Impact of erosion and accretion on the distribution of enterococci in beach sands

Bacterial pathogens in coastal sediments may pose a health risk to users of beaches. Although recent work shows that beach sands harbor both indicator bacteria and potential pathogens, it is neither known how deep within beach sands the organisms may persist nor if they may be exposed during natural physical processes. In this study, sand cores of approximately 100 cm depth were collected at three sites across the beach face in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, before, during, and after large waves from an offshore hurricane. The presence of DNA from the fecal indicator bacterium Enterococci was detected in subsamples at different depths within the cores by PCR amplification. Erosion and accretion of beach sand at the three sites were also determined for each sampling day. The results indicate that ocean beach sands with persisting enterococci signals could be exposed and redistributed when wind, waves, and currents cause beach erosion or accretion.     

南极菲尔德斯半岛土壤氮循环微生物类群数量与功能活性的初步研究

南极乔治王岛南端的菲尔德斯半岛被认为是研究南极生态与生物资源的理想之地。本研究从该半岛全岛范围采集了3类不同类型的土壤样品,采用传统最大或然法(MPN)对其所含氮循环各类群微生物的总量进行了测定,同时利用常规Griess试剂、纳氏试剂等显色法初步估算了各菌群的功能活性强度,并结合土壤理化性质和采样点生态等进行了初步分析。目的是对该半岛土壤氮循环微生物进行先期初步了解,为进一步深入研究它们的其他特性奠定基础。结果表明:13个土样中所含氮循环微生物总量趋势为氨化菌反硝化菌硝化菌和固氮菌(活菌数),除极个别样品外均具有不同程度的硝化、反硝化、氨化活性。其中,所有土壤样品均具有比较高的氨化菌含量及氨化活性强度;丘陵山坡土壤的反硝化菌含量与反硝化活性强度要高于动、植物区土壤(极个别样品除外);动物区和植物区土壤的硝化菌含量较少,但硝化活性强度较高,预示着可能存在高效功能菌株;而丘陵山坡土壤的硝化菌含量及硝化活性强度则表现得高低不一。本结果为进一步深入研究该地区氮循环微生物提供了前期参考。     

南极长城站微生物考察

198 6- 1 987年中国第三次南极考察中 ,对南极长城站空气、陆上和海滨的微生物作了考察。长城站野外空气中的微生物含量较低 ,海洋性微生物为 1 4 8.7CFU/ m3 ,陆源性微生物为 1 7.9CFU/ m3 ,表明野外空气相当洁净。室内空气微生物数比室外及野外均高得多 ,霉菌的检出率和含量都不高。微生物因人群活动和环境的不同而异。陆上的微生物含量次序是 :冰雪 <湖水 <原土等。海滨的微生物含量相当多 ,>1 0 3 CFU/ cm3 (或 g)。长城站的微生物组成有 1 1属以上 ,包括偶见的芽孢杆菌。温度试验结果表明 ,野外的大部分菌株适于低温生活。没有发现能在≥2 5℃的温度中存活者。低温是控制长城站微生物生态的一个重要因子。在长城站这类环境中 ,低温微生物对物质转化和循环发挥着持久的重要作用     

The Last Piece Is You

Abstract

This article presents the cartographic outcome of a 3-year collaboration with Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation to map the traditional place names of Penobscot territory in the state of Maine. After a consideration of the challenges of mapping Indigenous place names, I describe my cartographic contribution to the project, to transform the map design using the tools of narrativity and translation. Initial insights about Penobscot place names then led to wider insights regarding Indigenous place names and traditional cartography, through a comparison to similar practices in the place name traditions of other communities. I then explain how these insights influenced the design of the map itself.     

TRENDS IN THE URBANIZATION PROCESS

Matthiessen, Christian Wichmann: Trends in the urbanization process. The Copenhagen case. Geografisk Tidsskrift 80: 98–101. Copenhagen, June 1980.

Within the framework of the international comparative research project (Cost of Urban Growth) new trends in urban development have recently been observed. The object of this article is to discuss the trends and give impirical evidence on Danish data.     

Mobility in marginalized spaces: Manoeuvring for survival among the Veddas in Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka the indigenous population, the Veddas, are rapidly losing their traditional habitats due to cash cropping and infrastructure development, and they are being forced to find new means of living. The purpose of the article is to show how mobility is an inherent characteristic of the new economy in the country and that mobility is gendered. The author documents how one group of Veddas has become immobilized (Dambane study village, which has turned into a tourist site) while another group has been forced to be more mobile (Henanigale study village, where emigration is increasingly practised) due to the same development policies. The study reveals that the market-led economy has caused spatial fixations that limit people more than they liberate them. These fixations take place in the domestic sphere as well as in the villages and they change gender relations, showing that mobility is intertwined with social processes that change local structures and relationships. In the case of the Veddas, living in marginalized places conditions their motility. Mobility is therefore a selective process and as much about the fact of moving as it is entangled with meaning and the power to produce (im)mobility at different scales.     

Quitovac Oasis: A Sense of Home Place and the Development of Water Resources

Agricultural development at Quitovac, a Sonoran Desert oasis that is an ancestral home of the Tohono O’odham people, was first interpreted in the literature as a typical example of an indigenous community succumbing to the economic pressures of industrial society. However, a humanistic analysis of the cultural and historical context and the results of ethnographic fieldwork leads to a radically different interpretation of recent community actions. Community-initiated institutional and economic changes can be understood as creative and resilient adaptations, and perhaps a resolution, to a complex social and religious challenge to the community’s identity. Notwithstanding the economic failure of part of the development efforts, the overall effects are interpreted as strengthening the residents’ sense of their home place and ensuring the continuation of religious rites associated with this sacred place.     

Woodlands and Agrobiodiversity in Irrigation Landscapes Amidst Global Change: Bolivia, 1990–2002

The global shift to small- and medium-scale irrigation is potentially compatible with high-agrobiodiversity production. A case study of the Cochabamba region in central Bolivia between 1990 and 2002 is designed to examine new interactions of irrigation with agrobiodiversity through change and continuity of landscape structures and functions. Irrigation change contributed to increased commercial potato and peach farming. Still persistent interactions of canal woodland habitat (landscape matrix including uncultivated or “wild” agrobiodiversity) with patches of cultivated agrobiodiversity helped ensure nutrient transfer and likelihood of gene flow. Farmers' field-level responses continued to include agrobiodiversity, especially multiple farmer varieties (FVs) of Andean maize. Capacities of social–ecological resilience in the period from 1990 to 2002 are estimated to have been moderate in anthropogenic canal woodlands (> 95 percent continued cover, albeit with reduced connectivity) and cultivated agrobiodiversity (viable with local loss of Andean potato FVs) and moderate-high in wild agrobiodiversity (viable with reduced capacity due to modified weed management). Indigenous “ethnodevelopment” applied to Andean community irrigation contributed positively to social–ecological resilience, albeit with significant limitations. Findings recommend that global change policies build emphasis on the interactions of water resource and agrobiodiversity management.     

微生物对某些岩土工程性质的影响

探讨了由于环境因素变化诱发的物理化学和生物化学变化对岩土工程性质的影响，着重研究了有机质和微生物引起的氧化还原作用对起胶结作用的游离氧化铁赋存状态转化的影响。强调指出，这种影响可能导致岩土工程的安全问题。     

南设得兰群岛区域的微生物

198 6年 1 2月 - 1 987年 3月对南设得兰群岛海区和麦克斯威尔湾的空气、长城湾远岸表层海水、欺骗岛潮间带表层海水、底质和火山灰的微生物作了考察研究。结果表明 ,两个测区的空气中陆源性微生物的检出率在 90 %以上 ,每立方米空气中一般含几个 CFU。海洋性微生物的检出率在 50 %以上 ,数量较小 ,每立方米空气仅 1个左右的 CFU。麦克斯威尔湾比南设得兰群岛海区的空气微生物数稍高些。测区的空气微生物受岛屿的影响较大。空气微生物数呈现出某种昼夜变化。空气微生物数受气温、相对湿度的影响不大明显。每立方厘米的长城湾远岸表层海水含几百个 CFU的微生物。其数量随水温的逐月降低减少 ,并显示出某种昼夜变化趋势。该湾海水比较洁净。空气中的海洋性微生物与海水中的微生物呈现出某种关系。长城湾海水细菌有1 3属以上。以假单胞菌为常见者。欺骗岛潮间带每立方厘米海水中只有几个 CFU,火山灰中的含菌量达每克数千个 CFU。以上结果基本反映了南设得兰群岛一带空气、海洋和陆上的微生物一般状况 ,并为进一步考察和开发该区域的微生物资源提供了资料