Polyethylenimine-modified sugarcane bagasse cellulose as an effective adsorbent for removing Cu(II) from aqueous solution

Polyethylenimine-modified sugarcane bagasse cellulose (SBCMP), as a new adsorbent, was synthesized by the reaction of polyethylenimine (PEI) with sugarcane bagasse cellulose and glutaraldehyde. The adsorption of Cu(II) by SBCMP was pH-dependent, and the higher removal efficiency of Cu(II) appeared in the range of pH 3.0–6.0. The adsorption isothermal data fitted well with the Langmuir model, and the maximum adsorption capacity of SBCMP was up to 107.5 mg/g. The adsorption kinetics was best described by the pseudo-second-order kinetic. The adsorption of Cu(II) by SBCMP was unfavorable at high temperatures, and thermodynamic analyses implied that the adsorption of Cu(II) by SBCMP was an exothermic reaction. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) combined with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that Cu(II) adsorption on SBCMP mainly controlled by the nitrogen atoms of  NH group in PEI. The results of regeneration cycles showed that SBCMP was suitable for reuse in the adsorption of Cu(II) from aqueous solution. These experimental results suggested that SBCMP is expected to be a new biomass adsorbent with high efficiency in removing Cu(II) from wastewater.     

天然胶乳床垫和枕芯的发展

综述介绍天然胶乳床垫和枕芯的生产工艺、产品特性以及存在的问题。天然胶乳床垫和枕芯的生产工艺主要有邓禄普法和塔勒莱法胶乳发泡工艺,塔勒莱法工艺先进,但受设备结构复杂和投资大的限制,只有少数公司采用;邓禄普法性价比高,工艺趋于完善,被大多数厂家采用。天然胶乳床垫和枕芯具有优异的弹性、支撑性、透气性和抑菌抗螨功能,与睡眠者有良好的贴合性,可提高睡眠质量。巨大的市场需求导致天然胶乳床垫和枕芯产品存在部分假冒伪劣和粗制滥造产品,需要监管部门尽快制订产品标准并加强管理,引导和规范天然胶乳床垫和枕芯生产行业健康发展。     

The implications of serial correlation and time-lag effects for the impact study of climate change on vegetation dynamics – a case study with Hulunber meadow steppe,Inner Mongolia

Ecological time series data are widely used in ecological research thanks to the development of remote-sensing technologies and fixed ecological research stations. However, the serial correlation issue with time series, which violates the fundamental assumption of independence for traditional statistical models or analysis, is rarely considered by ecologists in vegetation–climate relationship research. In addition, the issue of time lags between climate change and vegetation response is also often ignored. Inadequate consideration of these issues produces misleading results in some cases. In this article, we propose an approach based on the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model and the nonparametric test to address serial correlation issue and distribution requirements for the valid statistical analysis of time series data. With Hulunber meadow steppe as a case, we applied this approach to analyse the role of climate factors in vegetation dynamics based on leaf area index (LAI) data and climatic data. The results showed that the LAI dynamics of Hulunber meadow steppe were mainly related to temperature with the time lag of zero, whereas the impact of precipitation on LAI dynamics was not statistically obvious. The comparison of regression models that deal with serial correlation and residual normality to different extents showed that ignoring the serial correlation issue with time series data likely produces misleading results, highlighting the importance of serial correlation removal. The combination of nonparametric correlation tests with ARIMA-based cross-correlation analysis also proved quite useful in reducing the chance of spurious correlation and time lags resulting from outlier values in ARIMA-based cross-correlation.     

复种指数遥感监测研究进展

复种指数是对耕地资源利用状况的一种度量,其对于指导农业生产及研究气候变化等具有重要意义。利用遥感技术进行复种指数监测,不仅客观、高效、低成本,而且可以获取更佳的空间分布信息,近些年已成为农业遥感领域的研究热点。对复种指数遥感监测进展进行了综述:首先归纳和梳理了已有的几种复种指数遥感监测方法,并分析了各种方法的优缺点;然后在总结该领域研究现存关键问题的基础上,探讨了未来的发展趋势:(1)在内容上丰富,加强特殊的作物熟制信息监测;(2)在空间上拓展,加强地形复杂区域的复种指数监测;(3)在时间上延伸,加强复种指数长期的动态变化监测。     

面向对象的黑河下游河岸林植被覆盖信息分类!

地表植被覆盖是描述区域生态系统的基础数据,也是全球及区域陆面过程、生态与水文众多模型中所需的重要地表参数。对于黑河下游额济纳绿洲,以Landsat 30m分辨率为主的遥感影像难以真实提取下游绿洲河岸林植被覆盖信息,而高分辨率影像目标地物轮廓清晰、空间细节信息丰富,有利于干旱背景下景观破碎、异质性强的植被覆盖信息分类。基于黑河下游额济纳绿洲QuickBird影像,通过面向对象的分类方法提取耕地、胡杨、柽柳、草地和裸地等主要植被覆盖类型,分类总体精度和Kappa系数分别为84.71%和0.7986。结果表明:利用面向对象分类方法对高分辨率影像进行植被覆盖信息分类,分类结果较好,能够满足精度要求。     

21世纪初中国农作物与自然植被物候时空差异

利用离散小波方法对2001~2012年MODIS EVI时序数据进行平滑,基于动态阈值法提取我国植被物候信息,探讨农作物和自然植被物候的时空变化特征。结果表明:(1)我国第一季农作物开始、峰值和结束日期主要以华北平原为中心随海拔的上升而推迟,而自然植被物候更早20d左右,且随海拔的上升先推迟后提前;(2)物候在时序上有显著变化的第一季区域,43.98%开始日期、52.83%峰值日期呈现提前趋势,多在开始晚、结束早的西南区及东北与内蒙古交界处,其余区域开始、峰值日期及81.80%结束日期呈推迟趋势,发生在开始早、结束晚的黄土高原及双季农作区;农作物物候推迟幅度小于自然植被。     

Design and implementation of a general software library for using NSGA-II with SWAT for multi-objective model calibration

Calibrating watershed-scale hydrologic models remains a critical but challenging step in the modeling process. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is one example of a widely used watershed-scale hydrologic model that requires calibration. The calibration algorithms currently available to SWAT modelers through freely available and open source software, however, are limited and do not include many multi-objective genetic algorithms (MOGAs). The Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) has been shown to be an effective and efficient MOGA calibration algorithm for a wide variety of applications including for SWAT model calibration. Therefore, the objective of this study was to create an open source software library for multi-objective calibration of SWAT models using NSGA-II. The design and implementation of the library are presented, followed by a demonstration of the library through a test case for the Upper Neuse Watershed in North Carolina, USA using six objective functions in the model calibration.     

A detection problem: Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of a land surface temperature approach to detecting dynamics of water use by groundwater-dependent vegetation

Sustainable management of groundwater-dependent vegetation (GDV) requires the accurate identification of GDVs, characterisation of their water use dynamics and an understanding of associated errors. This paper presents sensitivity and uncertainty analyses of one GDV mapping method which uses temperature differences between time-series of modelled and observed land surface temperature (LST) to detect groundwater use by vegetation in a subtropical woodland. Uncertainty in modelled LST was quantified using the Jacobian method with error variances obtained from literature. Groundwater use was inferred where modelled and observed LST were significantly different using a Student's t-test. Modelled LST was most sensitive to low-range wind speeds (<1.5 m s⁻¹), low-range vegetation height (<=0.5 m), and low-range leaf area index (<=0.5 m² m⁻²), limiting the detectability of groundwater use by vegetation under such conditions. The model-data approach was well-suited to detection of GDV because model-data errors were lowest for climatic conditions conducive to groundwater use.     

An innovative method for dynamic update of initial water table in XXT model based on neural network technique

The initial subsurface flow of whole basin plays a quite important role in daily rainfall–runoff simulation. However, general physically based rainfall–runoff model, such as the XXT model (a hybrid model of TOPographic MODEL and the Xinanjiang model), is difficult to catch the non-linear factors and take full advantages of previous information of rainfall and runoff that is essential to the initial watershed average saturation deficit of each time step. In order to address the issue, this study selected the initial subsurface flow for the whole time series of the XXT model as the breakthrough point, and used the observed runoff and rainfall data of two days before the present day as the inputs of artificial neural network (ANN) and initial subsurface flow of the present day as the output, then integrated ANN into runoff generation module of XXT model and finally tested the integrated model for daily runoff simulation in large-scale and semi-arid Linyi watershed, eastern China. In addition, this work employ particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to seek the best combination of 6 physical parameters in XXT and a great number of weights in ANN to avoid the local optimization. The results show that the integrated model performs much better than XXT in terms of Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NE) and root mean square error (RMSE). Hence, the new integrating approach proposed here is promising for daily rainfall–runoff modeling and can be easily extended to other process-based models.     

基于MODIS NDVI的吉林省植被覆盖度动态遥感监测

植被覆盖度是植物群落覆盖地表状况的一个综合量化指标,植被覆盖及其变化是区域环境变化的重要指示,对于区域水文及生态状况、全球变化的区域响应等都具有重要意义。以MODIS NDVI为数据源,采用像元二分模型,提取2000~2007年吉林省植被覆盖度,获取不同时期的植被覆盖度图,并进一步分析了植被覆盖度变化的原因。结果表明：吉林省植被覆盖度由东部到西部逐渐降低,其中白山地区植被覆盖情况最好。过去8 a间,吉林省植被覆盖度总体呈上升趋势,2007年植被覆盖度达到最高,为83.04%。在此期间,中部地区和西部地区植被覆盖增加了 797.52 km²,占总面积变化的74.79%。生态恢复工程、降水和气温等是影响植被覆盖度变化的主要因素。