Characterizing historical and modern fire regimes in Michigan (USA): A landscape ecosystem approach   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Cleland  David T.  Crow  Thomas R.  Saunders  Sari C.  Dickmann  Donald I.  Maclean  Ann L.  Jordan  James K.  Watson  Richard L.  Sloan  Alyssa M.  Brosofske  Kimberley D. 《Landscape Ecology》2004,19(3):311-325

We studied the relationships of landscape ecosystems to historical and contemporary fire regimes across 4.3 million hectares in northern lower Michigan (USA). Changes in fire regimes were documented by comparing historical fire rotations in different landscape ecosystems to those occurring between 1985 and 2000. Previously published data and a synthesis of the literature were used to identify six forest-replacement fire regime categories with fire rotations ranging from very short (<100 years) to very long (>1,000 years). We derived spatially-explicit estimates of the susceptibility of landscape ecosystems to fire disturbance using Landtype Association maps as initial units of investigation. Each Landtype Association polygon was assigned to a fire regime category based on associations of ecological factors known to influence fire regimes. Spatial statistics were used to interpolate fire points recorded by the General Land Office. Historical fire rotations were determined by calculating the area burned for each category of fire regime and dividing this area by fifteen (years) to estimate area burned per annum. Modern fire rotations were estimated using data on fire location and size obtained from federal and state agencies. Landtype Associations networked into fire regime categories exhibited differences in both historical and modern fire rotations. Historical rotations varied by 23-fold across all fire rotation categories, and modern forest fire rotations by 13-fold. Modern fire rotations were an order of magnitude longer than historical rotations. The magnitude of these changes has important implications for forest health and understanding of ecological processes in most of the fire rotation categories that we identified.This revised version was published online in May 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Repair of lumbosacral fracture–luxation with bilateral twisted string‐of‐pearls locking plates          下载免费PDF全文

U. Segal  H. Bar  J. Shani 《The Journal of small animal practice》2018,59(8):501-507

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Elastic Training for the Prevention of Mandibular Drift Following Mandibulectomy in Dogs: 18 Cases (2005–2008)     

Yoav Bar‐Am  Frank J. M. Verstraete 《Veterinary surgery : VS》2010,39(5):574-580

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Pod wart disease of peanuts     

G. Kritzman  A. Shani-Cahani  B. Kirshner  Yehudit Riven  Z. Bar  J. Katan  A. Grinstein 《Phytoparasitica》1996,24(4):293-304

Peanut pod wart, a relatively new disease to peanut culture, was first reported in Israel in 1988 attacking peanut plants and causing dark warts on the pod. The causal agents are variousStreptomyces spp. Scanning electron microscopy showed a significant difference between healthy and diseased tissues of the exocarp and mesocarp layers of the pod; there were no effects on the endocarp layer. The mesocarp cells of infected tissue were smaller and more compressed than those of healthy tissue. In most cases two cells under the peak of the wart were extremely large and the cells growing from them toward the surface were uneven, forming the shape of a fan. The pathogen could be isolated from the soil and rhizosphere, but in the pod it was found only in the waited tissue. The microorganisms isolated from the warts belong to different groups ofStreptomyces spp.; subsequent pathogenicity tests proved their virulence to a limited host range. In potato, these isolates ofStreptomyces spp. caused deep pitted scab; in peanuts they caused warts. Peanut seeds which developed in infected pods were free of the pathogen if the shell was undamaged. However, the pathogen is surface seedborne, and contaminated seeds during the mechanical cracking process.  相似文献   

Economic aspects of the 1999 outbreak of bovine ephemeral fever in dairy cattle herds in the Jordan Valley in Israel     

Yeruham I  Van Ham M  Bar D  Yadin H  Tiomkin D 《The Veterinary record》2003,153(6):180-182

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Effects of temperature and nutrient availability on plasma membrane lipid composition in Scots pine roots during growth initiation     

Iivonen S  Saranpää P  Sutinen ML  Vapaavuori E 《Tree physiology》2004,24(4):437-446

We studied the effects of root zone temperature (RZT) and nutrient availability on free sterols and phospholipids in the plasma membrane (PM) and on PM-ATPase activity in roots of 1-year-old Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings during growth initiation in the spring. Seedlings were grown for 6 weeks in hydroponic cultures with low (0.5 mM N; LN) or high (3 mM N; HN) nutrient availability. The root zone was subjected to slow warming (SW) and fast warming (FW) treatments while maintaining similar air temperatures in both treatments. Decreases in the amount of phospholipids and in the phospholipid/free sterol ratio, an increase in the degree of saturation of phospholipid fatty acids and changes in free sterol composition were observed during root growth initiation. Changes in lipid composition of the PM associated with the cold deacclimation process were detected at RZTs above 9 degrees C. Nutrient availability affected the lipid composition of the PM only when RZT was increased slowly. When RZT increased from 4 to 6 degrees C in the SW treatment, the degree of saturation of phospholipid fatty acids decreased, especially in HN seedlings. The sitosterol/stigmasterol ratio remained higher in HN seedlings than in LN seedlings. After an RZT of 9 degrees C had been reached in the SW treatment, HN caused increases in the saturation of phospholipid fatty acids and root PM-ATPase activity, and a decrease in the phospholipid/free sterol ratio. Possible effects of changes in PM lipid composition on root growth and PM-ATPase activity are discussed.  相似文献   

Restoring wetland biodiversity using research: Whole‐community facilitation by beaver as framework     

Petri Nummi  Sari Holopainen 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2020,30(9):1798-1802

• 1. Wetlands are declining worldwide, and there is a great need for their restoration and creation. One natural agent of wetland engineering is beavers, Castor spp., which have returned or are returning to many parts of their former range.
• 2. We initially studied the facilitative effect of the beaver Castor canadensis on a waterbird community consisting of three waders and four ducks in boreal wetlands in southern Finland. Both waterbird species diversity and abundance increased when beavers impounded a pond. Common teal Anas crecca and green sandpiper Tringa ochropus were the species showing the most positive numerical response, but the other five species also increased upon flooding.
• 3. This article evaluates how the results of the study have been used in management, both in theory and practice. The whole‐community facilitation concept has been taken up in numerous articles considering the restorative effects of beavers. It has also been used as ecological background when planning and executing man‐made wetland projects in Finland within both the public and the private sectors.
• 4. Our study and its publication in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems have set a foundation for further evidence‐based management of waterbird communities. As the results show, having beavers as wetland managers is a feasible tool for creating and restoring wetlands for waterbirds and other biota. Moreover, wetland restoration projects are becoming more popular endeavours, owing to an understanding of the diverse benefits of wetlands. Flooding by beavers is used as a model for managers when creating man‐made wetlands; for example, in urban areas where it is difficult to maintain beavers.

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Science and conservation of Amazonian crocodilians: a historical review     

Boris Marioni  José António L. Barão-Nóbrega  Robinson Botero-Arias  Fábio Muniz  Zilca Campos  Ronis Da Silveira  William E. Magnusson  Francisco Villamarín 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2021,31(12):1056-1067

1. Crocodilians represent one of the oldest extant vertebrate lineages. They have co-existed with humans throughout the Amazon basin for thousands of years, often having a strong cultural and economic influence on people's lives. Shifts in the socio-economic and political reality of the Amazon basin during the last century have led crocodilian populations to face large variations in their numbers according to different levels of exploitation and strategies for their conservation.
2. This article reviews the scientific knowledge obtained between 1945 and 2019 on the biology, conservation and management for the four Amazonian crocodilian (caiman) species (Caiman crocodilus, Melanosuchus niger, Paleosuchus palpebrosus and Paleosuchus trigonatus). It provides a general overview on past and current population status and research efforts involving caimans in the Amazon basin and discusses perspectives for the future.
3. The most significant studies on the ecology, genetics and management strategies are examined in more detail and this information is contextualized to provide an overview of the most relevant findings that might explain caiman population trends over the last 75 years.
4. Systems for sustainable management in the Amazon basin have been discussed for the past 20 years, but remain rarely applicable. It is necessary to develop new ways to maintain healthy caiman populations through innovative management programmes. Sustainable harvesting of wildlife has been shown to promote conservation targets, especially those initiatives based on community co-management. In this article, we propose some general guidelines for future management schemes, in the expectation that the information provided by the scientific community will be considered fully without political agendas determining the priorities.

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Amending Soil with Sludge,Manure, Humic Acid,Orthophosphate and Phytic Acid: Effects on Infiltration,Runoff and Sediment Loss     

Amrakh I. Mamedov  Benayahu Bar‐Yosef  Irit Levkovich  Rivka Rosenberg  Avner Silber  Pinchas Fine  Guy J. Levy 《Land Degradation \u0026amp; Development》2016,27(6):1629-1639

Application of organic wastes to cultivated lands can replace mineral fertilizers but may also alter soil physical properties and enhance pollution potential. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of biosolids [composted manure (MC) and activated sludge (AS)] and specific biosolid component [orthophosphate (OP), phytic acid (PA) and humic acid (HA)] application on soils differing in texture [loamy‐sand (Ramat‐HaKovesh, RH), loam (Gilat, GL) and clay (Bet‐Dagan, BD)], infiltration rate, runoff volume and soil sediment loss. The soils were packed in erosion boxes (400 × 200 × 40 mm) and subjected to six consecutive simulated rainstorms, each of 186 mm deionized water. The results showed that runoff volume and sediment loss from untreated soils increased with increasing clay contents. In treated soils, the response to AS application differed from the response to other amendments; in the BD clay and GL loam, it was the only amendment that caused a decrease in sediment removed by runoff. In the RH loamy‐sand, all amendments reduced the final infiltration rate, but only AS and HA increased the measured runoff. It is proposed that the difference in the response of the soils to the amendments is associated with the soil's ability to attenuate changes in the negative charge on the clay edges following the increase in the specific adsorption of charged anions, thus controlling clay swelling and maintaining aggregate integrity. The effects of amending soils with a source of organic matter in order to control runoff and soil erosion are not straight forward and depend on soil and amendment properties. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Diagnosis of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) nutrient imbalance by DRIS and CND-clr methods at two stages during early growth     

Przemysław Barłóg 《Journal of plant nutrition》2016,39(1):1-16

High yield of sugar beet require adequate mineral nutrition. To be diagnosed across interacting nutrients using appropriate interpretation models, the plant must be sampled at a critical physiological stage. This study aimed to develop and validate norms at the 7-leaf and well-developed rosette stages, for diagnostic purposes using the Diagnosis and Recommended Integrated System (DRIS) and Compositional Nutrient Diagnosis based on centered log ratios (CND-clr). Data on nutrient concentrations and plant performance were obtained from 409 plots in West-Central Poland. With respect to the growth stages, for physiological and practical reasons, the 7-leaf stage is preferable for diagnostic purposes. At this growth stage, the high-yield subpopulation characterized by higher concentration of potassium and sodium compared to other nutrients. CND-clr indices were closely related to DRIS indices (R² > 0.93). The CND-clr indices, however, better explained the differences in the white sugar yield within the validated dataset than the DRIS indices.  相似文献