栉孔扇贝对硅藻和甲藻细胞的选择性摄食初探

硅、甲藻类是浮游植物中的2个主要功能类群,传统上认为硅藻类是贝类的主要饵料.通过饲喂单种和混合藻液实验初步研究了栉孔扇贝对我国近海硅藻(中肋骨条藻和小角毛藻)、甲藻(东海原甲藻)常见种的摄食选择性.实验结果表明栉孔扇贝对东海原甲藻的摄食率和摄食选择效率均高于2种硅藻,即,相比2种硅藻,栉孔扇贝更倾向选择摄食东海原甲藻.这与传统认识有异,提示需进一步全面认识甲藻类群在海洋生态系统中的功能定位.     

硅藻硅酸盐转运子(silicate transporter, SIT)研究进展

硅藻是海洋浮游植物主要类群和海洋生态系统的重要初级生产者,其硅质壁的存在使其成为了海洋生物硅的最大贡献者,而且成为海洋碳汇的主要来源。因此,硅质壁形成机制的阐明至关重要。硅酸盐转运是硅藻硅质壁形成中的关键,阐明其转运机制对建立硅藻代谢途径模型和进一步理解硅藻在海洋生态系统及生物地球化学循环中的作用具有重大意义。硅酸盐转运子(silicate transporter,SIT)是硅藻中参与硅吸收或转运的一类膜蛋白,因其重要性及多样性成为讨论及研究的焦点。本文综述了硅藻中SIT的分子特征、分子机制、功能多样性及进化关系,为SIT转运机制的研究提供了理论基础。     

硅藻硅酸转运子（silicon transporters, SITs）研究进展

硅藻是海洋浮游植物主要类群和海洋生态系统的重要初级生产者，其硅质壁的存在使其成为了海洋生物硅的最大贡献者，而且成为海洋碳汇的主要来源。因此，硅质壁形成机制的阐明至关重要。硅酸转运是硅藻硅质壁形成中的关键，阐明其转运机制对建立硅藻代谢途径模型和进一步理解硅藻在海洋生态系统及生物地球化学循环中的作用具有重大意义。硅酸转运子(silicon transporters, SITs)是硅藻中参与硅吸收或转运的一类膜蛋白，因其重要性及多样性成为讨论及研究的焦点。本文综述了硅藻中SITs的分子特征、分子机制、功能多样性及进化关系，为SITs转运机制的研究提供了理论基础。     

大洋"生物泵"--海洋浮游植物生物标志物

海洋浮游植物承担着目前地球上光合作用的一半任务,对大气CO2浓度和全球碳循环有重要的调控作用。从“铁假说”到“硅假说”,反映了大洋“生物泵”尤其是海洋中的不同浮游植物群对过去气候变化的响应和反馈。根据不同浮游植物产生的特定生物标志物可以定量再造海洋浮游植物群落组成,如岩藻黄素、CO2甾醇主要来自硅藻;而19’-己酰氧基岩藻黄素、C37—C39烯酮主要来自定鞭藻中的颗石藻。许多研究已成功利用现代环境中的色素和古代沉积物中的类脂物质,恢复水体中不同浮游植物的生物量和群落组成。虽然目前海洋浮游植物与生物标志物之间的关系还有待完善,但与其他方法相比仍不失为一种快速、有效的方法,在未来的海洋环境检测和古气候研究领域有重要的应用前景。     

海水中可溶性无机硅

海水中可溶性无机硅(以下简称硅),是海洋浮游植物所必须的营养盐之一,尤其是对硅藻类浮游植物、放射虫和硅质海绵,硅更是构成机体不可缺少的组分。在海洋浮游植物中硅藻占很大部分,硅藻繁殖时摄取硅使海水中硅的含量下降。浮游植物死亡下沉分解又释放出硅,使海水中硅的含量再生。另外放射虫也能排泄出二氧化硅,硅质死亡迅速释放二氧化硅进入海水中。总之硅的含量对于海洋生物产量具有直接和间     

第五节 海水中可溶性无机硅

海水巾可溶性无机硅(以下简称硅)，是海洋浮游植物所必须的营养盐之一，尤其是对硅藻类浮游植物、放射虫和硅质海绵，硅更是构成机体不可缺少的组分。在海洋浮游植物中硅藻占很大部分，硅藻繁殖时摄取硅使海水中硅的含量下降。浮游植物死亡下沉分解又释放出硅，使海水中硅的含量再生。另外放射虫也能排泄出二氧化硅，硅质死亡迅速释放二氧化硅进入海水中。总之硅的含量对于海洋生物产量具有直接和间接影响，由此可知生物活动使海水中硅的含量随季节呈现周期性变化。     

重金属锌对海洋微藻藻源氨基酸产出的影响

锌是海洋微藻生长必需的金属元素,低浓度时可促进微藻的生长,而在高浓度时则表现为抑制其生长。受人类活动的影响,海洋中锌有富集增加的趋势,从而会对海洋微藻的生长产生影响。本论文探究了锌离子以及纳米氧化锌对硅藻中肋骨条藻(Skeletonemacostatum)和新月菱形藻(Nitzschia closterium)生长的影响,特别是对藻源氨基酸产生的影响,结果发现:纳米金属颗粒会通过释放离子的形式抑制海洋浮游植物的生长,中肋骨条藻比新月菱形藻对锌的响应更敏感。锌离子和纳米氧化锌可通过抑制浮游植物的生长来减少氨基酸的释放量和改变藻源氨基酸的种类,从而可能会对海洋氮循环过程产生影响。     

渤海中部和渤海海峡及邻近海域浮游植物群落结构的初步研究

对渤海调查区浮游植物的群落及其动力学进行了初步研究。结果表明 ,浮游植物群落主要由硅、甲藻组成 ,也有少数的蓝藻、绿藻和硅鞭藻出现 ,其生态类型主要为温带近岸型。粒级大小以微型浮游植物为主 ,依次为小型浮游植物 (包括网采浮游植物 )、微微型浮游植物。浮游植物群落的平面分布与各环境因子密切相关 ,其中水体中化学和生物相互作用所形成的浮游植物团块是其平面分布的主要特征。调查海域存在三个典型的浮游植物区划 :渤海海峡区、渤海湾区和黄河河口区。追踪实验的结果表明 ,调查区浮游植物群落短周期 (几天 )的变化是由关键种所驱动而非优势种。渤海海峡浮游植物群落的周年变化为双周期型 ,春季水华主峰出现在 4月 ,而秋季次高峰出现在 9月。春季浮游植物以小型细胞硅藻占优群落为主 ,秋季以大型细胞硅藻 甲藻联合占优群落为主。群落季节和周年的变化以种类演替 (speciessuccession)为主而非种类接替 (speciessequence)。与历史调查资料相比 ,1 998— 1 999年的观测表明浮游植物群落由硅藻占绝对优势逐渐转变为硅藻 甲藻共存为主的群落。甲藻的占优以及绿藻在特定时期的普遍出现反映了渤海海区营养盐结构比例变化对海区生态系统结构的影响 ,氮 /磷比率的增加和硅 /氮比率的降低是造成这一结果的     

夏季北极斯瓦尔巴群岛周边海域微型浮游生物群落分布特征及环境影响初探

文章通过荧光显微分析和分子生物学分析方法,对斯瓦尔巴群岛周边海域微型浮游生物群落中的浮游细菌丰度、微型浮游植物丰度及优势种进行了重点调查,分析了微型浮游生物群落与海洋环境之间的相关性。结果表明,浮游细菌的丰度为4.2×105～1.2×106cells/ml,微型浮游植物的丰度为2.7×103～4.1×104cells/ml;微型浮游植物优势种包括微胞藻、微型海链藻和微型角毛藻。冰川融水会给附近海域带来陆源微生物,并在一定程度上促进微型浮游植物的生长,而海冰的存在和低温则是导致微型浮游生物丰度较低的主因。北冰洋升温和海冰(冰川)消融会导致海洋浮游生物群落的微型化,这种趋势会明显影响大型海洋生物对它们的利用效率,从而影响整个北冰洋海洋生态系统。     

厦门潘涂对虾养殖垦区浮游植物的生态特征

1995年6月至1996年5月对厦门市潘涂对虾养殖垦区的浮游植物进行了调查，鉴定虾池浮游植物82属300种。其中，硅藻229种（底栖种类为主），甲藻30种，绿藻30种，蓝藻5种，隐藻和裸藻各3种。发现虾池浮游植物数量上以硅藻、绿藻和甲藻为主，并且多属于微型和超微型种类、调查虾池浮游植物的生态特征与邻近海区有较大的差别。文中还对浮游植物生态特征及其与保持虾池水质环境稳定性关系方面作了初步探讨。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》Vol. 33(2014) contents

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