301results about "Invasive species monitoring" patented technology

A smoking article having one or more reconstituted tobacco split inner wrap strips is described. One or more split inner wrap strips extend coaxially along the tobacco column between the inner surface of an outer wrap of cigarette paper and the tobacco column. The tobacco blend includes burley and a second tobacco, such as flue-cured, oriental, Maryland, or rare and exotic tobaccos, and combinations thereof. This blend improves burley smoke character without increasing Hoffman analyte levels, especially tobacco-specific nitrosamines (i.e., TNSAs). A cigarette with an improved burley smoke character without increasing Hoffman analyte levels is also described.

Ballast water treatment apparatus and methods for preventing foreign aquatic invasive species form entering marine ecological zones by translocation in ship's ballast water. The apparatus includes a housing, a filter member, and UV water treatment chambers. Methods include use of a ship's fire hydrant system or ballast water discharge port for moving ballast water from the ship's ballast tanks into the apparatus for filtration and treatment. In-port service vessels and barges as well as dock-side service vehicles are equipped with the various treatment and filtration apparatus to provided in-port or dock-side ballast water treatment services. Related methods are also provided.

The invention discloses a construction method for ecological restoration of riparian vegetation of mountain rivers. The method includes the following steps: (1), for restoration of aquatic vegetation, dispersedly planting potamogetonaceae and hydrocharitaceae submerged plants high in washing-out resistance in a project region; (2) for restoration of riverway rock and boulder vegetation, planting wetland plants strong in washing-out resistance in rock and boulder regions and the like in a riverway in the project region; (3) for restoration of waterfront plants, planting emerging plants and aquatic plants with washing-out resistance and deep roots between the riparian normal water level and the two-year flood level in the projection region; (4) for restoration of riparian vegetation, planting waterlogging-tolerance trees and shrubs of juglandaceae, betulaceae and the like between the two-year flood level and the 20-year flood level in the project region, and planting gramineae and cyperaceae herbaceous plants with deep roots in ground covers. By the method, the ecological problems about riparian water and soil erosion, weak river's self-purification capacity, sharp decline in biodiversity and the like are solved effectively, feasible and effective ecological remediation measures are provided for natural restoration and reconstruction of river banks and riverways.

The invention discloses a hydro-fluctuation belt wetland vegetation restoration proper species screening method. The method includes: investigating region vegetation, and preliminarily selecting species suitable for region vegetation restoration from the aspects of life form and growth form of species; adopting a soil seed bank germination experiment to screen to obtain omissive proper plants; inferring proper plants for vegetation restoration of a hydro-fluctuation belt according to vegetation investigation on the hydro-fluctuation belt and the soil seed bank germination experiment of the same; performing a waterlogging tolerance experiment on the proper plants, and screening proper species for region vegetation restoration; according to waterlogging tolerance and region hydrologic changing characteristics, arranging the proper species obtained by screening, and conducting practice demonstration of vegetation restoration. The method is conducive to preventing genetic drift caused by gene flow and maintaining a gene bank of local species stable, less prone to causing intrusion of foreign species and provides technical support and scientific guidance for large-area demonstration and popularization of vegetation restoration in regions like reservoir hydro-fluctuation belts, riparian zones and tidal flat wetland.

Compositions and methods for controlling molluscs, members of the Gastropoda and Bivalvia classes which includes but is not limited to lactones, lactams, carbamates, amides, and/or carboxylic acid containing compounds as active ingredients and/or compounds derived from Pseudomonas and/or Erwinia. Also provided are methods and compositions for increasing the efficacy of chemical and biological control for invasive molluscs in open waters, power plants, and drinking water treatment facilities under coldwater conditions.

The invention belongs to the environment-friendly technical field of gigas-killing plant resource utilization and specifically relates to a method for killing harmful ampullaria gigas invading the area by using the alien invasive plant wedelia trilobata of south China. According to the method, the ampullaria gigas is directly killed by feeding the dried powder of the invasive plant wedelia trilobata in water of a rice field; and the method is characterized in that the used plant is wedelia trilobata from the composite family, and the dose of the wedelia trilobata dried powder is 10g/L. The method has the advantages that the plant material wedelia trilobata is the general alien invasive plant in south China, so the materials are easily available, and the ampullaria gigas can be effectively killed under a certain feeding amount.

Ballast water treatment apparatus and methods for preventing foreign aquatic invasive species form entering marine ecological zones by translocation in ship's ballast water. The apparatus includes a housing, a filter member, and UV water treatment chambers. Methods include use of a ship's fire hydrant system for moving ballast water from the ship's ballast tanks into the apparatus for filtration and treatment. In-port service vessels and dock-side service vehicles are equipped with the treatment and filtration apparatus to provided in-port or dock-side ballast water treatment services. Related methods are also provided.

The invention relates to a control method of spartina alterniflora, belonging to the technical field of ecological engineering. Spartina alterniflora is artificially introduced in China in the 1980s, and plays a positive role for damping waves, protecting slopes, promoting deposition and reclaiming lands on Chinese coastline, however, as an alien invasive species recognized internationally, the population characters of powerful breeding and rapid extending ability of the spartina alterniflora bring a series of negative effects to the natural wetlands ecosystem of Chinese coastal tidal land and the regional biodiversity; and control of the spartina alterniflora is already a universal problem. The prior single physical, biological or chemical control method has the disadvantages of low efficiency, high environmental pollution risk, low ecological safety, high cost and unobvious control effect. The invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior preventing and controlling techniques, and utilizes the comprehensive control method of cradling and water level regulating, eradicates the invasive species and controls the growth and rapid extension of the invasive species through restraining the growth of spartina alterniflora, plays an active restoring role to the ecological system destroyed in large areas, and provides an efficient path for preventing spartina alterniflora from spreading extensively in coastal areas.

An array or multiple arrays of energy efficient LEDs are configured in proximity to plant life to emit light energy in a variety of photosynthetic promoting frequencies and power outputs. Specific light frequencies are selected after analyzing the photosynthetic properties of the plant of interest. The LEDs are remotely controlled and can be remotely controlled through a handheld device using a GUI adapted for that purpose. A variety of LEDs emitting a variety of photosynthetically useful wavelengths are arrayed together. The array can be controlled to emit pre-dawn and after-sunset glows. The array can also be used to inhibit plant growth by adjusting frequencies.

The invention provides an environment-friendly preventing and controlling method of diseases and pests of garden plants. The preventing and controlling method comprises the following steps: (1) quarantining plants for preventing intrusion of exotic pests; (2) physically controlling pests; (3) biologically controlling pests; (4) adopting a garden technology for controlling pests. When the preventing and controlling method is adopted to control the main pests of garden plants, the control effect reaches 92% and is increased by 35% or above compared with the conventional control effect, the use amount of a chemical pesticide is decreased by 62%, a pollution-free pesticide is adopted in parts of the green space, such as, streets where physical and biological methods are unsuitable, and the environment-friendly preventing and controlling purpose of disease and pest control of gardens and green space is achieved.

The invention relates to a seedling culturing substrate block and a preparation method thereof. The seedling culturing substrate block provided by the invention comprises Eupatorium adenophorum as a major ingredient. The major ingredient of the seedling culturing substrate block provided by the invention comprises one or more of Flaveria bidentis, Mikania micrantha, Eupatorium odoratum, guayule, Cenchrus Paciflorus and Solanum rostratum, and the content of the major ingredient is 20-50 wt%; the major ingredient comprises peat or vermiculite, and has the content of 50-80 wt%; and the auxiliarymaterial comprises a nutrient ingredient and a regulator, and has the content of 1-2 wt%. By using the seedling culturing substrate block provided by the invention, nutrients needed by plant growth and contained in a conventional seedling culturing substrate can be provided; meanwhile, roots of seedlings can be promoted to grow and the survival rate of plant breeding is increased because the Eupatorium adenophorum is added to the raw materials.

A diagnosis kit is configured to detect whether or not an extraneous organism exists in a red blood cell by using a biological specimen containing the red blood cell, and a stain solution capable of staining nucleic acid. The kit includes at least one diagnosis plate. The diagnosis plate includes a first chamber configured to store the stain solution and to have the biological specimen injected into the stain solution, a channel connected to the first chamber, and a test plate connected to the channel. A second chamber is connected with the test plate. The channel is configured to extract the red blood cell. The second chamber can collect a part of the biological specimen and a part of the stain solution. This diagnosis kit can detect extraneous organisms in the red blood cells easily with a small amount of the biological specimen.

Vegetation control plans may be automatically generated using vegetation control information received from a variety of sources. Such vegetation control plans may aid farmers, other vegetation control personnel, and professionals when determining a vegetation control strategy, including treatment, and then guide the implementation of that strategy. Vegetation control plans may include a variety of recommended vegetation control practices and projected outcomes for the implementation of recommended vegetation control management practices.

The invention discloses an unmanned machine-based wild animal community condition monitoring method. The unmanned machine-based wild animal community condition monitoring method not only can monitor the distribution and growth conditions of wild animal community, but also can track and monitor endangered and critically endangered animals and alien species, can take the spotlight in the field of wild animal resource protection, achieve favorable effects in the fields of investigation and evidence collection, prewarning and frightening, collaborative tracking and the like by full verification at the early-stage testing step, prevents limits of original manual patrol, lowers the cost of monitoring and patrol equipment greatly, and has the characteristics of wide monitoring range, species detection diversity, rapid and timely resource supply and the like.

The invention relates to a method using native landscape plants to restore return-land-to-lake wetland soil; phytocoenosis main collocation methods comprise the following 4 modes: 1, landscape plant arbor-shrub-grass interbreed mode, i.e., overstory arbor+middle lamella arbor+ground cover plants; 2, landscape plant arbor-shrub interbreed mode, i.e., overstory arbor+middle lamella arbor+original ground cover plants; 3, shrub-grass interbreed mode, i.e., middle lamella arbor+ground cover plants; 4, ground cover plant single mode, introduction ground cover plants+original ground cover plants. The method introduces fast-growing native landscape tree species so as to fast adapt to the growing environment, thus forming landscape, becoming colony advantage species, and controlling alien species invasion; the method can improve farmland soil physical composition and nutrition status, can eliminate (degrade) residual poisonous and harmful pollutants, thus realizing soil pollution purification under nature conditions, realizing self-restoration, i.e., expressing soil-plant system degrading purifying effect.

The invention discloses a method which adopts pasture to control solanum rostratum, wherein elymus dahuricus is adopted as a plant specie for controlling the solanum rostratum invasion, is planted in the natural grassland ecosystem which is easily invaded by the solanum rostratum, and continuously controls the solanum rostratum invasion for a plurality of years. The elymus dahuricus is the plant specie which quickly grows, grows in the grassland which is preferable for the solanum rostratum to grow and has obvious advantages for struggling for existence, through introducing and planting as well as reasonable configuration and scientific management, the elymus dahuricus can completely ply the role in the ecosystem which is easily invaded and is invaded by solanum rostratum, continuously, and effectively inhibits the quick growing and space occupying invasion of the solanum rostratum in the natural grassland, so a basic guarantee is provided for substituting and controlling exotic invasive species-solanum rostratum and sustainable treating.

The invention relates to a DNA molecular marker method for identification of the alien invasive species Spartina alterniflora population. The method includes: conducting high-throughput transcriptome sequencing and screening to obtain a target gene, carrying out a PCR reaction, subjecting the PCR product to sequencing so as to obtain a plurality of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites, then letting all effective SNP sites compose a haplotype for molecular markers, thus achieving genetic typing. According to the method provided in the invention, rich polymorphism information can be obtained in one experiment. SNP markers have genetic stability, can be used for samples of different sources, and are suitable for high-throughput automated analysis.

A composition for treating waters, e.g. ballast water or injection water for oil recovery, to kill in-situ aquatic invasive species comprises at least one biocide capable of killing both animal and plant micro-organisms. The at least one biocide preferably comprises Brilliant Green, Gentian Violet, and/or erythrosine, and a wetting agent or detergent-like compound such as CTAB or CTAC. The invention also relates to a system for treating ballast water in situ comprising means for injecting a composition for treating ballast water; means for measuring the flow rate or amount of ballast water to be treated; means for controlling the dosing of the composition; and means for storing or receiving the composition. The invention also relates to a method of detecting viable aquatic organisms in ballast water in situ comprising detecting metabolism in viable micro-organisms in ballast water and, therefore, measuring the efficacy of any treatment.

The invention discloses a high water table coal area ponding secondary wetland landscape construction method. The method step comprises the following steps: dividing coal district small area sporadic ponding region and large area contiguous ponding region, small area sporadic ponding region and large area contiguous ponding region construction method, constructing a pollution impermeable dyke, constructing a lake enlarging area impermeable layer, establishing a side slope retaining wall, water system balance and maintenance and vegetation and landscape configuration. Through the adoption of the method, the high water table coal area ponding secondary wetland landscape in two types of the small area sporadic ponding region and the large area contiguous ponding region can be constructed from regional scale, not only the ecological benefit can be improved through local microclimate regulation, humidity control, water source purification, water body improvement, and biodiversity conservation, but also the economic benefit can be improved by providing agricultural products and improving peripheral soil value, thereby further improving the service value of the ecological system.

The present invention provides a phosphorus solid-phase buffering system that can be spatially localized, i.e., banded on top of, or at specific depths, in media, e.g., soil, by which phosphorus concentrations in the media are reduced or maintained at levels sufficient for optimal plant performance. Also provided are methods for improving the cultivation of plants growing in different media. The present invention provides benefits, such as reduced water and pesticide requirements, reduced phosphorus leaching and runoff, and enhanced root growth. The invention can be used in connection with containerized or field-grown plants, e.g., crops, grasses, trees, and the like. The invention is particularly useful for greenhouse and nursery plants, ornamental propagation, vegetable and bedding transplants, and for turf used for stadium fields, golf courses, lawns and the like, where phosphorus leaching is particularly undesirable.

The invention discloses a compound type botanical pesticide and a manufacturing method and application thereof. The compound type botanical pesticide comprises, by weight, 5-35 parts of crofton weed, 1-20 parts of fragrant eupatorium herb, 1-20 parts of lantana camara, 20-35 parts of solvents, 1-5 parts of cosolvents, 1-5 parts of synergistic leveling agents, 0.5-10 parts of stabilizing agents, 0.5-5 parts of surfactants and 20-70 parts of water. The manufacturing method comprises washing clean and grinding the crofton weed, the fragrant eupatorium herb and the lantana camara, respectively placing the crofton weed, the fragrant eupatorium herb and the lantana camara in the solvents, soaking for 5-7 days, and obtaining essential oil extracts of the crofton weed, the fragrant eupatorium herb and the lantana camara, evenly mixing and heating the essential oil extracts, adding the surfactants, the stabilizing agents and the water, and obtaining the compound type botanical pesticide after uniform mixing. The compound type botanical pesticide and the manufacturing method have the advantages that foreign invasive species serve as a main raw material for preparation, effective control of the foreign invasive species is achieved, the harm is turned into a benefit, a pesticidal function is achieved, the problem of pesticide resistance of pests for ordinary pesticides is effectively solved, and environmental pollution is avoided. The compound type botanical pesticide and the manufacturing method have the advantages of being simple in preparation process, practical and convenient simultaneously.

The invention discloses a degraded wetland vegetation recovery method, and belongs to the technical fields of environmental protection and ecological engineering. The method comprises the following steps: conducting background situation survey on a degraded wetland region; selecting healthy wetland with habitat conditions similar to those of degraded wetland as a provenance; conducting soil layingon a degraded wetland soil laying area by means of surface soil, containing a soil seed library, in the provenance, and conducting water supplementing to recover vegetation of the degraded wetland; and the like. According to the method, the soil seed library of the healthy wetland is used for conducting ex-situ recovery on the degraded wetland, a significant recovery effect can be obtained in 1-2years, and the method is easy to operate, good in sustainability, less in manual maintenance and high in success rate, and can be used for future ecological construction and wetland recovery projects.