Spatial heterogeneity of cyanobacteria-inoculated sand dunes significantly influences artificial biological soil crusts in the Hopq Desert (China)

Artificial biological soil crusts (ABSCs), formed by inoculating Microcoleus vaginatus Gom. and Scytonema javanicum Born. et Flah. onto the topsoil of desert dunes, proved to be effective tools for the stabilization of moving dunes and promotion of soil fertility. As dominant driving forces in arid habitats, the abiotic environmental conditions of undulating dunes produce a gradient of abiotic stresses on cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria are considered pioneering phototrophs in early soil crust communities in deserts. In this study, the development of ABSCs under various environmental site conditions was investigated using 16S rRNA-based polymerase chain reaction, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), and soil property measurements. After inoculation in 2002 and long-term development, patchy moss crusts were observed on the dunes. All of the available sequenced bands in the DGGE gels belonged to Oscillatoriales and Nostocales. The dominant Nostocales genus in the ABSCs was still Scytonema; however, more Oscillatoriales genera were identified, which belonged to Microcoleus and Phormidium. The cyanobacterial compositions of different slope types were significantly distinct (p < 0.05), particularly those from windward slopes. The crusts of the top-dune slopes were more heterogeneous. In addition, the soil physicochemical properties and richness indices of the windward slopes were significantly lower than those of the leeward and interdune slopes (p < 0.05). Compared with uninoculated control dunes, all of the inoculated dunes had far higher biodiversities.     

荒漠生态系统C、N、P生态化学计量研究进展

生态化学计量学是通过研究生物有机体主要元素含量及其比值的变化关系,揭示生态系统各组分间元素循环规律的一门学科,生态化学计量也是荒漠生态系统研究的重要内容。因此,综合掌握水分和养分限制环境下C、N、P生态化学计量的关系对揭示荒漠生态系统植物的限制性元素、土壤营养的供给能力、养分的有效性等都具有重要的意义。基于此,回顾和分析了国内外荒漠生态系统C、N、P生态化学计量最新研究和动态,分别从植物、凋落物、土壤、土壤微生物、土壤酶进行较为系统的评述,讨论了植物-土壤-微生物-酶四者的关系,提出了荒漠生态系统C、N、P生态化学计量的未来研究方向,期望为全面理解固沙植被的演变过程、稳定性维持机制及其科学管理提供理论指导。     

A hierarchical indexing strategy for optimizing Apache Spark with HDFS to efficiently query big geospatial raster data

ABSTRACT

Earth observations and model simulations are generating big multidimensional array-based raster data. However, it is difficult to efficiently query these big raster data due to the inconsistency among the geospatial raster data model, distributed physical data storage model, and the data pipeline in distributed computing frameworks. To efficiently process big geospatial data, this paper proposes a three-layer hierarchical indexing strategy to optimize Apache Spark with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) from the following aspects: (1) improve I/O efficiency by adopting the chunking data structure; (2) keep the workload balance and high data locality by building the global index (k-d tree); (3) enable Spark and HDFS to natively support geospatial raster data formats (e.g., HDF4, NetCDF4, GeoTiff) by building the local index (hash table); (4) index the in-memory data to further improve geospatial data queries; (5) develop a data repartition strategy to tune the query parallelism while keeping high data locality. The above strategies are implemented by developing the customized RDDs, and evaluated by comparing the performance with that of Spark SQL and SciSpark. The proposed indexing strategy can be applied to other distributed frameworks or cloud-based computing systems to natively support big geospatial data query with high efficiency.     

回声测深仪在水下地形测量中的应用

本文在介绍回声测深仪基本工作原理的同时,介绍了回声测深仪在杭州湾口外一拟建大型码头下地形测量的一个应用实例。     

北桐柏地区镁铁质麻粒岩锆石U-Pb年代学及变质作用

对北桐柏地区镁铁质麻粒岩变质锆石进行LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年,获得了418.7±3.2Ma的谐和年龄。详细的岩石学、矿物学研究表明,桐柏地区镁铁质麻粒岩遭受过较强的部份熔融,其变质峰期温压条件为~845℃,~0.85GPa。根据Zr的溶解度模型进行部分熔融模拟计算,发现在峰期变质条件下,熔体中Zr不饱和,在冷却到750~800℃时Zr才达到饱和;同时锆石Ti含量温度计也给出了750℃左右的结晶温度。这些表明418.7Ma记录的并不是麻粒岩峰期变质年龄,而是峰期后冷却到750~800℃左右的年龄,麻粒岩的峰期变质年龄可能为430~445Ma左右。部分锆石边部具明显增生边,相对核部的变质锆石区域CL发光性强,且普通Pb含量高,U-Pb定年结果为404.7±6.5Ma,该年龄反映了404Ma左右的一次退变质作用。大量研究表明,沿中央造山带存在一次十分强烈的加里东期板块构造事件,期间的大陆俯冲碰撞或岛弧-大陆碰撞导致大陆壳充分加厚,北桐柏地区的高温麻粒岩相变质作用很可能发生在碰撞加厚的地壳基底。     

An invariance in the carbazoles of petroleum

A remarkable invariance in the ratio of 1,3-dimethylcarbazole （DMC） to 1,6-DMC was discovered in crude oils from the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea. The remarkably invariant ratio is kept at a constant of about unity regardless of their concentrations, sources or maturities for the sampies. In combination with the molecular structures of 1,3- and 1,6-DMCs, the invariance might indicate that the nitrogen compounds share a common precursor with a skeleton of 1-methylcarbazole and are formed through methylation at C3 and C6 with an essentially identical rate.     

The Ground Deformation Disaster in the City of Tianjin Associated with the Tangshan Earthquake

In this paper,a study of the principal characteristics of the ground deformation disasters in the city of Tianjin caused by the Tangshan earthquake is based on the results from the recent remeasurements of the geodetic controlling network of Tianjin and from on-site investigations after the earthquake.These results show that only the ground deformation in the Ninghe and Hangu areas near the epicenter reflect directly the co-seismic crustal stress,while the serious ground deformation and the engineering earthquake damages in the urban districts of Tianjin are controlled to a great extent by the local engineering geological structures,showing a kind of secondary disaster.Several suggestions are also proposed in the paper concerning the counter-measures for reducing the earthquake damage in big cities.     

泥石流颗粒组成的分形特征

1 IntroductionD ebris flow s in certain sense are a process of m ass interchanges through erosion and depositionbetw een the fluid and the sedim ent; and the interchange of m aterial caused change in thestructure of the flow s that can be ultim ately redu…     

雅鲁藏布江缝合带西段错不扎铬铁矿特征及形成环境

雅鲁藏布江蛇绿岩带是国内铬铁矿床出露点最多,且铬铁矿石储量、产量最大的一个蛇绿岩带。根据空间展布规律,该岩带被划分为东段(曲水—墨脱)、中段(昂仁—仁布)和西段(萨嘎至中印边境)3部分。其中,西段自萨嘎以西分为南、北两支亚带。长期以来的研究工作主要集中在东段和中段,西段的研究程度非常薄弱,尤其是北亚带。不同区段研究程度的不平衡十分不利于雅鲁藏布江蛇绿岩带内铬铁矿找矿工作的开展。错不扎蛇绿岩体位于雅鲁藏布江缝合带西段的北亚带,呈北西-南东向带状产出,主要由方辉橄榄岩组成,并普遍发育基性岩脉。野外地质调查在该蛇绿岩体中发现了多个铬铁矿化点,矿化体呈透镜状产于方辉橄榄岩中,出露地表的长度为0.5～1m,厚为0.2～0.5 m,矿石均为致密块状。电子探针分析结果表明,错不扎铬铁矿属于高铬型铬铁矿,铬尖晶石的Cr#[=100×Cr/(Cr+Al)]为75～78,Mg#[=100×Mg/(Mg+Fe2+)]为66～69。计算结果表明,母岩浆的FeO/MgO比值为0.51～0.65,Al2O3和Ti O2含量分别为11.27%～12.1%和0.19%～0.4%,与玻安质岩浆的化学成分相当。然而,针状单斜辉石出溶体的发现指示错不扎铬铁矿可能还经历了一个深部作用过程。     

广西区域经济极化时空格局研究

采用差异系数、极化指数并结合ESDA技术方法,对2004—2014年广西区域经济极化的演变趋势进行研究。11年中,广西整体经济极化程度呈增长趋势,以低水平极化为主;增长重心由东北部向中部移动,南宁、北海和柳州形成经济极化"三角区",经济落后区域从东南部转移到西北部,整体呈现"西低—中高—东低"的空间格局;大多数县域与周边区域的空间关联程度较小,离所倡导的区域化的经济发展模式还有一段距离。