Using InSAR to identify hydrological connectivity and barriers in a highly fragmented wetland

Hydrological connectivity is a critical determinant of wetland functions and health, especially in wetlands that have been heavily fragmented and regulated by human activities. However, investigating hydrological connectivity in these wetlands is challenging due to the costs of high-resolution and large-scale monitoring required in order to identify hydrological barriers within the wetlands. To overcome this challenge, we here propose an interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR)-based methodology to map hydrologic connectivity and identify hydrological barriers in fragmented wetlands. This methodology was applied along 70 transects across the Baiyangdian, the largest freshwater wetland in northern China, using Sentinel 1A and 1B data, covering the period 2016–2019. We generated 58 interferograms providing information on relative water level changes across the transects that showed the high coherence needed for the assessment of hydrological connectivity. We mapped the permanent and conditional (temporary) barriers affecting connectivity. In total, 11% of all transects are permanently disconnected by hydrological barriers across all interferograms and 58% of the transects are conditionally disconnected. Areas covered by reed grasslands show the most undisturbed hydrological connectivity while some of these barriers are the result of ditches and channels within the wetland and low water levels during different periods of the year. This study highlights the potential of the application of Wetland InSAR to determine hydrological connectivity and location of hydrological barriers in highly fragmented wetlands, and facilitates the study of hydrological processes from large spatial scales and long-time scales using remote sensing technique.     

塔河油田奥陶系生物扰动碳酸盐岩储集层微观孔隙结构的数字化表征与连通性分析*

塔河油田奥陶系鹰山组和一间房组发育大规模生物扰动碳酸盐岩储集层。在岩心观测和详细描述的基础上,通过岩石薄片的偏光显微镜、阴极发光显微镜观测和柱塞样品的X射线显微镜扫描与分析,实现了塔河油田奥陶系生物扰动碳酸盐岩储集层孔隙结构的数字化表征与连通性分析。结果表明: (1)由于生物扰动区潜穴充填物和围岩基质的岩石组构差异大,使这类储集层呈现极强的非均质性。(2)生物潜穴充填物主要由白云石晶体组成,白云石晶体以自形、半自形晶体为主;白云石晶间孔隙发育,孔隙体积集中于10~100μm³,喉道半径一般小于10μm,喉道长度一般小于40μm,白云石晶间孔为这类储集层的主要储集空间,围岩基质孔隙不发育。(3)生物潜穴充填物孔隙度介于7%~10%,孤立孔隙虽然数量多,但连通孔隙体积占比大,且连通孔隙拓扑结构复杂,孔隙连通性很好;通过表征单元体的尺度粗化升级分析发现,这类储集层的孔隙局部连通较好,而整体连通性相对较差。该研究真实、直观、准确刻画了生物扰动碳酸盐岩储集层微观孔隙结构特征,可为后续这类生物扰动碳酸盐岩储集层的微观渗流模拟研究提供所需的特征参数;未来将这类生物扰动碳酸盐岩储集层微观尺度上的孔隙结构数字化表征和渗流模拟结果与宏观分布规律相结合并应用到实际储集层评价中,可为这类储集层的油气资源量估算、开发方案优选、产能预测和提高采收率提供指导。     

光和温度对两种绿潮藻光合途径及抗氧化功能的影响

绿潮是潮间带绿藻大量增殖形成的高生物量生态灾害,其暴发不仅受到温度、营养盐等环境因素的驱动,而且与自身光合能力的强弱密切相关。本研究以绿潮物种—肠浒苔(Ulva intestinalis)和Ulva expansa为研究对象,通过室外培养实验,检测了它们在夏季高温、高光强条件下的光合途径与抗氧化生理特征,并分析了与光合产物的对应关系。研究结果表明,肠浒苔与U. expansa的光合途径与抗氧化能力存在显著差异。前者的C₄光合途径关键酶活性在光合作用过程中出现高表达特征,与光、温度存在显著相关性,C₃光合途径关键酶活性在中午受到强光抑制;组织δ13C的变化范围为?17.1‰～?15.7‰,表明其光合作用可能由C₃和C₄途径共同参与。后者的C₄光合途径关键酶活性表达较弱,且与光、温度不存在显著相关性,C₃光合途径关键酶活性没有出现明显的光抑制现象;组织δ13C的范围为?23.5‰～?21.9‰,表明其光合作用主要依靠C₃途径进行。此外,肠浒苔在培养过程中表现出了较强的抗氧化能力,可能与其在高温、高光强条件下启动C₄光合途径密切相关。肠浒苔与U. expansa的比较研究说明,藻类C₄光合途径存在显著种间差异性。     

Home range,residency and movements of Diplodus sargus and Diplodus vulgaris in a coastal lagoon: Connectivity between nursery and adult habitats

Acoustic telemetry and standard tag-recapture were used to determine the home range and residency of juveniles and sub-adults of Diplodus sargus and Diplodus vulgaris in the Ria Formosa (Portugal) coastal lagoon. Maximum time between recaptures for the standard tag-recapture method was 128 days for D. sargus and 30 days for D. vulgaris. The majority of the fish were recaptured in the vicinity of the tagging location. Fish tagged with acoustic transmitters had a maximum period of time between first and last detections of 62 days for D. sargus and 260 days for D. vulgaris. Minimum convex polygons areas ranged between 148?024 m² and 525?930 m² for D. sargus and between 23?786 m² and 42?134 m² for D. vulgaris. Both species presented a high residency index between first and last detections. Two D. sargus tagged with acoustic tags were recaptured by fishermen outside the coastal lagoon at distances of 12 km and 90 km from the tagging position, providing evidence that this species leaves the Ria Formosa during the winter time for the adjacent coastal waters. The results of this study reinforce the importance of Ria Formosa as a nursery for D. sargus and D. vulgaris in the south coast of Portugal.     

Origins and pathways of the subsurface and intermediate water masses of the Indonesian Throughflow derived from historical and Argo data

On the basis of Argo data and historic temperature/salinity data from the World Ocean Database 2001 （ WOD01 ）, origins and spreading pathways of the subsurface and intermediate water masses in the Indonesian Throughflow （ITF） region were discussed by analyzing distributions of salinity on representative isopyenal layers. Results were shown that, subsurface water mostly comes from the North Pacific Ocean while the intermediate water originates from both the North and South Pacific Ocean, even possibly from the Indian Ocean. Spreading through the Sulawesi Sea, the Makassar Strait, and file Flores Sea, the North Pacific subsurface water and the North Pacific Intermediate water dominate the western part of the Indonesian Archipelago. Furthermore as the depth increases, the features of the North Pacific sourced water masses become more obvious. In the eastern part of the waters, high sa- linity South Pacific subsurface water is blocked by a strong salinity front between Halmahera and New Guinea. Intermediate water in the eastern interior region owns salinity higher than the North Pacific intermediate water and the antarctic intermediate water （ AAIW）, possibly coming from the vertical mixing between subsurface water and the AAIW from the Pacific Ocean, and possibly coming from the northward extending of the AAIW from the Indian Ocean as well.     

The effect of habitat and environmental history on otolith chemistry of barramundi Lates calcarifer in estuarine populations of a regulated tropical river

We examine the microchemistry of otoliths of cohorts of a fished population of the large catadromous fish, barramundi Lates calcarifer from the estuary of a large tropical river. Barramundi from the estuary of the large, heavily regulated Fitzroy River, north-eastern Australia were analysed by making transects of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotope and trace metal/Ca ratios from the core to the outer edge. Firstly, we examined the Sr/Ca, Ba/Ca, Mg/Ca and Mn/Ca and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotope ratios in otoliths of barramundi tagged in either freshwater or estuarine habitats that were caught by the commercial fishery in the estuary. We used ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotope ratios to identify periods of freshwater residency and assess whether trace metal/Ca ratios varied between habitats. Only Sr/Ca consistently varied between known periods of estuarine or freshwater residency. The relationships between trace metal/Ca and river flow, salinity, temperature were examined in fish tagged and recaptured in the estuary. We found weak and inconsistent patterns in relationships between these variables in the majority of fish. These results suggest that both individual movement history within the estuary and the scale of environmental monitoring were reducing our ability to detect any patterns. Finally, we examined fish in the estuary from two dominant age cohorts (4 and 7 year old) before and after a large flood in 2003 to ascertain if the flood had enabled fish from freshwater habitats to migrate to the estuary. There was no difference in the proportion of fish in the estuary that had accessed freshwater after the flood. Instead, we found that larger individuals with of each age cohort were more likely to have spent a period in freshwater. This highlights the need to maintain freshwater flows in rivers. About half the fish examined had accessed freshwater habitats before capture. Of these, all had spent at least their first two months in marine salinity waters before entering freshwater and some did not enter freshwater until four years of age. This contrasts with the results of several previous studies in other parts of the range that found that access to freshwater swamps by larval barramundi was important for enhanced population productivity and recruitment.     

松辽盆地北部登娄库组砂岩次生孔隙形成时期与油气成藏

利用与油气包裹体同期形成的盐水溶液包裹体均一化温度,结合本地区埋藏史和热史,确定登娄库组三、四段砂岩天然气成藏期为96~81.5Ma,并可细分为3期(分别为93~91Ma、88.8~82.8Ma和82.3~81.5Ma),前两期持续时间长,第3期时间相对较短。根据次生孔隙发育带分布宏观上受T4断层控制、微观上呈发育→较发育→不发育旋回性分布的特点判断,裂缝是酸性流体的运移通道,早期T4断层的形成时期是次生孔隙大量形成的时期:其中青山口组青一段沉积时期储盖匹配性最好,形成的次生孔隙与油气注入时期匹配,易形成气层;姚家组沉积时期储盖匹配关系好,但气源可能不足,该期形成的次生孔隙可能会形成低产气层或气水同层;登娄库组沉积时期储盖匹配性差,形成的次生孔隙难以保存,最终会形成干层。     

Origin and formation pathways of kerogen-like organic matter in recent sediments off the Danube delta (northwestern Black Sea)

The chemical structure, source(s), and formation pathway(s) of kerogen-like organic matter (KL) were investigated in recent sediments from the northwestern Black Sea, off the Danube delta. Three sections from a sediment core collected at the mouth of the Sulina branch of the delta, under an oxic water column, were examined: S₀ (0–0.5 cm bsf), S₁₀ (10–13 cm bsf), and S₂₀ (20–25 cm bsf). The bulk geochemical features of these sediments (total organic carbon, organic C/N atomic ratio, δ¹³C_org) were determined. Thereafter, KL was isolated from the samples, as the insoluble residue obtained after HF/HCl treatment. KL chemical composition was investigated via spectroscopic (FTIR, solid state ¹³C and ¹⁵N NMR) and pyrolytic (Curie point pyrolysis–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry) methods, and the morphological features were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Similar morphological features and chemical composition were observed for the three KLs and they suggested that the selective preservation of land-plant derived material as well as of resistant aliphatic biomacromolecules (probably derived from cell walls of freshwater microalgae) was the main process involved in KL formation. Besides, some melanoidin-type macromolecules (formed via the degradation-recondensation of products mainly derived from proteinaceous material) and/or some encapsulated proteins also contributed to the KL chemical structure.     

The importance of surface controls on overland flow connectivity in semi‐arid environments: results from a numerical experimental approach

In semi‐arid environments, the characteristics of the land surface determine how rainfall is transformed into surface runoff and influences how this runoff moves from the hillslopes into river channels. Whether or not water reaches the river channel is determined by the hydrological connectivity. This paper uses a numerical experiment‐based approach to systematically assess the effects of slope length, gradient, flow path convergence, infiltration rates and vegetation patterns on the generation and connectivity of runoff. The experiments were performed with the Connectivity of Runoff Model, 2D version distributed, physically based, hydrological model. The experiments presented are set within a semi‐arid environment, characteristic of south‐eastern Spain, which is subject to low frequency high rainfall intensity storm events. As a result, the dominant hydrological processes are infiltration excess runoff generation and surface flow dynamics. The results from the modelling experiments demonstrate that three surface factors are important in determining the form of the discharge hydrograph: the slope length, the slope gradient and the infiltration characteristics at the hillslope‐channel connection. These factors are all related to the time required for generated runoff to reach an efficient flow channel, because once in this channel, the transmission losses significantly decrease. Because these factors are distributed across the landscape, they have a fundamental role in controlling the landscape hydrological response to storm events. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.