干旱半干旱区山地植物生长的主要限制因子，在这些地区开展土壤水分动态变化研究对农业生产和生态恢复的重要性是不言而喻的。近年来土壤水分测定技术有了很大进步，中子水分仪和时城反射仪已成为常规测量仪器，新型仪器不断出现，总的趋势是仪器的精度和自动化水平不断提高。土壤水分有其时空变化规律，一方面土壤水分随季节变化而变化，另一方面土壤水分随土壤深度和水平位置的变化发生相应变化。降水是影响干旱半干旱区山地土壤水分的最重要因素，气温、太阳辐射等其它气象因子对土壤含水量也用一定影响。此外，坡向、坡度、坡位等地形因子以及土壤特性、地表植被、土地利用情况等对土壤含水量空间分布也有重要影响。总之土壤含水量的时空变化是各种环境因子综合作用的结果。目前土壤水分动态变化的研究重点是对其影响因子的研究。就我国而言，宜加强干旱河谷区土壤水分动态变化的研究，促进土壤水分动态变化研究工作全面深入地开展。     

东北典型黑土区不同土地利用方式土壤水分动态变化特征

土壤水分是农业生产和区域生态系统的重要影响因子。以黑龙江省鹤山农场2号小流域为研究区域,系统研究不同土地利用方式土壤水分的动态变化过程和剖面变化特征。结果发现:不同土地利用方式土壤含水量随观察期内降雨量时间分布波动,并且总体呈降低趋势,但各变化曲线有所差异。观测时段内土壤水分变化分为相对稳定期、消耗期和补给期;土地利用方式对土壤剖面含水量的影响随土层的加深而增大,各土地利用方式的土壤含水量随土层的加深也呈现出不同的变化趋势,并且其土壤剖面含水量变化均存在季节差异。     

额济纳绿洲不同植被覆盖下土壤特性的时空变化

额济纳绿洲地处干旱内陆河地区。在分析额济纳绿洲土壤特性的基础上,以不同植被类型下的土壤作为分析对象,根据观测的土壤含水量数据及环境因子的观测数据,研究了额济纳绿洲土壤水分的时空变化规律,分析了土壤水分变化与环境因子之间的关系,建立了土壤含水量与环境因子之间的回归模型。研究结果表明,土壤剖面土壤类型及结构差异较大,土壤类型的差异主要受成土条件的制约和外部自然环境的影响,戈壁地区与其他几种植被类型下的土壤差异最为显著;土壤类型及结构的差异,土壤容重变化的特性及土壤水势、土壤含水量的变化,直接影响着植被的生长和分布;额济纳绿洲不同植被类型下的土壤含水量变化差异显著;土壤含水量的季节变化分析表明,土壤剖面中不同层的土壤含水量变化也存在着一定的差异,可以分成不同的稳定变化层,急剧变化层和相对稳定层;土壤含水量的日变化受环境因子的影响较为明显,空气温湿度、土壤温度及地下水水位埋深是影响土壤含水量最为显著的因素。     

腾格里沙漠东南缘不同固定程度沙地土壤表层水分时空变化遥感分析

土壤表层水分是固沙植被生长的主要水分来源,其时空变化格局决定了固沙植被的稳定性和演替方向。整合被动微波和光学数据的时空分辨率优势建立模型、反演土壤表层水分,可为不同固定程度沙地固沙植被稳定性评价提供科学依据。以腾格里沙漠东南缘为研究区,选取2003-2011年生长季(5-9月)AMSR-E土壤水分产品与MODIS数据,利用归一化植被指数NDVI、地表温度T_s,采用多元回归的方法,将空间分辨率为0.25°的AMSR-E土壤水分数据降尺度为每月的1 km平均表层土壤水分的时间序列数据,结合沙丘类型数据,分析了不同沙丘类型下土壤水分的时空异质性。结果表明:流动沙地的土壤水分空间分布与整个区域的差异性高于半固定沙地和固定沙地,而在极端干旱年份,研究区的整体分异不大,但同一类型间,固定沙丘空间差异明显高于半固定沙丘和固定沙丘;3种沙地类型表层土壤平均含水量在不同月份具有相似的变化规律,即土壤含水量5-9月呈抛物线形状,先下降后上升,7月达到最低,从同一月份不同沙地类型看,研究区表层土壤水分含量依次是固定沙地>半固定沙地>流动沙地;年际土壤水分在流动沙地和半固定沙地随降雨的变化而变化,而固定沙地基本不变。     

四川盆地丘陵区土壤水分空间变异及其时间稳定性分析

土壤水分在空间分布上的不均匀性以及空间分布结构在时间上的稳定性,对深入理解土壤水分空间变异具有重要的意义。在四川盆地丘陵区旱坡地选取150m×150m的地块范围,利用传统统计学、地统计学以及时间稳定性指数对土壤水分空间变异特征及时间稳定性的进行了分析。结果发现：在垂向变异上,土壤水分变异含量随深度的增加而降低,变异系数则相反;在空间变异结构上,0～30cm土壤水分的基台值、块金效应在不同时间发生明显波动,但仍以空间相关性为主,30～40cm的块金效应波动小,空间自相关程度高且比较稳定;球状、指数、高斯模型可用来模拟土壤水分的空间变异;空间分布格局均呈基本带状分布;土壤水分的相对值在1左右波动,稳定性指数各随土壤深度的增加而降低。     

干旱对芦苇幼苗生长和叶绿素荧光的影响

盆栽试验研究了芦苇幼苗在不同土壤含水量条件下的形态结构、生物量动态、质膜透性、叶绿素含量和叶绿素荧光动力学参数.结果表明,芦苇幼苗高度、株高、基径、地上生物量随土壤含水量的减少而递减.芦苇幼苗通过个体变小、叶片数量和面积减少、生长速率减缓等适应性策略来降低蒸腾量,利用有限的可利用水分维持生命活动,达到了植物叶片水分含量与土壤可利用水分的平衡.不同强度干旱均使叶绿素含量降低,叶绿素a/b值随土壤含水量的降低而升高,减少了叶片对光能的捕获,降低光合机构遭受光氧化破坏的风险,是芦苇幼苗适应干旱的一种光保护调节机制.干旱还导致了芦苇叶片细胞膜脂过氧化,细胞质膜透性增加,重度干旱时细胞质膜透性达29.3%.PSII最大量子产量(Fv/Fm)、光化学荧光淬灭系数(qP)、PSII的非循环光合电子传递速率(ETR)下降,芦苇通过非光化学淬灭(qN)的上升保护PSII.     

半干旱黄土区成熟柠条林地剖面土壤水分环境及影响因子研究

为了探讨柠条群落及环境因子与土壤水分动态响应关系,选择半干旱黄土区流域尺度不同地形条件下成熟柠条林作为观测样地,于2009-2011年生长季节(5月上旬至10月下旬),每15 d1次,对0~220 cm剖面土壤水分进行了连续测定,2010年8月测定了0~600 cm土壤水分,2011年9月调查了柠条林群落结构特征。采用SPSS17.0软件的Duncan进行多重比较、EXCEL软件进行分析作图,对各样地剖面土壤水分差异、不同年度生长季节变异、干燥化程度以及其影响因子进行了综合分析。结果表明:浅层土壤水分含量为北坡东坡南坡,下坡位高于上坡位,坡度越大土壤含水量越低。由表层至深层,地形因子影响土壤水分作用逐渐减弱,植被因子影响土壤水分作用逐渐增强。在一定区域,柠条群落盖度和高度与深层土壤水分含量呈明显的负相关。人工柠条林加重了入渗层以下的土壤干燥化程度,而且连续干旱会造成入渗层范围的临时性土壤干层,而永久性干层是柠条发育至成熟阶段的过程中,逐渐形成并一直存在的一种现象。研究结论将对进一步从多尺度(年际和季节的时间尺度、水平和垂直的空间尺度)、多因子(气候、土壤、植被、微地形等)综合研究半干旱黄土区人工植被群落及其土壤水分环境动态提供重要参考。     

适宜汾河太原段河岸带香蒲、水蓼和萎蒿生长的土壤水分条件实验研究

选择在汾河太原段河岸带生长的香蒲(Typha orientalis)、水蓼(Polygonum hydropiper)和萎蒿(Artemisia selengensis)作为实验对象,于2019年3月15日至9月4日,在太原理工大学水利科学与工程学院室外实验棚内,在土壤深积水(植株全淹)、土壤浅积水(植株半淹)、土壤自然状况(土壤含水量为25%)、土壤轻度干旱(土壤含水量为15%)和土壤干旱(土壤含水量为5%)5种条件下,开展实验。在实验过程中,每15 d计算3种植物的存活率;在实验第30天、第60天、第90天、第120天和第150天,测定3种植物的株高、活叶片数、最大叶片长度和生物量。研究结果表明,在相同的土壤水分条件下,香蒲、水蓼和萎蒿的存活率不同,其中水蓼相对更耐淹,萎蒿相对更耐旱;在土壤深积水、土壤干旱和土壤半干旱条件下,3种植物的活叶片数和最大叶片长度在实验期间呈单峰型变化,株高和生物量都逐渐增大;在土壤自然状况下,3种植物的株高、活叶片数、最大叶片长度、生物量等都显著大于其它水分条件下的指标;与土壤深积水、土壤浅积水和土壤干旱条件下相比,在土壤轻度干旱条件下,水蓼和萎蒿的活叶片数、生物量、最大叶片长度以及萎蒿的株高都偏大;15%～25%的土壤含水量是适宜香蒲、水蓼和萎蒿生长的土壤含水量。     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Development and Environment in Peninsular Malaysia . S. Robert Aiken, Colin H. Leigh, Thomas R. Leinbach, Michael R. Moss. The Rural-Urban Fringe: Canadian Perspectives . Ken B. Beesley and Lorne H. Russwurm, eds. Women and Development . Lourdes Benería, ed. The Border that Joins: Mexican Migrants and U.S. Responsibility . Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development . Stanley D. Brunn and Jack L. Williams, eds. Time Resources, Society, and Ecology: On the Capacity for Human Interaction in Space and Time (Vol. I, Preindustrial Societies). Tommy Carlstein. Urban Geography . David Clark. Spanish City Planning in North America . Dora P. Crouch, Daniel J. Garr, and Axel I. Mundigo. Not On Our Street: Community Attitudes to Mental Health Care . M. J. Dear and S. M. Taylor Unequal growth: Urban and Regional Employment Change in the U.K. Stephen Fothergill and Graham Gudgin. Agricultural Land in an Urban Society . Owen J. Furuseth and John T. Pierce. The Petroleum Industry in Oil-Importing Developing Countries . Fariborz Ghadar. Historical Understanding in Geography, An Idealist Approach . Leonard Guelke. Regional Planning in Europe . R. Hudson and J. R. Lewis, eds. Remote Sensing for Resource Management . Chris J. Johannsen and James L. Sanders, eds. Geography and The State . R. J. Johnston. Texas Graveyards: a Cultural Legacy . Tlrry G. Jordan. The Politics of Location: An Introduction . Andrew Kirby. A Social Geography of the City . David Ley. Energy and the Future . Douglas MacLean and Peter Brown, eds. The Natural Environment of Newfoundland Past and Present . A. G. Macpherson and J. B. Macpherson, eds. Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts . Alister Mathieson and Geoffrey Wall. Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention . Lloyd J. Mercer. Progress in Rural Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Urban Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Models of Spatial Inequality: Settlement Patterns in Historical Archaeology . Robert Paynter. Natural Hazard Risk Assessment and Public Policy, Anticipating the Unexpected . William J. Petak and Arthur A. Atkisson. The Nature of Geomorphology . Alistair F. Pitty. Regional Conflict and National Policy . Kent A. Price Women and Spatial Change: Learning Resources for Social Science Courses . Arlene C. Rengert and Janice J. Monk, eds. Urban and Regional Analysis for Development Planning . Richard Rhoda. Rivers: Form and Process in Alluvial Channels . Keith Richards. This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Culture . John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean R. Louder, gen. eds. The Origins of Open-Field Agriculture . Trevor Rowley, ed. Residential Location Determinants of the Older Population . Gundars Rudzitis. Borderland Sourcebook: A Guide to the Literature on Northern Mexico and the American Southwest . Ellwyn R. Stoddard, Richard L. Nostrand, and Jonathan P. West, eds. Arctic and Antarctic . David Sugden. Tall Timbers Ecology and Management Conference, February 22–24, 1979, Proceedings No. 16 . Graphic Communication and Design in Contemporary Cartography (Progress in Contemporary Cartography , Vol. II). D. R. Fraser Taylor, ed. Living with Energy Shortfall: A Future for American Towns and Cities . Jon Van Til. The United States: Habitation of Hope . J. Wreford Watson. Air Photo Interpretation for Archaeologists . D. R. Wilson. Urban and Rural Change in West Germany . Trevor Wild, ed. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Geography and the Third World. International Seminar, 14–18 May 1980, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Ishmail Ahmad and Jamaluddin Md Jahi, eds. The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States . Mark Baldassare. Sport and Place: A Geography of Sport in England, Scotland & Wales . John Bale. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry . Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison. Selected Essays 1963–1975: Carl O. Sauer . Bob Callahen, ed. Housing and Planning in the Countryside . G. Clark. Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene . Kevin R. Cox and R. J. Johnston, eds. Thematic Maps: Their Design and Production . David J. Cuff and Mark T. Mattson. Wine: A Geographic Appreciation . Harm Jan de Blij. USSR in Maps . J. C. Dewdney. Political Geography: A Contemporary Perspective . Ramesh D. Dikshit. Rethinking Human Adaptation . Rada Dyson-Hudson and Michael A. Little, eds. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the indiana Dunes . J. Ronald Engel. Geography of the Biosphere . A. Furley and Walter W. Newey. Disaster and Reconstruction . Robert Geipel. Glasgow: The Making of a City . Andrew Gibb. Design for Arid Regions . Giden S. Golany, ed. Urbanization and Cancer Mortality: The United States Experience, 1950–1975 . Michael R. Greenberg. Geology in the Nineteenth Century: Changing Views of a Changing World . Mott T. Greene. Colonización y Destrucción de Bosques en Panamá . Stanley Heckadon Moreno and Alberto McKay, eds. Urban Geography: A First Approach . David T. Herbert and Colin J. Thomas. The Visual and Spatial Structure of Landscapes . Tadahiko Higuchi. Climate from Tree Rings . M. K. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. R. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarche, Jr., eds. The structure of Nineteenth Century Cities . James H. Johnson and Colin G. Pooley, eds. The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections . Donald A. Krueckeberg, ed. Urban Land Policy For the 1980s, the Message for State and Local Government . George Lefcoe, ed. Regional Planning: Evolution, Crisis and Prospects . Gill C. Lim, ed. Relevance and Ethics In Geography . Bruce Mitchell and Dianne Draper. China: The Geography of Development and Modernization . Clifton W. Pannell and Laurence J. C. MA. The Urban Retailing System . Robert B. Potter. Hants. Nonconventional Energy Resources . Philip R. Pryde. Caribbean Migrants: Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis . Bonham C. Richardson. Population and Resources . Harry Robinson. East Los Angeles: History of A Barrio . Ricardo Romo. Integrated Impact Assessment . Frederick A. Rossini and Alan L. Porter, eds. Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation . Barry Sadler and Allen Carlson, eds. Earthwatch . Charles Sheffield. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography . Robert H. Stoddard. Haiti: Land of Poverty . Robert J. Tata. Weathering and Erosion: Sources and Methods in Geography . Stephen T. Trudgill. Once Beneath the Forest. Prehistoric Terracing in the Río Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands . B. L. Turner, II. The Historical Geography of Scotland since 1707 . David Turnock.     

PRODUCTIVITY OF AMERICAN PH.D.-GRANTING DEPARTMENTS OF GEOGRAPHY

Reviews of geographic software in this article:

DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS.

ESP

GAUSS.

CEMODEL S. Damus

LIMDEP. William H. Greene

MICROSTAT 4.1

OTIS

PCIPS. (Personal Computer Image Processing System). H.J. Meyers and R. Bernstein.

REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES (RATS)

SPSS/PC+

URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (UDMS)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco . Janet Abu -Lughod . Marketplaces in a Developing Country: The Case of Western Nigeria . Isaac Ayinde Adalemo . Farming Development and Space: A World Agricultural Geography . Bernd Andreae . Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan . J. Clark Archer and Peter J. Taylor . Women and Space: Ground Rules and Social Maps . Shirley Ardener , ed. European Progress in Spatial Analysis . R. J. Bennett , ed. The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States . Brian W. Blouet Geographic Perspectives on Global Problems . Ronald Reed Boyce . Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty . Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey eds. The New Nationalism and the Use of Common Spaces: Issues in Marine Pollution and the Exploitation of Antarctica . Jonathan I. Charney , ed. Communications Tomorrow: The Coming of the Information Society . Edward Cornish , ed. The Design of Suburbia . Arthur Edwards . Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren's Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855–56–57. With an Introduction by Frank N. Schubert . The Changing Climate: Responses of the Natural Flora and Fauna . Michael J. Ford . Essentials of Physical Geography . Robert E. Gabler , Robert J. Sager , Sheila Brazier , and Daniel L. Wise. The Road to Jaramillo . William Glen . Valued Environments . John R. Gold and Jacquelin Burgess , eds. Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets . Reginald G. Golledge and John N. Rayner , eds. A Search for Common Ground . Peter Gould and Gunnar Olsson , eds. Geography: Its History and Concepts . Arild Holt -Jensen . A Population Geography . Huw R. Jones . The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 3rd ed. Terry G. Jordan and Lester Rowntree . Urban Social Geography: An Introduction . Paul Knox . The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan . The Information Society as Post-Industial Society . Yoneji Masuda . Map Librarianship, 2nd ed. Harold Nichols . India: Cultural Patterns and Processes . Allen G. Noble and Ashok K. Dutt , eds. The God that Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties . Colin Norman . Geography: An Introductory Perspective . Robert E. Norris , Keith D. Harries and John D. Vitek . The Politics of Technology Assessment . David M. O'Brien and Donald A. Marchand . Ethnic Segregation in Cities . Ceri Peach , Vaughan Robinson and Susan Smith , eds. Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980 . Bernard Quinn , Herman Anderson , Martin Bradley , Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver . Energy in Australia: Politics and Economics . Hugh Saddler . Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of Regional Planning in Developing Countries . Walter B. Stóuhr and D. R. Fraser Taylor , eds. Human Impact on the Ecosystem . Joy Tivy and Greg O'Hare . Plants and People: Vegetation Change in North America . Thomas R. Vale . The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age . John Noble Wilford .     

Deserts and Aeolian Desertification in China: Book review and some thoughts

Desertification is a global phenomenon that affects about two billion people. It occurs in arid zones where the annual precipitation is below 400 mm, partic- ularly in the marginal areas of the world＇s largest deserts. It is a result of water and wind erosion, over- grazing, global warm-ing, improper soil cultivation, and increased pressure ot population growth, and it causes degradation of soil and natural and agricultural vegetation. The direct result is less food for people and livestock, which influences pop- ulation and animal husbandry fluctuations. Despite ef- forts to combat and reduce desertification, the affected areas are annually increasing.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.     

REVIEWS OF GEOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE

Reviews of geographic software in this article: DEMO-GRAPHICS: WORLD POPULATIONS AND PROJECTIONS. ESP GAUSS. CEMODEL S. Damus LIMDEP. William H. Greene MICROSTAT 4.1 OTIS PCIPS. (Personal Computer Image Processing System) . H.J. Meyers and R. Bernstein. REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES (RATS) SPSS/PC+ URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE (UDMS)     

Guidelines to Authors

1. Aims and scope
Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions （SCAR） is a bimonthly journal that publishes in English the latest research achievements in processes and the pattems of the Earth surface system in cold and arid regions. Researches in cold regions emphasize particularly on the cold-region-characterized physical,