A proposal appealing for harsher punishment legislation for negligent parents and guardians has provoked a long and heated online debate in China. During the 2017 Sessions of the National People's Congress and the N...A proposal appealing for harsher punishment legislation for negligent parents and guardians has provoked a long and heated online debate in China. During the 2017 Sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Li You and 12 other members of the CPPCC National Committee proposed that parents and guardians who cause bodily harm or death to a child as a result of negligence should be punished by the Criminal Law.展开更多
Coal seams can enrich a variety of harmful trace elements under specific geological conditions.The spatial distribution of harmful trace elements in coal is extremely uneven,and the distribution characteristics of eac...Coal seams can enrich a variety of harmful trace elements under specific geological conditions.The spatial distribution of harmful trace elements in coal is extremely uneven,and the distribution characteristics of each element content are different.The harmful elements released in the process of coal mining and utilization will cause serious harm to the environment and the human body.It is of great resource significance to study the geochemistry of coal that affects the enrichment and distribution characteristics of harmful trace elements.Based on the domestic and foreign literature on coal geochemistry in Guizhou published by previous investigators,this study counted 1097 sample data from 23 major coal-producing counties in Guizhou Province,systematically summarized the relevant research results of harmful trace elements in the coal of Guizhou,and revealed the overall distribution and enrichment characteristics of harmful trace elements in the coal of Guizhou.The results show that the average contents of Cd,Pb,Se,Cu,Mo,U,V,As,Hg,and Cr in coal of Guizhou are higher than those in Chinese coal and world coal.A variety of harmful trace elements in the coal of Guizhou have high background values,especially in Liupanshui,Xingyi and Qianbei coalfield.The enrichment of various harmful trace elements in the Late Permian coal in Guizhou is mainly related to the combined action of various geological and geochemical factors.The supply of terrigenous debris and sedimentary environment may be the basic background of the enrichment of harmful elements in western Guizhou,while low-temperature hydrothermal activity and volcanic ash deposition may be the main reasons for the enrichment of harmful elements in southwestern Guizhou.展开更多
Tea,a globally cultivated crop renowned for its uniqueflavor profile and health-promoting properties,ranks among the most favored functional beverages worldwide.However,diseases severely jeopardize the production and qu...Tea,a globally cultivated crop renowned for its uniqueflavor profile and health-promoting properties,ranks among the most favored functional beverages worldwide.However,diseases severely jeopardize the production and quality of tea leaves,leading to significant economic losses.While early and accurate identification coupled with the removal of infected leaves can mitigate widespread infection,manual leaves removal remains time-con-suming and expensive.Utilizing robots for pruning can significantly enhance efficiency and reduce costs.How-ever,the accuracy of object detection directly impacts the overall efficiency of pruning robots.In complex tea plantation environments,complex image backgrounds,the overlapping and occlusion of leaves,as well as small and densely harmful leaves can all introduce interference factors.Existing algorithms perform poorly in detecting small and densely packed targets.To address these challenges,this paper collected a dataset of 1108 images of harmful tea leaves and proposed the YOLO-DBD model.The model excels in efficiently identifying harmful tea leaves with various poses in complex backgrounds,providing crucial guidance for the posture and obstacle avoidance of a robotic arm during the pruning process.The improvements proposed in this study encompass the Cross Stage Partial with Deformable Convolutional Networks v2(C2f-DCN)module,Bi-Level Routing Atten-tion(BRA),Dynamic Head(DyHead),and Focal Complete Intersection over Union(Focal-CIoU)Loss function,enhancing the model’s feature extraction,computation allocation,and perception capabilities.Compared to the baseline model YOLOv8s,mean Average Precision at IoU 0.5(mAP0.5)increased by 6%,and Floating Point Operations Per second(FLOPs)decreased by 3.3 G.展开更多
In order to optimize the ultrasonic extraction technique for the total flavonoid of leaf yellows plus, the contents of 21 leaf yellows plus total flavonoid from four regions in Heilongjiang Province were comparatively...In order to optimize the ultrasonic extraction technique for the total flavonoid of leaf yellows plus, the contents of 21 leaf yellows plus total flavonoid from four regions in Heilongjiang Province were comparatively analyzed. The ultrasonic extraction technology was optimized by Box-Behnken response surface method, and the total flavonoid content of 21 kinds of Acanthopanax senticosus(Rupr. et Maxim.) Harms from different producing areas were analyzed by cluster analysis. The optimal process conditions were determined as ultrasonic time 30 min, solid-liquid ratio 1 : 12 and ultrasonic power 250 W, and the average yield of the total flavonoid was 1.453 mg·g^ (-1). By optimizing the ultrasonic-assisted extraction method, the total flavonoid content from different producing areas was compared in the experiment, which provided certain data support for the optimization of the extraction process in the future and laid a certain theoretical foundation for the quality analysis of Chinese medicinal materials.展开更多
Hail is one of meteorological disasters affecting crop growth in Ulanqab City.It happens frequently from May to September,and this period is also the main growing season of crops.In this period,hail will cause damage ...Hail is one of meteorological disasters affecting crop growth in Ulanqab City.It happens frequently from May to September,and this period is also the main growing season of crops.In this period,hail will cause damage to crops,make farmland soil harden,and bring varying degrees of harm to agricultural production.Artificial hail suppression is an important scientific and technological means for disaster prevention and mitigation.It is necessary to strengthen the monitoring,analysis and forecast of severe convection weather,intensify the release of early warning information of hail weather,provide accurate and reliable real-time information for the implementation of artificial hail suppression operations,strengthen the implementation of artificial weather modification,effectively carry out artificial hail suppression operations,and avoid and reduce the impact of hail disaster.展开更多
Economic development around the Daya Bay, China has profoundly affected the marine environment in the bay area in recent years, particularly since the operation of Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station (DNPS) in 1994. This...Economic development around the Daya Bay, China has profoundly affected the marine environment in the bay area in recent years, particularly since the operation of Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station (DNPS) in 1994. This study analyzed the changes of water temperature and harmful algal blooms (HABs) for two periods: 1983-1993 and 1994-2004, using in situ and satellite data. Results showed that yearly mean surface water temperature (SWT) and Chl-a concentration (Chl-a) increased by 1.1 ℃ and 1.9 mg/m^3, respectively, after 1994. The monthly occurrence of HAB was found to have increased also. HABs appeared only in spring and autumn before 1994, but occurred all the year round after 1994. SWT, Chl-a and HABs all increased significantly in May. Those changes were associated with environmental changes in this area, such as thermal discharge from the DNPS and enhancement of eutrophication from human activities around the Daya Bay.展开更多
Rice bacterial leaf streak,caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzicola,is an important bacterial disease in rice-planting areas in South China and Southeast Asian countries.It occurs every year in local areas.This paper...Rice bacterial leaf streak,caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzicola,is an important bacterial disease in rice-planting areas in South China and Southeast Asian countries.It occurs every year in local areas.This paper reviews the research advance in the occurrence and harms of rice bacterial leaf streak in China,classification of Xanthomonas oryzae and infection characteristics,pathogenic factors and pathogenicity of rice bacterial leaf streak and breeding of bacterial leaf streakresistance rice cultivars.Some issues involved in occurrence and control of rice bacterial leaf streak were presented,and the areas on which the future studies might be focused were discussed.展开更多
A ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry(UPLC-ESI MS)method was developed for the analysis of saponins in crude extracts from Acanthopanax senticosus Harms.The analysis was p...A ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry(UPLC-ESI MS)method was developed for the analysis of saponins in crude extracts from Acanthopanax senticosus Harms.The analysis was performed on a reversed-phase C18 column using a binary eluent(methanol and 0.2% aqueous HCOOH) under gradient conditions.Three major peaks were detected in the negative ion mode.The molecular -ions of saponins were observed,and the relative molecular mass were obtained.The structure of the ginsenosides was identified by a collision induced dissociation(CID) experiment.The UPLC-ESI MS method was particularly useful in the identification of some saponins.展开更多
In order to realize the detection and analysis of microalgae in sediment samples with complex scenes, the project takes advantage of the character of microalgae that they can auto-fluoresce when exposed to the illumin...In order to realize the detection and analysis of microalgae in sediment samples with complex scenes, the project takes advantage of the character of microalgae that they can auto-fluoresce when exposed to the illumination of certain exciation waves. The project takes grey-scale and fluorescent pictures of microalgae in the same field of view and uses the image processing technique to deal with the images, such as threshold segmentation, contour and texture analysis and pattern recognition. The results show that the fluorescent image can effectively elimate the yawp in the complex background and make the consequent image processing more effective and easy. Then the project comes to the conclusion that fluorescence-assisted image processing can realize the detection and analysis of microalgae in sediment samples containing complex scenes.展开更多
The article presents some major researches concerning the concept of backwash effect of language testing; analyses both the positive and negative effects and their implications in EFL classrooms; then provides some su...The article presents some major researches concerning the concept of backwash effect of language testing; analyses both the positive and negative effects and their implications in EFL classrooms; then provides some suggested ways to be followed when creating positive backwash effects on teaching and learning.展开更多
Through the investigation and analysis of the wild boars in Mingtong Town, Chengkou, Chongqing, it was concluded that the area had long been seri- ously affected by wild boars and some of the human activities were pot...Through the investigation and analysis of the wild boars in Mingtong Town, Chengkou, Chongqing, it was concluded that the area had long been seri- ously affected by wild boars and some of the human activities were potentially threatened, and the potential threat areas were identified. Corresponding suggestions were proposed to guide the prevention and control work, so as to protect the habi- tat and reproduction of wildlife and ensure the normal production and life of the masses.展开更多
A large-scale bloom occurred from May to June in 2011 in sea area near Qinhuangdao of the Bohai Sea, leading to huge damage of the scallop culture industry. Similar blooms have been observed in this region for three y...A large-scale bloom occurred from May to June in 2011 in sea area near Qinhuangdao of the Bohai Sea, leading to huge damage of the scallop culture industry. Similar blooms have been observed in this region for three years. The causative species of the bloom, which dominated the phytoplankton community with the maximum cell density around 109 cell/L, could not be identified with morphological features due to the small cell size (-2 μm). A pigment analytical method was then adopted to analyze the pigment profile of the phytoplankton samples collected from the blooming sea area. It was found that pico-sized (〈2 μm), nano-sized (2-20 μm), and bulk phytoplankton samples had similar pigment profile, representing the pigment signature of the bloom-causative species. The major pigments detected included 19-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin (But-fuco), fucoxanthin (Fuco), diadinoxanthin (Diad) and chlorophyll a (Chl a), and high content of But-fuco was the most significant characteristics of the phytoplankton samples. Based on the pigment composition and content, the bloom-causative species could be tentatively identified as pelagophyte, "type 8" group of haptophyte, or silicoflagellate. Some unique features of the bloom, such as the extremely high cell density, small-sized and But-fuco containing cells, occurring in early summer, and the feeding-cessation effects on scallops, suggest it be a "brown tide" event similar to those reported in the east coast of the United States of America. The recurrent "brown tide" events and their dramatic impacts on the shellfish mariculture industry in QirLhuangdao need close attention in the coming years.展开更多
Blooms of Phaeocystis globosa have been frequently reported in Chinese coastal waters, causing serious damage to marine ecosystems. To better understand the ecological characteristics of P. globosa in Chinese coastal ...Blooms of Phaeocystis globosa have been frequently reported in Chinese coastal waters, causing serious damage to marine ecosystems. To better understand the ecological characteristics of P. globosa in Chinese coastal waters that facilitate its rapid expansion, the effects of temperature, salinity and irradiance on the growth of P. globosa from the South China Sea were examined in the laboratory. The saturating irradiance for the growth ofP. globosa (Is) was 60 μmol/(m^2·s), which was lower than those of other harmful algal species (70-114μmol/(m^2·s)). A moderate growth rate of 0.22/d was observed at 2 μmol/(m^2·s) (the minimum irradiance in the experiment), and photo-inhibition did not occur at 230 μmol/(m^2·s) (the maximum irradiance in the experiment). Exposed to 42 different combinations of temperatures (10- 31 ℃) and salinities (10-40) under saturating irradiance, P. globosa exhibited its maximum specific growth rate of 0.80/d at the combinations of 24℃ and 35, and 27℃ and 40. The optimum growth rates (〉0.80/d) were observed at temperatures ranging from 24 to 27℃ and salinities from 35 to 40. While P. globosa was able to grow well at temperatures from 20℃ to 31℃ and salinities from 20 to 40, it could not grow at temperatures lower than 15℃ or salinities lower than 15. Factorial analysis revealed that temperature and salinity has similar influences on the growth of this species. This strain ofP. globosa not only prefers higher temperatures and higher salinity, but also possesses a flexible nutrient competing strategy, adapted to lower irradiance. Therefore, the P. globosa population from South China Sea should belong to a new ecotype. There is also a potentially high risk of blooms developing in this area throughout the year.展开更多
文摘A proposal appealing for harsher punishment legislation for negligent parents and guardians has provoked a long and heated online debate in China. During the 2017 Sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Li You and 12 other members of the CPPCC National Committee proposed that parents and guardians who cause bodily harm or death to a child as a result of negligence should be punished by the Criminal Law.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51964009)。
文摘Coal seams can enrich a variety of harmful trace elements under specific geological conditions.The spatial distribution of harmful trace elements in coal is extremely uneven,and the distribution characteristics of each element content are different.The harmful elements released in the process of coal mining and utilization will cause serious harm to the environment and the human body.It is of great resource significance to study the geochemistry of coal that affects the enrichment and distribution characteristics of harmful trace elements.Based on the domestic and foreign literature on coal geochemistry in Guizhou published by previous investigators,this study counted 1097 sample data from 23 major coal-producing counties in Guizhou Province,systematically summarized the relevant research results of harmful trace elements in the coal of Guizhou,and revealed the overall distribution and enrichment characteristics of harmful trace elements in the coal of Guizhou.The results show that the average contents of Cd,Pb,Se,Cu,Mo,U,V,As,Hg,and Cr in coal of Guizhou are higher than those in Chinese coal and world coal.A variety of harmful trace elements in the coal of Guizhou have high background values,especially in Liupanshui,Xingyi and Qianbei coalfield.The enrichment of various harmful trace elements in the Late Permian coal in Guizhou is mainly related to the combined action of various geological and geochemical factors.The supply of terrigenous debris and sedimentary environment may be the basic background of the enrichment of harmful elements in western Guizhou,while low-temperature hydrothermal activity and volcanic ash deposition may be the main reasons for the enrichment of harmful elements in southwestern Guizhou.
文摘Tea,a globally cultivated crop renowned for its uniqueflavor profile and health-promoting properties,ranks among the most favored functional beverages worldwide.However,diseases severely jeopardize the production and quality of tea leaves,leading to significant economic losses.While early and accurate identification coupled with the removal of infected leaves can mitigate widespread infection,manual leaves removal remains time-con-suming and expensive.Utilizing robots for pruning can significantly enhance efficiency and reduce costs.How-ever,the accuracy of object detection directly impacts the overall efficiency of pruning robots.In complex tea plantation environments,complex image backgrounds,the overlapping and occlusion of leaves,as well as small and densely harmful leaves can all introduce interference factors.Existing algorithms perform poorly in detecting small and densely packed targets.To address these challenges,this paper collected a dataset of 1108 images of harmful tea leaves and proposed the YOLO-DBD model.The model excels in efficiently identifying harmful tea leaves with various poses in complex backgrounds,providing crucial guidance for the posture and obstacle avoidance of a robotic arm during the pruning process.The improvements proposed in this study encompass the Cross Stage Partial with Deformable Convolutional Networks v2(C2f-DCN)module,Bi-Level Routing Atten-tion(BRA),Dynamic Head(DyHead),and Focal Complete Intersection over Union(Focal-CIoU)Loss function,enhancing the model’s feature extraction,computation allocation,and perception capabilities.Compared to the baseline model YOLOv8s,mean Average Precision at IoU 0.5(mAP0.5)increased by 6%,and Floating Point Operations Per second(FLOPs)decreased by 3.3 G.
基金Supported by the Breeding Techniques for New Varieties of Acanthopanax senticosus(CZKYF2022-1-B023)。
文摘In order to optimize the ultrasonic extraction technique for the total flavonoid of leaf yellows plus, the contents of 21 leaf yellows plus total flavonoid from four regions in Heilongjiang Province were comparatively analyzed. The ultrasonic extraction technology was optimized by Box-Behnken response surface method, and the total flavonoid content of 21 kinds of Acanthopanax senticosus(Rupr. et Maxim.) Harms from different producing areas were analyzed by cluster analysis. The optimal process conditions were determined as ultrasonic time 30 min, solid-liquid ratio 1 : 12 and ultrasonic power 250 W, and the average yield of the total flavonoid was 1.453 mg·g^ (-1). By optimizing the ultrasonic-assisted extraction method, the total flavonoid content from different producing areas was compared in the experiment, which provided certain data support for the optimization of the extraction process in the future and laid a certain theoretical foundation for the quality analysis of Chinese medicinal materials.
文摘Hail is one of meteorological disasters affecting crop growth in Ulanqab City.It happens frequently from May to September,and this period is also the main growing season of crops.In this period,hail will cause damage to crops,make farmland soil harden,and bring varying degrees of harm to agricultural production.Artificial hail suppression is an important scientific and technological means for disaster prevention and mitigation.It is necessary to strengthen the monitoring,analysis and forecast of severe convection weather,intensify the release of early warning information of hail weather,provide accurate and reliable real-time information for the implementation of artificial hail suppression operations,strengthen the implementation of artificial weather modification,effectively carry out artificial hail suppression operations,and avoid and reduce the impact of hail disaster.
基金This study was jointly supported by the following funds awarded to Professor Danling TANG:Guangdong Natural Science Foundation(05102008 and 04001306),ChinaKey Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(KZCX3-SW-227-3)+3 种基金"0ne Hundred Talents Program"of CAS(Ybrjh0403)Authors are grateful to projects of South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences(2007TS10 and 2007ZD03)High-tech Research and Development Program of China(2006AA100303)Chinese Ecosystem Research Network(http://www.cerndata.ac.cn),Dr.Guifeng WEI of Jinan University and the Key Innovation Project of CAS(KZCX3-SW-214).
文摘Economic development around the Daya Bay, China has profoundly affected the marine environment in the bay area in recent years, particularly since the operation of Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station (DNPS) in 1994. This study analyzed the changes of water temperature and harmful algal blooms (HABs) for two periods: 1983-1993 and 1994-2004, using in situ and satellite data. Results showed that yearly mean surface water temperature (SWT) and Chl-a concentration (Chl-a) increased by 1.1 ℃ and 1.9 mg/m^3, respectively, after 1994. The monthly occurrence of HAB was found to have increased also. HABs appeared only in spring and autumn before 1994, but occurred all the year round after 1994. SWT, Chl-a and HABs all increased significantly in May. Those changes were associated with environmental changes in this area, such as thermal discharge from the DNPS and enhancement of eutrophication from human activities around the Daya Bay.
基金Supported by Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest(201303015201103002-3)+2 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20130713)Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Fund(CX(12)3058)National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863Program)(2011AA10A201)~~
文摘Rice bacterial leaf streak,caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzicola,is an important bacterial disease in rice-planting areas in South China and Southeast Asian countries.It occurs every year in local areas.This paper reviews the research advance in the occurrence and harms of rice bacterial leaf streak in China,classification of Xanthomonas oryzae and infection characteristics,pathogenic factors and pathogenicity of rice bacterial leaf streak and breeding of bacterial leaf streakresistance rice cultivars.Some issues involved in occurrence and control of rice bacterial leaf streak were presented,and the areas on which the future studies might be focused were discussed.
文摘A ultra performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry(UPLC-ESI MS)method was developed for the analysis of saponins in crude extracts from Acanthopanax senticosus Harms.The analysis was performed on a reversed-phase C18 column using a binary eluent(methanol and 0.2% aqueous HCOOH) under gradient conditions.Three major peaks were detected in the negative ion mode.The molecular -ions of saponins were observed,and the relative molecular mass were obtained.The structure of the ginsenosides was identified by a collision induced dissociation(CID) experiment.The UPLC-ESI MS method was particularly useful in the identification of some saponins.
文摘In order to realize the detection and analysis of microalgae in sediment samples with complex scenes, the project takes advantage of the character of microalgae that they can auto-fluoresce when exposed to the illumination of certain exciation waves. The project takes grey-scale and fluorescent pictures of microalgae in the same field of view and uses the image processing technique to deal with the images, such as threshold segmentation, contour and texture analysis and pattern recognition. The results show that the fluorescent image can effectively elimate the yawp in the complex background and make the consequent image processing more effective and easy. Then the project comes to the conclusion that fluorescence-assisted image processing can realize the detection and analysis of microalgae in sediment samples containing complex scenes.
文摘The article presents some major researches concerning the concept of backwash effect of language testing; analyses both the positive and negative effects and their implications in EFL classrooms; then provides some suggested ways to be followed when creating positive backwash effects on teaching and learning.
文摘Through the investigation and analysis of the wild boars in Mingtong Town, Chengkou, Chongqing, it was concluded that the area had long been seri- ously affected by wild boars and some of the human activities were potentially threatened, and the potential threat areas were identified. Corresponding suggestions were proposed to guide the prevention and control work, so as to protect the habi- tat and reproduction of wildlife and ensure the normal production and life of the masses.
基金Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-YW-Q07-04)the National Basic Research Priority Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No.2010CB428705)+2 种基金the Innovation Research Group Program of the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41121064)the Joint China-India Collaboration Project of the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.40811140535)the North Sea Environmental Monitoring Center (NSEMC) of the State Ocean Administration
文摘A large-scale bloom occurred from May to June in 2011 in sea area near Qinhuangdao of the Bohai Sea, leading to huge damage of the scallop culture industry. Similar blooms have been observed in this region for three years. The causative species of the bloom, which dominated the phytoplankton community with the maximum cell density around 109 cell/L, could not be identified with morphological features due to the small cell size (-2 μm). A pigment analytical method was then adopted to analyze the pigment profile of the phytoplankton samples collected from the blooming sea area. It was found that pico-sized (〈2 μm), nano-sized (2-20 μm), and bulk phytoplankton samples had similar pigment profile, representing the pigment signature of the bloom-causative species. The major pigments detected included 19-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin (But-fuco), fucoxanthin (Fuco), diadinoxanthin (Diad) and chlorophyll a (Chl a), and high content of But-fuco was the most significant characteristics of the phytoplankton samples. Based on the pigment composition and content, the bloom-causative species could be tentatively identified as pelagophyte, "type 8" group of haptophyte, or silicoflagellate. Some unique features of the bloom, such as the extremely high cell density, small-sized and But-fuco containing cells, occurring in early summer, and the feeding-cessation effects on scallops, suggest it be a "brown tide" event similar to those reported in the east coast of the United States of America. The recurrent "brown tide" events and their dramatic impacts on the shellfish mariculture industry in QirLhuangdao need close attention in the coming years.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.41576159,U1133003)the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(No.2013AA065805)
文摘Blooms of Phaeocystis globosa have been frequently reported in Chinese coastal waters, causing serious damage to marine ecosystems. To better understand the ecological characteristics of P. globosa in Chinese coastal waters that facilitate its rapid expansion, the effects of temperature, salinity and irradiance on the growth of P. globosa from the South China Sea were examined in the laboratory. The saturating irradiance for the growth ofP. globosa (Is) was 60 μmol/(m^2·s), which was lower than those of other harmful algal species (70-114μmol/(m^2·s)). A moderate growth rate of 0.22/d was observed at 2 μmol/(m^2·s) (the minimum irradiance in the experiment), and photo-inhibition did not occur at 230 μmol/(m^2·s) (the maximum irradiance in the experiment). Exposed to 42 different combinations of temperatures (10- 31 ℃) and salinities (10-40) under saturating irradiance, P. globosa exhibited its maximum specific growth rate of 0.80/d at the combinations of 24℃ and 35, and 27℃ and 40. The optimum growth rates (〉0.80/d) were observed at temperatures ranging from 24 to 27℃ and salinities from 35 to 40. While P. globosa was able to grow well at temperatures from 20℃ to 31℃ and salinities from 20 to 40, it could not grow at temperatures lower than 15℃ or salinities lower than 15. Factorial analysis revealed that temperature and salinity has similar influences on the growth of this species. This strain ofP. globosa not only prefers higher temperatures and higher salinity, but also possesses a flexible nutrient competing strategy, adapted to lower irradiance. Therefore, the P. globosa population from South China Sea should belong to a new ecotype. There is also a potentially high risk of blooms developing in this area throughout the year.