Decomposition of emergent macrophyte roots and rhizomes in a northern prairie marsh

Dry mass, nitrogen and phosphorus content in belowground litter of four emergent macrophytes (Typha glauca Godr., Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin., Scolochloa festucacea (Willd.) Link and Scirpus lacustris L.) were followed for 1.2 years in a series of experimental marshes, Delta Marsh, Manitoba. Litter bags containing roots and rhizome materials of each species were buried in unflooded soil, or soil flooded at three water depths (1–30, 31–60, > 60 cm). There were few differences in dry mass loss in unflooded or flooded soils, and depth of flooding also had little effect on decomposition rates. In the flooded sites, Scolochloa and Phragmites roots lost more mass (48.9–63.8% and 59.2–85.5%, respectively) after 112 days than Typha and Scirpus (36.3–43.6 and 37.0–47.2%, respectively). These differences continued through to the end of the study, except in the shallow sites where Scirpus roots lost more mass and had comparable mass remaining as Scolochloa and Phragmites. In the unflooded sites, there was little difference between species. All litters lost nitrogen (22.9–90.0%) and phosphorus (46.3–92.7%) during the first 112 days, then levels tended to remain constant. Decay rates for our belowground root and rhizome litters were comparable to published literature values for aboveground shoot litter of the same species, except for Phragmites roots and rhizomes which decomposed at a faster rate (−k = 0.0014−0.0032) than shoots (−k = 0.0003−0.0007, [van der Valk, A.G., Rhymer, J.M., Murkin, H.R., 1991. Flooding and the decomposition of litter of four emergent plant species in a prairie wetland. Wetlands 11, 1–16]).

Single-walled carbon nanotubes binding to human telomeric i-motif DNA under molecular-crowding conditions: More water molecules released

The natural occurrence of the human telomeric G-quadruplex or i-motif in vivo has not been demonstrated and the biological effects of the induction of these structures need to be clarified. Intracellular environments are highly crowded with various biomolecules and in vitro studies under molecular-crowding conditions will provide important information on how biomolecules behave in cells. Here we report that cell-mimic crowding can increase i-motif stability at acid pH and cause dehydration.

锦屏一级水电站高应力大断面地下洞室稳定性分析

According to the feature of high stress and large size underground tunnel , a method named DEFLAC is put forward in this paper. DEFLAC is such a method that use disturbing energy as criteria, and based on the simulating software of FLAC. Finally, the method is applied in the underground powerhouse project of Jin-Ping First-level Hydropower Station. The result is well. And some conclusions are got. (1) Based on the geological features of excavation unloading phenomena, they are concluded to three types, what’s more three corresponding mechanical modes are proposed to explain the unloading phenomena. (2) The relation of two standards , which is called GB50287-99 (T) and BQ ,is studied. And the main difference of them ,when they are applied in high stress zone ,is researched. (3) .A method named DEFLAC is put forward , which is combined disturbing energy method and FLAC simulating software. The two dimension and three dimension explicit finite difference expressions are deduced in this paper. (4) Compared the instability area achieved by FLAC and DEFLAC with the measured result, a conclusion is got. That is a more accurate result can be got by DEFLAC. (5) According to the main powerhouse first layer excavation project, the method to search and analyze the instability blocks is studied in this paper. Finally, the results got by FLAC and DEFLAC are compared .A conclusion is got that DEFLAC can judge the stability of blocks induced by intermittent joints, but Block Theory can’t. So more accurate block amount can be got by DEFLAC. It is an effective method to judge stability of blocks