广州市珍稀濒危植物水松的种群现状与保护策略

水松［Glyptostrobus pensilis（Stanunt.）K. Koch］为我国 I级重点保护野生植物之一,曾于珠江三角洲地区普遍生长。但由于近 50 a 来人类活动的强烈干扰,其野生种群和个体数量骤减,世界自然保护联盟（IUCN）已将水松评估为“极危”状态。文章以实测法进行野外调查,结果表明：广州市野生水松古树在近 5 a 间快速消亡,现仅存 8 个种群共 14 株个体,且半数处于生长不良或濒死状态;种群个体数量少,仅包括 1~4 株水松,无法进行自然更新;这些水松长期未得到科学合理的保护,如不采取有效保育措施,残酷的生存压力可能导致大部分种群的快速死亡。因此,在广州地区开展水松的就地和迁地保护、扩大种群的个体数量、开展水松的保护遗传学和监测人工林种群的遗传结构变化情况等研究,应成为目前保护和拯救本地区水松种群及其遗传多样性的必要策略。     

Gendered Spaces of Informal Entrepreneurship in Soweto,South Africa

Abstract

The full diversity of economic activities in the informal economy is not well understood. The apartheid legacy of limiting informal entrepreneurship explains the most obvious geographical patterns in South Africa. After a decade and a half since the end of apartheid, however, knowledge about the places from which informal entrepreneurs operate is incomplete. Retailing is overemphasized and production firm entrepreneurs, both male and female, remain a neglected spatiality. This study reports on a survey of 100 firms in Soweto and in-depth interviews with 30 firm owners. The findings challenge the representations of isolated urban entrepreneurs dependent on inherited social capital and of women's exclusive engagement in retail. Entrepreneurs create their own social capital in work-related realms, but there are important gender differences. More finely tuned conceptualizations of entrepreneurs and of gendered working spaces need to be developed so that policy does not perpetuate unitary myths and incomplete spatial representations. [Key words: entrepreneurship, Soweto, informal economy, gender.]     

Evolution of animal multicellularity stimulated by dissolved organic carbon in early Ediacaran ocean: DOXAM hypothesis

Oxygenation of the ocean is presumed to be an important factor stimulating the evolution of multicellular animals. The appearance of the Ediacaran‐type biota (ca 575 Ma) was assigned to the aftermath of the Gaskiers glaciation (ca 580 Ma), when substantial oceanic oxygenation is believed to have started. However, several lines of evidence reveal that at least sponges evolved before this oxygenation. For understanding the first stage of animal evolution, we propose the hypothesis that Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) Stimulated the evolution for Animal Multicellularity (DOXAM). Recent geochemical studies of the Ediacaran sedimentary sequences have indicated that a substantial DOC mass was developed in the stratified ocean after the Marinoan glaciation (655–635 Ma), and this was supported by the inorganic and organic carbon isotope profiles of the Doushantuo Formation in South China. The DOC mass was an oxygen consumer in the water column; however, it could have provided a food source for filter‐feeding animals such as sponges and cnidarians, and established a primitive food‐web. Such an ecological structure is recognized in modern deep‐sea coral mounds. Results from the integrated ocean drilling program (IODP) Expedition 307 for a mound in northeastern Atlantic suggested that organic carbon suspended around the density boundary in the water column is the key feature to feed the heterotrophic deep‐sea coral community. Our hypothesis is consistent with the fact that the two most primitive animal phyla (Porifera and Cnidaria) are filter feeders. The evolution of filter feeding ecosystems removed the DOC mass and may have contributed to ocean oxygenation in the terminal Neoproterozoic when animal evolution passed into the second stage, with the appearance of bilaterians.     

Size-differential feeding in Pinna nobilis L. (Mollusca: Bivalvia): Exploitation of detritus,phytoplankton and zooplankton

The endangered fan shell Pinna nobilis is a large bivalve mollusc (<120 cm shell length) endemic to the Mediterranean that lives one-third buried in soft substrata, generally in shallow coastal waters. We hypothesised that P. nobilis of different sizes would ingest different food sources, because small fan shells will inhale material from closer to the substratum than do large fan shells. We studied stomach contents and faeces of 18 fan shells, 6 small (mean 23.0 cm length), 6 medium-sized (mean 41.5 cm length) and 6 large (mean 62.7 cm length) living in a small area of a low-energy coastal detritic bottom characterised by mud, sand and macroalgae at Mali Ston Bay, Croatia. We found that all P. nobilis ingested copious quantities of undetermined detritus (probably at least 95% of ingested material), phytoplankton, micro and mesozooplankton and pollen grains. Large P. nobilis stomach contents showed a preponderance of water column calanoid copepods, while small fan shells had higher numbers of bivalve larvae. All fan shells took in high numbers of harpacticoid copepods that are benthonic, feeding on microbial communities of detritus and benthic vegetation. There was also a significant selection of phytoplankton species, some apparently occurring between inhalation and ingestion. The stomach contents of small P. nobilis had a higher organic matter content than either medium-sized or large fan shells; this indicated that small fan shells ingested detritus of higher organic content than did larger P. nobilis. As the faeces of all P. nobilis had similar organic matter content, this also indicates higher assimilation efficiencies in small fan shells. The demonstration of differential dietary selectivity by different sized animals has implications for future trophic studies of this endangered species. This study also provides the first demonstration of predation on zooplankton by P. nobilis.     

珍稀濒危植物半日花研究进展

半日花是半日花科的一种半灌木或灌木,稀为一年生或多年生草本孑遗植物。全世界约有8属200种,多分布于地中海沿岸。我国内蒙古、新疆有2种分布,分别是新疆半日花和内蒙半日花。由于自然因素和人类经济活动的影响,特别是采矿、烧柴、放牧、土地开发以及城市化,加剧了对半日花的过度开发, 导致其生物量锐减, 造成个体衰退, 种群缩小的濒危状况,被国家列为二级保护植物。所以加强对珍稀濒危植物半日花的研究和保护具有重要意义。     

厦门中华白海豚的分布和数量

1994～1999年在厦门海域进行84航次中华白海豚船只跟踪和照像,记录392只次。设20个监视站,进行239个月的逐日观察,记录12624只次。整个厦门海域700km2均有中华白海豚分布,它可溯河至近淡水的河道,但不游出外海。厦门西港和同安湾口内的近岸最多,跃出海面的次数有明显的季节差异,4～5月最多。厦门海域中华白海豚数量估计不足100只,仅40只左右有确切记录。种群数量目前仍有减少趋势,因而应就地和迁地保护并举,加强对这种国家一级保护物种的保护。     

动物蛋白酶1058水解ti鱼可溶性蛋白质

研究了动物蛋白酶 1 0 58水解鱼是鱼蛋白时 ,酶量、温度、作用时间对鱼是鱼蛋白质水解率和苦味的影响。结果表明 :酶浓度的提高 ,水解时间的延长 ,均使鱼是鱼蛋白水解率明显提高。最适水解温度为 50℃ ,当温度高于 50℃时 ,水解率逐渐下降 ,蛋白酶开始失活。苦味值随水解率提高而增加。用正交试验的方法 ,经综合分析和试验得出 ,该蛋白酶水解鱼是鱼的最佳条件是酶量与底物之比为 1 .5∶ 1 0 0 0 ;温度为 50℃ ;水解时间为 4h。     

豫北平原的沙质草地及其畜牧业发展

豫北平原的沙质草地分布于黄河多次泛滥改道冲积形成的沙丘、沙地。其主要类型有:①以白茅、达乌里胡枝子为主的草从草地;②刺槐、杨树等林地下层以藜、白茅、茜草等为主的林下草地;③以碱茅、狗牙根等为主的低湿草地。沙质草地的主要特征为种类组成简单,牧草产量低(<2 000 kg·hm^-2)且利用过度。但多种优良栽培牧草在沙地生长良好,可获较高产量。在沙地开发中,应针对各草地类型采取相应措施改造为人工、半人工草地。同时应结合沙地多种林木、果树和经济作物种植,建设农牧林复合经营的系统。畜牧业开发应以产业化为主导,发展适应市场需求的优良畜种,实行适度规模经营。