滩涂湿地围垦前后服务功能的效益分析--以上虞市世纪丘滩涂为例

在详细分析滩涂湿地服务功能的基础之上,评估了上虞市世纪丘滩涂围垦前、后服务功能的效益及其变化。结果表明,滩涂围垦前,生态环境功能效益与社会经济功能效益分别占总效益的95％和5％,主要表现在提供生物栖息地与水文调节方面;滩涂围垦后,生态环境功能效益下降了63％,而社会经济功能效益则增加了30倍,主要表现在提供大量的动植物产品方面;此外,围垦后,其服务功能类型的多样性有所减少,但服务功能的总效益有所增加。     

高强度人类活动对泉州湾滨海湿地环境的影响及其对策

由于滨海湿地丰富的资源和优越的环境,人们对其进行了大规模的开发利用,导致了滨海湿地的丧失与生态退化。滨海湿地位于陆地-海洋-大气相互作用最活跃的地带,具有非常重要的生态意义。总结泉州湾滨海湿地水动力、地貌、生态、环境质量的特征,分析围填海、养殖、污染物排放及人工生态工程等对滨海湿地的影响。结果表明,随着社会经济的快速发展以及人类活动的显著增强,泉州湾滨海湿地面积减小,输水及输沙的路径和方式发生变化,湿地环境质量显著下降,生物多样性及生物量减少。为了实现泉州湾滨海湿地的可持续发展,提出了如下对策:(1)加强围海造地的科学管理,提倡新的围海造地方式;(2)开展海岸整治与生态修复,建设特色湿地公园;(3)挖掘海洋文化特色,发展生态旅游。本研究揭示高强度人类活动对滨海湿地环境的影响,为开展滨海湿地研究、整治与修复,为制定滨海湿地开发利用与保护对策提供科学依据。     

滨海湿地生态保护及修复研究进展

近年来滨海湿地生态修复工作逐渐得到国内外专家学者的重视,滨海湿地生态修复是提升滨海湿地生态系统功能以及提高滨海湿地可持续开发利用的重要手段。文章综述了滨海湿地保护区建设、红线划定及滨海湿地开发管理等相关的研究现状,以及目前滨海湿地生境和生物修复主要的技术方法和手段。并根据目前滨海湿地保护工作存在的问题与不足进行讨论,提出以下4个管理意见：推进滨海湿地保护区及红线划定标准和技术指南的制定;严格管理自然岸线的开发利用,优化利用岸线;拓宽修复资金的来源;加强对滨海湿地修复的理论研究。     

无居民海岛开发利用适宜性评价 ——以上海市九段沙岛为例

生境系统重要性和开发利用可行性是无居民海岛开发利用的重要依托。文章采用层次分析法与德尔菲法确定指标权重,针对研究区域特点,建立无居民海岛开发利用适宜性评价指标体系,在各因子分值量化处理后,定义相应指数,利用互斥矩阵定位无居民海岛开发适宜性类型分级。研究表明:长三角的生态屏障——九段沙岛,为低度适宜开发型海岛,无居民海岛开发利用适宜性评价指标体系适用于九段沙海岛。在开发利用方面,遵循可持续开展角度原则,九段沙应该保护和修复生境系统环境、从严把控开发强度、开展湿地保护。     

沿海滩涂开发利用综合效益评价

为提高我国沿海滩涂的开发利用水平,促进经济社会和生态环境的协调可持续发展,文章在梳理相关定义和研究的基础上,探索沿海滩涂开发利用综合效益评价。研究结果表明:针对具有开发利用价值的潮间带和潮下带,其开发利用的综合效益为从全社会角度出发,以多项指标体现的,可识别和可量化的全部效益的总和;遵循科学性、系统性和统筹性原则,从资源利用、生态环境、经济增长和社会发展4个方面,选取自然岸线保有率等28项指标,建立评价指标体系,并采用递阶多层次综合评价模型计算综合评价值,从而评价沿海滩涂开发利用综合效益。     

辽宁省滨海湿地资源在海洋经济开发战略中的定位研究

在研究辽宁省滨海湿地地理结构、功能与特征的基础上,针对辽宁省滨海湿地资源开发利用存在着的一系列问题,通过以滨海湿地为基础的辽宁省海洋产业分析,对海洋经济产业结构调整升级问题进行了初步探讨,最后对辽宁省滨海湿地在海洋经济开发中的作用给出了定位。     

论我国滨海湿地认证制度的构建

文章探讨了滨海湿地认证制度的构建内容,初步构建了滨海湿地认证制度应具备的基本内容和框架,结合滨海湿地的自然属性和开发利用需求对其进行了划分,提出了滨海湿地认证中的评价及许可制度,明确了公众参与作为保障公众知情权和社会监督的手段是认证制度中重要的组成部分。     

东海滨海湿地生态环境监测体系建设构想

湿地是地球表层独特而重要的生态系统,在维系地球表层生物多样性和生态平衡方面有重要的作用。在介绍东海滨海湿地的分布和类型的基础上,着重探讨了东海滨海湿地监测的内容、监测指标、监测点选取设立的原则和监测的主要技术手段,提出了建立以东海滨海湿地资源监测中心和滨海湿地监测点为两级构成的东海滨海湿地生态环境监测体系的初步构想。     

天津近岸海域生态环境健康评价

以2004 - 2005年对天津市近岸海域海洋生态环境状况 4 次监测获得的资料为基础,利用"河口及海湾生态系统生态环境健康评价方法"对监测海域的海洋生态环境健康状况进行了评价.结果显示:除沉积物环境和生物残毒指标监测项目评价结果显示处于健康状态外,虽然水环境评价结果为健康,但部分海域水环境严重恶化,主要污染物为无机氮;海洋生物质量生物指标已处于亚健康状态的底线;栖息地环境为不健康,主要是由于滨海湿地的大量减少和大量海岸工程建设造成的.综合以上 5 类评价因子的评价结果最终判定:天津市近岸海域的生态环境处于亚健康状态,而且生态环境质量仍然存在着进一步恶化的趋势.     

江苏盐城滨海湿地景观格局演变及其驱动因素分析

为揭示滨海湿地景观格局演变及其驱动因素,有效解决滨海湿地生态环境发展不平衡等问题,本文根据盐城滨海湿地遥感影像数据,利用景观格局指数法定量化分析景观中斑块的面积和空间格局特征,并采用Logistic回归模型定性分析驱动因子影响规律。结果表明：1)近25年来,盐城滨海自然湿地面积持续下降,人工景观面积总体增长,大面积的自然湿地向人工景观转变;2)自然湿地斑块破碎化明显,形状趋于不规则,分布稀疏,整体景观水平指数变化复杂;3)由Logistic回归分析可知社会经济因素对自然湿地退化贡献率Wald最显著,人口数量增长及地区经济水平不断提高是导致自然湿地持续退化的主要原因,而气温升高与降水量减少也导致了自然湿地退化。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.