胶州湾底栖软体动物与环境因子的关系

采用1998年2月—2002年11月,共5年19个季度月对胶州湾10个站进行综合调查的资料,对胶州湾大型底栖软体动物的种数、生物量和栖息密度三项数量指标与温度、盐度、底层初级生产力、底质四项生态因子的关系进行了研究。结果表明,胶州湾底栖软体动物是胶州湾重要的生物类群,共发现了51种。生物量和栖息密度最高的站均为2号站,分别为1015．6g／m^2和1041ind／m^2。软体动物的数量分布和季节变化与底质、温度存在较为密切的关系,同时底栖软体动物的出现种数和平均栖息密度与底层初级生产力呈线形相关,但三者与盐度的关系不明显。     

湄洲湾东吴港区附近潮间带大型底栖动物的时空分布及次级生产力

湄洲湾位于福建沿海中部，作者于2008年1月（冬季）、10月（秋季），依据《海洋监测规范》（GB17378-2007），在湄洲湾东吴港区附近设置3条潮间带断面，进行大型底栖动物调查采样．调查结果表明：共采获潮间带大型底栖动物283种，其中多毛类94种、软体动物91种、甲壳动物74种、棘皮动物9种、鱼类5种、其它类群动物10种．C断面种类最多179种．调查期间大型底栖动物平均生物量20．07g／m^2，平均栖息密度645．9ind／m^2，B断面生物量最高，A断面栖息密度最大．年平均去灰干重3．61g（AFDW）／m^2，依据Brey（1990）的公式计算，潮间带大型底栖动物次级生产力5．33g（AFDW）／（m^2·a），年平均P／B值为1．93．调查海域潮间带大型底栖动物种类数量、生物量、次级生产力、P／B值均高于海坛海峡潮间带．     

青岛东风盐场东半区底栖动物种群的初步研究

对青岛东风盐场东半区底栖动物的各类组成和数量分布进行了调查。共获得底栖动物28种，其中腔肠动物1种，多毛类8种，软体动物9种，甲壳动物7种，昆虫幼虫2种，鱼类1种；总平均生物量为68.47g/m^2；总栖息密度为5048个／m^2。生物量组成以软体动物 为主要类群，占总生物量的50.9％，栖息密度组成以甲壳动物为优势类群，占95.33％；底栖动物分布不均，高生物量和高栖息密度均集中在2号站，且该站底栖动物种类也相对多样化。     

东寨港红树林区大型底栖动物生态与滩涂养殖容量的研究 I.潮间带表层底栖动物数量的初步研究

于2000年1-3月，对东寨港红树林区潮间带表层大型底栖动物进行调查，初步分析了东寨港红树林区潮间带表层大型底栖动物的生物量，密度等生态特点，研究结果表明，东寨港红树林区潮间带表层大型底栖动物平均生物量为120.38g/m^2，栖息密度为80.53个/m^2，以期为合理开发与保护东寨港红树林区底栖生物资源提供科学依据。     

南黄海夏季大型底栖动物分布现状

2006年夏季(7-8月)在南黄海进行的调查中,共鉴定出192种大型底栖动物,其中多毛类环节动物122种、甲壳动物22种、软体动物33种、棘皮动物8种、其它门类7种,优势种主要为小头虫科(Capitellidae)、掌鳃索沙蚕(Ninopalmate)、圆楔樱蛤(Cadella narutoensis)、日本鼓虾(Alpheus japonicus)、紫蛇尾(Ophiophplis mirabilis)、安岛反体星虫(Phascolosoma onomichianum)等20多种.大型底栖动物的平均栖息密度为102 ind.·m-2,其中多毛类为57 ind.·m-2、甲壳动物为12 ind.·m-2、软体动物为24 ind.·m-2、棘皮动物为6 ind.·m-2;大型底栖动物的平均湿重生物量为29.30 g·m-2,其中多毛类11.98 g·m-2、甲壳动物2.20 g·m-2、软体动物5.56 g·m-2、棘皮动物4.85 g·m-2.在南黄海西部32°30′～36°00′N的较浅水域,大型底栖动物栖息密度和生物量较高,而南黄海中部深水区大型底栖动物栖息密度和生物量较低.与2000年夏季调查结果相比,大型底栖动物平均栖息密度偏低,平均生物量相近;与1959年全国海洋综合调查夏季的数据相比平均生物量稍低,但多毛类生物量明显偏大,软体动物生物量偏低.     

胶州湾海域大型底栖生物的调查与研究

根据2003年6月初对胶州湾海域的调查资料,分析了该海域的底栖生物的种类组成及生物量分布。共鉴定了40种底栖生物,平均总生物量为23.93g/m2,平均栖息密度为400个/m2。调查结果表明,生物量受盐度影响,而栖息密度受水深和有机质含量影响。胶州湾由于受污染缘故,多样性指数远低于3,生物群落呈非健康状态,并与20世纪90年代的调查结果相比较发现,生物量呈严重下降趋势,而栖息密度呈上升趋势。     

2005—2009年胶州湾大型底栖动物生态学研究

根据2005年2月—2009年11月对胶州湾14个站共20个航次大型底栖动物的调查资料,分析了大型底栖动物种类组成、生物多样性、栖息密度、生物量和次级生产力的现状和变化。各航次共采集到大型底栖动物442种,其中多毛类189种,甲壳动物112种,软体动物81种,棘皮动物22种,其它类群38种。2005—2009年种数的年...     

2009—2012年泉州湾大型底栖生物多样性研究

文章根据2009—2012年泉州湾4个航次的调查资料，对比分析了4年间大型底栖生物的种类数、生物量、栖息密度、生物多样性的变化趋势。结果表明：泉州湾大型底栖生物有103种，其中多毛类48种，软体动物25种，甲壳动物18种，棘皮动物6种和其他动物6种。多毛类、软体动物、甲壳动物占总种数的88.3%，三者构成大型底栖生物的主要类群。泉州湾大型底栖生物平均生物量为7.77 g/m2，平均栖息密度76个/m2；数量组成，生物量以甲壳动物居首位2.40 g/m2；栖息密度以多毛类占第一位38个/m2。泉州湾大型底栖生物种类数、生物量、栖息密度、生物多样性均为湾中部及湾外较好，湾顶较差；从2009—2012年际变化来看，生物种类数、平均生物量、平均栖息密度均为2009年最好，2012年相对较差，生物多样性年际变化不大，说明泉州湾的大型底栖生物环境受到了一定的影响。     

不同孔径底层筛对胶州湾大型底栖动物取样结果的影响

利用2003年11月在胶州湾所设的20个站,每站成功取4个定量采泥样品,每两个样品分别用底层筛孔径0．5mm和1．0mm的套筛冲洗所得的大型底栖动物样品,进行大型底栖动物栖息密度、生物量及种数比较分析。结果显示,0．5mm孔径底层筛样品的总平均栖息密度、总平均生物量、总种数分别是1．0mm底层筛的样品的1．36,1．19,1．15倍;两种筛所获的样品对大型底栖动物的栖息密度影响最明显,对生物量、种数影响较小;环节动物多毛类、甲壳动物类群中的钩虾类个体较细小,是受底层筛孔径影响最明显的类群;0．5mm孔径底层筛的取样质量明显好于1．0mm孔径底层筛。     

胶州湾中部海域大型底栖生物生态学初步研究

2006年8月～2007年10月分4个航次对胶州湾中部海域进行大型底栖生物调查。调查结果表明,大型底栖生物总平均丰度和总平均生物量为1507个/m~2和35.88g/m~2。与历史资料做了对比,并初步分析了与以往调查结果不同的原因。调查海域大型底栖生物多样性指数和丰度生物量比较曲线显示,胶州湾中部海域底栖生物处于轻微扰动状态。     

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.     

Flow Cytometric Analysis of Coastal Lagoon Bacterioplankton and Picophytoplankton: Fixation and Storage Effects

The effect of different fixation and storage protocols on the flow cytometric (FCM) simultaneous analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in coastal seawater samples (Mediterranean coastal lagoons) was investigated. FCM measurements (cell number, fluorescence and scatter characteristics) were obtained through DAPI staining. Three fixatives [glutaraldehyde (GA), formaldehyde (FA) and paraformaldehyde (PFA)] and two storage (3 months duration) methods (5 °C and −196 °C) were tested. Two dominant populations were detected in studied samples: bacteria and eukaryotic picophytoplankton. Adding fixatives (2% final concentration) appears necessary to obtain FCM exhaustive counts of all the bacteria and phytoplanktonic cells. This was related to the permeation effect of fixatives which allowed a better DAPI staining of the cells. Maximum fluorescence, i.e. optimal staining of the cells was obtained with FA or PFA, and significant lower fluorescences with GA. Fixed samples stored at 5 °C induced rapid cell loss. Only storage in liquid nitrogen of samples fixed with FA or PFA, allows mid-term (≥4 months) preservation of bacteria or picophytoplankton cell numbers, and limited evolution of DAPI-induced fluorescence and scatter characteristics.