Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

Biodiversity loss can affect ecosystem functions and services. Individual ecosystem functions generally show a positive asymptotic relationship with increasing biodiversity, suggesting that some species are redundant. However, ecosystems are managed and conserved for multiple functions, which may require greater biodiversity. Here we present an analysis of published data from grassland biodiversity experiments, and show that ecosystem multifunctionality does require greater numbers of species. We analysed each ecosystem function alone to identify species with desirable effects. We then calculated the number of species with positive effects for all possible combinations of functions. Our results show appreciable differences in the sets of species influencing different ecosystem functions, with average proportional overlap of about 0.2 to 0.5. Consequently, as more ecosystem processes were included in our analysis, more species were found to affect overall functioning. Specifically, for all of the analysed experiments, there was a positive saturating relationship between the number of ecosystem processes considered and the number of species influencing overall functioning. We conclude that because different species often influence different functions, studies focusing on individual processes in isolation will underestimate levels of biodiversity required to maintain multifunctional ecosystems.     

Melanoma biology and new targeted therapy

Melanoma is a cancer that arises from melanocytes, specialized pigmented cells that are found predominantly in the skin. The incidence of melanoma is rising steadily in western populations--the number of cases worldwide has doubled in the past 20 years. In its early stages malignant melanoma can be cured by surgical resection, but once it has progressed to the metastatic stage it is extremely difficult to treat and does not respond to current therapies. Recent discoveries in cell signalling have provided greater understanding of the biology that underlies melanoma, and these advances are being exploited to provide targeted drugs and new therapeutic approaches.     

安徽省高校教职工信息管理分析系统的开发与应用

本文介绍了“安徽省高等院校教职工信息管理分析系统”的设计思路、实现方法、程序模块和应用环境,详细描述了该系统的结构和功能,阐述了系统的特点、优点以及实现方案。目前,该系统已经开发完毕,通过鉴定,并在全省高校中推广使用,取得了良好的社会效益和经济效益。     

干线协调交叉口多相公交信号优先控制策略

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石墨烯/壳聚糖修饰玻碳电极 测定水样中痕量铜离子

采用控制电位电解法,在玻碳电极((GCE)上进行石墨烯(GN)/壳聚糖(CS)修饰膜的电沉积,将制得的膜修饰电极GN/CS/GCE在0.1 mol·L-1的HAc-NaAc电解液(pH=4.2)于-0.5 V(vs.SCE)电位下富集Cu2+,并用差分脉冲溶出伏安法测定.结果表明,该膜修饰电极对Cu2+的富集作用明显强...     

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