简介:PiceamongolicaisanendemicandendangeredspeciesinChina.EcosystemmadeofPiceamongolicaisaspecialsandyforestecosysteminChina.Itisfoundatecotonebetweenforestandsteppe,oragriculturaldistrictandpastoralarea.Basedoninvestigation,thispaperdiscussedtheformationanddistributionofPiceamongolicaandstudieditsnatureaccordingtoecotonetheory.ItisclarifiedthatPiceamongolicabelongstoPiceameyeriseries.Thatistosay,itbecamealocalracethroughlong-termadaptationtothelocalclimate,thenformedallopatricsemi-species,andfinallyturnedintoataxonomicalspecies.Piceamongolicaforestisasuperzonalclimaxcommunitydevelopinginecotonebetweenforestzoneandsteppezone.
简介:Eightprovenancesof19-year-oldPiceakoraiensisNakaifromtheprovenancetrialsofMaoershan(45°20'N,127°30'E),Liangeshui(47°10'N,128°53'E)andJiagedaqi(50°24'N,124°07'E)inNortheastChinawereinvestigatedtoanalyzethegeneticvariationingrowthcharacteristics(treeheightanddiameter)andwoodcharacteristics(tracheidlength,tracheiddiameter,tracheidwallthickness,annualringwidthaswellaswooddensity).Greatvariationinheightgrowthandbreastheightdiametergrowthwasobservedamongtheprovenances,andalongwiththeincreaseoftreeage,theseprovenancespresenteddifferentgeographicadaptability.ThegrowthcharacteristicsofPiceakoraiensisstandatageof10inMaoershanandLiangshuiprovenancetrialshadapositivecorrelationwithlongitude,andwithincreaseoftreeageto15and19,thetreegrowthoftheprovenancesdisplayedasignificantpositivecorrelationwithlatitudeaswellasaltitude.Forwoodcharacteristics,greatvariationwasalsofoundamongtheprovenances.Thereexistsacloserelationbetweengrowthcharacteristicsandwoodpropertiesoftheprovenance.Theheightandbreastheightdiametergrowthoftheprovenancehadapositivecorrelationwithtracheiddiameterandannualringwidth,andanegativecorrelationwithtracheidwallthicknessandwooddensity.Geneticperformanceoftheprovenanceinallabovecharacteristicswasalsoinvestigatedinordertoprovidemoreusefulinformationforcomprehensiveselectionofthisspeciesforpulpwoodandplywoodproduction.
简介:Thelocaldamagessuchasknots,decay,andcrackscanbetranslatedintoareductionofservicelifeduetomechanicalandenvironmentalloadings.Inwoodconstruction,itisveryimportanttoevaluatetheweakestlocationanddetectdamageattheearliestpossiblestagetoavoidthefuturecatastrophicfailure.Inthisstudy,themodaltestingwasoperatedonwoodbeamstogeneratethefirsttwomodeshapes.Anovelstatisticalalgorithmwasproposedtoextractthedamageindicatorbycomputingthemodalflexibilitycurvaturebeforeandafterdamageintimbers.Thedifferentdamageseverities,damagelocations,anddamagecountsweresimulatedbyremovingmassfromintactbeamstoverifythealgorithm.Theresultsshowedthattheproposedstatisticalalgorithmwaseffectiveandsuitabletothedesigneddamagescenarios.Itwasreliabletodetectandlocatelocaldamagesunderdifferentseverities,locations,andcounts.Thepeakvaluesofthedamageindicatorscomputedfromthefirsttwomodeshapesweresensitivetodifferentdamageseveritiesandlocations.Theywerealsoreliabletodetectthemultipledamages.