Sedimentary organic matter distributions,burrowing activity,and biogeochemical cycling: Natural patterns and experimental artifacts

The coupling between biogenic reworking activity and reactive organic matter patterns within deposits is poorly understood and often ignored. In this study, we examined how common experimental treatments of sediment affect the burrowing behavior of the polychaete Nephtys incisa and how these effects may interact with reactive organic matter distributions to alter diagenetic transport – reaction balances. Sediment and animals were recovered from a subtidal site in central Long Island Sound, USA. The upper 15 cm of the sediment was sectioned into sub-intervals, and each interval separately sieved and homogenized. Three initial distributions of sediment and organic substrate reactivity were setup in a series of microcosms: (1) a reconstituted natural pattern with surface-derived sediment overlying sediment obtained from progressively deeper material to a depth of 15 cm (Natural); (2) a 15 cm thick sediment layer composed only of surface-derived sediment (Rich); and (3) a 15 cm thick layer composed of uniformally mixed sediment from the original 15 cm sediment profile (Averaged). The two last treatments are comparable to that used in microcosms in many previous studies of bioturbation and interspecific functional interaction experiments. Sediment grain size distributions were 97.5% silt-clay and showed no depth dependent patterns. Sediment porosity gradients were slightly altered by the treatments. Nepthys were reintroduced and aquariums were X-rayed regularly over 5 months to visualize and quantify spatial and temporal dynamics of burrows. The burrowing behaviour of adult populations having similar total biovolume, biomass, abundance, and individual sizes differed substantially as a function of treatment. Burrows in sediment with natural property gradients were much shallower and less dense than those in microcosms with altered gradients. The burrow volume/biovolume ratio was also lower in the substrate with natural organic reactivity gradients. Variation in food resources or in sediment mechanical properties associated with treatments, the latter in part coupled to remineralization processes such as exopolymer production, may explain the burrowing responses. In addition to demonstrating how species may respond to physical sedimentation events (substrate homogenization) and patterns of reactive organic matter redistribution, these experiments suggest that infaunal species interactions in microcosms, including the absolute and relative fluxes of remineralized solutes, may be subject to artifacts depending on exactly how sediments are introduced experimentally. Nonlocal transport and cylinder microenvironment transport – reaction models readily demonstrate how the multiple interactions between burrowing patterns and remineralization rate distributions can alter relative flux balances, decomposition pathways, and time to steady state.     

Private rights,public benefits: Industry-driven seabed protection

New Zealand has a large exclusive economic zone (EEZ) that contains a variety of marine habitats and commercially-important species. The commercial fishing industry operating within New Zealand's EEZ is of significant value to the economy and fisheries resources are managed through the extensive use of Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs). One of the benefits of ITQs has been to better align some of the private incentives of quota owners with the public interest. These incentives contributed to an initiative proposed by the fishing industry to close large areas of New Zealand's EEZ to protect the seabed from trawling. These closed areas are termed benthic protection areas (BPAs) and protect the benthic biodiversity of about 1.1 million square kilometres of seabed—approximately 30% of New Zealand's EEZ. A significant proportion of New Zealand's known seamounts and active hydrothermal vents are protected by these closed areas. We describe and discuss the criteria used to select BPAs and some of the criticism of this marine protection initiative. We argue that the assignment of strong property rights in fishing resources was an important precondition to an industry initiative that has a significant public benefit. Where private and public interests are well aligned, government can adopt an enabling and facilitation role, ceding direct control of processes in order to get the results the align with the public interest.     

海水循环水系统中环境因子对大西洋鲑体内土腥味物质含量的影响

为获知不同时期封闭式海水循环水养殖系统中水质因子、浮游植物和细菌群落结构对大西洋鲑(Salmo salar)体内土腥味物质含量变化的影响,于2018—2019年4次采集封闭式海水循环水养殖系统的水样和大西洋鲑。测定水体的氨氮、亚硝氮、硝氮、活性磷酸盐等指标,分析水体浮游植物群落结构并通过16S高通量测序测定水体中细菌群落结构,通过微波蒸馏-固相微萃取-气相色谱-质谱联用(MD-SPME-GC-MS)方法,分析大西洋鲑背肌中土臭素(Geosmin,GSM)和二甲基异冰片(2-methylisoborneol,MIB)的含量。研究发现:测定水质指标中温度、溶解氧、盐度、pH、氨氮、亚硝氮、硝氮、活性磷酸盐、总氮、总磷、总悬浮物和溶解性总有机碳在不同时期差异显著。共鉴定出浮游植物7门、13目、26属,蓝藻门(Cyanophyta)、硅藻门(Bacillariophyta)和绿藻门(Chlorophyta)为优势门;不同时期细菌群落中的优势菌门均为变形菌门(Proteobacteria)和拟杆菌门(Bacteroidetes),但细菌群落结构存在差异,这主要是由水质差异引起的。在不同时期,鱼体MIB含量均高于GSM含量,MIB为鱼体中主要的土腥味物质,在7和10月MIB含量较高。鱼体土腥味物质含量受浮游植物和细菌群落影响,而水质因子可能通过影响浮游植物和细菌群落的结构,来影响养殖鱼体内土腥味物质的含量。     

西太平洋海面风场数据集的建立及其应用

再分析风场数据至今已发展了约30年,目前人们使用区域乃至全球网格化再分析数据集愈加频繁,但风场再分析数据在强天气过程中的强度明显不足,将风场再分析数据同台风观测数据相融合是解决问题的重要途径,本文通过"构建经验台风圆形风场-叠加台风移行风场-流入角修正-叠加背景再分析风场"的基本思路,融合了西太平洋联合警报中心的所有台...     

半封闭海湾的水交换数值模拟研究

基于采用不规则三角网格和有限体积方法的FVCOM模式,建立半封闭海湾-湛江湾附近海域的三维潮汐潮流数值模型,通过验证,结果与观测数据符合良好,并在此模型基础上对湛江湾的水交换状况进行了数值模拟,将湛江湾划分成3个区域,针对各区域进行了水交换能力研究,研究结果表明:由于湛江湾内不同区域的地形和地理位置变化较大,使得湛江湾内不同区域交换能力相差较大,其中,靠近湛江湾出口处交换能力最强,特呈岛以北海域交换能力最弱,交换时间与物质的初始浓度无关,与投放时刻和外源强迫密切相关,在治理湛江湾环境时,应分区进行,注意选择污染物排放时间和位置。     

The first network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the high seas: The process, the challenges and where next

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being established to protect and rebuild coastal and marine ecosystems. However, while the high seas are increasingly subject to exploitation, globally few MPAs exist in areas beyond national jurisdiction. In 2010 a substantial step forward was made in the protection of high seas ecosystems with 286,200 km² of the North-East Atlantic established as six MPAs. Here a summary is presented of how the world's first network of high seas marine protected areas was created under the OSPAR Convention, the main challenges and a series of key lessons learned, aiming to highlight approaches that also may be effective for similar efforts in the future. It is concluded that the designation of these six MPAs is just the start of the process and to achieve ecological coherence and representativity in the North-East Atlantic, the network will have to be complemented over time by additional MPA sites.     

风暴对滨海湿地潮沟水沙输运的影响——以长江口崇明东滩为例

为了探知风暴事件对滨海湿地潮沟水沙输运的影响,分别于平静天气和风暴天气(“摩羯”和“温比亚”台风)条件下,在崇明东滩一典型潮沟进行了现场水沙数据观测。结果表明：台风期间近岸平均风速较平静天气增大3~4倍,有效波高增大7~15倍,盐沼前缘光滩和潮沟遭受强烈侵蚀,潮滩表层沉积物粗化1~2.1倍,水体悬沙浓度增大3~11倍,潮沟潮周期单宽泥沙输运通量增大4~33倍, 单宽泥沙净输沙量增大8~17倍。风暴天气下,潮沟水沙输运呈现“大进大出”的特点,在盐沼潮滩内受盐沼植被消波、缓流和捕沙作用下,潮周期内单宽泥沙净通量指向盐沼潮滩,促进了盐沼滩内部泥沙的淤积。     

基于渔获群落多样性指标的深水流刺网渔具作业性能分析

根据在东海区开展的3种型深水流刺网选择性试验数据,对3种型深水流网渔获组成、多样性及渔获性能进行了分析比较研究。结果表明:(1)本次试验共捕获33种渔获物,包括鱼类28种、头足类3种、甲壳类2种,其中3种型刺网均捕获种类8种;(2)3种型刺网优势种存在差异,日本方头鱼和黄鲷为共同优势种;(3)3种型刺网捕获种类多样性指数(D值、H’值、J’值)均不存在显著性差异(P>0.05),但渔获种类差异明显,3种型刺网两两比较种类Sorensen相似度均低于50%;(4)同型刺网相邻网目尺寸Bray-Curtis相似性较高,随着网目间距增加,相似度逐渐减低,以重量和尾数计算的相似性基本趋于一致;(5)3种型刺网随网目尺寸的增加(50～70mm),其W统计值(-0.113～0.040)总体上呈现依次增大的趋势,干扰程度逐渐较低。从生态多样性保护角度,增大网目尺寸是目前保护东海区底层生物多样性最有效的方式之一。     

Managing land-use effects on Northland dune lakes: lessons from the past

The Northland region of New Zealand includes numerous high-value, macrophyte-dominated dune lakes. Recent water policy reforms offer limited guidance on managing for aquatic macrophytes. In addition, dune lake histories are poorly known as regular monitoring dates to 2005 AD. Here, ca. 4000 years of lake functional behaviour is reconstructed from sedimentary archives in two Northland dune lakes (Humuhumu and Rotokawau). Results demonstrated that macrophyte dominance is sensitive to catchment erosion and hydrological drawdown. Degradation of macrophyte communities occurred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, earlier at Lake Humuhumu than Lake Rotokawau (post-1880 AD and post-1930 AD, respectively). In both lakes, increased erosional influx reduced macrophyte productivity, before later increases to wider trophic state (post-1970 AD). Lake-level decline is linked to increased nutrient loading at Lake Rotokawau but less so, Lake Humuhumu which is more strongly groundwater-fed. In Northland dune lakes, water-level reduction and erosional influx from land use have driven macrophyte degradation.