《保护生态学:生物圈和生物存活》简介

<正> 保护生态学从1969年沿用开始,一直作为一个概念和术语,没有发展成为一门有明确研究对象、范畴和方法论的独立学科。直到1993年由George W.Cox编辑,由Wm.C.Brown Publishers出版的《保护生态学:生物圈和生物存活》(Conservation Ecology:Biosphere and Biosurvival)才奠定了保护生态学理论和实践的基础。该书中G.W.Cox将传统生态学与其它相关学科的相关知识结合起来,运用了保护生物学的理论和方法。全书短小精悍,结构明快,共352页分为三大部分。第一部分回顾了生态学的概念,介绍了生态学的发展历史。接着介绍了"绝灭生态学"(The ecology of extinction),作者回顾了过去及近代生物的绝灭率,绝灭物种的生活史足迹等,认为:近代物种绝灭率由于人

Morphology and infraciliature of three species of Metaurostylopsis (Ciliophora, Stichotrichia): M. songi n. sp., M. salina n. sp., and M. marina (Kahl 1932) from sediments, saline ponds, and coastal waters.

Two new urostylid ciliates, Metaurostylopsis songi n. sp. and Metaurostylopsis salina n. sp. and Metaurostylopsis marina (Kahl 1932) are investigated using live observation and protargol impregnation. These species were isolated in Korea from intertidal sediments, saline ponds, and coastal waters. Metaurostylopsis songi is in vivo about 120 pm x 25 mu m, has a slenderly ellipsoidal body, colorless cortical granules in rows on ventral and dorsal body sides, about 54 macronuclear nodules, 28-47 adoral membranelles, five frontal, two or three frontoterminal and six or seven transverse cirri, and 9-12 midventral cirral pairs followed posteriorly by 1-3 single cirri. In vivo M. salina is about 60 pin x 25 mu m, has a pyriform body, colorless cortical granules irregularly arranged, about 45 macronuclear nodules, 18-23 adoral membranelles, three frontal, three to five frontoterminal and two to five transverse cirri, and four or five midventral cirral pairs followed posteriorly by five to seven single cirri. Both species have three marginal cirral rows on each body side and 3 long dorsal kineties. The Korean specimens of M. marina match the Chinese population in all main features. Metaurostylopsis songi differs from M. marina by the more slender body, the number of frontal cirri (invariably five vs. four), and the arrangement of cortical granules (in rows on dorsal and ventral cortex vs. only along dorsal kinetics and anterior body margin). Metaurostylopsis salina differs from its congeners by the distinctly smaller size, the pyriform body shape, the scattered cortical granules (vs. in rows), and number of frontal cirri. It differs from M. marina also by the number of midventral cirral pairs (four or five vs. seven to 11).