Impact of the cord-grass Spartina alterniflora on sedimentary and morphological evolution of tidal salt marshes on the Jiangsu coast, China

1Introduction Asanimportantcomponentofthecoastalsys tem,tidalflatsareformedbytidalactionunderthe conditionofabundantfine grainedsedimentsupply;theybecomeafocusofthestudyonland oceaninter actioninthecoastalzonebecausetheseareasare subjectedtointensehumanac…     

2014年冬季西太平洋雅浦海山与大洋海域大型浮游动物群落比较研究

2014年冬季对西太平洋雅浦Y3海山区和从西太平洋暖池区到黑潮源区之间的大洋海域的浮游动物进行了调查研究，分析了海山区和大洋海域大型浮游动物群落的物种组成、丰度和分布，并比较了两个海域大型浮游动物群落的差异，结合温度、盐度和叶绿素a浓度等环境因子数据，分析了海山对大型浮游动物群落的影响。结果表明，Y3海山区和大洋海域的大型浮游动物群落物种组成存在差异，二者的群落相似度系数为68.4%，两个海域的优势种/类群也不尽相同，海山区的优势种/类群是磷虾各期幼体、尖额磷虾和蛮𧊕，而大洋海域的优势种/类群分别是磷虾后期幼体、手磷虾、蛮𧊕、尖额磷虾和莹虾。大型浮游动物群落在海山区的平均丰度和最大丰度都要高于大洋海域，但海山区的生物多样性指数、均匀度指数和生物量占比都低于大洋海域，因而Y3海山对大型浮游动物群落的海山效应不明显。通过相关性分析和主成分分析结果可以看出，海山区的首要影响环境因子是盐度，而大洋海域则是温度；海山区和大洋海域的大型浮游动物丰度分别与200m层盐度和平均温度呈负相关关系，并且在两个调查海域均未发现大型浮游动物的丰度和生物量分布与叶绿素a浓度之间存在显著的相关关系。     

泥质潮坪磁组构特征及其意义研究

在１９８８年－１９９３年期间，对河北歧口及上海南汇海岸带泥质潮坪现行滩面积浦西曹杨新村近代亚潮坪沉积剖面进行了沉积动力环境与沉积动力环境与沉积磁组构特征测量分析。现行开敞海岸同物源潮坪沉积磁且构参量量值特征显示出，其Ｋ值高滩为高值，低潮滩次之，中潮滩为低。亚近开敞海岸泥质潮坪沉积剖面磁组构测量结果；Ｋ值是区分潮坪沉积动力活动带的高分辨率标志；Ｐ、Ｌ、Ｆ、ｑ是分析潮坪沉积结构的分辨率标志；ｑ是分析潮     

麦哲伦海山区MA、MC、MD、ME、MF海山结壳基岩的岩石学

麦哲伦海山区MA、MC、MD、ME、MF海山的结壳基岩类型主要有玄武岩、火山碎屑岩，其次为灰岩和磷块岩。玄武岩为蚀变玄武岩、橄榄玄武岩等，造岩矿物斜长石的成份多为拉长石和中长石，辉石多为普通辉石，橄榄石多已伊西石化。玄武岩的硅酸盐全分析表明，其P2O5含量普遍偏高，超出了玄武岩正常值范围；玄武岩的稀土分配模式与洋岛碱性玄武岩类型基本相似，但出现一定程度的Ce负异常，这是由于玄武岩中混有磷酸盐矿矿物的结果，经过成分校正后，化学成分分类上属碱性系列的碱性玄武岩。火山碎屑主要为玄武质火山碎屑岩，其中玄武质碎屑的矿成分及结构特征与玄武岩相似，玄武质火山碎屑岩的稀土分配模式与玄武岩的稀土分布模式基本相似，推测其与玄武岩为同一期火山喷发的产物。灰岩包括生物屑微晶灰岩、微晶生物屑灰岩等，多数灰岩具有不均匀的磷酸盐化现象，成为磷块岩。另一种类型的磷块岩，是由磷酸盐矿物交火山碎屑岩形成。磷块岩的稀土元素特征表现为稀土总量较高，Ce呈明显负异常。灰岩和火山碎屑岩的磷酸盐化作用对稀土元素的富集及Ce的亏损起了重要作用。     

The Influence of the Cockle, Cerastoderma edule, on the Macrozoobenthic Community of Tidal Flats in the Wadden Sea

Abstract. The cockle Cerastoderma edule is one of the large and important species of the tidal flats of the Wadden Sea. C. edule disturbs the upper sediment layer due to its crawling and “shaking” behaviour. About 7% of a cockle population move within one week. The mean distance of movement is -4 cm per week, which, in the case of a 2-year-old cockle with a length of ?3 cm, means that ?20 cm² of sediment is disturbed to a depth of ?3 cm. Besides these measurable movements, cockles also regularly “shake” themselves, thereby disturbing the sediment around them to at least ?0.5 cm. At a density of 500 cockles per m² of a mean length of 3 cm, ?16% of the sediment surface is occupied by cockles and another ?29% is disturbed by cockles within one week. To study the effects of cockles on recruitment of other benthic species, densities of 0, 125, 250, 375 and 500 cockles (mean length 3 or 3.5 cm) were added to 1-m² plots within large depopulated squares in April. Subsequently, sediment samples were sieved once a month (from June to September) and the densities of all macrozoobenthic species were estimated. The presence of cockles significantly reduced the densities of juveniles of the bivalve species C. edule, Macoma balthica, Mya arenaria, Tellina (Angulus) tenuis, and Ensis directus and of the worm species Pygospio elegans, Lanice conchilega, Eteone longa, Anaitides spec., Nephtys hombergii, Heteromastus filiformis, Scoloplos armiger, and Tharyx marioni and of the amphipods Corophium volutator and C. arenarium. Non-significant effects were found only in Capitella capitata and Nereis diversicolor. For all species mentioned above a negative effect was already observed at the lower cockle densities of 125 - 250 per m². Reductions of about 50% or more were found at densities of 500 per m², which was more than could be expected based on the area occupied by the cockles (?16%), but close to the area occupied plus disturbed (?45%). It is concluded that (dense) assemblages of adult cockles can have a strong influence on the macrozoobenthic community.     

Enzymatic Approach to Fungal Association with Arthropod Guts: A Case Study for the Crustacean Host, Nihonotrypaea harmandi, and Its Foregut Fungus, Enteromyces callianassae

Abstract. In the callianassid shrimp Nihonotrypaea harmandi (Bouvier 1901), the trichomycete fungus Enteromyces callianassae Lichtwardt 1961 occurs exclusively on the foregut lining. The enzymes from both the shrimp and the fungus apparently hydrolyze certain nitrogen and carbon compounds in detritus. The activities of various proteases and carbohydrases contained in the foregut juice were compared between fungus-infected shrimps collected from a sandflat in Kyushu, Japan (51 % infection rate) and uninfected shrimps from a nearby sandflat. The concentration of enzymatically hydrolyzable amino acids (EHAA) in sediment liberated by the foregut juice with fungi was slightly lower than that by 0.1 mg·ml^-1 proteinase-K and significantly higher than that by the foregut juice without fungi. In both foregut juices, substantial enzyme activities were recorded for proteinase(s), peptidases, amylase, cellulase and β-1,3-glucanase, and minimal ones for maltase and cellobiase. Of the commercial substrates examined, only in the case of the mixture of 16 kinds of dipeptides was a significantly higher enzyme activity in the foregut juice with fungi observed. In the process of EHAA liberation from sediment, peptidases secreted by the fungus most probably act as a supplement to the endogenous secretion by the shrimp. This may explain the higher shrimp growth rate recorded for the population with fungi. However, the significantly higher sediment EHAA concentration of the sandflat inhabited by this population versus the population without fungi could be another crucial factor explaining the site difference in shrimp growth rate.     

Citrate-dithionite-bicarbonate extractable phosphorus (CDB-P) pool in the suspended and surface sediments of the tidal flat area in inner Ariake Bay,Japan

CDB-P (phosphorus extractable by the citrate-dithionite-bicarbonate extraction procedure) was used as the indicator of bio-available inorganic P in the suspended and surface sediments in the inner part of Ariake Bay. The CDB-P pool of suspended and surface sediments in the tidal flat area was estimated to be 10 ton and 90 ton, respectively (total of 100 ton), which corresponds to 1.5 times the average dissolved inorganic phosphorus standing stock. During the summer periods of hypoxia, the CDB-P concentration in the surface sediments decreased with the decline of Eh, losing 43–47% of the CDB-P observed in April. These results suggest that the phosphorus dynamics have been affected by the decrease of resuspended sediment concentrations brought about by the reduction of the tidal currents and phosphate release from the surface sediments during frequently occurring summer hypoxia events.     

杭州湾庵东浅滩地貌演变规律

杭州湾南岸庵东浅潍的地貌演变具有长周期、多年周期和年周期变化。浅滩舌部的进退、摆动,以及滩面高程和潮沟系统的变动,是周期性演变的主要表现。地貌过程各控制因素通过杭州湾湾口和湾顶两个高混浊带提供的输沙通道,以及浅滩输沙结构的调整,间接或直接影响浅滩的演变,出现各个层次的动力-地貌响应关系。其中长周期和多年周期响应与长江及钱塘江两河口系统的调整有关,枯水条件下河口系统上移,庵东浅滩供沙不足;丰水条件下,两输沙通道会于庵东浅滩,促进了浅滩的淤涨。在年周期的小尺度演变中,波浪条件具有重要的影响。     

潮滩干湿转换的地貌发育物理模型及动力机制

为研究潮汐作用下潮滩干湿转换过程中的潮沟系统形成和地貌发育,使用黄河三角洲潮滩天然粉砂建立试验室物理模型,并首次将Argus系统引入试验,用于监测现场,模拟在一定坡度下潮滩干湿转换过程的地表变化,分析了天然粉砂孔隙内潴留空气对潮滩地形起伏的动力机制,研究了不均匀流对地貌发育的影响。研究表明,整平均匀、坡度均一的干潮滩,在正向潮流、潮汐作用下,粉砂孔隙内潴留空气排出滞后于潮流淹没,承压后沿水平和垂直方向随机运移,导致平坦的潮滩表面形成细微的地形起伏。这种初始起伏会进一步影响潮流运动和潮滩冲淤,从而形成各种潮滩地貌形态,并决定着潮滩地貌空间分布。高潮滩形成高密度和连通复杂的不规则潮沟-碗口状塌陷系统;中潮滩和低潮滩较为平坦,在微小陡坎和碗口状塌陷上方发育有沿岸线平行方向排列分布的树枝状细密潮沟,且有明显的溯源侵蚀现象。受不均匀水流影响,中心轴附近潮滩率先淹没,孔隙内潴留空气排赶到两侧,导致潮滩中间地表较为平坦,两侧地表变化大,且沙波偏移以中部为对称轴,两侧对称。     

南海海山非均匀磁性反演

利用虚源法对南海海盆 1 6座实测海山进行了磁性反演。结果表明 ,南海海山非均匀磁化反演效果明显优于均匀磁化反演 ;南海海盆东部和西南部的海山运动方向相反 ,前者向北 ,后者往南 ;海山运移中的旋转形式两地也存在明显差异。