Sources of dissolved silica to the fjords of northern Patagonia (44–48°S): the importance of volcanic ash soil distribution and weathering

Dissolved silica (DSi) plays an important biogeochemical role in the fjords of northern Chilean Patagonia (44–48°S), where it drives high biogenic productivity and promotes carbon burial. It is generally believed that the DSi riverine input to lakes and coastal environments is controlled by a combination of factors including lithology, climate, topography, vegetation, and meltwater input. In northern Chilean Patagonia several authors have proposed that the postglacial volcanic ash soils (andosols) may play a significant role in the high supply of DSi to the regional fjords. To assess the influence of andosols on DSi concentrations in north Patagonian rivers, we mapped andosol thickness and compared our results with river chemistry. The mineralogical and geochemical composition of three representative andosol profiles was also examined to evaluate the efficiency of weathering processes. The andosol thickness map clearly demonstrates that volcanic ash was predominantly deposited on the eastern side of the regional volcanoes, reflecting the influence of the prevailing westerly winds on the distribution of pyroclastic material. Mineralogical and geochemical results show that the andosol parent material has the typical andesitic basaltic signature of the regional volcanoes, i.e. high amounts of amorphous material, plagioclase, K‐feldspar, and pyroxene. Down‐profile variations in soil mineralogy and geochemistry indicate increased leaching of silica with depth, resulting from weathering of the volcanic parent material. For the five studied watersheds, a highly positive correlation (R²=0.98) was found between average andosol thickness and DSi concentrations, suggesting that andosol thickness is the main parameter affecting DSi concentrations in north Patagonian river systems. On seasonal timescales, increased precipitation (winter) and glacial meltwater (summer) input can significantly reduce DSi concentrations. We argue that the weathering of andosols constitutes the most important source of DSi to the lakes and fjords of northern Chilean Patagonia, explaining the particularly high regional rates of biogenic silica production. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

广西来宾铁桥二叠系剖面生物地球化学信号的解读

二叠纪被认为是全球生物繁盛的重要时期,其大气含氧量、温度等条件和现代地球极为相似,因 此,二叠纪古海洋生物和环境的研究对当代环境和气候变化研究具有重要的启示作用。通过分析广西来宾铁桥 二叠系剖面的275个海相碳酸盐岩样品的地球化学组成,考察Ca,Mg,Al,Ti 及其比值的变化特征,研究它们 的生物和环境意义。结果发现,从栖霞组沉积时期到吴家坪组沉积时期,海水中Mg/Ca值总体上呈单调下降趋 势,表明海底洋中脊扩张,洋中脊热液循环加快,全球海平面上升;Al/Ti值在栖霞组沉积时期到吴家坪组沉积 时期呈现一种起伏式的变化,其中栖霞组沉积中期和茅口组沉积后期表现出与其他时段有显著差异的高值,表 明这两个时期海洋生产力繁盛;在瓜德卢普统-乐平统界线,Al/Ti值低,与玄武岩(Al/Ti 值约为6)相近, 指示火山活动强烈,为火山活动导致生物绝灭说提供了地球化学新证据。     

基于数据包络分析的中国旅游业发展效率特征

运用数据包络分析法,通过测度中国旅游业发展的技术效率、规模效率和全要素生产率,分析了自1999-2006 年中国旅游业发展的效率特征。研究表明：① 1999-2006 年中国旅游业发展的总体效率偏低,未能充分挖掘出现有资源的潜力,旅游投入总量处于规模不经济的状态。② 1999-2006 年旅游业纯技术效率的均值为0.658,现有技术使用的有效程度较低,技术进步的潜力较大。③ 各省区旅游业的发展存在后发优势,技术效率低的省份技术进步效率增长较快。④ 中国各省份TFP增长率存在显著的差异,呈现出从东部、中部到西部依次降低的格局,区域之间旅游业发展效率存在明显差距并呈现扩大趋势。最后根据分析结果,提出优化投入要素比例,整合旅游产业链,完善旅游业的创新体系,加快技术进步,制定相应的区域发展倾斜政策等建议,以促进增长方式的转变,推动中国旅游业持续高效发展。     

A review of snow manipulation experiments in Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

Snow cover is one of the most important factors controlling microclimate and plant growing conditions for Arctic and alpine ecosystems. Climate change is altering snowfall regimes, which in turn influences snow cover and ultimately tundra plant communities. The interest in winter climate change and the number of experiments exploring the responses of alpine and Arctic ecosystems to changes in snow cover have been growing in recent years, but their outcomes are difficult to summarize because of the large variability in manipulation approaches, extents and measured response variables. In this review, we (1) compile the ecological publications on snow manipulation experiments, (2) classify the studies according to the climate scenarios they simulate and response variables they measure, (3) discuss the methods applied to manipulate snow cover, and (4) analyse and generalize the response in phenology, productivity and community composition by means of a meta-analysis. This meta-analysis shows that flowering phenology responded strongly to changes in the timing of snowmelt. The least responsive group of species were graminoids; however, they did show a decrease in productivity and abundance with experimentally increased snow covers. The species group with the greatest phenological response to snowmelt changes were the dwarf shrubs. Their abundance also increased in most long-term snow fence experiments, whereas species richness generally declined. We conclude that snow manipulation experiments can improve our understanding of recently observed ecosystem changes, and are an important component of climate change research.     

Mapping and monitoring net primary productivity with AVHRR NDVI time-series: statistical equivalence of cumulative vegetation indices

In the last two decades, numerous investigators have proposed cumulative vegetation indices (i.e., functions which encode the cumulative effect of NDVI maximum value composite time-series into a single variable) for net primary productivity (NPP) mapping and monitoring on a regional to continental basis. In this paper, we investigate the relationships among three of the most commonly used cumulative vegetation indices, expanding on the definition of equivalence of remotely sensed vegetation indices for decision making. We consider two cumulative vegetation indices as equivalent, if the value of one index is statistically predictable from the value of the other index. Using an annual time-series of broad-scale AVHRR NDVI monthly maximum value composites of the island of Corsica (France), we show that the pairwise linear association among the analysed cumulative vegetation indices shows coefficients of determination (R²) higher than 0.99. That is, knowing the value of one index is statistically equivalent to knowing the value of the other indices for application purposes.     

松辽盆地深层火山岩含气储层产能预测

松辽盆地深层火山岩是当前大庆地球物理、地质、地球化学研究的主要领域之一,已取得丰硕的成果,火成岩含气储层产能作为一个表示动态特征的参数,是储层评价的重要指标之一,本文讨论了火成岩含气储层的产能与测井响应之间的关系,探讨了根据测井资料应用人工神经网络技术预测火成岩含气储层产能的方法,利用已知气井测试结果和测井资料作为网络的训练样本,根据网络学习训练结果,输入测井资料等静态参数,可预测储集层的产能,根据这种关系采用神经网络技术实现了测井对产能的预测评价,从而为大庆深部火成岩含气储层的开发提供了一定的依据。     

Impacts of LUCC processes on potential land productivity in China in the 1990s

Using meteorological data and RS dynamic land-use observation data set, the potential land productivity that is limited by solar radiation and temperature is estimated and the impacts of recent LUCC processes on it are analyzed in this paper. The results show that the influence of LUCC processes on potential land productivity change has extensive and unbalanced characteristics. It generally reduces the productivity in South China and increases it in North China, and the overall effect is increasing the total productivity by 26.22 million tons. The farmland reclamation and original farmlands losses are the primary causes that led potential land productivity to change. The reclamation mostly distributed in arable-pasture and arable-forest transitional zones and oasises in northwestern China has made total productivity increase by 83.35 million tons, accounting for 3.50% of the overall output. The losses of original farmlands driven by built-up areas invading and occupying arable land are mostly distributed in the regions which have rapid economic development, e.g. Huang-Huai-Hai plain, Yangtze River delta, Zhujiang delta, central part of Gansu, southeast coastal region, southeast of Sichuan Basin and Urumqi-Shihezi. It has led the total productivity to decrease 57.13 million tons, which is 2.40% of the overall output.     

观音山水库水化学和浮游生物调查及其利用的初步研究

对观音山水库水化学、浮游生物及利用进行了调查研究。（１）库水属Ｓ、中营养型，含盐量很低；营养元素Ｎ／Ｐ平均９５．６，磷是限制性因子。２）浮游生物量平均４．５２４７ｍｇ／Ｌ，其中浮游植物量平均３．０６０６ｍｇ／Ｌ，以硅藻、裸藻和甲藻占优势；浮游动物量平均１．４６４１ｍｇ／Ｌ，以枝角类和桡足类占优势，分别占６９．２％和３０．２％。（３）鱼产力为１１２８ｋｇ／ｈｍ２，鲢、鳙、鲤每公顷放养尾数分别为９２２、６４５和４７０（都在１３．３ｃｍ或１３．３ｃｍ以上）。（４）提出渔业利用意见。     

AN ANALYSIS ON THE INFLUENCE OF GLOBAL CLIMATIC CHANGE UPON NATURAL ZONES AND AGRICULTURAL POTENTIALPRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA

Problemofglobalwandnghasbecomethefocusoftheworld'sattention.NotoulysCidristsindiffererecoUnrieshavedonealotofresearChwork,butalsogovemmarshaveinvestedalottoorgnruzeanIntergovemrnentalPanelonClimateChanges(IPCC).IPCCconsistsofthreeworkinggrouPs;WorkingGrou…     

Sudden enhancement of sedimentation flux of~(210)Pb_(ex) as anindicator of lake productivity as exemplified by Lake Chenghai

Recent sediments in lakes and gulfs are a sensi-tive recorder of the information about environmentalchanges in the catchment areas during recent geologi-cal history. Precise determination of the ages of sedi-ments is the key to deciphering the environmental re-cords. The 210Pb dating technique and the markertechnique based on fallout radionuclide 137Cs havefound wide applications in sedimentation rate on atime scale of several tens to one hundred years, as wellas the varve chron…