影响全球气候的“圣婴”

厄尔尼诺现象厄尔尼诺现象是东太平洋沿岸厄瓜多尔南部和秘鲁北部沿海发展起来的较弱和暖的向南流动的洋流,这种现象一般发生在每年圣诞节前后,因此当地渔民称之为“圣婴”(西班牙语Elnino)。50年代以前,只有当地的渔民对此比较关心,因为暖洋流破坏了生态平衡,海中鱼类赖以生存的浮游生物由于海水温度的升高而无法繁殖,导致一些鱼类缺乏食物大量死亡,以鱼为生的海洋鸟类也遭厄运,渔民及     

内蒙古自治区土地利用生态足迹动态分析

自可持续发展概念提出以来,科学家们一直在研究衡量可持续发展状态的指标和方法,以便为可持续发展的科学决策提供定量工具。加拿大生态经济学家William Rees和其博士生Wackernagel在1992年提出用生态足迹的方法,从生态学的角度衡量可持续发展。1生态足迹模型1.1生态足迹理论生态足迹理论是依据人类社会对土地的连续依赖性而定量测度区域可持续发展状态的一种新的理论和方法。生态足迹的定义是:任何已知人口(某个个人,一个城市或一个国家)的生态足迹是生产这些人口所消费的所有资源和消纳这些人口所产生的所有废弃物所需要的生物生产土地面…     

遥感技术与美国的人口普查

引言 D.布鲁金尼的论文《可用空间时代技术进行更精确的人口普查》提出了一些有趣的问题。我们为能够在《摄影测量工程和遥感》杂志上看到这篇有关遥感在社会科学领城内的应用的论文而高兴。我们认为只有了解人口普查数据的多种用途之后,再来检验那些改进人口普查的方法才是合适的,众所周知,每十年一次的人口普查数据的精度和完备性并不是没有缺点的。无疑地,许多人口普查人员将首先承认,每次由点数     

Total content and chemical speciation of arsenic in the polychaete Sabella spallanzanii

An unusual feature has been observed in polychaetes regarding their capacity to accumulate high levels of relatively toxic forms of arsenic in specific tissues. Basal levels of arsenic and distribution of its compounds were investigated in tissues of the Mediterranean polychaete Sabella spallanzanii. Particularly high concentrations were measured in the branchial crown (1036+/-136 microg/g d.w.) and chemical speciation revealed that the predominant form was the relatively toxic dimethylarsinate (DMA). These data suggest a potential role of As as anti-predatory strategy in polychaetes.     

A quantitative analysis on the Egyptian Mediterranean waters

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THE CLIMATIC CHANGES AND THE COASTAL ENVIRONMENT

Although the Yellow River Delta and Bohai Sea coastal zone are long distance and different environment with Po River Delta and Adriatic Sea coastal zone, the comparison of data of two different areas and the evolution trend of two areas are quite similar. The influence of natural climatic changes on the evolution of the deltas and coastal zones exists both in ancient and modern times. The cold/wet period occurred in 1300—1400A. D. and 1550 —1850 A.D. within this"large scale" climatie cycle, and shorter periods (10— 35 years) of cold rainy weather alternated with warm/dry period are known as "Bruckner cycles" which have influence on the evolution of the deltas and coastal zones.