微藻化感作用及化感物质在赤潮演替中的作用

近年来,随着海洋微藻群落生态和种群生态研究的深入,微藻群落组成的演替及种间关系愈来愈受到重视,成为现代海洋浮游植物生理生态学和化学生态学研究的热点[1-3].微藻群落演替是一个比较复杂的动态变化过程,涉及的驱动因素比较多,因素之间的关系比较复杂,而不同微藻种类对胁迫环境的适应能力又有差别,需要应用新的技术方法进行研究...     

闽江河口入侵植物互花米草对短叶茳芏的化感效应

外来植物入侵问题是当下生态安全和生物多样性的研究热点.研究其入侵机制对制定相应的防控措施具有重要意义.选用外来入侵种互花米草(Spartina alterniflora)的根、茎、叶3种构件,分别提取其水浸液为处理液(0.325 g/cm3),通过设置室内模拟实验,揭示其对闽江河口土著种短叶茳芏(Cyperus malaccensis)植株生长的影响.结果表明:互花米草的根、茎及叶浸提液对短叶茳芏的不同生长指标具有不同程度的化感作用.互花米草浸提液处理3个月后,根、茎及叶浸提液对短叶茳芏的分蘖数、叶面积均具有一定的抑制作用,但仅叶浸提液对分蘖数和叶面积的抑制作用分别达到显著水平和极显著水平,根及茎浸提液的抑制作用均不显著;茎浸提液对短叶茳芏的株高具有一定的促进作用,根及叶浸提液对短叶茳芏的株高具有一定的抑制作用,但三者的作用强度均未达到显著水平;根浸提液对短叶茳芏的根系活力具有轻微的促进作用,茎及叶浸提液对短叶茳芏的根系活力具有显著抑制作用;根、茎及叶浸提液对短叶茳芏的综合化感效应均表现为抑制作用,根与茎浸提液的综合化感效应相当,均小于叶浸提液的综合化感效应.     

赤潮影响因素研究进展

通过对赤潮发生的生物、化学、物理等影响因素研究现状的分析,认为赤潮生物是引发赤潮的内在因素,化学因素是赤潮发生的物质基础,而物理因素则是提供赤潮发生的环境条件。在赤潮生物存在的前提下,化学和物理因素都可以限制赤潮的发生,所以,将生物学、化学与物理海洋学耦合仍旧是赤潮研究需要解决的问题。在分析了现有研究状况的基础上,从不同角度提出了赤潮的研究方向。     

赤潮的高光谱监测及预警方法

有害赤潮发生频度有逐年增加的趋势, 建设赤潮的早期监测和预警系统是一个难点。文章研究表明, 珠江口赤潮前后, 叶绿素a浓度和细胞密度变化范围分别为0.9—31.1mg•m-3 和1.28×104 —1.76×106cell•L-1, 优势藻为聚生角毛藻; 高光谱辐射计获取的光漫射衰减系数、遥感反射率和荧光强度可反演叶绿素a浓度和细胞密度, 其中反演叶绿素a浓度的平均相对均方根差(RRMS)为30.6%、33.8%和77.4%, 而反演细胞密度的平均RRMS为83.6%、83.9%和136.4%。因高光谱辐射计可以获取每小时或者更短时间尺度的数据, 因此, 装备了高光谱辐射计的光学浮标可用于赤潮监测与预警系统。     

Discussion about mechanism of harmful algal blooms breakout

HAB (harmful algal bloom) is a serious marine ecological disaster. Up to now there is no definite conclusion about its mechanism of occurrence.The observation results show that the HAB breakout in the Xiangshan Bay was mainly caused by physical convergence capacity,and the breakout process had no direct relation to eutrophication.As a new idea it is thought that the process of the HAB breakout is mainly a physical convergence or accumulation process in some areas. A hypothesis about dynamic mechanism of the HAB appearing in the area off the Changjiang Estuary is put forward according to hydrology and topography and the past work, and a breakthrough is expected to be made for doing further research.     

Ecological features of harmful algal blooms in coastal upwelling ecosystems

Upwelling regions are the most complex habitats in which dinoflagellates produce red tides, but the flora is not unique. Many species also bloom in nutrient-enriched, non-upwelling systems, share the collective dinoflagellate trait of low-nutrient affinity, and can achieve relatively fast growth rates. Blooms occur over the range of nutrient – mixing – advection combinations found in upwelling habitats, rather than being restricted to the high-nutrient high-irradiance low-turbulence conditions posited by Margalef's classical Mandala and its Bowman et al. and Pingree versions. The bloom species are primarily ruderal strategists (R-species), which typify "mixing – drift" life-forms adapted to the velocities associated with frontal zones, entrainment within coastal currents, and vertical mixing during upwelling relaxations. Collectively, dinoflagellates appear capable of surviving fairly high turbulence spectra formed at representative Kolmogorov length scale – wind speed conditions. This biophysical protection might be the result of cell size-facilitated entrainment within the micro-eddies formed during turbulent energy dissipation. The swimming speeds of 71 clones of dinoflagellates are compared and related to reported rates of vertical motion in coastal upwelling systems. There are slow and fast swimmers; many exhibit motility rates that can exceed representative in situ vertical and horizontal water mass movements. At least four dinoflagellates from upwelling systems form chains leading to increased swimming speeds, and may be an adaptation for growth in coastal upwelling habitats. Red tides are frequent and fundamental features of upwelling systems, particularly during intermittent upwelling relaxations, rather than dichotomous (sometimes catastrophic) interruptions of the diatom blooms characteristically induced by upwelling. Successional sequences and the "red tide" zone may differ between upwelling and non-upwelling systems. In the latter, red tides diverge from the main sequence and are appropriately positioned in the Mandala's ecological space of high nutrients and low turbulence. An amended Mandala based on Pingree's S-kh model and the Smayda and Reynolds life-form model is presented to accommodate the range of red tide development and their successional routing found in coastal upwelling systems. Ecophysiological data support the Pitcher and Boyd seeding mechanism model, which can lead to red tides in upwelling systems. Nutrients, phyto-stimulation and grazing pressure as triggering factors in upwelling-system red tides are considered. Some red tides may be stimulated by nutrients and growth promoting factors excreted by migrating shoals and "boils" of c1upeoid stocks, with selective zooplankton grazing contributory. Substantial collapses in grazing pressure may be essential in anoxic red tide events. The mass mortalities that accompany anoxia, common to the Benguela and Peru upwelling systems, may be a trophic control mechanism to maintain biogeochemical balance and regional homeostasis, which are vital to upwelling ecosystem dynamics. Some traditional concepts of phytoplankton ecology may not completely apply to dinoflagellate bloom events in coastal upwelling systems.     

有害赤潮对浮游动物摄食的影响

藻华是指水体中藻类大量繁殖的一种现象,有时这种浮游植物的爆发性增殖会造成海洋生物死亡,生态环境恶化,通过藻毒素污染海洋产品,从而对人类健康甚至生命构成威胁,国际科技界目前称这类藻华（赤潮）为有害藻华（harmful algal blooms HABs）,也称有害赤潮。近年来,有害赤潮爆发的频率和规模都在逐渐增加,造成的危害越来越大,赤潮现象有在全球蔓延的趋势。赤潮对海洋生态系统造成的影响越来越受到关注,世界各国也相应展开了研究。     

Numerical investigation of the effects of upwelling on harmful algal blooms off the west Florida coast

The initiation of the toxic harmful algal bloom (HAB), Karenia brevis, along the west Florida coast has been associated with upwelling events. Upwelling processes may be responsible for the transport of nutrients or algae from deep offshore locations across the Florida shelf to the coast. The influence of coastal wind-driven upwelling on the onset and occurrences of K. brevis in this region was numerically investigated using Rutgers University's Regional Ocean Modeling System. Computations were carried out in an idealized model domain, a two-dimensional slice in the cross-shore and vertical directions. The surface forcing data used was from several offshore meteorological buoys. The motion of the algae was simulated using Lagrangian particles and a passive tracer. The numerical simulations of three K. brevis events in 2000–2002 showed that the particles respond (with upwelling/downwelling) to the along-shore wind stresses as expected and some upwelling was present during the events. Comparison of the passive tracer fields with measured fluorescence data exposed the model's sensitivity to the particular surface forcing data employed and the relatively more significant role played by surface forcing over initial conditions. The present model set-up constitutes a useful predictive tool for conditions conducive to the onset of HABs. It is planned to be used in a real-time mode to aid the NOAA HAB monitoring and forecasting system.     

浙江近岸海域赤潮发生的趋势与特点

根据历史记载和近年调查实测资料,概述了浙江近岸海域赤潮的历史与现状,分析了赤潮的特点与发生趋势,研究结果表明:浙江近岸海域各种不同类型藻类引发的赤潮频率均呈上升趋势,其中甲藻赤潮的发生次数上升尤为迅速,赤潮出现的规模越来越大,有毒赤潮记录次数也显著增加。探讨了赤潮发生的一些原因,指出了建立科学评估有害赤潮影响体系和预警系统的意义并提出了一些对策措施与建议。     

Characteristics of algal blooms in the southern coastal waters of Korea

We have investigated the characteristics of algal blooms in relation to the marine environment since their first known occurrence in the southern coastal waters of Korea. The algal blooms occurred most frequently in Masan and Jinahe bays, suggesting that they were related to the development of anoxic water masses. Skeletonema costatum, Heterosigma akashiwo and Prorocentrum sp. commonly occurred as the dominant organisms causing the blooms in all regions, although the conditions of their appearance differed from place to place. Algal blooms in all regions were more likely to occur when precipitation ten days prior to the bloom was greater than the long-term mean values. However, the factors that relate to the development of the algal blooms in Gamak Bay differed depending upon the causative species while they were largely identical in Jinhae Bay, regardless of the species.     

有害藻华的宏条形码分析:机会与挑战

宏条形码分析(metabarcoding analysis)是通过对野外样本的分子标记(即条形码)进行PCR扩增、测序,并利用测序结果分析野外样本物种组成、物种相对丰度,及其时空动态变化。这项在近20年里逐步发展起来的分子技术,得益于DNA测序技术的快速发展,包括测序通量的提升和测序成本的降低以及生物信息学分析方法的快速开发。基于可操作分类单元(operational taxonomic units,OTUs)分析方法,特别是最近的扩增子序列变异(amplicon sequence variants,ASVs)方法的开发,极大促进了宏条形码分析的应用。在世界及我国的海洋生态领域,宏条形码分析的应用还处于起步阶段。随着分析方法的日趋成熟,可适用于不同应用领域的分子标记不断增加,以及参考数据库的不断完善,宏条形码分析将释放出广阔的应用潜力。可以预期,宏条形码分析将在系统分析我国近岸海域有害藻华物种(及其他浮游生物物种)的组成和相对丰度中起关键作用,通过发现新物种,辨别隐存种,跟踪物种的生物地理学,进而帮助解析有害藻华暴发机理。     

Physical processes contributing to harmful algal blooms in Saldanha Bay,South Africa

The study synthesises current understanding of the predominant physical processes responsible for the seasonality of harmful algal blooms, notably Alexandrium catenella and Dinophysis spp., in the nearshore environment of Saldanha Bay on the west coast of South Africa. Saldanha Bay is one of the few naturally sheltered areas on the South African coastline suitable for in situ shellfish farming and is the major site for the production of black mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis in South Africa. Mussel farming started there in 1985 and the present level of production is some 2 700 tons per annum. Since 1994, disruption of harvesting as a result of the presence of harmful algal species has been a regular late-summer phenomenon. Toxic blooms that are ultimately advected into the bay develop on the continental shelf to the north between 32°S and St Helena Bay, a region characterized by favourable conditions for dinoflagellate growth and circulation patterns that facilitate build-up of intense blooms during late summer. Offshore dinoflagellate populations are advected shorewards and polewards in response to relaxation of upwelling at the Namaqua cell to the north. Dinoflagellate blooms are advected south from the southern Namaqua shelf during upwelling relaxation. Under such conditions, the gyre south of Elands Bay moves offshore and a barotropic flow past Cape Columbine is established. Evidence suggests that the near surface component of the flow occurs as a sudden "flood" event. These dinoflagellate-containing shelf waters are in turn advected into Saldanha Bay when upwelling relaxes, when the density gradient between the bay and the shelf drives surface inflow and bottom water outflow. These flows are reversed with the resumption of upwelling over the shelf, resulting in intrusion and entrainment of bottom water and surface outflow. Entrainment dictates that the bay acts as a net importer of bottom water and net exporter of surface waters over a synoptic cycle. This system of exchange between Saldanha Bay and the shelf curtails the duration and severity of toxic episodes in the bay relative to the shelf.