We analyzed the influence of climate change over the past 50 years on the radial growth of two tree species: Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis), located on Changbai Mountain, Northeast Ch...We analyzed the influence of climate change over the past 50 years on the radial growth of two tree species: Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis), located on Changbai Mountain, Northeast China, using a dendrochronology approach to understand factors that limit the altitude for tree species. Elevated temperatures increased the radial growth of Korean pine and decreased that of Yezo spruce. The positive response of tree growth to hydrothermal conditions was the key reason that the upper limit of elevation of Korean pine followed the temperature fluctuation pattern. Increased temperatures and precipitation and longer growing seasons accelerated Korean pine growth. As the temperature increased, correlations between Korean pine ring-width chronology and precipitation changed from negative to positive. In Yezo spruce, increasing monthly temperatures and inadequate precipitation during the middle and late parts of the growing season led to narrow growth rings, whereas decreasing monthly temperatures and sufficient precipitation during the late growing season promoted growth. Rising temperatures and adequate precipitation increases Korean pine growth, possibly elevating the upper range limit in altitude for this species. In contrast, Yezo spruce growth is negatively affected by warming temperatures and limited precipitation. Under future temperature increases and precipitation fluctuations, the upper limit altitude of Korean pine can reasonably be expected to shift upward and Yezo spruce downward.展开更多
There are differing views regarding the climatic factors that limit radial growth of Qilian juniper （Juniperus przewalskii Kom.） at the upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. In this study, trees from ...There are differing views regarding the climatic factors that limit radial growth of Qilian juniper （Juniperus przewalskii Kom.） at the upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. In this study, trees from an upper tree northeastern Tibetan Plateau were selected to limits the radial growth of Qilian juniper. Using ine site in the Anyemaqen Mountains of the present new evidence that low temperature a signal-free regional curve standardization （SF-RCS） method, a ring-width chronology for Qilian juniper was developed extending from AD 1082 to 2010. The results of correlation analysis between tree-ring index and instrumental climatic variables showed that both winter （December in the previous year and January in the current year） and summer （July and August in the current year） temperatures were signifi- cantly and positively correlated with the tree-ring index. Precipitation in June was also significantly and positively correlated with the tree-ring index, but was not as important as low temperature in controlling tree growth. To test the key limiting climatic factor for tree radial growth at different altitudes, an indicator termed the ＂relative distance to upper treeline＂ （RDUT） was developed to quantify the representativeness of collected samples for the forest＇s upper treeline. The RDUT showed that the upper 20% of the forest belt may be an important boundary in terms of capturing the temperature signal from tree-ring width at the upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Our findings enhance the existing understanding that temperature is the limiting factor at upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and will be useful in the reconstruction of past temperature in future studies.展开更多
Let T be a tree and f be a continuous map from T into itself. We show mainly in this paper that a point x of T is an w-limit point of f if and only if every open neighborhood of x in T contains at least nx + 1 points ...Let T be a tree and f be a continuous map from T into itself. We show mainly in this paper that a point x of T is an w-limit point of f if and only if every open neighborhood of x in T contains at least nx + 1 points of some trajectory, where nx equals the number of connected components of T \ {x}. Then, for any open subset G w(f) in T, there exists a positive integer m = m(G) such that at most m points of any trajectory lie outside G.This result is a generalization of the related result for maps of the interval.展开更多
The authors consider the limiting behavior of various branches in a uniform recursive tree with size growing to infinity. The limiting distribution of ξn,m, the number of branches with size m in a uniform recursive t...The authors consider the limiting behavior of various branches in a uniform recursive tree with size growing to infinity. The limiting distribution of ξn,m, the number of branches with size m in a uniform recursive tree of order n, converges weakly to a Poisson distribution with parameter 1/m with convergence of all moments. The size of any large branch tends to infinity almost surely.展开更多
The effect of pruning severity on tree growth was analyzed by change point detection using segmented regression. The present study applied this analysis to a well-known published data set including diameter growth res...The effect of pruning severity on tree growth was analyzed by change point detection using segmented regression. The present study applied this analysis to a well-known published data set including diameter growth response, tree age, pruning severity and pretreatment crown size. First, multiple regression analysis was performed to assess the effect of tree age, pruning severity and pretreatment crown size on diameter growth response. Next, segmented regression analysis was performed to assess the effect of pruning severity on diameter growth response. The results of the multiple regression showed that diameter growth response was significantly influenced by pruning severity and pretreatment crown size. The results of the segmented regression showed that in the whole data set, an abrupt change toward a decrease in diameter growth response was detected at 25% of the live crown removed. However, in the group of fully crowned and open-grown, diameter growth response continuously decreased with increasing pruning severity with no significant abrupt change, whereas in the group of 70% - 90% live crown, diameter growth response did not significantly decrease up to the break point (53% crown removed) and then abruptly decreased. This may be the first study to show the numerical evaluation of the effect of pruning severity on tree growth by change point analysis.展开更多
The levels of heavy metals that accumulated in stemwood of mature trees grown for 20 years in a plantation in an abandoned peat quarry in areas that were fertilized with different amounts of domestic sewage sludge(180...The levels of heavy metals that accumulated in stemwood of mature trees grown for 20 years in a plantation in an abandoned peat quarry in areas that were fertilized with different amounts of domestic sewage sludge(180,360,and720 Mg ha-1on a dry basis) were compared with trees grown in a reference nonfertilized area.Included in the study was a hybrid poplar(Populus tremula x Populus tremuloides) developed for use as an energy crop,three local tree species and one introduced tree species.The concentrations of Cd,Cr,Cu,Ni,Pb and Zn in the stemwood of the trees grown in the fertilized and nonfertilized fields were determined,and found to be significantly lower than their respective concentrations in the soil.Cd and Cr were found only in several wood samples at concentrations close to the limits of detection or qualification; therefore,they were not analyzed further.A correlation analysis suggested that 75%of the correlations between the concentrations of heavy metals in the stemwood and the concentrations in the soil were negative.The ability of trees to accumulate the metals from soil in most cases decreased for Cu and Ni; however,the correlations were not as clear for Pb and Zn.The followingsequence for the levels of heavy metals found in the stemwood of the analysed trees was Zn [ Pb [ Ni [ Cu [(Cr,Cd).The results of this study showed that the levels of heavy metals in the studied wood would not exceed the permitted limits of heavy metal pollution in the air and ash when used for energy production.展开更多
路径规划是智能汽车的核心技术之一,而在避障场景下的路径规划对智能汽车的行驶安全性与稳定性提出了更为严苛的要求。针对智能汽车避障场景,提出一种双层结构并考虑胎路附着极限的路径规划方法。在上层预规划中设计了一种改进快速搜索...路径规划是智能汽车的核心技术之一,而在避障场景下的路径规划对智能汽车的行驶安全性与稳定性提出了更为严苛的要求。针对智能汽车避障场景,提出一种双层结构并考虑胎路附着极限的路径规划方法。在上层预规划中设计了一种改进快速搜索随机树(Improved Rapidly-exploring Random Tree,IRRT)算法,根据纵向车速自适应调整随机树的扩展步长,以兼顾搜索效率与路径精度;随后针对采样点扩展角度施加胎路附着极限的约束,并在此约束范围内进行随机采样,在预规划层面提升路径的合理性;结合人工势场法,构建采样点引力势场、目标点引力势场以及道路边界斥力势场,从而修正随机采样点的位置,提高搜索效率。为改善路径平滑度并进一步确保车辆稳定性,在下层重规划中利用非线性模型预测控制(Nonlinear Model Predictive Control,NMPC)建立车辆平面运动模型与胎路附着极限约束,对预测时域内的预规划路径进行二次优化,生成重规划路径。最后,基于CarSim/Simulink联合仿真平台以及硬件在环测试平台验证所提算法在静态与动态避障场景下的有效性。研究结果表明,预规划中提出的IRRT算法相较于经典RRT*算法在搜索效率、路径合理性及车辆稳定性方面具有优势。与单层IRRT和传统NMPC方法相比,IRRT-NMPC双层路径规划方法在避障过程中能够在满足实时性要求的同时进一步确保车辆不会超出胎路附着极限,提升了车辆的稳定性和安全性。展开更多
基金financially supported by the Key Basic Research Project‘‘973’’(2010CB951301-5)the China Bureau of Foreign Experts and the Ministry of Education of China(111 Program,Grant 2008-B08044)
文摘We analyzed the influence of climate change over the past 50 years on the radial growth of two tree species: Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and Yezo spruce (Picea jezoensis), located on Changbai Mountain, Northeast China, using a dendrochronology approach to understand factors that limit the altitude for tree species. Elevated temperatures increased the radial growth of Korean pine and decreased that of Yezo spruce. The positive response of tree growth to hydrothermal conditions was the key reason that the upper limit of elevation of Korean pine followed the temperature fluctuation pattern. Increased temperatures and precipitation and longer growing seasons accelerated Korean pine growth. As the temperature increased, correlations between Korean pine ring-width chronology and precipitation changed from negative to positive. In Yezo spruce, increasing monthly temperatures and inadequate precipitation during the middle and late parts of the growing season led to narrow growth rings, whereas decreasing monthly temperatures and sufficient precipitation during the late growing season promoted growth. Rising temperatures and adequate precipitation increases Korean pine growth, possibly elevating the upper range limit in altitude for this species. In contrast, Yezo spruce growth is negatively affected by warming temperatures and limited precipitation. Under future temperature increases and precipitation fluctuations, the upper limit altitude of Korean pine can reasonably be expected to shift upward and Yezo spruce downward.
基金The Strategic Priority Research Program from the Chinese Academy of Sciences No.XDA05080201 National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.41071061
文摘There are differing views regarding the climatic factors that limit radial growth of Qilian juniper （Juniperus przewalskii Kom.） at the upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. In this study, trees from an upper tree northeastern Tibetan Plateau were selected to limits the radial growth of Qilian juniper. Using ine site in the Anyemaqen Mountains of the present new evidence that low temperature a signal-free regional curve standardization （SF-RCS） method, a ring-width chronology for Qilian juniper was developed extending from AD 1082 to 2010. The results of correlation analysis between tree-ring index and instrumental climatic variables showed that both winter （December in the previous year and January in the current year） and summer （July and August in the current year） temperatures were signifi- cantly and positively correlated with the tree-ring index. Precipitation in June was also significantly and positively correlated with the tree-ring index, but was not as important as low temperature in controlling tree growth. To test the key limiting climatic factor for tree radial growth at different altitudes, an indicator termed the ＂relative distance to upper treeline＂ （RDUT） was developed to quantify the representativeness of collected samples for the forest＇s upper treeline. The RDUT showed that the upper 20% of the forest belt may be an important boundary in terms of capturing the temperature signal from tree-ring width at the upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Our findings enhance the existing understanding that temperature is the limiting factor at upper treelines on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, and will be useful in the reconstruction of past temperature in future studies.
基金The NSFC(19961001) and the NSF(9811022) of Guangxi.
文摘Let T be a tree and f be a continuous map from T into itself. We show mainly in this paper that a point x of T is an w-limit point of f if and only if every open neighborhood of x in T contains at least nx + 1 points of some trajectory, where nx equals the number of connected components of T \ {x}. Then, for any open subset G w(f) in T, there exists a positive integer m = m(G) such that at most m points of any trajectory lie outside G.This result is a generalization of the related result for maps of the interval.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10671188)and Special Foundation of USTC.
文摘The authors consider the limiting behavior of various branches in a uniform recursive tree with size growing to infinity. The limiting distribution of ξn,m, the number of branches with size m in a uniform recursive tree of order n, converges weakly to a Poisson distribution with parameter 1/m with convergence of all moments. The size of any large branch tends to infinity almost surely.
文摘The effect of pruning severity on tree growth was analyzed by change point detection using segmented regression. The present study applied this analysis to a well-known published data set including diameter growth response, tree age, pruning severity and pretreatment crown size. First, multiple regression analysis was performed to assess the effect of tree age, pruning severity and pretreatment crown size on diameter growth response. Next, segmented regression analysis was performed to assess the effect of pruning severity on diameter growth response. The results of the multiple regression showed that diameter growth response was significantly influenced by pruning severity and pretreatment crown size. The results of the segmented regression showed that in the whole data set, an abrupt change toward a decrease in diameter growth response was detected at 25% of the live crown removed. However, in the group of fully crowned and open-grown, diameter growth response continuously decreased with increasing pruning severity with no significant abrupt change, whereas in the group of 70% - 90% live crown, diameter growth response did not significantly decrease up to the break point (53% crown removed) and then abruptly decreased. This may be the first study to show the numerical evaluation of the effect of pruning severity on tree growth by change point analysis.
文摘The levels of heavy metals that accumulated in stemwood of mature trees grown for 20 years in a plantation in an abandoned peat quarry in areas that were fertilized with different amounts of domestic sewage sludge(180,360,and720 Mg ha-1on a dry basis) were compared with trees grown in a reference nonfertilized area.Included in the study was a hybrid poplar(Populus tremula x Populus tremuloides) developed for use as an energy crop,three local tree species and one introduced tree species.The concentrations of Cd,Cr,Cu,Ni,Pb and Zn in the stemwood of the trees grown in the fertilized and nonfertilized fields were determined,and found to be significantly lower than their respective concentrations in the soil.Cd and Cr were found only in several wood samples at concentrations close to the limits of detection or qualification; therefore,they were not analyzed further.A correlation analysis suggested that 75%of the correlations between the concentrations of heavy metals in the stemwood and the concentrations in the soil were negative.The ability of trees to accumulate the metals from soil in most cases decreased for Cu and Ni; however,the correlations were not as clear for Pb and Zn.The followingsequence for the levels of heavy metals found in the stemwood of the analysed trees was Zn [ Pb [ Ni [ Cu [(Cr,Cd).The results of this study showed that the levels of heavy metals in the studied wood would not exceed the permitted limits of heavy metal pollution in the air and ash when used for energy production.
文摘路径规划是智能汽车的核心技术之一,而在避障场景下的路径规划对智能汽车的行驶安全性与稳定性提出了更为严苛的要求。针对智能汽车避障场景,提出一种双层结构并考虑胎路附着极限的路径规划方法。在上层预规划中设计了一种改进快速搜索随机树(Improved Rapidly-exploring Random Tree,IRRT)算法,根据纵向车速自适应调整随机树的扩展步长,以兼顾搜索效率与路径精度;随后针对采样点扩展角度施加胎路附着极限的约束,并在此约束范围内进行随机采样,在预规划层面提升路径的合理性;结合人工势场法,构建采样点引力势场、目标点引力势场以及道路边界斥力势场,从而修正随机采样点的位置,提高搜索效率。为改善路径平滑度并进一步确保车辆稳定性,在下层重规划中利用非线性模型预测控制(Nonlinear Model Predictive Control,NMPC)建立车辆平面运动模型与胎路附着极限约束,对预测时域内的预规划路径进行二次优化,生成重规划路径。最后,基于CarSim/Simulink联合仿真平台以及硬件在环测试平台验证所提算法在静态与动态避障场景下的有效性。研究结果表明,预规划中提出的IRRT算法相较于经典RRT*算法在搜索效率、路径合理性及车辆稳定性方面具有优势。与单层IRRT和传统NMPC方法相比,IRRT-NMPC双层路径规划方法在避障过程中能够在满足实时性要求的同时进一步确保车辆不会超出胎路附着极限,提升了车辆的稳定性和安全性。
