Long-term recovery of a Louisiana brackish marsh plant community from oil-spill impact: vegetation response and mitigating effects of marsh surface elevation

Oil spills can have significant, short-term, negative impacts on coastal marshes, but the long-term effects and eventual recovery are not well documented, particularly in brackish marshes. The goals of this investigation were to: (1) document the long-term recovery of a Louisiana brackish marsh plant community impacted by a 1985 oil spill; (2) separate the effect of the oil spill on marsh deterioration from ambient rates of marsh deterioration; and (3) assess the relative importance of residual oil in the sediment and decreased marsh surface elevation in the failure of certain areas to recover. A total of 68 permanent plots previously established in 1985 were re-surveyed for plant and soil recovery in the fall of 1989. Although substantial (and near total) vegetative recovery was evident by significant increases in live and total vegetative cover, many of the plots that were initially heavily impacted by oil still displayed elevated levels of total saturated hydrocarbons in the soil. August 1990 measurements of plant photosynthetic response and edaphic variables revealed no significant differences between control plots and plots heavily impacted by oil that displayed vegetative regrowth. Rates of wetland land loss in the oiled marsh during an 8-year period that bracketed the time of the spill were within the historical range measured for this site and similar to the land loss rates of adjacent reference marshes. Results from a manipulative field transplant experiment indicated that the long-term failure of certain small areas to revegetate was primarily due to a decrease of marsh surface elevation (increased flooding stress), not a residual oil effect.     

基于相关系数匹配的混合像元分解算法

遥感影像中的混合像元不仅影响地物识别和分类的精度,而且已成为遥感科学向定量化发展的主要障碍.为此,人们已经提出了多种混合像元分解算法,其中应用最为广泛的是最小二乘法.该方法虽然具有意义明确、简单易行等特点,但也易受局部噪声、大气效应、环境辐射等因素的影响.本文将混合像元分解问题归结为一个基于光谱匹配的非线性最优化问题,并针对最小二乘法的不足提出了一种新的基于相关系数匹配(spectral correlation matching, SCM)的混合像元分解技术.通过在北京市北三环及其以北区域内案例的研究表明:在城市区域内,利用图像选取终端端元的办法,基于相关系数匹配的混合像元分解算法的总体精度高于带全约束的最小二乘法(LS)的分解结果.对比分析表明:在目标光谱的绝对值整体放大或缩小而光谱形状得到了很好的保持、及局部噪声使得光谱值显著变化但光谱形状得到了一定程度保持时,基于光谱形状的相关系数法可以得到比基于光谱绝对值的最小二乘法精度更高的分解结果.     

中国降水同位素站网

中国降水同位素站网赵珂经，顾慰祖，顾文燕，毛羽骏（水利部水文司）（南京水文水资源研究所）１水文和水资源研究中的降水同位素同位素方法自５０年代开始引进水文测验后，至６０年代逐步发展并形成同位素水文学的独立领域。现时已由应用人工放射性同位素发展到应用各种...     

回顾1972年水文工作座谈会

回顾１９７２年水文工作座谈会赵珂经（水利部水文司）近来读了几种“水文大事记”，其中有全国的，有流域和省的；有的是征求意见稿，有的是正式刊印本。感到有一个比较重要的疏漏或不足，就是关于１９７２年水文工作座谈会的记载。现就作者所知，将这一事件简述如下，供...     

Crustal structure using receiver function in the east part of A＇nyemaqen suture belt

Twenty broadband seismographs were deployed along Hongyuan, Sichuan to Wuwei, Gansu. 81 teleseismic events were recorded in one year. We computed receiver functions from teleseismic waveform data and obtained S wave velocity structure beneath each station along the profile by using receiver function inversion method. The results revealed that the crustal structure is very complex and crustal average S wave velocity is to be on the low side. Low velocity structure generally exists in the depth range of 10～40 km in the crust between Aba arc fault and northern edge fault of Qinling earth＇s axis and it is a tectonic feature of complex geological process such as ancient A＇nyemaqen Tethys ocean from closing and side colliding to subducted plate exhumed or thrust rock slice lifted. The Moho is about 50 km depth along the profile and is slightly deeper in the south than in the north.     

The dose-response relationship between No. 2 fuel oil and the growth of the salt marsh grass,Spartina alterniflora

The effect of No. 2 fuel oil on the biomass production of the salt marsh plant, Spartina alterniflora, was studied in a greenhouse dose-response experiment. S. alterniflora were transplanted into soil with 10 dosage levels of No. 2 fuel oil ranging from 0 to 456 mg g(-1) dry soil. Three months after transplantation, values for plant biomass, stem density, and shoot height decreased significantly with increasing fuel oil level in a dose-response fashion. Evapo-transpiration rates were correlated with the total biomass response. Relative to the control, a significant decrease in total (above- plus below-ground) plant biomass was observed at concentrations above 57 mg g(-1) dry soil. Within the 3-month experimental period, detrimental effects on below-ground biomass accumulation and bioluminescence of the marine bacterium Viberio fisheri in the Microtox Solid Phase Test were observed at oil concentrations >29 mg g(-1) dry soil, suggesting that biological effects of oil within the sediment matrix may be more pronounced than on above-ground biomass, requiring a dosage 228 mg g(-1) dry soil to elicit a significant detrimental effect. Hence, measurements of oil effects with biological end-points based solely on above-ground responses may underestimate the potential impacts of petroleum hydrocarbon spills, especially when the oil has penetrated the soil. While S. alterniflora was proved to be relatively tolerant to the No. 2 fuel oil spills, its effectiveness in phytoremediation operations may be limited at fuel oil levels 228 mg g(-1) dry soil, as both plant growth and microbial activity may be constrained.     

Application of the luciferase cell culture bioassay for the detection of refined petroleum products

A luciferase cell culture-based bioassay, developed to detect 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-like activity of halo-genated and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, was optimized to detect refined petroleum products and to determine their relative inducing potency. Quality control standards from 32 refined products (gasolines and diesels, jet fuels, lubricating oils, fuel oils and weathered products) and three commercial products were evaluated. Induction equivalents (I-EQs) were determined by direct comparison of the EC50 and EC20 values (based on the median and 20% TCDD maximal response, respectively) from dose-response curves for each product to those obtained with TCDD. Most petroleum products were active in the luciferase bioassay, with those products composed of fractions produced later in the distillation process (i.e. fuel oils) inducing higher levels. Additionally, weathering of products reduced their induction potency. Based on the high I-EQ estimates of many products, biological effects associated with exposure may have been previously underestimated using other diagnostic methods.     

論中、长期徑流預报方法——中国水利学会水文预报学术討論会综合发言之二

一、引言中、长期預报,在我国水文文献中,还未有过正式的定义。什么是中期預报,什么是长期預报,还是說“中长期”是一个单一概念,都是不够明确的。在国外的水文文献中,沒有“中期”預报这个名詞,水文預报只有短期和长期之分。