地理科学进展 ›› 2015, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 726-738.doi: 10.18306/dlkxjz.2015.06.008

• 生态环境 • 上一篇    下一篇

城市化进程对氮循环格局及动态的影响研究进展

高群1, 余成1,2   

  1. 1. 中国科学院流域地理学重点实验室,中国科学院南京地理与湖泊研究所,南京 210008
    2. 中国科学院大学,北京 100049
  • 收稿日期:2014-10-01 修回日期:2015-05-01 出版日期:2015-06-15 发布日期:2015-06-15
  • 作者简介:

    作者简介:高群(1972-),女,满族,新疆伊宁人,副研究员,研究方向为区域可持续发展、城市与区域规划,E-mail: qgao@niglas.ac.cn

  • 基金资助:
    中国科学院海外科教基地建设计划项目(SAJC201319);中国科学院南京地理与湖泊研究所“一三五”重点项目(NIGLAS2012135006)

A review of urbanization impact on nitrogen cycle

Qun GAO1, Cheng YU1,2   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, China
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2014-10-01 Revised:2015-05-01 Online:2015-06-15 Published:2015-06-15

摘要:

氮循环是全球生物地球化学循环的重要组成部分,随着城市化进程的不断加快,高强度的人类活动和城市景观格局的改变不仅影响了氮的循环过程,而且加重了氮污染的程度,对城市生态环境造成了严重的影响。城市尺度的氮循环研究不仅是全球关注的氮研究热点,而且也是城市生态学和城市地理学研究的前沿。本文基于城市生态系统的氮循环特征,综述了城市化进程对城市氮污染物来源、沉降、输移和累积影响研究的国内外大量研究成果,介绍了卫星遥感、稳定同位素、物质流模型等分析方法在城市氮循环研究中的应用,针对未来几十年活性氮增加可能带来的不利影响,提出对活性氮的减缓策略,以有效抑制活性氮对环境的影响。未来城市氮循环研究需要开展长期系统监测、深化城市氮循环机理研究、创新研究范式和研究方法,并将研究成果与城市规划和城市发展研究相结合,提升城市氮管理能力。

关键词: 城市雾霾, 氮循环, 氮收支, 城市生态系统, 城市化

Abstract:

Nitrogen (N) cycle has been poorly characterized in urban ecosystems. In China, urbanization is an important process that alters urban ecosystem and urban nitrogen biogeochemical cycle. Human activities have more than doubled the nitrogen inputs to urbanized areas, and the sources, magnitude, spatiotemporal patterns, and drivers of N fluxes have been mediated by human activities. The imbalance of nitrogen cycle has far exceeded the safe limits of urban sustainable development in some urban areas in China. The urbanized areas are facing a series of environmental problems induced by excessive emission and deposition of reactive nitrogen. Urban smog is becoming very serious in a large number of Chinese cities. However, owing to the limited knowledge on the role of humans in the N biogeochemical cycle and the complexity and uncertainty of urban ecosystems, ecological research of nitrogen emission, deposition, transformation, removal, and retention in urban areas is relatively weak. Thus, comprehensively quantifying changes of nitrogen cycle in urbanized areas and understanding the effects of human activities, such as urbanization and economic development, on the variations of reactive nitrogen fluxes, have been a crucial topic in urban ecological research. This article reviews the state-of-the-art research in this field on the basis of comparison and analysis of Chinese and international studies. The problems exist in current research were summarized and future areas of research aiming at a much improved understanding of the scope of the anthropogenic N problem are discussed. With serious nitrogen pollution and environmental effects in urban areas, it is essential to carry out a long-term study of nitrogen flux and nitrogen budget to investigate the problem of nitrogen imbalance. It is necessary to think beyond the control of pollutant emissions and approach the issue and solution from an urban planning perspective and conduct comprehensive studies to understand the variation of nitrogen input and output trends and driving mechanisms.

Key words: urban smog, nitrogen cycle, nitrogen budget, urban ecosystem, urbanization