神农架植被及其生物多样性与垂直分布格局-兼论中国中、北亚热带植被带的划分

本文主要通过样线法和样方法相结合，进行了大量的群落学调查和分析，分别从植物区系、物种多样性的垂直分布格局和森林群落类型三个方面分析了神农架植被的基本特征及其物种多样性，结果表明： 1．神农架地区具有很高的物种丰富度，有高等植物3，479种，隶属于1，010属，202科。 其中，蕨类植物305种，80属，32科;种子植物3，174种，930属，170科，其中裸子植物32种，19属，6科，被子植物3，142种，911属，164科;单子叶植物501种，175属，21科，双子叶植物2，641种，736属，143科。植物区系属的分布区类型中北温带分布型最多，其次为东亚分布、泛热带分布、东亚北美间断分布、旧世界温带分布以及热带亚洲分布。中国特有成分占5.65%，较全国的8.12%低。温热比(温带分布型(8-11)属数与热带分布型(2-7)属数的比值）为1.200，比全国(0.385)高。 调查样方中共出现高等植物784种，隶属于454属，144科，其中蕨类植物41种，32属，16科;种子植物743种，422属，128科，其中裸子植物20种，14属，5科，被子植物723种，408属，123科;单子叶植物86种，58属，11科，双子叶植物637种，350属，112科。属的分布区类型中北温带分布型最多，其次为东亚分布、泛热带分布、东亚北美间断分布、旧世界温带分布以及热带亚洲分布。温热比为1.52，草本层>乔木层>灌木层分别为2.18、1.76和1.14。 2．神农架植被类型多样，具有常绿阔叶林、常绿落叶阔叶混交林、落叶阔叶林、针阔混交林、亚高山针叶林、硬叶常绿阔叶林和亚高山灌丛草甸等自然植被类型。本文，依据乔木物种的重要值将神农架地区的森林植被划分出了69个类型。用Twinspan将调查的森林群落划分为32组，能基本上反映群落间相似的关系。 3．神农架地区具有完整的植被垂直带谱：海拔900 (1300) m以下为常绿阔叶林带;海拔900 (1300) m～1500 (1800)ⅡI为常绿落叶阔叶混交林带;海拔1500 (1800) m-2000 (2200)m为落叶阔叶林带;海拔2000 (2200) m～2400 (2600)m为针阔混交林带：海拔2400 (2600)m以上为亚高山针叶林带。神农架地区植被的垂直带的分化从总体上比较显著，但由于小生境的异质性和人为干扰，垂直带谱又具有一定的模糊性和次生性。南北坡具有一定的差异，但不十分明显，也说明神农架植被的过渡性。 4．神农架物种多样性的垂直分布格局。神农架的物种多样性与海拔的关系，类似于“中间膨胀”规律(mid-altitude bulge)，在中低海拔处生物多样性最高。通过二次多项式回归拟合，得到如下拟合曲线： 1)海拔与总体物种数：y= _14.445x2+ 34.74lx+42.07，Xd=1.203km; 2)海拔与乔木层物种数：y=-6.9707x2+ 21.334x+0.2004，Xdrl.530km; 3)海拔与灌木层物种数：y=-6.1599x2+ 9.9747x+30.991，Xd=0.8 lOkm: 4)海拔与草本层物种数：y= _3.9907x2+ 10.455x+15.35，Xd-1.308km; 5）海拔与乔木层Shannon-Wiener指数：y=_0.3337x2+ 0.9877x+0.2537，Xd' 1.480km; 6)海拔与灌木层Shannon-Wiener指数：y=-0.1938xz+ 0.422lx+1.2103，Xd=1.089km： 7)海拔与草本层Shannon-Wiener指数：y=_0.1072x2+ 0.294lx+0.9954，Xd=1.372km; x为海拔( km)，y为各物种多样性指标，Xd为物种多样性的最大时的海拔。 从这些拟合曲线中可以看出：总体物种多样性在海拔1200m左右的常绿落叶阔叶混交林带最高：乔木层物种多样性在海拔1500m左右的常绿落叶阔叶混交林带与落叶阔叶林的过渡带最高;灌木层物种多样性在海拔800-llOOm左右的常绿阔叶林与常绿落叶阔叶混交林带的过渡带最高;草本层物种多样性在海拔1300-1400m左右的常绿落叶阔叶混交林带最高。 但物种多样性随海拔变化有许多的起伏和波动。这些波动有些反映了群落的垂直带谱随海拔梯度变化的特点，在垂直带谱的过渡区物种多样性往往较高;有些波动反映了一些特殊的生境，有些反映了人为活动的影响，造成了神农架植被的次生性。因此，影响神农架物种多样性垂直分布的因素有：植被本身的性质和特点、过渡带的特点、生境的异质性和人为活动。 5．神农架植被水平地带性的过渡性。海拔1300m以下的植物属的分布区类型的温热比南坡总是比北坡小，而且相差十分显著，反映了神农架作为植被分界线的价值。神农架南坡的基带植被是常绿阔叶林，因此南坡属于中亚热带。北坡的基带植被，虽然也有常绿树种的零星分布，甚至有小块的常绿阔叶林，完全由于小生境所至，分布的主要类型是常绿落叶阔叶混交林，应属于北亚热带。因此，神农架是中、北亚热带重要的过渡地带。神农架地区中北亚热带的具体分界线宜按照分长江干流和汉水的水岭来划界，即猴子石、大窝坑、神农架、神农顶、老君山一线，南坡属于中亚热带，北坡属于北亚热带。 总之，神农架处于我国中、北亚热带的过渡带，具有过渡带的性质，具有很高的物种多样性，拥有完整的植被垂直带谱，具有多种多样的植物群落及其组成的生态系统。而且，具有我国许多特有植物和珍稀濒危保护植物和许多资源植物。因此，神农架植被在我国植被体系中具有重要的地位，是我国生物多样性最丰富的地区之一，是生物多样性保护的关键地区，也应是生物多样性研究的热点地区。 另外，调查分析了黄山和万朝山植被及其物种多样性与垂直分布格局，结果表明： 6．黄山样方中共出现高等植物259种，隶属于263属，110科，其中蕨类植物14种，II属，8科，种子植物345种，152属，105科，其中裸子植物9种，8属，6科，被子植物336种，144属，99科，其中单子叶植物37种，27属，6科，双子叶植物299种，117属，90科。属的分布区类型中北温带分布最多，其次为东亚分布和泛热带分布，再次为东亚北美间断分布、热带亚洲分布以及旧世界温带分布，与神农架和万朝山也较相似，但热带分布的属更多一些。温热比为1.1875，灌木层>草本层>乔木层，分别为1.3818、1.2609和1.2143。 黄山的森林植被类型有针叶林、常绿阔叶林、常绿落叶阔叶混交林、针阔混交林、落叶阔叶林和竹林。Twinspan将调查的森林群落划分为22组，反映群落间相似的关系，比较清楚和适用。依据乔木物种的重要值将森林植被划分出了34个类型。黄山物种多样性的与海拔的关系不十分明显。黄山植被的垂直带谱不是十分明显，将其垂直带谱划分为：海拔1300m(1500m)以下为常绿阔叶林带;海拔1300m(1500m)-1500m(1600m)常绿落叶阔叶混交林 带;1500m(1600m)以上为落叶阔叶林、黄山松林、山地灌木草丛带。垂直带谱在不同坡向上有差别，东、南、西坡的相似性较大，而北坡与其差别较大。 7．万朝山样方中共出现高等植物490种，隶属于339属，124科，其中蕨类植物21种，18属，11科，种子植物469种，321属，113科，其中裸子植物9种，7属，4科，被子植物460种，314属，109科，其中单子叶植物47种，37属，11科，双子叶植物413种，277属，98科。植物属的分布区类型中，北温带分布所占最多，其次为泛热带分布、东亚分布、东亚北美间断分布、旧世界温带分布以及热带亚洲分布，。温热比为1.3366，草本层>乔木层>灌木层，分别为1.5429、1.4063和1.0645。 万朝山的植被类型包括针叶林、落叶阔叶林、针阔混交林和常绿落时阔叶混交林，但没有典型的常绿阔叶林。依据乔木物种的重要值将森林植被划分出了20个类型。万朝山物种多样性与海拔的关系则不十分明显。万朝山的人为干扰比较强，植被的次生性很大，南、北坡物种多样性随海拔升高的起伏较大。

神农架巴山冷杉林种群生态学研究

巴山冷杉（Abies fargesii）是松科冷杉属常绿乔木，是秦巴山地森林的重要树种之一，为我国特有的重要用材树种和经济林树种。近年来，由于乱砍滥伐、采育失调等人为干扰的影响，许多地区的巴山冷杉群落处于消退状态，原始林日趋减少。神农架地区是巴山冷杉天然分布区的东界，这里分布着大片巴山冷杉纯林，对这一地区巴山冷杉的种群生态学的专门性研究较少。本研究包括三方面的内容：1.神农架地区巴山冷杉林的物种组成与群落结构;2.巴山冷杉林的种群结构与动态;3.巴山冷杉群落主要树种的分布格局，旨在为巴山冷杉林的培育及天然林的保护提供理论依据。 神农架巴山冷杉林具有典型的温带常绿针叶林性质，巴山冷杉在群落中占绝对优势，红桦、粉红杜鹃为乔木层次优种。群落物种组成丰富，1公顷样地内共有维管束植物34科63属74种，以温带性分布占优势，群落中以中小型革质、单叶的常绿高位芽植物占多数。群落成层现象明显，结构不很复杂，在垂直方向上可划分为乔木层、灌木层、草本层和苔藓层，乔木层没有明显的亚层，灌木层不太发达，草本层以菊科植物为主，林下苔藓层发达。 巴山冷杉种群为进展型种群，幼苗储备丰富，但幼树缺失，属林窗更新方式。高度结构基本呈倒金字塔形，植株个体数随冠幅级的递增呈倒“J”形分布，冠幅小于20m2的植株占87.4％，其中5m2以下最多（30.8％）。冠幅与胸径的关系比与树高更密切，冠幅与胸径的回归方程为y＝2.7118e0.0308x，R2＝0.520。 定量研究了0-40m尺度上巴山冷杉、红桦和粉红杜鹃种群的空间格局。结果表明，巴山冷杉种群在0-16m尺度上表现为聚集分布，16-40m尺度上表现为随机分布;各年龄阶段的分布格局也有所不同，幼年种群为强烈的聚集分布，随着巴山冷杉的生长，聚集强度降低，逐渐扩散为随机分布。红桦种群在0-2ｍ、11-18ｍ以及20-21ｍ的尺度上表现为聚集分布，在其余尺度上为随机分布;a2、a3级的个体在0-4m的小尺度上均为聚集分布，尺度大于4ｍ时全部表现为随机分布。粉红杜鹃为聚集分布，且受研究尺度与年龄大小的影响不大，表现出对高竞争环境的适应性特征。

中国北方温带地区针茅和锦鸡儿属植物的分布格局模拟及气候变化影响评价

在我国，小叶锦鸡儿（Caragana microphylla）、中间锦鸡儿（Caragana intermedia）、柠条锦鸡儿（Caragana korshinskii）、藏锦鸡儿（Caragana tibetica）和狭叶锦鸡儿（Caragana stenophylla）主要分布于北方温带地区，是造林、固沙、饲用及观赏的重要灌木，而贝加尔针茅（Stipa baicalensisi）、大针茅（Stipa grandis）、克氏针茅（Stipa krylovii）、本氏针茅（Stipa bungeana）、短花针茅（Stipa breviflora）、沙生针茅（Stipa glareosa）和戈壁针茅（Stipa gobica）是我国北方温带地区具有重要饲用价值和水土保持功效的多年生密丛禾草。这5种锦鸡儿灌木和7种针茅草本植物在东北、华北和西北地区的生态环境建设及社会经济发展中发挥特殊作用。关于它们地理分布与气候关系的深入研究十分必要，可以为其种质资源的开发和改善生态环境提供理论依据。 本研究首先全面收集这12个物种在中国北方温带干旱－半干旱地区的全部地理分布资料，利用ArcGIS 9.0软件绘制现状分布图。通过分析其现实分布格局，发现小叶锦鸡儿、中间锦鸡儿和柠条锦鸡儿在空间上呈现出从东到西的地理替代分布格局，继续向西南方向则分布有藏锦鸡儿，向西北方向分布有狭叶锦鸡儿。贝加尔针茅、大针茅、克氏针茅和戈壁针茅也在空间上呈现出自东向西的地理替代分布格局，克氏针茅向南被本氏针茅替代，短花针茅和沙生针茅没有明显的地理替代分布现象。5种锦鸡儿和7种针茅的分布范围分别又都有一定的重叠。 整理12个物种分布区内的气象台站长期记录，选择计算16个具有重要生物学意义的水热指标值;进而用方差分析、多重比较和因子分析相结合的方法，研究控制这5种锦鸡儿和7种针茅地理分布的主导驱动因子。结果表明：控制小叶锦鸡儿和中间锦鸡儿间地理分布差异的主导因子是水分因子，特别是湿度;水分因子同样是控制中间锦鸡儿和柠条锦鸡儿间地理分布差异的主导因子，特别是生长季及年降水量;控制柠条锦鸡儿和藏锦鸡儿间地理分布差异的主导因子是夏季高温，控制柠条锦鸡儿和狭叶锦鸡儿地理分布差异的是冬季低温。控制贝加尔针茅、大针茅、克氏针茅和戈壁针茅间替代分布的主导气候因子是年降水量和生长季降水量。控制克氏针茅和本氏针茅间替代分布的主导气候因子是温暖指数。 运用耦合BIOCLIM模型的软件包“DIVA-GIS”模拟预测这5种锦鸡儿和7种针茅的现状潜在分布区及未来气候变化的影响。结果表明：现状潜在分布区与实际分布区均有很好的一致性;在CO2浓度加倍的未来气候情景下，这些植物都会向北大幅度迁移，在我国的分布范围均缩小，分布格局发生显著变化。用ROC曲线和Kappa统计值法验证模型表明，BIOCLIM的模拟精度较高。利用BIOCLIM模型绘制了这12个物种的生物气候分室图，并根据生物气候分室确定了物种的最适气候范围。 为了研究锦鸡儿和针茅分布对气候变化的敏感性，本文在现实气象数据的基础上模拟预测了不同降水与温度变化情景下（保持年降水量不变，年均温分别增加1℃、2℃、3℃和4℃;保持年均温不变，年降水量分别增加和减少10％）的物种分布范围，发现随着气温升高和降水量增加，全部锦鸡儿和针茅都会向高纬度地区缓慢迁移，而当降水量减少时，它们将向低纬度地区迁移。不同气候情景下的物种分布范围迁移幅度表明，5种锦鸡儿中狭叶锦鸡儿和中间锦鸡儿的脆弱性相对较大，7种针茅中克氏针茅和贝加尔针茅的脆弱性相对较大。气温的单独变化控制这些物种分布区的未来迁移。 最后，本文探索了锦鸡儿和针茅的气候变化影响的阈值。就核心分布区而言，小叶锦鸡儿、贝加尔针茅、大针茅、沙生针茅的气候变化影响阈值是气温升高4℃，降水减少10%;中间锦鸡儿和狭叶锦鸡儿是气温升高4℃，降水增加10%;柠条锦鸡儿和本氏针茅是气温升高4℃，降水不变;藏锦鸡儿是气温升高2℃，降水增加10%;克氏针茅和短花针茅是气温升高3℃，降水不变;戈壁针茅是气温升高1℃，降水不变。

A preliminary account and review of the simple methods for determining the operational parameters of fishing gear, underwater, with notes on its application

An account and review of the simple methods for determining the operational parameters of fishing gear, underwater, such a tilt of otter boards (outwards or inwards, forwards or afterwards), vertical height of net, its horizontal spread, angle of divergence at bosom, spread between wing tips, angle of inclination of danlenos, butterfly, slope of legs and sweep-line has been given. The relationship of distance between the otter boards spread and the vertical height of net has been obtained as generally linear. The possibilities of regulating the vertical height of net (dependent variate) and spread of otter boards (independent variate) for increasing the fishing efficiency has been discussed. The angle of attack of oval shaped otter boards used during the operations still remain undetermined, however, it has been explained how the best angle of attack for increasing the efficiency of gear can be obtained by regulating the ratio of depth to warp for a given net. The inadequacy of the mere indices of catch per hour of trawling in comparing the relative efficiency of trawls in gear research studies has been indicated. The importance of estimating the operational parameters and its application to commercial fisheries depending upon the distribution pattern of fish and in gear research has been discussed. The efficiency of the jelly bottle method has been compared statistically with the observations made on the trawl gear underwater with instruments.

A report on a survey with the r/v "Ernst Haeckel" in July-August 1980: shallow-water shrimp and by-catch, oceanography

A survey of the Sofala Bank (Mozambique) was conducted to: estimate the abundance of shallow-water shrimp in the area between 16 degree 20'S and 20 degree 20'S, from 5 to 100 meters; estimate the shallow-water shrimp species composition and distribution pattern of main species. Collect biological data of the main species, Penaeus indicus and Metapenaeus monoceros; study the shrimp by-catch, species composition and biological data collection of the most abundant species of commercial value; and collect environmental data to clarify the shelf circulation on the Sofala Bank and the main oceanic features in the regions 15 degree S to 18 degree S and south of 22 degree S.

黑长臂猿栖息地旱冬瓜和潺槁木姜子种群分布格局和动态

旱冬瓜(Alnus nepalensis)和潺槁木姜子(Litsea glutinosa)是云南省无量山黑长臂猿(Nomascus concolor)栖息地中的两种常见乔木．利用最近邻体法和Heygi单木竞争指数模型，对两个种群的分布格局 和竞争情况进行分析．结果表明，旱冬瓜在不同生长阶段均呈现随机分布，而伴生的潺槁木姜子种群则呈 现随机分布一聚集分布一均匀分布的变化趋势．种问竞争和物种自身生物学特性对两个种群的分布格局具 有显著影响．旱冬瓜种群的龄级结构为衰退型，潺槁木姜子种群则为成长型．

Numbers of migratory waterbirds at Lake Lashihai, China

Between October 1999 and April 2000, WC surveyed the waterbirds at Lake Lashihai, China. A total of 52 species were recorded, of which one species was a resident, 34 were winter visitors, and 17 were passage migrants. Species richness was highest in November. Passage migrants mainly occurred in October, November, and April, and they stayed longer at the lake during their autumn migration than during the spring migration. The seasonal distribution pattern of total numbers of all waterbirds was bimodal. One peak occurred between late December and early January, and the other in middle March. The seasonal distribution patterns of 15 common species have been classified a. bimodal, unimodal, or irregular. The numbers of five common species were variable in middle winter, and their numerical Change in contiguous weeks were more than 30%, suggesting that local movements might be frequent.

Phylogeny and zoogeography of the cyprinid hemicultrine group (Cyprinidae : Cultrinae)

Ying-Gui Dai and Jun-Xing Yang (2003) Phylogeny and zoogeography of the cyprinid hemicultrine group (Cyprinidae: Cultrinae). Zoological Studies 42(1): 73-92. The hemicultrine group consists of middle-sized cyprinids in Asia which taxonomically belong to the subfamily Cultrinae in the Cyprinidae (Cypriniformes), but there has been no convincing generic phylogenetic hypothesis proposal so far. On the basis of a morphological study of 65 specimens soaked in formalin and 14 skeletal specimens of 8 species in 6 genera within the hemicultrine group as an ingroup, a 70-character matrix was obtained. The generic phylogenetic relationships of the hemicultrine group are hypothesized with the matrix by the method of cladistic analysis. When the species Rasborinus lineatus or Cultrichthys erythropterus is used as the sole outgroup, the matrix gives the same single most-parsimonious tree of generic phylogenetic relationships within the hemicultrine group which shows that the hemicultrine group forms a monophyletic group. However, when Rasborinus lineatus is used as the sole outgroup and Cultrichthys erythropterus and Paralaubuca barroni are included in the ingroup, the hemicultrine group is validated to represent a paraphyletic group, and the hemicultrine group and the genus Paralaubuca form a monophyletic group. The tree of generic relationships and zoogeography of the monophyletic group comprising the hemicultrine group and the genus Paralaubuca suggest the following: (1) The monophyletic group comprises 2 smaller monophyletic groups: the genera Hemiculterella + Pseudohemiculter + Hainania and the genera Hemiculter + Paralaubuca + Pseudolaubuca + Toxabramis. (2) The sister groups of the monophyletic group show both overlapping and vicariant distribution patterns; therefore the generic distribution pattern of the monophyletic group maybe have resulted from both dispersal and vicariance events. (3) The monophyletic group probably originated on the Asian mainland from the Yangtze River to the Pearl River and on Hainan Island in China. (4) The monophyletic group probably originated after the Japanese Archipelago was separated from the Asian mainland at the beginning of the Quaternary Period in the Cenozoic but before Taiwan, Hainan Island, and Indonesia were completely isolated from the Asian mainland after the ice age in the Quaternary Period. (5) Speciation of the genus Hemiculter should have been the earliest, and those of the genera Paralaubuca, Pseudolaubuca, and Hainania ought to be the latest in the process of evolution of this monophyletic group. http://www.sinica.edu.tw/zool/zoolstud/42.1/73.pdf.

Past trends, present stocks and possible future state of the fisheries of the Tanzania part of the Lake Victoria

The Tanzania part of Lake Victoria is the most important single fishery resource for the country. Past fishing practice caused disparity between the relative abundance in the catches and in the available stocks by overfishing some species while under-fishing others. Preliminary studies of distribution pattern, biomass estimates, etc, as derived from bollom trawl exploratory data, and the trend of the commercial catch statistics from 1958 to 1970, suggest that many of the commercially preferred species may not have the biotic potential 10 sustain higher yields under present ecological and fishing regimes. Haplochromis and a few other fish might be the only hope. Geographic extension of fishing to deeper waters may not be very promising as species diversificarion and fish density decline with depth. To develop and manage the fisheries, make full use of the resource and ensure economic and biological perpetuation of thc fishery, the appropriate fishing strategy cannot be properly developcd overnight.

Past trends and recent research on the fisheries of Lake Victoria in relation to possible future developments

EAFFRO and UNPP/LVFRP bottom trawl exploratory data have been used to describe the depth distributional pattern. relative abundance and magnitude of the demersai fishes in Lake Victoria. The results have been compared with the commercial catch estimates, and various interpretations of the trends in the annual catches and experimental biomass estimates in relation to possible future developments of the fishery have been suggested. Though it is highly desirable to develop the fishery such as by supplementary trawling, certain social and biological consequences and considerations needs to proceed in graded steps guided by several research disciplines. The past trends of the fisheries of Lake Victoria are briefly considered. Recent exploratory bottom trawl data, by EAFFRO and UNDP/LVFRP, have been used to define demersal fish stocks of Lake Victoria in terms of their magnitude, relative abundance and distribution pattern by depth. Enstence of disparity between the relative abundance of the various species in their commercial catches and in their present biomass estimates is pointed out and the various aspects associated with the necessary modification of the fishing practices are discussed. Further and continuing research of the bio-socio-economic vectors of the fishery will be necessary in order to generate the rationale of an efficient fishing regime for a rational management strategy and realistic utilization of the fishery resource.

Effect of bend orientation on life and puncture point location due to solid particle erosion of a high concentration flow in pneumatic conveyors

An investigation into predicting failure of pneumatic conveyor pipe bends due to hard solid particle impact erosion has been carried out on an industrial scale test rig. The bend puncture point locations may vary with many factors. However, bend orientation was suspected of being a main factor due to the biased particle distribution pattern of a high concentration flow. In this paper, puncture point locations have been studied with different pipe bend orientations and geometry (a solids loading ratio of 10 being used for the high concentration flow). Test results confirmed that the puncture point location is indeed most significantly influenced by the bend orientation (especially for a high concentration flow) due to the biased particle distribution and biased particle flux distribution. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

云南自然保护区珍稀濒危哺乳动物分布格局的聚类分析

　采用聚类分析测定云南地区9 个国家自然保护区珍稀濒危哺乳动物分布格局的相似性。以编码为 1 的有物种分布及编码为0 的无物种分布作为二元状态,建立二元数据列联表,应用类与类的空间距离Dpq聚类。 结果表明,珍稀濒危哺乳动物的分布未出现纬度梯度变异,横断山区省为一类,西南区省和华南区省与云南动物地 理区划系统基本一致,相邻保护区无量山与哀牢山分别为一类。在保护区之间应建立生物廊道,以促进物种基因 的交流,扩大面积较小的保护区,合并面积相对小的保护区。

The accumulation of alkylphenols in submersed plants in spring in urban lake, China

The concentrations of alkylphenols (APs) were investigated in water, sediments and submersed macrophytes from the Moon Lake, Wuhan city, China. The water samples contained APs, ranging up to 26.4 mu g l(-1) for nonylphenol (NP) and 0.68 mu g l(-1) for octylphenol (OP). APs were found in the sediment samples with concentrations ranging from 4.08 to 14.8 for NP and from 0.22 to 1.25 mu g l(-1) dry weight for OP. The samples from the site near former sewage inlet showed the highest concentrations of APs in both water and sediments. The results of distribution pattern and dynamics of NP and OP in submersed macrophytes of the Moon Lake showed that the two pollutants were all found in Myriophyllum verticillatum, Elodea nuttallii, Ceratophyllum oryzetorum, and Potamageton crispus collected from the Moon Lake. For NP, M. verticillatum had the highest capacity of accumulation, followed by E. nuttallii, C. oryzetorum and P. crispus. However the distribution pattern of OP differed from that of NP, and the highest amount of accumulation was observed in E. nuttallii, followed by M. verticillatum, P. crispus, and C. oryzetorum. The temporal pattern of APs was also observed in submersed macrophytes from March to May, and the highest accumulation period was in May. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Calibration of alkenone unsaturation index with growth temperature for a lacustrine species, Chrysotila lamellosa (Haptophyceae)

Although long chain alkenones (LCKs) occur widely in lacustrine sediments, their origin is not clear. Here, we report a lacustrine source, the non-calcifying species Chrysotila lamellosa Anand (Haptophyceae), collected and isolated from an inland saline water body, Lake Xiarinur (Inner Mongolia, China). Its alketione pattern is similar to those of coastal marine strains of C lamellosa,but the relationship between U-37(K') index and culture temperature for the lacustrine species is quite different from that of the coastal species. A significant feature of the alkenones in this strain of C lamellosa is a lack of C-38 methyl alkenones, which might be used to distinguish the species from the marine haptophyte species Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa oceanica. The higher C-38 tetraunsaturated compound abundance might be another important feature for distinguishing the C lamellosa alkenone producer from the coastal species Isochrysis galbana. This alkenone distribution pattern has been detected in many lakes, which suggests that C lamellosa or a closely related species might be a very common alkenone precursor in lacustrine systems. We examined U-37(K') and U-37(K) values for C lamellosa as a function of culture temperature in a batch culture experiment. The calibration for U-37(K') vs. culture temperature (T) was U-37(K') = 0.0011 x T-2 - 0.0157 x T + 0.1057(n = 14, r(2) = 0.99) from 10 degrees C to 22 degrees C or U-37(K') = 0.0257 x T - 0.2608(n = 9, r(2) = 0.97) from 14 degrees C to 22 degrees C. U-37(K) vs. culture temperature was U-37(K) = 0 0377 x T - 0.5992(n = 14, r(2) = 0.98) from 10 degrees C to 22 degrees C. Our experiments show that the alkenone unsaturation index (U-37(K')) is strongly controlled by culture temperature and can be used for palaeoclimate reconstruction. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Identification of novel SINEs from Cyprinidae and their evolutionary significance

Short interspersed nuclear elements (SINEs) are widespread among eukaryotic genomes. They are repetitive DNA sequences that have been amplified by retrotransposition. In this study, a class of SINEs were isolated from the Opsariichthys bidens genome, and named Opsar. Sequence analysis confirmed that Opsar is a new class of typical SINEs derived from tRNA molecules. With the tRNA-derived region of Opsar and through BLASTN search, we further identified Zb-SINEs from the zebrafish genome, which includes two groups: Zb-SINE-A and Zb-SINE-B. The Zb-SINE-A group comprises subfamilies of -Al--A5, and the Zb-SINE-B group is a dimer of the tRNA(Ala)-derived region and shares a similar dimeric composition to Alu. Zb-SINEs are composed of three distinct regions: a 5 end tRNA-derived region, a tRNA-unrelated region and a 3 end AT-rich region. The flanking regions are AT rich. The average length of Zb-SINEs elements is about 340 6p. Zb-SINEs account for as much as 0.1% of the whole zebrafish genome. About 70% of the Zb-SINEs are on chromosomes 11, 18, and 19. These Zb-SINEs were characterized by PCR and dot hybridization. The distribution pattern of Zb-SINEs in genome strongly supports the master genes model. The tRNA-derived regions of Opsar and Zb-SINEs were compared with the tRNA(Ala) gene, and they showed 76% similarity, indicating that Opsar and Zb-SINEs originated from an inactive tRNA(Ala) sequence or a tRNA(Ala)-like sequence. In view of the evolutionary status of zebrafish in the Cyprinidae, we deduced that Zb-SINEs were a very old class of interspersed sequences.