Spatial-explicitly mapping of the hotspots and coldspots is a vital link in the priority setting for ecosystem services （ES） conservation. However, little research has identified and tested the compactness and effic...Spatial-explicitly mapping of the hotspots and coldspots is a vital link in the priority setting for ecosystem services （ES） conservation. However, little research has identified and tested the compactness and efficiency of their ES hotspots and coldspots, which may weaken the effectiveness of ecological conservation. In this study, based on the RUSLE model and Getis-Ord Gi＊ statistics, we quantified the variation of annual soil conservation services （SC） and identified the statistically significant hotspots and coldspots in Shaanxi Province of China from 2000 to 2013. The results indicate that, 1） areas with high SC presented a significantly increasing trend as well, while areas with low SC only changed slightly; 2） SC hotspots and coldspots showed an obvious spatial differentiation--the hotspots were mainly spatially ag- gregated in southern Shaanxi, while the coldspots were mainly distributed in the Guanzhong Basin and Sand-windy Plateau; and 3） the identified hotspots had the highest capacity of providing SC, with 29.6% of the total area providing 59.7% of the total service. In contrast, the coldspots occupied 46.3% of the total area, but only provided 17.2% of the total SC. In addition to conserving single ES, the Getis-Ord Gi＊ statistics method can also help identify multi-functional priority areas for conserving multiple ES and biodiversity.展开更多
The Ms ≥ 8.0 strong earthquakes occurring in Chile since 1800 were analyzed using the ternary, quaternary, and quinary commensurability methods and the butterfly structure diagram, and it was believed that the earthq...The Ms ≥ 8.0 strong earthquakes occurring in Chile since 1800 were analyzed using the ternary, quaternary, and quinary commensurability methods and the butterfly structure diagram, and it was believed that the earthquake signal in Chile in 2014 is relatively strong, a large earthquake is likely to occur in Chile in 2014. An analysis of spatial epicenter migrations showed that the longitudinal and latitudinal epicenter migra- tions have symmetry and synchronism, and there were five obvious northward migrations and four southward migrations. The symmetry axis of the longitudinal migrations is at about 71.7°W and that of the latitudinal mi- grations is at about 30°S; these spatial symmetry axes are located at the subduction zone on the western margin of South America, where two major plates （the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate） converge.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41601182 National Social Science Foundation of China, No.14AZD094+3 种基金 National Key Research and Development Plan of China, No.2016YFC0501601 China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, No.2016M592743 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, No.GK201603078 Key Project of the Ministry of Education of China, No. 15JJD790022Acknowledgments We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their constructive advice about the paper, and we also thank Chen Guoyong from the Hunan University, who provided important aid in calculating the annual soil conservation of Shaanxi by MATLAB programming.
文摘Spatial-explicitly mapping of the hotspots and coldspots is a vital link in the priority setting for ecosystem services （ES） conservation. However, little research has identified and tested the compactness and efficiency of their ES hotspots and coldspots, which may weaken the effectiveness of ecological conservation. In this study, based on the RUSLE model and Getis-Ord Gi＊ statistics, we quantified the variation of annual soil conservation services （SC） and identified the statistically significant hotspots and coldspots in Shaanxi Province of China from 2000 to 2013. The results indicate that, 1） areas with high SC presented a significantly increasing trend as well, while areas with low SC only changed slightly; 2） SC hotspots and coldspots showed an obvious spatial differentiation--the hotspots were mainly spatially ag- gregated in southern Shaanxi, while the coldspots were mainly distributed in the Guanzhong Basin and Sand-windy Plateau; and 3） the identified hotspots had the highest capacity of providing SC, with 29.6% of the total area providing 59.7% of the total service. In contrast, the coldspots occupied 46.3% of the total area, but only provided 17.2% of the total SC. In addition to conserving single ES, the Getis-Ord Gi＊ statistics method can also help identify multi-functional priority areas for conserving multiple ES and biodiversity.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41171090)the Graduate Student Innovation Foundation of Shaanxi Normal University
文摘The Ms ≥ 8.0 strong earthquakes occurring in Chile since 1800 were analyzed using the ternary, quaternary, and quinary commensurability methods and the butterfly structure diagram, and it was believed that the earthquake signal in Chile in 2014 is relatively strong, a large earthquake is likely to occur in Chile in 2014. An analysis of spatial epicenter migrations showed that the longitudinal and latitudinal epicenter migra- tions have symmetry and synchronism, and there were five obvious northward migrations and four southward migrations. The symmetry axis of the longitudinal migrations is at about 71.7°W and that of the latitudinal mi- grations is at about 30°S; these spatial symmetry axes are located at the subduction zone on the western margin of South America, where two major plates （the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate） converge.
