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Meelis Prtel Aveliina Helm Nele Ingerpuu Ülle Reier Eva-Liis Tuvi 《Biological conservation》2004,120(4):525-531
Effective biodiversity conservation requires an analysis of the existing reserve system. In temperate and boreal regions, plant diversity has a strong positive association with soil pH. Consequently, in order to protect plant diversity effectively, a relatively large proportion of protected areas should be on high pH soils. Since biodiversity data are never complete for all taxa, biodiversity indicators, e.g., threatened species, should be used. We studied soil pH distributions in protected areas in Northern Europe and tested whether soil pH requirement differs between threatened and non-threatened bryophyte and vascular plant species. As result, the proportion of high pH soils in protected areas was significantly greater than the proportion of these soils in general. This ensures that a large regional pool of plant species preferring high pH soils is relatively well protected. Threatened and non-threatened species in Northern Europe did not differ in their soil pH requirements, but threatened species required a narrower soil pH range than non-threatened species. Consequently, threatened species diversity can be used for indicating overall plant diversity. 相似文献
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Maria?SchipperEmail author Evert?Meelis 《Journal of Agricultural, Biological & Environmental Statistics》2003,8(1):122-137
As environmental monitoring data are collected successively in time, the data are suitable for sequential analysis. An earlier article proposed a refined sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) to test against a minimal relevanttrend, assuming no serial correlations and without modeling the spatial covariance matrix. As the model parameters are unknown in advance, a minimal number of observations(n min) is required for estimation prior to analysis. Leaving the spatial covariance matrix unstructured, n min increases if the number of sampling locations increases. Therefore, assumptions on the spatial covariance matrix are proposed, thereby reducing the number of nuisance parameters, thus reducingn min. This article studies. three simple types of spatial covariance matrix structures and derives an adjusted SPRT for each of these types. Furthermore, we examine the robustness against deviations from the assumed spatial covariance matrix structure. Simulation studies show that adjusted SPRTs can be derived rather easily and that they are in general robust against deviations from the assumed type of spatial covariance matrix. Sequential analysis of simulated data, which are based on monitoring data of bats in the Netherlands, illustrates the use of one of the derived SPRTs. 相似文献
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Einar Krgenberg Eva B. Thorstad Rein Jrvekülg Odd Terje Sandlund Ene Saadre Finn
kland Mart Thalfeldt Meelis Tambets 《Fisheries Management and Ecology》2020,27(1):32-40
Salmon smolts were released upstream of a run‐of‐river hydropower site and recaptured downstream for inspection. Descending fish behaviour through three possible migration routes (turbines, fishway, spillway) was analysed using telemetry, fyke nets and diving. Tagged smolts did not follow the main water flow; over 70% used the fishway, which received only about 10% of the flow. The turbines received about 80% of the water, but <25% of the smolts. Smolts were not fully stopped from entering the turbines by the 25‐mm bar racks. Mortality of smolts passing through the Kaplan turbines was at minimum 36%. No mortality was found in fish moving through the fishway or spillway. This shows that small and fast‐rotating Kaplan turbines can cause relatively high mortality. No mortality in alternative migration routes resulted in a total mortality for descending smolts at the hydropower station of 8.5%, emphasising the importance of providing functional alternative migration routes. 相似文献
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Carbon dynamics of North American boreal forest after stand replacing wildfire and clearcut logging 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Meelis Seedre Bharat M. Shrestha Han Y. H. Chen Steve Colombo Kalev Jõgiste 《Journal of Forest Research》2011,16(3):168-183
Boreal forest carbon (C) storage and sequestration is a critical element for global C management and is largely disturbance
driven. The disturbance regime can be natural or anthropogenic with varying intensity and frequency that differ temporally
and spatially the boreal forest. The objective of this review was to synthesize the literature on C dynamics of North American
boreal forests after most common disturbances, stand replacing wildfire and clearcut logging. Forest ecosystem C is stored
in four major pools: live biomass, dead biomass, organic soil horizons, and mineral soil. Carbon cycling among these pools
is inter-related and largely determined by disturbance type and time since disturbance. Following a stand replacing disturbance,
(1) live biomass increases rapidly leading to the maximal biomass stage, then stabilizes or slightly declines at old-growth
or gap dynamics stage at which late-successional tree species dominate the stand; (2) dead woody material carbon generally
follows a U-shaped pattern during succession; (3) forest floor carbon increases throughout stand development; and (4) mineral
soil carbon appears to be more or less stable throughout stand development. Wildfire and harvesting differ in many ways, fire
being more of a chemical and harvesting a mechanical disturbance. Fire consumes forest floor and small live vegetation and
foliage, whereas logging removes large stems. Overall, the effects of the two disturbances on C dynamics in boreal forest
are poorly understood. There is also a scarcity of literature dealing with C dynamics of plant coarse and fine roots, understory
vegetation, small-sized and buried dead material, forest floor, and mineral soil. 相似文献
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Grouping and prioritization of vascular plant species for conservation: combining natural rarity and management need 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Meelis Pärtel Rein Kalamees Ülle Reier Eva-Liis Tuvi Elle Roosaluste Ain Vellak Martin Zobel 《Biological conservation》2005,123(3):271-278
National and International Red Lists and Legal Acts specify species with conservation needs, mainly on the basis of personal experiences. For effective conservation we need scientifically justified prioritization and grouping of these species. We propose a new combined approach where species are grouped according to the similar activities needed for their conservation. We used the national list of vascular plant species with conservation need for Estonia (301 species), and linked these species to eight qualitative conservation characteristics, four reflecting natural causes of rarity (restricted global distribution; restricted local distribution within a country; always small populations; very rare habitat type), and four connected with nature management (species needing the management of semi-natural grasslands; species needing local disturbances like forest fires; species needing traditional extensive agriculture; species which may be threatened by collecting). Only one positive association occurred among the characteristics - between restricted local distribution and small size of populations. Thus, natural causes of rarity and management aspects are not overlapping, and both should be used in conservation activities. Species grouping by different conservation characteristics allows one to focus on species groups with similar conservation needs instead of individual species. Prioritization of species with conservation needs can be based on the number of conservation characteristics that are associated with a particular species. Our prioritization did not correlate with the categories of the national Red Data Book, but a positive association was found with legal protection categories. The legislation, however, covers only the natural causes of rarity. We propose a new combined approach for plant species’ conservation planning that starts by considering human induced rarity and progresses through to natural rarity causes. 相似文献
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Tikk M Tikk K Tørngren MA Meinert L Aaslyng MD Karlsson AH Andersen HJ 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2006,54(20):7769-7777
Inosine monophosphate (IMP) and its degradation products, ribose and hypoxanthine, are all considered to be important constituents in meat flavor formation and development. The present study explored the fate of IMP during the aging of two qualities of pork (pH >5.7 and 5.5 < pH < 5.6) and the potential relationship between IMP, hypoxanthine, and sensory attributes of pork registered both as retronasal and basic taste responses in whole meat, meat juice, and the remaining meat residue. During aging the concentration of IMP decreased with a simultaneous increase in the concentrations of inosine, hypoxanthine, and ribose. The rates at which IMP was degraded to inosine and inosine to hypoxanthine during aging were found to be in agreement with the known rate constants of the dephosphorylation of IMP and the hydrolysis of inosine, respectively. Moreover, high-pH pork resulted in a significantly higher concentration of hypoxanthine throughout storage compared with low-pH pork due to an initially higher concentration of IMP in high-pH meat. The sensory analysis showed increasing intensity in bitterness and saltiness of pork as a function of aging, with the intensity being most pronounced in the meat juice. The increasing bitterness of the pork as a function of aging coincided with the higher content of hypoxanthine in these samples, thereby suggesting that degradation of IMP to hypoxanthine might influence pork flavor. In contrast, IMP was associated with nonaged meat and the sensory attributes meaty and brothy. 相似文献
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Establishment of protected areas in different ecoregions, ecosystems, and diversity hotspots under successive political systems 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Eva-Liis Tuvi Ain Vellak Ülle Reier Robert Szava-Kovats Meelis Pärtel 《Biological conservation》2011,(5):1726-1732
Protected areas are valuable tools for nature conservation but the effectiveness of reserve networks must be monitored continuously. Knowing the history of the establishment of protected areas can help to improve future conservation. We explore how different ecoregions, ecosystems and diversity hotspots have been incorporated in protected areas in Estonia during the last century. We found that the average rate of establishment of protected areas has been surprisingly constant despite profound changes in political systems. However, establishment of protected areas has varied regionally; an agricultural region in south-east Estonia has seen less protection, partly due to lower biodiversity. Wetland ecosystems were initially more placed under protection, whereas recently semi-natural grasslands have gained more attention. In contrast, farmland is under-protected. Surprisingly, biodiversity hotspots were no more protected than the national average. We consider how the development of a protected area network has been influenced by individual persons and public opinion under successive political systems. We suggest that simultaneous gap analysis of ecoregions, ecosystems and diversity hotspots provides a more complete picture than examining a single aspect. Therefore this study can be used as a model for other regions. 相似文献
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Fredrik Lagergren Harry Lankreijer Jiří Kučera Emil Cienciala Meelis Mölder Anders Lindroth 《Forest Ecology and Management》2008
This study analyses the effects of thinning on stand transpiration in a typical mixed spruce and pine forest in the southern boreal zone. Studies of transpiration are important for models of water, energy and carbon exchange, and forest management, like thinning, would change those processes. Tree transpiration was measured by the tissue heat-balance sapflow technique, on a reference plot and a thinning plot situated in a 50-year-old stand in central Sweden. Sapflow was measured during one season (1998) on both plots before thinning, to establish reference values. In winter 1998/1999 24% of the basal area was removed from the thinning plot. Thinning was done so as to preserve the initial species composition and the size distribution. The measurements continued after thinning during the growing seasons of 1999 and 2000. The climate showed remarkable differences between the 3 years; 1998 was wet and cool, with frequent rain, and the soil-water content was high throughout the year. In contrast, 1999 was dry and warm, and the soil-water content decreased to very low values, ca. 5–6% by volume. In 2000, the weather was more normal, with variable conditions. Stand transpiration was similar on both plots during the year before thinning; the plot to be thinned transpired 6% more than the reference plot. After thinning, transpiration was initially ca. 40% lower on the thinned plot, but the difference diminished successively. When the following drought was at its worst, the thinned plot transpired up to seven times more than the reference plot. During the second season after thinning, the thinned plot transpired ca. 20% more than the reference plot. The increased transpiration of the thinned plot could not be attributed to environmental variables, but was most probably caused by changes in biological factors, such as a fertilization effect. 相似文献
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Survival and behaviour of Atlantic salmon smolts passing a run‐of‐river hydropower facility with a movable bulb turbine
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E. B. Thorstad T. B. Havn S. A. Sæther L. Heermann M. A. K. Teichert O. H. Diserud M. Tambets J. Borcherding F. Økland 《Fisheries Management and Ecology》2017,24(3):199-207
Downstream migration of radio‐tagged Atlantic salmon smolts, Salmo salar L., was studied in the Kinzig, Germany, to examine effects of passing a run‐of‐river hydropower station with a movable bulb turbine. Immediate mortality for smolts passing the power station was low (3%–6%), probably facilitated by a curved rack in front of the turbine and the possibility to pass over it. Mortality in the impounded stretch above the power station was also low (1.5% extra mortality compared to a control stretch). The combined mortality due to hydropower was 5%–8%, excluding delayed effects. Most smolts followed the main flow passing through the turbine area (94%). Only few used a fishway (4%) or a nearby millstream (2%). Migration speed was slowed down at the power station, but the passage only caused a short delay (average/median 8.6/1.3 hr). However, even low mortality and short delays at several power stations and reservoirs may have considerable cumulative effects. 相似文献