Highly characteristic and individual specific telomere length patterns in cattle     

Mayr B  Korb H  Oppeneiger T  Demetz F  Egger J 《Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997)》2007,174(3):677-680

A combined primed in situ labelling (PRINS)/4',6-diamino-2-phenylindole (DAPI)/propidium iodide (PI)-fluorescence-banding method was used to characterise telomeres, identify their specific chromosomes and visualise neighbouring heterochromatin in 25 artificial insemination (AI) bulls. A highly heterogeneous telomere length pattern was found in cattle. Each bull possessed his own characteristic, specific telomere length pattern.  相似文献   

Simulated long-term effects of different soil management regimes on the water balance in the Loess Plateau, China   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Shulan Zhang  Elisabeth Simelton  Lars Lvdahl  Harald Grip  Deliang Chen 《Field Crops Research》2007,100(2-3):311-319

A soil management regime that improves water use efficiency (WUE) is urgently required to increase the sustainability of the winter wheat-summer fallow system in the Loess Plateau, China. However, the long-term partitioning of the water balance must be understood in order to evaluate the viability of possible soil management regimes. Therefore, an ecosystem model (CoupModel) was used to explore the effects on components of the water balance of five types of soil management regimes: conventional practice, wheat straw mulching, incorporation of high organic matter contents, compaction, and use of a harvested fallow crop. Three variants of the fallow crop approach were also considered, in which the crop was harvested 15, 30 and 45 days before sowing the wheat (designated Fallow-15d, Fallow-30d and Fallow-45d, respectively). Simulations were used to identify the relative magnitude of soil evaporation, wheat transpiration and deep percolation and to elucidate the temporal variability in these components for a selected location using climate records spanning 45 years. However, the soil management regime significantly influenced the magnitude of every component of the water balance (in terms of minimum, maximum and mean values) over the long periods considered. Consequently, wheat yield and WUE differed significantly among the simulated treatments. Mulching led to significantly lower soil evaporation, higher transpiration, and more frequent and extensive deep percolation than other regimes, thereby improving fallow efficiency (percentage of rainfall stored in the soil during the fallow period at the end of the fallow period), wheat yields and WUE. In contrast, soil compaction gave the opposite results, leading to the most unfavourable partitioning of the water balance reflected in the lowest wheat yield and WUE values of all the regimes. In 90% of the years no deep percolation occurred in the soil compaction simulations. Use of a fallow crop with optimal harvest timing (Fallow-30d) improved partitioning of the water balance (decreased soil evaporation) and did not significantly reduce wheat yield compared with conventional practice. High organic matter contents in the soil also had a positive influence on the water balance and improved wheat yield and WUE relative to conventional practice. Therefore, mulching appears to be the best management practice for the winter wheat-summer fallow system in the Loess Plateau, according to the simulations. Increasing soil organic matter may be the best option if mulching cannot be implemented. The ideal time for harvesting a fallow crop for use as green manure or fodder appears to be ca. 30 days before sowing the winter wheat.  相似文献   

Existing sediment management guidelines: an overview     

Harald?K?theEmail author 《Journal of Soils and Sediments》2003,3(3):139-143

At the inaugural conference of SedNet WG 4 in April 2002 in Venice it was decided that a survey of existing sediment management guidelines was an important pre-requisite to elaborate on the opportunities for river basin planning of sediment management. This article discusses the existing programmes, decision support system, and conventions and concludes that there is presently no comprehensive river basin sediment management guideline at an international (European) or national level. Management guidelines which are of high relevance for sediment management exist mostly for the purpose of environmentally sound handling for navigation. For the maintenance of waterways and harbours sediments have to be handled in an environmentally sound and economical way. There are some special international and national regulations for dredged material which have different legal and technical backgrounds, purposes and limited competence. The way to find the appropriate regulation within legislation is to ask the question: What will happen with the sediment/dredged material?  相似文献   

Bodennutzung und Nitrat-Stickstoff in der Dränzone von Lößdecken der südlichen Niederrheinischen Bucht     

Stefan Henscheid  Harald Zepp 《植物养料与土壤学杂志》1995,158(2):157-164

Land use and nitrate-nitrogen in the vadose zone of loess deposits in the southern part of the Lower Rhenish Embayment Mean annual nitrogen-leaching was studied at seven experimental sites with grain-sugar beet crop rotation. Soil water simulation models and determination of the nitrogen content in the vadose zone below the rooting zone were combined to quantify the annual leaching rates. Leaching amounts to 11–18 kg NO₃^? N/ha · a at sites where only mineral fertilizer was applied, whereas sites with additional organic fertilizers show higher leaching rates of 30–36 kg NO₃^? N/ha · a.  相似文献   

Estimating the age–diameter relationship of oak species in Switzerland using nonlinear mixed-effects models     

Brigitte Rohner  Harald Bugmann  Christof Bigler 《European Journal of Forest Research》2013,132(5-6):751-764

Tree growth plays a key role in forest dynamics, yet little attention has been paid to quantifying tree age–diameter relationships. Predicting diameter growth of oaks is especially important due to their role in nature conservation and adaptive forest management under climate change. Thus, we (1) identified environmental variables that shape age–diameter relationships of oaks and (2) quantified the accuracy of predictions based on these variables. We determined the age–diameter relationship of 243 oaks (Quercus spp.) growing in Switzerland by using tree-ring samples. Nonlinear mixed-effects models based on a modified Chapman-Richards equation were fitted with environmental variables included as covariates. The fixed effects elevation, slope and water-holding capacity were most important in shaping the age–diameter relationships. Lower elevations, steeper slopes, north-facing aspects, higher water-holding capacities and moister summers resulted in larger maximum diameters. For 75 % of the oaks, age–diameter relationships predicted by the fixed effects matched fairly well the observations (root mean square error between predictions and observations <6 cm); the inclusion of random effects reduced root mean square errors for 86 % of the trees. These results suggest that water runoff plays a key role for the age–diameter relationships, accompanied by limiting temperature effects at higher elevations. The fixed effects covered variability in site quality, whereas the random effects included tree-specific deviations from expected age–diameter relationships, potentially due to neighbourhood effects such as stand density and competition.  相似文献   

Impacts of changing climate and land use on vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean ecosystem: insights from paleoecology and dynamic modeling     

Paul D. Henne  Ché Elkin  Daniele Colombaroli  Stéphanie Samartin  Harald Bugmann  Oliver Heiri  Willy Tinner 《Landscape Ecology》2013,28(5):819-833

Forests near the Mediterranean coast have been shaped by millennia of human disturbance. Consequently, ecological studies relying on modern observations or historical records may have difficulty assessing natural vegetation dynamics under current and future climate. We combined a sedimentary pollen record from Lago di Massacciucoli, Tuscany, Italy with simulations from the LandClim dynamic vegetation model to determine what vegetation preceded intense human disturbance, how past changes in vegetation relate to fire and browsing, and the potential of an extinct vegetation type under present climate. We simulated vegetation dynamics near Lago di Massaciucoli for the last 7,000 years using a local chironomid-inferred temperature reconstruction with combinations of three fire regimes (small infrequent, large infrequent, small frequent) and three browsing intensities (no browsing, light browsing, and moderate browsing), and compared model output to pollen data. Simulations with low disturbance support pollen-inferred evidence for a mixed forest dominated by Quercus ilex (a Mediterranean species) and Abies alba (a montane species). Whereas pollen data record the collapse of A. alba after 6000 cal yr bp, simulated populations expanded with declining summer temperatures during the late Holocene. Simulations with increased fire and browsing are consistent with evidence for expansion by deciduous species after A. alba collapsed. According to our combined paleo-environmental and modeling evidence, mixed Q. ilex and A. alba forests remain possible with current climate and limited disturbance, and provide a viable management objective for ecosystems near the Mediterranean coast and in regions that are expected to experience a mediterranean-type climate in the future.  相似文献   

Soil organic carbon in the rocky desert of northern Negev (Israel)     

Ulrike Hoffmann  Aaron Yair  Harald Hikel  Nikolaus J. Kuhn 《Journal of Soils and Sediments》2012,12(6):811-825

Purpose

So far, the soil organic carbon (SOC) literature is dominated by studies in the humid environments with huge stocks of vulnerable carbon. Limited attention has been given to dryland ecosystems despite being often considered to be highly sensitive to environmental change. Thus, there is insufficient research about the spatial patterns of SOC stocks and the interaction between soil depth, ecohydrology, geomorphic processes, and SOC stocks. This study aimed at identifying the relationship between surface characteristics, vegetation coverage, SOC, and SOC stocks in the arid northern Negev in Israel.

Materials and methods

The study site Sede Boker is ideally suited because of well-researched but variable ecohydrology. For this purpose, we sampled five slope sections with different ecohydrologic characteristics (e.g., soil and vegetation) and calculate SOC stocks. To identify controlling factors of SOC stocks on rocky desert slopes, we compared soil properties, vegetation coverage, SOC concentration, and stocks between the five ecohydrologic units.

Results and discussion

The results show that in Sede Boker, rocky desert slopes represent a significant SOC pool with a mean SOC stock of 0.58?kg?C?m^?2 averaged over the entire study area. The spatial variability of the soil coverage represents a strong control on SOC stocks, which varies between zero in uncovered areas and 1.54?kg?C?m^?2 on average in the soil-covered areas. Aspect-driven changes of solar radiation and thus of water availability are the dominant control of vegetation coverage and SOC stock in the study area.

Conclusions

The data indicate that dryland soils contain a significant amount of SOC. The SOC varies between the ecohydrologic units, which reflect (1) aspect-driven differences, (2) microscale topography, (3) soil formation, and (4) vegetation coverage, which are of greatest importance for estimating SOC stocks in drylands.  相似文献   

Detection of expressed fungal Type I polyketide synthase genes in a forest soil     

Harald Kellner  Donald R. Zak 《Soil biology & biochemistry》2009,41(6):1344-368

Secondary metabolites synthesized via the polyketide pathway are thought to mediate interference competition between soil microorganisms as well as cell-to-cell signaling. Although their synthesis has been documented in laboratory culture, it remains uncertain whether these compounds are actually produced under field conditions. Here, we report the presence and expression of fungal Type I polyketide synthase (PKS) genes in the organic horizon of a forest soil. If these expressed PKS genes produce compounds that elicit antagonistic interactions among soil microorganisms, then it could be a factor structuring microbial communities in soil.  相似文献   

Temporal changes in diversity and expression patterns of fungal laccase genes within the organic horizon of a brown forest soil     

Harald Kellner  Patricia Luis  François Buscot 《Soil biology & biochemistry》2009,41(7):1380-1389

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Adsorption of Pesticides with Different Chemical Properties to a Wood Biochar Treated with Heat and Iron     

Harald Cederlund  Elisabet Börjesson  Daniel Lundberg  John Stenström 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2016,227(6):203

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