A Method for Spatial Heterogeneity Evaluation on Landscape Pattern of Farmland Shelterbelt Networks:A Case Study in Midwest of Jilin Province,China

On the basis of landscape ecology, combining the Spot 5 high resolution satellite imagery with GIS, a method evaluating the spatial heterogeneity of shelterbelts distribution at landscape scale is put forward in this paper. The distance coefficients of reasonable and existing landscape indexes of farmland shelterbelt networks were com-puted, and then through the classification of the distance coefficients, and the establishment of evaluation rules, the spatial heterogeneity of farmland shelterbelts was evaluated. The method can improve the evaluating system of previ-ous studies on shelterbelts distribution, resolve the disadvantages of lacking spatiality of overall evaluation, and make the evaluation results have more directive significance for shelterbelt management. Based on this method, spatial het-erogeneity of shelterbelt networks was evaluated in the midwest of Jilin Province, China. The results show that the re-gions with fewer shelterbelts and no closed network account for 34.7% of the total area, but only 4.9% of the area has relative reasonable pattern of shelterbelt networks. Many problems exist in the distribution pattern of shelterbelts, therefore, much attention should be paid to construct farmland shelterbelts in the study area.

Energy Budget over Seasonal Snow Surface at an Open Site and Beneath Forest Canopy Openness during the Snowmelt Period in Western Tianshan Mountains,China

In this study, meteorological factors and snowmelt rate at an open site on sunny slope(OPS) and beneath forest canopy openness on shady slope(BFC) were measured using an automatic weather station and snow lysimeter during the snowmelt period in 2009, 2010 and 2013. The energy budget over snow surface was calculated according to these meteorological datasets. The analysis results indicated that the net shortwave radiation(K) and sensible heat flux(H) were energy sources, and the latent heat flux(LVE) was energy sinks of snow surfaces at all sites. The net longwave radiation(L) was energy sink at OPS and 80% BFC, but energy source at 20% BFC. The gain of K, H, and the loss of LVE at BFC were obviously lower than those at OPS. The L was the maximum difference of energy budget between snow surface at BFC and OPS. In warm and wet years, the most important factor of the energy budget variation at OPS was air humidity and the second mostimportant factor was air temperature. However, the ground surface temperature on the sunny slope was the most important factor for L and energy budget at BFC. With the increases in forest canopy openness and the slope of adjacent terrains, the influences of ground surface temperature on the sunny slope on L and the energy budget over snow surface at BFC increased, especially when the snow cover on the sunny slope melts completely.

Construction and Retrofit of Rural Power Networks in West China

This paper describes briefly the results of construction and retrofit of rural power networks in West China's 12 provinces (regions). A large number of power lines and sub stations were newly built and updated. The rate of power penetration of townships, villages and peasant households was grown significantly. The rate of line loss dropped great ly. Power-supply reliability was improved clearly. The 'same network, same price' of urban and rural residential con sumption was brought about, and sales price to peasant households lowered substantially.

Right Time for Tea

E-commerce is connecting the traditional tea industry in Guizhou to the Web The first thing Cai Banghong does every morning is to look at the sales figures of various tea brands on his online store,Hmongling Tea Garden,before postingpromotional]nformation and collecting cus- tomers＇ feedback to help target his products. Cai spent two decades growing his tea company, from a small backroom operation to a modern enterprise integrating production, processing and sales, in Duyun, southwest China＇s Guizhou Province. As chairman of the Guizhou Du Yun Maojian Tea Co., Cai also assists local farmers by running a cooperative tea plantation of about 16,000 mu （1,067 hectares）. In the process he has also raised the income of 448 farmers.