Effect of Long-term Experimental Warming on the Nutritional Quality of Alpine Meadows in the Northern Tibet

The nutritional quality of grasslands is closely related to recruitment of young and population dynamics of livestock and wild herbivores. However, the response of nutritional quality to climate warming has not been fully understood in the alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau, especially in the Northern Tibet. Here, we investigated the effect of experimental warming ( beginning in 2008) on nutritional quality in three alpine meadows (site A: 4313 m, B: 4513 m and C: 4693 m) in the Northern Tibet. Crude protein (CP), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), crude ash (Ash), ether extract (EE) and water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) were examined in 2018-2019. Experimental warming only increased the content of CP by 27.25%, ADF by 89.93% and NDF by 41.20%, but it decreased the content of Ash by 57.76% in 2019 at site B. The contents of CP and WSC both increased with soil moisture (SM). The content of CP decreased with vapor pressure deficit (VPD). The combined effect of SM and VPD was greater than air temperature (T_a) in controlling the variations of the CP content, ADF content and nutritional quality. Compared to T_a, VPD explained more of the variation in NDF and Ash content. All of these findings suggest that warming effects on nutritional quality may vary with site and year, and water availability may have a stronger effect on the nutritional quality than temperature in the alpine meadow of the Northern Tibet.     

盐度对北极海冰细菌生长的影响

从中国第二次北极科学考察采集的海冰样品中分离到8种细菌,研究了盐度对其生长的影响。结果表明,8株海冰细菌对盐度有着广泛的适应性,在盐度为30-90的范围内均可较快生长,其中菌株BJ2、BJ3和BJ7的盐耐受性较强。进一步的研究表明,BJ2、BJ3和BJ7在0-150 的盐度范围内均有不同程度的生长,盐度为0-30时,菌株的生长最快;盐度为180时,这三株菌株也均有短暂的生长。随着盐度的增加,三株菌株生长的延迟期增加,到达生长稳定期的时间也相应增加。温度对菌株BJ2、BJ3和BJ7的盐耐受性也有着一定的影响,随着温度的升高, 菌株的生长速度变慢,但盐耐受性有所增加。     

南极普里兹湾的海水化学特征

本文利用 1 989/1 990年度中国第六次南极考察期间所获得的调查资料 ,探讨了普里兹湾营养盐分布及其与生物生产力间的相互关系。结果表明 ,在艾默里冰架外侧存在大片温暖高盐水域 ,该水域真光层内营养盐含量较低 ,溶解氧饱和度高达 1 2 0 %,叶绿素 A含量大于 1 .0 0 mg/m3 ,表明了普里兹湾是南极高生产力区。化学要素垂直分布如温度一样出现了强跃层 ,并于3 5 0 m层出现了异常的营养盐垂直分布 ,但盐度无明显跃层存在。最后讨论了引起异常分布的原因。     

极端干旱沙漠中无沙埋干扰时几种固沙植物栽植试验研究

沙埋干扰是沙漠地区乡土植物生存繁殖的必要条件。在塔克拉玛干沙漠腹地,无沙埋干扰地段大多是高矿化度地下水埋深较浅的地段,这些地段盐渍化较重。7a定点观测和试验表明,塔里木沙漠公路沿线丘间地栽植固沙植物逐渐死亡的主要因素不是沙层水分和沙层盐分,而是高矿化度地下水埋深太浅(0.8~1.0 m),即这类地段植物死亡的原因主要是由于植物长期吸收高矿化度地下水使得体内盐分积聚过多无法调节而造成的。因此,在干旱区高矿化度地下水埋深太浅的地段,无沙埋干扰时建立固沙植被应谨慎。     

北极阿蒙森湾冬季冰下海水结构及对流混合研究

使用加拿大环北极冰间开放水道研究计划从2007年11月至2008年1月底整个极夜期间对北极阿蒙森湾的考察数据,研究了没有太阳加热条件下冰下海水的对流混合。结果表明,冬季冰下海水结构以对流混合为主要形式,混合层的深度达到数米至数十米。发生对流混合时并没有出现静力不稳定性现象,对流混合层密度小于下层水体密度,此处的对流混合不同于前人的发现,它是由于卤汁的不连续排放造成的。混合层的温度与海水的冰点非常接近,由结冰导致的密度对流所形成。跃层以下海水的温度也在持续下降,文中认为是通过跃层与上混合层交换热量导致的。在冬季的前期,混合层的厚度与混合层的盐度有很好的对应性,但晚冬两者有明显差别,混合层厚度趋于减小。通过对三个位置接近站位的观测结果表现对流混合层的演化规律,体现了对流混合层在整个冬季温度持续降低、盐度持续升高的特征。     

白令海和楚科奇海水文特征和水团结构的初步分析

根据我国首次北极科学考察所获 CTD资料 ,分析了白令海和楚科奇海的水文特征和水团结构。研究表明 :(1 )该两海域温、盐度的分布有着明显的区域性差异。楚科奇海的温、盐度普遍低于白令海。 (2 )夏季 ,白令海大部分水域温度垂直分布的突出特点是 :在 2 0 m和 2 5 0 m间存在温度低于 3°C的中层冷水。 (3 )在楚科奇海北纬 70°以北海域 ,不论是水温或盐度皆明显减小 ,从而在此区域形成强的温、盐度锋带。 (4)在白令海存在三种水团 ,而楚科奇海的水团则大致分为两类     

Temperature distribution of Collins Ice Cap,King George Island,Antarctica

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新疆阿勒泰地区不同盐池大型底栖动物的群落结构

 2008年7月～2009年5月,分别于平水期（7月）、枯水期（10月）和丰水期（5月）对新疆阿勒泰地区5个盐池进行了大型底栖动物及相关环境因子的调查,共采集到底栖动物23种,其中水生昆虫18种,软体动物4种,环节动物1种。优势种为羽摇蚊（IV=59.00%）、水蝇幼虫（IV=6.86%）、扁蜷螺（IV=6.67%）、Diplocladius sp.(IV=4.69%）和卵萝卜螺（IV =4.34%）。新疆阿勒泰地区盐池大型底栖动物的平均密度和生物量分别为316.36±117.27 ind/m2和4.09±2.73 g/m2。对大型底栖动物和相关环境因子的CCA分析结果显示,新疆阿勒泰地区盐池大型底栖动物物种分布在很大程度上受到环境因子的影响,种类与环境因子排序轴的相关系数高达0.992和0.990。盐度和电导率是影响大型底栖动物分布的两个主要因子,海拔、pH和温度对大型底栖动物的分布也有一定程度的影响。     

南极菲尔德斯半岛夏季潮间带环境因子的时空变化

本文对南极菲尔德斯半岛夏季潮间带水温、盐度、营养盐（活性硅酸盐ＳｉＯ３－Ｓｉ、活性磷酸盐ＰＯ４－Ｐ、硝酸盐ＮＯ３－Ｎ）等环境因子的时空变化进行了分析讨论。其水温空间分布，高潮区最高，中潮区次之，低潮区最低；气温和潮间带裸露时间长短是影响潮间带水温变化的主要因子。盐度空间分布特点是高潮区最低，中潮区次之，低潮区最高，陆地融化雪水渗透到潮间带的多少将影响潮间带盐度的空间分布。潮间带营养盐含量的空间分布，中潮区低于低潮区，潮间带的营养盐主要不是来自陆源。     

2011年1月普里兹湾埃默里冰架附近水文特征

分析“雪龙”号2011年在普里兹湾埃默里冰架外缘24个站位的CTD观测结果,发现有以下一些水文特征：普里兹湾西部,在71°E-72°E范围内,存在一个顺时针运动的中尺度涡。由于这个涡旋存在,冰架水主要扩散方向偏东,在73°30′E附近,流向东北;夏季表层水厚度,东部基本在20m,西部受中尺度涡和其他因素的影响,夏季表层水厚度深达50m左右;在50m以浅的水层内,表面以下温度会出现稍微增大现象,我们称之为逆温层,它是结冰、融冰和海冰覆盖变化造成的;在观测断面西部,在160m～200m水层内,多站出现“静力不稳定”：即上层密度大于下层,厚度有几米,平流混合扩散可能是这一不稳定现象主要原因。     

焉耆县滴灌条件下土壤水热盐的动态变化特征

为了揭示焉耆县良种场的土壤水热盐动态变化,对有膜覆盖和无膜覆盖条件下各土壤层进行水热盐的系统观测和单因素方差分析及相关性分析。结果表明：（1）土壤温度的日变化呈现先降低后升高再降低的趋势,有膜各层土壤温度高于相对应的无膜各层土壤温度,各层土壤温度和大气温度变化趋势一致。（2）有膜各层土壤盐分要高于相对应的无膜各层土壤盐分,表层土壤水分小于底层,有膜10～20 cm土壤水分含量比较低,无膜10～50 cm土壤水含量比较接近;滴灌后,土壤水分和盐分经历快速下降和缓慢下降两个过程。由于文献对于有膜覆盖与无膜覆盖条件下土壤水热盐变化的研究相对较少,文章通过研究焉耆县农田生育期有膜和无膜条件下土壤水热盐的变化特征,为研究区土壤盐渍化的防治提供科学依据。     

Northward cooling and freshening of the warm core of the West Spitsbergen Current

The narrow slope-confined warm core of the West Spitsbergen Current (WSC) is a major pathway for warm and saline Atlantic Water to enter the Arctic Ocean. Long-term mean northward cooling and freshening rates in the warm core of the WSC are calculated with error ranges, and heat loss estimates are derived. The observed combination of cooling and freshening is not consistent with a hypothesis of pure isopycnal offshore mixing, but rather suggests influence from diapycnal mixing connected, for example, to exchange with shelf waters.     

Biophysical properties and biomass production of elephant grass under saline conditions

Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) is a new fast-growing alternative forage crop. However, salinity is a major concern for its production in the arid south-western United States. This study was conducted in the arid Imperial Valley of Southern California to evaluate salt tolerance of elephant grass. Salinity treatments were created in field plots irrigated with water possessing an electrical conductivity (EC_iw) of 1·5, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 dS m⁻¹, respectively. Canopy spectral reflectance, temperature, plant height, leaf area index (LAI), chlorophyll-SPAD meter readings, and dry weights were measured over time. Results indicated that canopy reflectance in the near-infrared spectral region was reduced incrementally with increasing levels of salt stress. Canopy temperature increased with increasing salinity, especially at longer times after salinity treatment. Plant height and LAI were reduced with increasing salinity. Biomass accumulation was reduced incrementally with increasing salinity. About 50% yield reduction was found when EC_iw increased from 5 to 25 dS m⁻¹. The study shows that elephant grass is sensitive to salt stress, and relatively low salinity must be maintained to achieve a high rate of growth and biomass production.     

Effects of salinity, temperature and light on germination of invasive Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) D.C.

Effects of salinity, temperature, light and their interactions on the rate and final percentage of germination were evaluated for the invasive shrub Prosopis juliflora, grown under arid environmental conditions of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Seeds that were not treated with NaCl germinated well in a wide range of temperatures and in both full light and complete dark. Seed germination decreased significantly with the increase in both NaCl concentration and temperature. Optimal germination percentage occurred at 25 °C. The inhibitory effect of high salinity on final germination percentage was greater at 40 °C than at 15 and 25 °C. Germination was completely inhibited in 400 mM NaCl at 40 °C and in 600 mM NaCl at 25 °C. However, germination rate was significantly greater at 40 °C than at 15 and 25 °C in lower salinities and the reverse was true at higher salinities. Germination in light was significantly greater than in the dark at lower salinity levels and high temperature.     

Diatom-inference models for surface-water temperature and salinity developed from a 57-lake calibration set from the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

Physical, chemical, and biological data were collected from a suite of 57 lakes that span an elevational gradient of 1360 m (2115 to 3475 m a.s.l.) in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA as part of a multiproxy study aimed at developing transfer functions from which to infer past drought events. Multivariate statistical techniques, including canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), were used to determine the main environmental variables influencing diatom distributions in the study lakes. Lakewater depth, surface-water temperature, salinity, total Kjeldahl nitrogen, and total phosphorus were important variables in explaining variance in the diatom distributions. Weighted-averaging (WA) and weighted-averaging partial least squares (WA-PLS) were used to develop diatom-based surface-water temperature and salinity inference models. The two best diatom-inference models for surface-water temperature were developed using simple WA and inverse deshrinking. One model covered a larger surface-water temperature gradient (13.7 °C) and performed slightly poorer (r² = 0.72, RMSE = 1.4 °C, RMSEP_jack = 2.1 °C) than a second model, which covered a smaller gradient (9.5 °C) and performed slightly better (r² = 0.89, RMSE = 0.7 °C, RMSEP_jack = 1.5 °C). The best diatom-inference model for salinity was developed using WA-PLS with three components (r² = 0.96, RMSE = 4.06 mg L^–1, RMSEP_jack = 11.13 mg L^–1). These are presently the only diatom-based inference models for surface-water temperature and salinity developed for the southwestern United States. Application of these models to fossil-diatom assemblages preserved in Sierra Nevada lake sediments offers great potential for reconstructing a high-resolution time-series of Holocene and late Pleistocene climate and drought for California.     

Relatedness between contemporary and subfossil cladoceran assemblages in Turkish lakes

Cladocerans are valuable indicators of environmental change in lakes. Their fossils provide information on past changes in lake environments. However, few studies have quantitatively examined the relationships between contemporary and sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages and no investigations are available from Mediterranean lakes where salinity, eutrophication and top-down control of large-bodied cladocerans are known to be important. Here we compared contemporary Cladocera assemblages, sampled in summer, from both littoral and pelagic zones, with their sub-fossil remains from surface sediment samples from 40 Turkish, mainly shallow, lakes. A total of 20 and 27 taxa were recorded in the contemporary and surface sediment samples, respectively. Procrustes rotation was applied to both the principal components analysis (PCA) and redundancy analysis (RDA) ordinations in order to explore the relationship between the cladoceran community and the environmental variables. Procrustes rotation analysis based on PCA showed a significant accord between both littoral and combined pelagic–littoral contemporary and sedimentary assemblages. RDA ordinations indicated that a similar proportion of variance was explained by environmental variation for the contemporary and fossil Cladocera data. Total phosphorus and salinity were significant explanatory variables for the contemporary assemblage, whereas salinity emerged as the only significant variable for the sedimentary assemblage. The residuals from the Procrustes rotation identified a number of lakes with a high degree of dissimilarity between modern and sub-fossil assemblages. Analysis showed that high salinity, deep water and high macrophyte abundance were linked to a lower accord between contemporary and sedimentary assemblages. This low accord was, generally the result of poor representation of some salinity tolerant, pelagic and macrophyte-associated taxa in the contemporary samples. This study provides further confirmation that there is a robust relationship between samples of modern cladoceran assemblages and their sedimentary remains. Thus, sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages from sediment cores can be used with confidence to track long-term changes in this environmentally sensitive group and in Mediterranean lakes, subjected to large inter-annual variation in water level, salinity and nutrients.     

A sub-surface eddy at inertial current layer in the Canada Basin,Arctic Ocean

An Arctic Ocean eddy in sub-surface layer is analyzed in this paper by use of temperature,salinity and current profiles data obtained at an ice camp in the Canada Basin during the second Chinese Arctic Expedition in summer of 2003.In the vertical temperature section,the eddy shows itself as an isolated cold water block at depth of 60 m with a minimum temperature of-1.5℃,about 0.5℃ colder than the ambient water.Isopycnals in the eddy form a pattern of convex,which indicates the eddy is anticyclonic.Although maximum velocity near 0.4 m s-1 occurs in the current records observed synchronously,the current pattern is far away from a typical eddy.By further analysis,inertial frequency oscillations with amplitudes comparable with the eddy velocity are found in the sub-surface layer currents.After filter the inertial current and mean current,an axisymmetric current pattern of an eddy with maximum velocity radius of 5 km is obtained.The analysis of the T-S characteristics of the eddy core water and its ambient waters supports the conclusion that the eddy was formed on the Chukchi Shelf and migrated northeastward into the northern Canada Basin.     

南海滨珊瑚骨骼密度带的季节特征及其主要环境影响因素

滨珊瑚（Porites）是南海造礁石珊瑚群落的主要优势种之一,广泛应用于珊瑚礁生态以及高分辨率气候环境响应和重建研究。滨珊瑚不同季节生长形成的骨骼密度条带是开展相关研究的重要基础,而前人对于滨珊瑚骨骼密度带季节性的认识多是基于单一地点的样品,存在地域的差别或矛盾。选取南海不同地点典型珊瑚礁区包括北部海南文昌、中部西沙群岛永兴岛和盘石屿、南部南沙群岛美济礁的 4 个现代活体滨珊瑚骨骼样品,利用数字影像分析方法以及电感耦合等离子体原子发射光谱和气体稳定同位素比质谱仪分别分析了滨珊瑚骨骼密度条带影像灰度和地化指标（Sr/Ca 和 δ 18 O）。结果显示,滨珊瑚样品骨骼密度和地化指标都呈现显著的季节变化。结合海温数据,揭示出样品骨骼密度带季节特征的地域差异,其中,北部文昌滨珊瑚样品骨骼高密度带形成于夏季,低密度带形成于冬季;中部永兴岛样品高密度带形成于秋季,低密度带形成于春季;盘石屿样品高密度带形成于春季,低密度带形成于秋季;南部美济礁样品高密度带形成于冬季,低密度带形成于夏季。采用广义加性混合模型进一步分析了滨珊瑚样品骨骼密度与 3 个主要环境影响因子（海温、光照和盐度）的响应关系。结果表明：不同地点滨珊瑚样品的骨骼密度与主要环境因子的关系也各有不同,考虑样品个体和地点的随机效应,4 个地点滨珊瑚样品的骨骼密度整体上与海温和光照存在非线性响应关系,反映了在南海大空间尺度上,海温和光照可能是影响滨珊瑚样品骨骼密度季节变化的主要环境因素。     

Salinity effects on soil organic carbon and its labile fractions, and nematode communities in irrigated farmlands in an arid region, northwestern China

The effects of salinity on soil organic carbon(SOC) and its labile fractions including microbial biomass carbon(MBC) and easily oxidation organic carbon(EOC),basal soil respiration,and soil nematode community in the Fluvents,an oasis in an arid region of northwestern China were investigated.Five sites were selected which had a salinity gradient with different groundwater table from 1.0 m to 4.0 m.Soils were sampled at the 0–20 cm plough layer from 25 irrigated fields of five sites and electrical conductivity was measured in the saturation paste extracts(ECe).Soils were categorized into five salinity levels:(1) non-saline,(2) very slightly saline,(3) slightly saline,(4) moderately saline,and(5) strongly saline according to the values of ECe.The results show that SOC and total nitrogen concentration,cation exchange capacity(CEC),and the concentrations of labile organic fractions(MBC,EOC),and basal soil respiration decreased significantly with increasing ECe.The relationships between ECe and MBC,EOC and basal soil respiration were best described by power functions.Slight and moderate salinity had no significant impact on soil nematode abundance,but excessive salt accumulation led to a marked decline in soil nematode community diversity and abundance.Soil salinity changed soil nematode trophic groups and bacterivores were the most abundant trophic groups in salt-affected soils.Further study is necessary to identify the response of soil microbial processes and nematode community dynamics to soil salinity.     

黑河下游土壤盐分分布特征

采用黑河下游面域土壤信息调研数据,结合层次聚类和地统计分析等方法,探讨黑河下游土壤盐分在水平方向和垂直方向上的变异特征,揭示黑河下游土壤盐渍化的程度和状态。结果表明：研究区土壤盐分表聚特征明显。土壤盐分及离子组分含量存在很强的变异性,变异系数0.42~1.99。黑河下游土壤盐渍化类型主要为氯化物-硫酸盐型,土壤盐渍化程度较为严重,盐土占比高达42.87%。从土壤盐分在水平方向上的变异特征来看,表土层土壤全盐在一定的区域范围内具有空间结构特征,符合球状模型分布,空间分布表现为斑块状格局。从土壤盐分在垂直方向上的变异特征来看,研究区土壤盐分剖面类型可分为表聚型、均匀型、振荡型和底聚型。