生物标志物重建浮游植物生产力及群落结构研究进展

海洋浮游植物生产力和群落结构在地质年代中的变化对深入理解碳循环的演变规律和机理有着重要的意义.生物标志物方法作为一种较新的研究手段,其含量与比值的变化被广泛用于浮游植物生产力与群落结构变化的重建.讨论了生物标志物方法在各大洋及我国边缘海的应用现状,提出了生物标志物的细胞产生量及其在环境中的保存效率的2种主要不确定因素,使目前多参数生物标志物方法只能够半定量地重建古生产力与群落结构的变化.针对我国边缘海,提出有必要通过现场调查和实验室培养建立生物标志物含量(比值)与浮游植物生产力(群落结构)的定量关系式,以达到能够定量重建生产力和群落结构变化的目的.     

广东长潭水库富营养化与浮游植物分布特征

为掌握梅州市长潭水库富营养化状态与浮游植物分布特征,为控制藻类水华暴发提供科学依据,2011年10月至2012年7月,在长潭水库关键断面选取10个监测点,测定水体理化特征、浮游植物种类、丰度等指标,采用营养状态指数(TLI)和Shannon-Wiener多样性指数法对水质污染现状进行评价,并分析浮游植物类群分布特征.结果表明:长潭水库水体富营养状态在4、10和12月处于中营养级,7月份处于富营养级,营养指数从库区中游上游逐渐降低;观测期间共检出浮游植物4门11科16属,通过丰度比较,发现长潭水库以蓝绿藻为优势种,并且季节变化明显,总体表现为7月 >4月 >10月 >12月;藻类多样性指数分析显示,水库水体污染水平为中度,中游和库区(除7月)为轻度污染,与综合营养指数结果一致;长潭水库污染源调查分析结果表明,该水库主要为氮、磷污染,污染源主要为上游禽畜养殖废水.     

厦门文昌鱼自然保护区周围海域浮游植物的生态

本文根据厦门文昌鱼自然保护区周围海域4个季度月的网采定量样品(1990年2月至11月)和瓶采定性样品(1980年8月至1981年5月)共108份,分析该区浮游植物细胞总量的时空分布、种类组成及其与环境的关系。     

有机改性黏土对海水中营养盐及主要水质因子的影响

为了阐明黏土方法治理有害赤潮的生态环境效应，研究了有机改性黏土对海水中营养盐和溶解氧、化学耗氧量、pH等主要水质因子的影响。结果表明，有机改性黏土对营养盐，尤其是磷酸盐有一定的吸附作用，吸附量随水体中磷酸盐浓度的增加而增大，不同有机改性黏土对海水中磷酸盐的吸附能力为：有机改性黏土Ⅰ〉有机改性黏土Ⅱ〉有机改性黏土Ⅲ。通过有机改性黏土对磷酸盐的吸附再释放作用研究，进一步探讨了磷酸盐释放作用对赤潮异弯藻（Heterosigma akashiwo）、东海原甲藻（Prorocentrum donghaiense）等赤潮生物生长的影响。实验结果表明，经过有机改性的黏土有利于提高其对磷酸盐的吸附能力，降低对磷酸盐的解吸率，缓解海水富营养化程度，虽然少量被吸附的磷酸盐能缓慢释放，但仍不足以维持赤潮生物的正常生长。同时利用有机改性黏土治理赤潮能显著改善溶解氧、pH、化学耗氧量等水质指标，有利于治理赤潮后的环境修复。     

Summer Phytoplankton Physiognomy in Coastal Waters of the Gulf of Naples

Abstract. Thirteen sampling cruises were conducted at weekly intervals in the inner part of the Gulf of Naples in the summer of 1983 to investigate the effects of excess nutrient inputs on phytoplankton communities. High surface phytoplankton concentrations (up to 1.15 ×10⁸ cells 1^-1) were recorded, particularly near Naples harbour and along the eastern coast, two locations that receive most of the area's sewage and industrial discharge. Phytoplankton populations were generally dominated by small species, mainly diatoms, which were associated with small phytoflagcllatcs. Species diversity values were relatively high (H'≤ 3.62) in most samples. Throughout the sampling period a high spatial and temporal variability for phytoplankton abundances and species composition was observed.     

Temporal and spatial changes of macroalgae and phytoplankton in a Mediterranean coastal area: the Venice lagoon as a case study

Since the late 1980s the lagoon of Venice, a shallow Mediterranean coastal area, has experienced strong environmental changes. Macroalgae, which were the predominant primary producers of the lagoon, reduced markedly, but neither phytoplankton nor seagrasses replaced them. Temporal and spatial changes in macroalgal standing crop (SC) and phytoplankton concentration were investigated between 1987 and 1998. Maps of macroalgal SC show a marked declining trend. Biomass in fresh weight decreased from: 558 ktonnes in 1987, to 85 ktonnes in 1993 and to 8.7 ktonnes in 1998. As a whole, the biomass in 1998 was only 1.6% of the biomass recorded in 1987. Similarly the macroalgal net (NPP) and gross (GPP) primary production decreased from ca. 1502 and 9721 ktonnes year(-1) to ca. 44 and 229 ktonnes year(-1), respectively. In the early 1990s the clam Tapes philippinarum Adams & Reeve and seagrasses, especially Zostera marina Linnaeus, colonised the bottoms free of macroalgae, but the development of intense clam-fishing activities prevented both phytoplankton blooms and seagrass spreading. Maps of chlorophyll a drawn according to data collected in parallel to macroalgal standing crop show unchanged concentrations. Macroalgae changes are enhanced by comparing annual trends in four areas of the central lagoon during 1989-1992 and 1998-1999. In those areas phytoplankton also decreased significantly. Marked changes of some environmental variables strongly associated with the primary production were recorded both during the lagoon mapping and in the areas studied on a yearly basis.     

One Dimensional Ecosystem Model Simulation of the Effects of Vertical Dilution by the Winter Mixing on the Spring Diatom Bloom

A one-dimensional ecosystem model has been used to investigate the processes relevant to the spring diatom bloom which play important roles in the biogeochemical cycle in the western subarctic Pacific. The model represents the plankton dynamics and the nutrient cycles in the spring diatom bloom; its results show the importance of dilution by deep mixing in winter. It is supposed that the vertically integrated biomass of phytoplankton decreases in the winter due to the decrease of photosynthesis, because the deep mixing transports phytoplankton to a layer with a low light level. However, the observed integrated diatom biomass increases as the mixed layer deepens. This is because the decrease of concentration due to dilution by mixing causes the diatom grazed pressure to be less significant than diatom photosynthesis. In other words, the effect of dilution on the grazed rate is more significant than the effect on the photosynthesis rate because the grazed rate depends on the concentrations of both diatom and grazer, whereas the photosynthesis rate depends only diatom concentration. The average specific diatom grazed rate, defined as grazed rate divided by diatom biomass, decreases by 35% associated with the deepening, while the average specific photosynthesis rate of diatom decreases by 11%. As a result, the average specific net diatom growth rate during the deep mixing is about 70% of its maximum during the spring diatom bloom. The deep mixing significantly affects the amplitude of the spring diatom bloom not only by the supply of nutrients but also by the dilution which drastically decreases the grazed pressure. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

2001—2002年粤东柘林湾浮游植物的生态学研究

2001年7月-2002年7月对粤东赤潮重灾区柘林湾进行的浮游植物周年调查表明,柘林湾共有浮游植物68属183种.其中硅藻为最优势类群,共51属143种,占总种数的 77.8%;甲藻11属34种;其它浮游植物类群6属6种.调查海区浮游植物群落的种类丰富度、细胞密度、生物多样性和均匀度的平面分布均表现为湾外高于湾内和湾内外侧高于湾内内侧的基本格局,但黄冈河河内浮游植物群落的构成却呈现种类少而密度高的特点.调查期间浮游植物的总细胞数年均值为16.9×104cells/L,周年变动模式为双峰型(高峰位于8月和4月).与上一个周年调查(2000年5月-2001年5月)的总细胞数年均值(36.0×104cells/L)和单峰型周年变动模式(最高峰位于7月)相比,差异较大.这可能是2001-2002年厄尔尼诺现象导致粤东地区气候异常、干旱少雨,以及调查海区无机磷剧减45%所致.中肋骨条藻(Skeletonema costatum)为该湾的全年优势种,在群落总细胞数中的百分比年均值从上一年度的58.7%上升至本年度的71.0%,导致Shannon-Wiener多样性指数从上一年度的1.91减少至本年度的1.75.中肋骨条藻的绝对占优已在很大程度上改变了该湾浮游植物的群落结构,并使中肋骨条藻赤潮的发生机率大大增加.陆源排污、大规模增养殖业和水体交换对柘林湾高营养盐低浮游植物密度及浮游植物群落的时空分布具最重要的影响.     

Picoplankton: Contribution to Phytoplankton Production in the Strait of Messina*

Abstract. Biomass and primary production rates derived from photosynthesis-light curves on picoplankton (< 1 um fraction) and total phytoplankton were compared for the Strait of Messina. Picoplankton biomass ranged between 0.063 and 0.094 mg Chi a m^-5 and accounted for 56–63 % of the total. Total primary production rates were between 0.22 and 1.56 mg C-m^-2-h^-1 of which the picoplankton contribution ranged from 24 to 43%. In this turbulent nearshore environment, the contribution of picoplankton to total phytoplankton production is considerably less than in calmer open-ocean waters. Carbon assimilation numbers (Pm^b), the initial slope (a), adaptation parameter (I_k), optimal irradiance (I_m) and compensation intensity (L_m,) for the picoplankton were lower than for the > 1 μm fraction. Fitted respiration (Rm^B) for the picoplankton was, however, on the average higher (10.3 % of Pm^B) than for the > 1 μrn fraction (6.6 %). Assimilation numbers for the > 1 μm fraction in the southern stations were of higher magnitude (8.5–12.0 mg C mg Chi a^-1 h^-1) than in the northern station, possibly due to the impact of upwelled water flowing southward along the Sicilian coast.