Climate change affects marine fishes through the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance     

Pörtner HO  Knust R 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2007,315(5808):95-97

A cause-and-effect understanding of climate influences on ecosystems requires evaluation of thermal limits of member species and of their ability to cope with changing temperatures. Laboratory data available for marine fish and invertebrates from various climatic regions led to the hypothesis that, as a unifying principle, a mismatch between the demand for oxygen and the capacity of oxygen supply to tissues is the first mechanism to restrict whole-animal tolerance to thermal extremes. We show in the eelpout, Zoarces viviparus, a bioindicator fish species for environmental monitoring from North and Baltic Seas (Helcom), that thermally limited oxygen delivery closely matches environmental temperatures beyond which growth performance and abundance decrease. Decrements in aerobic performance in warming seas will thus be the first process to cause extinction or relocation to cooler waters.  相似文献   

Long-distance free-space distribution of quantum entanglement   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Aspelmeyer M  Böhm HR  Gyatso T  Jennewein T  Kaltenbaek R  Lindenthal M  Molina-Terriza G  Poppe A  Resch K  Taraba M  Ursin R  Walther P  Zeilinger A 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2003,301(5633):621-623

We demonstrate the distribution of quantum entanglement via optical free-space links to independent receivers separated by 600 m, with no line of sight between each other. A Bell inequality between those receivers is violated by more than four standard deviations, confirming the quality of the entanglement. This outdoor experiment represents a step toward satellite-based distributed quantum entanglement.  相似文献   

Recurrent fusion of TMPRSS2 and ETS transcription factor genes in prostate cancer     

Tomlins SA  Rhodes DR  Perner S  Dhanasekaran SM  Mehra R  Sun XW  Varambally S  Cao X  Tchinda J  Kuefer R  Lee C  Montie JE  Shah RB  Pienta KJ  Rubin MA  Chinnaiyan AM 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2005,310(5748):644-648

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Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal     

Jacobs Z  Roberts RG  Galbraith RF  Deacon HJ  Grün R  Mackay A  Mitchell P  Vogelsang R  Wadley L 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2008,322(5902):733-735

The expansion of modern human populations in Africa 80,000 to 60,000 years ago and their initial exodus out of Africa have been tentatively linked to two phases of technological and behavioral innovation within the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa-the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries-that are associated with early evidence for symbols and personal ornaments. Establishing the correct sequence of events, however, has been hampered by inadequate chronologies. We report ages for nine sites from varied climatic and ecological zones across southern Africa that show that both industries were short-lived (5000 years or less), separated by about 7000 years, and coeval with genetic estimates of population expansion and exit times. Comparison with climatic records shows that these bursts of innovative behavior cannot be explained by environmental factors alone.  相似文献   

Heavy soil loading its consequence for soil structure,strength, deformation of arable soils     

Stephan Peth  Rainer Horn  Orsolya Fazekas  Brian&#x;G. Richards 《植物养料与土壤学杂志》2006,169(6):775-783

The alteration of mechanical soil properties by a single stress application exceeding all previously applied stresses is analyzed for a conventionally tilled and a conservational managed (since 1992) Stagnic Luvisol. Despite the more pronounced compactness of the plough layer under conventional management, it turned out to be less rigid compared to the “relictic” plough layer under conservation management. We assume that wheeling with a sugar beet harvester (rear wheel 140 kPa, front wheel 110 kPa, total mass 37 Mg) resulted in a break up of the plough pan. This was most obvious in the conventionally tilled soil whereas under conservation tillage, the plough pan seemed to resist the induced forces. Our results suggest that a break up of the compact plough layer and the subsequent re‐arrangement of newly formed fragments results in a smaller mechanical stability of the deformed soil. Soil structural changes within the plough pan are also indicated by the alteration of the anisotropy of cohesion and precompression stress, respectively. Altered mechanical properties induced by heavy soil loading affects the soil response to subsequent loading events, which could be shown by finite‐element simulations of stress‐strain properties. The simulations showed that a decrease in soil stiffness reduces the stress attenuation within the plough pan causing compressive and shear stresses to be transmitted into deeper soil levels, while at the same time shear strain increased.  相似文献   

Microbial biomass phosphorus in soils of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Rainer G. Joergensen  Helga Kübler  Brunk Meyer  Volkmar Wolters 《Biology and Fertility of Soils》1995,19(2-3):215-219

Thirty-eight soils from forest sites in central Germany dominated by beech trees (Fagus sylvatica L.) were sampled to a depth of about 10 cm after careful removal of the overlying organic layers. Microbial biomass P was estimated by the fumigation — extraction method, measuring the increase in NaHCO₃-extractable phosphate. The size of the microbial P pool varied between 17.7 and 174.3 g P g^-1 soil and was on average more than seven times larger than NaHCO₃-extractable phosphate. Microbial P was positively correlated with soil organic C and total P, reflecting the importance of soil organic matter as a P source. The mean microbial P concentration was 13.1% of total P, varying in most soils between 6 and 18. Microbial P and microbial C were significantly correlated with each other and had a mean ratio of 14.3. A wide (5.1–26.3) microbial C: P ratio indicates that there is no simple relatinship between these two parameters. The microbial C: P ratio showed strong and positive correlations with soil pH and cation exchange capacity.  相似文献   

Anisotropy of pore functions in structured Stagnic Luvisols in the Weichselian moraine region in N Germany     

Jos Drner  Rainer Horn 《植物养料与土壤学杂志》2006,169(2):213-220

In order to determine if soil hydraulic properties present a direction‐dependent behavior, undisturbed samples were collected at different horizons and orientations (vertical, diagonal [45°], and horizontal) in structured soils in the Weichselian moraine region in northern Germany. The water‐retention curve (WRC), the saturated hydraulic conductivity (k_f), and the air permeability (k_a) were measured. The air‐filled porosity (?_a) was determined, and pore‐continuity indices (k_a/?_a, k_a/?_a², N) and blocked porosities (?_b) were derived from the relationship between k_a and ?_a. The development of soil structures with defined forms and dimensions (e.g., platy by soil compaction or prismatic up to subangular‐blocky by swelling–shrinkage processes) and the presence of biopores can induce a direction‐dependent behavior of pore functions. Although the pore volume as a scalar is isotropic, the saturated hydraulic conductivity and air permeability (as a function of air‐filled porosity) can be anisotropic. This behavior was observed in pore‐continuity indices showing that the identification of soil structure can be used as a first parameter to estimate if hydraulic properties present a direction‐dependent behavior at the scale of the soil horizon.  相似文献   

World Dredging Congress XVII Hamburg, Germany, 27 September to 1 October 2004     

Rainer Haas 《Journal of Soils and Sediments》2002,2(3):158

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Soil Extraction of Readily Soluble Heavy Metals and As with 1 M NH4NO3-Solution - Evaluation of DIN 19730 (6 pp)     

Rainer Gryschko  Rainer Kuhnle  Konstantin Terytze  Jörn Breuer  Karl Stahr 《Journal of Soils and Sediments》2005,5(2):101-106

Background, Aims and Scope   The German DIN 19730 (1997) describes a method for the extraction of readily available trace elements from soil by shaking the soil with 1 M NH4NO3-solution. Based on this method trigger and action values for the transfer of heavy metals and arsenic from soils to plants have been published in the German Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance (BBodSchV 1999). The chemical mechanisms involved in this soil extraction procedure were evaluated in some detail to create requirements to improve environmental risk assessment for soil contaminations.Methods   The chemical mechanisms involved when soil is extracted with 1 M NH4NO3-solution were evaluated. This was followed by a laboratory experiment to quantify the formation of soluble metal ammine complexes during the extraction. Cd, Zn, Ni, Cu, Co and Hg were extracted from 16 soils by 1 M NH4NO3, 1 M KNO3 and water. pH was adjusted in 5 steps between 5.0 to 7.5. The potassium cation (K+) and the ammonium cation (NH4+) behave similarly when cations from soil surfaces are desorbed, because they have almost identical ion radii (e.g. 0.133 and 0.143 nm). K+ does not form ammine complexes with other ions, whereas, due to the increasing formation of NH3 from NH4 by dissociation with rising pH, metal ammine complex formation is an important process in soil extraction when using ammonium salt solutions. A difference in the extraction efficiency of 1 M NH4NO3- and 1 M KNO3-solution for a given soil can therefore be attributed to the formation of soluble metal ammine complexes. Conclusion   Our experiments resulted in considerably higher extraction rates of Cu, Cd and Hg by 1 M NH4NO3-solution as compared to 1 M KNO3-solution. This effect, caused by the formation of soluble metal ammine complexes, was only evident in soils with higher readily soluble heavy metal contents and a soil pH above 6 – 6.5 for Cu and 7 – 7.5 for Cd. Further chemical mechanisms involved when soils are extracted with 1 M NH4NO3 are a moderate decrease in pH and an increase in ionic strength. Most of the colloids and parts of soluble metal-organic complexes are precipitated due to the high ionic strength. High ionic strength also decreases the activity of metal-OH+ species and the electrostatic potential of the particle surfaces, which in turn, increases the desorption of heavy metal cations from negatively charged soil surfaces. In contrast, the adsorption of anions like arsenate is favoured by the decreasing electrostatic potential. The prediction of heavy metal uptake by plants from the results of the 1 M NH4NO3-solution extraction fits well for elements, which are mainly bound by low strength electrostatic forces to the soils. Such conditions are found in acidic soils for Cd and Tl, which have a low tendency for hydrolysis compared to other heavy metals. The correlation between 1 M NH4NO3 soil extraction and plant uptake is less significant for Ni and Zn. Only low positive correlation coefficients have been found for Pb, As, Hg and for the Cu-uptake by wheat. Imprecise prediction of plant uptake of heavy metals by the extraction with 1 M NH4NO3-solution is mainly caused by conditions leading to an overestimation of plant availability such as elements are strongly bound to soils, or low soluble trace element contents in soils. Neutral to alkaline soil pH can also lead to imprecise prediction due to increasing formation of soluble metal-organic (Cu, Pb, Hg) and metal ammine (Hg, Cu, Cd) complexes and less importantly due to the formation of colloids. Therefore, at low 1 M NH4NO3-extractable soil contents usually no high plant contents are to be expected. Recommendation and Outlook   Extraction of soil with 1 M NH4NO3-solution is a suitable method for the determination of readily soluble and plant available trace element contents. The chemical soil extraction process may cause misleading predictions of the transfer of trace elements to plants for some soil properties. This knowledge should be used to improve risk assessment of soil contaminations. It has to be considered, that the processes involved in plant uptake of trace elements are too complex to expect that just one soil extraction method can always guarantee a correct prognosis of toxicological significant element contents in plants. Soil analyses may be used for the preliminary examination of suspicious areas and the demarcation of contaminated areas. The results of soil analyses should be checked additionally by plant analyses especially under conditions with a high probability for misleading results by the 1 M NH4NO3-extraction. Alternatively, extraction with 1 M KNO3-solution can be performed to exclude the effect of metal ammine complex formation.  相似文献   

Soil compressibility and penetrability of an Oxisol from southern Brazil, as affected by long-term tillage systems     

Milton da Veiga  Rainer Horn  Dalvan Jos Reinert  Jos Miguel Reichert 《Soil & Tillage Research》2007,92(1-2):104-113

The precompression stress value defines the transition from the reloading curve to the virgin compression line in the stress–strain curve, which can be used to quantify the highest load or the most intense predrying previously applied to the soil. Thus, in soils with well-defined structured soil horizons, each layer can be characterized by such mechanical strength. Penetration resistance measurements, on the other hand, can be used to determine total soil strength profiles in the field. The effect of long-term tillage systems on physical and mechanical properties was determined in undisturbed and remolded samples collected at 5 and 15 cm depth, 6 months after applying no-till (NT), chisel plow (CP), and conventional tillage (CT) treatments, along with the application of mineral fertilizer and poultry litter. The compressibility tests were performed under confined conditions, with normal loads varying from 10 to 400 kPa after a defined predrying to −6 or −30 kPa. Penetration resistance was determined in the field, after seeding, in three positions: seeding row (SR), untrafficked interrow (UI), and recently trafficked interrow (TI). No-till system showed greater soil resistance to deformation than tilled treatments, as determined by the higher precompression stress and lower coefficient of compressibility. When original soil structure was destroyed (remolded samples), smaller differences were found. The application of extra organic matter (poultry litter) resulted in a reduction of precompression stress in undisturbed samples. Penetration resistance profiles showed greater differences among tillage treatments in the upper layer of the untrafficked interrow, where NT system showed the higher values. Smaller differences were found in the seeding row (with lower values) and in recently trafficked interrow (with higher values), showing that even traffic with a light tractor after soil tillage reduced drastically the effect of previous tillage by loosening up the soil. On the other hand, the tool used to cut the soil and to open the furrow for seeding, incorporated in the direct seeding machine, was sufficient to realleviate surface soil compaction.  相似文献