Microbial diversity in contaminated soils along the T22 trench of the Chernobyl experimental platform     

Virginie Chapon  Laurie Piette  Marie-Hélène Vesvres  Frédéric Coppin  Claire Le Marrec  Richard Christen  Nicolas Theodorakopoulos  Laureline Février  Sviatoslav Levchuk  Arnaud Martin-Garin  Catherine Berthomieu  Claire Sergeant 《Applied Geochemistry》2012

The diversity of bacterial communities exposed to radioactive contamination in Chernobyl soils was examined by a combination of molecular and culture-based approaches. A set of six radioactive soil samples, exhibiting high levels of ¹³⁷Cs contamination, were collected from the T22 trench. Three samples were also collected in nearby soils with low contamination. Complex bacterial community structures were observed in both highly and weakly contaminated samples, using a molecular approach targeting the 16S rRNA gene. However, the presence of specific populations within samples from highly contaminated soils could not be revealed by statistical analysis of the DGGE profiles. More than 200 culturable isolates, representative of dominant morphotypes, were grouped into 83 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) and affiliated to Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Alpha-, Beta-, Gamma-Proteobacteria and Bacteroïdetes. No specific pattern linked to contamination was observed for these culturable bacteria. The results show that both highly and weakly contaminated soils host a wide diversity of bacteria, suggesting that long term exposure to radionuclides does not lead to the extinction of bacterial diversity.  相似文献   

Temperature-, Salinity-, and Size-Dependent Winter Mortality of Juvenile Blue Crabs (<Emphasis Type="BoldItalic">Callinectes sapidus</Emphasis>)     

Laurie J. Bauer  Thomas J. Miller 《Estuaries and Coasts》2010,33(3):668-677

The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is an ecologically and economically valuable species in Chesapeake Bay. Field surveys and laboratory experiments indicate that blue crab mortality is significant during severe winters. We applied a temperature and salinity-dependent survival model to empirical temperature and salinity data to explore spatial and interannual patterns in overwintering mortality. Harmonic regression analysis and geostatistical techniques were used to create spatially explicit maps of estimated winter duration, average temperature, average salinity, and resulting crab survival probability for the winters of 1990–2004. Predicted survival was highest in the warmer, saline waters of the lower Bay and decreased with increasing latitude up bay. There was also significant interannual variation with survival being lowest after the severe winters of 1996 and 2003. We combine the survival probability maps with maps of blue crab abundance to show how winter mortality may reduce blue crab abundance prior to the start of the harvesting season.  相似文献   

Seasonal variability in the input of lead, barium and indium to Law Dome, Antarctica     

Laurie J. Burn-Nunes  Paul Vallelonga  Graeme R. Burton  Mark Curran  Sungmin Hong  Ross Edwards  Vin I. Morgan  Kevin J.R. Rosman 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2011,75(1):1-20

Lead (Pb) isotopic compositions and concentrations, and barium (Ba) and indium (In) concentrations have been determined at monthly resolution in five Law Dome (coastal Eastern Antarctica) ice core sections dated from ∼1757 AD to ∼1898 AD. ‘Natural’ background Pb concentrations in ∼1757 AD average ∼0.2 pg g⁻¹ and can be attributed to mineral dust and volcanic emissions, with ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁷Pb ratios reaching up to 1.266 ± 0.002. From ∼1887 AD to ∼1898 AD, Pb concentrations reached ∼5 pg g⁻¹ and ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁷Pb ratios decreased to 1.058 ± 0.001 as a result of additional inputs of Pb from anthropogenic sources. Seasonal variability in the late 1880s has been investigated by decoupling volcanic Pb from the total measured Pb concentrations, revealing spring and autumn maxima, and consistent winter minima, in anthropogenic Pb and mineral dust (Ba) concentrations. We link this variability to the annual cycle in the position and strength of the Antarctic Circumpolar Trough and, the Southern Ocean westerly winds to the north of the trough region. During the autumn and spring seasons, these systems increase in strength, transporting more impurity laden air from the Southern Hemisphere continental regions to Eastern Antarctica and Law Dome. As this Pb is isotopically identical to that emitted from south-eastern Australia (Broken Hill, Port Pirie) this implies a relatively direct air trajectory pathway from southern Australia to Law Dome (Eastern Antarctica).  相似文献   

Link between sewage-derived nitrogen pollution and coral disease severity in Guam     

Jamey E. Redding  Roxanna L. Myers-Miller  David M. Baker  Marilyn Fogel  Laurie J. Raymundo  Kiho Kim 《Marine pollution bulletin》2013

The goals of this study were to evaluate the contribution of sewage-derived N to reef flat communities in Guam and to assess the impact of N inputs on coral disease. We used stable isotope analysis of macroalgae and a soft coral, sampled bimonthly, as a proxy for N dynamics, and surveyed Porites spp., a dominant coral taxon on Guam’s reefs, for white syndrome disease severity. Results showed a strong influence of sewage-derived N in nearshore waters, with δ¹⁵N values varying as a function of species sampled, site, and sampling date. Increases in sewage-derived N correlated significantly with increases in the severity of disease among Porites spp., with δ¹⁵N values accounting for more than 48% of the variation in changes in disease severity. The anticipated military realignment and related population increase in Guam are expected to lead to increased white syndrome infections and other coral diseases.  相似文献   

Chemical pathway analysis of the Martian atmosphere: CO2-formation pathways     

Joachim W. Stock  Christopher S. Boxe  Ralph Lehmann  J. Lee Grenfell  A. Beate C. Patzer  Heike Rauer  Yuk L. Yung 《Icarus》2012,219(1):13-24

The chemical composition of a planetary atmosphere plays an important role for atmospheric structure, stability, and evolution. Potentially complex interactions between chemical species do not often allow for an easy understanding of the underlying chemical mechanisms governing the atmospheric composition. In particular, trace species can affect the abundance of major species by acting in catalytic cycles. On Mars, such cycles even control the abundance of its main atmospheric constituent CO₂. The identification of catalytic cycles (or more generally chemical pathways) by hand is quite demanding. Hence, the application of computer algorithms is beneficial in order to analyze complex chemical reaction networks. Here, we have performed the first automated quantified chemical pathways analysis of the Martian atmosphere with respect to CO₂-production in a given reaction system. For this, we applied the Pathway Analysis Program (PAP) to output data from the Caltech/JPL photochemical Mars model. All dominant chemical pathways directly related to the global CO₂-production have been quantified as a function of height up to 86 km. We quantitatively show that CO₂-production is dominated by chemical pathways involving HO_x and O_x. In addition, we find that NO_x in combination with HO_x and O_x exhibits a non-negligible contribution to CO₂-production, especially in Mars’ lower atmosphere. This study reveals that only a small number of chemical pathways contribute significantly to the atmospheric abundance of CO₂ on Mars; their contributions to CO₂-production vary considerably with altitude. This analysis also endorses the importance of transport processes in governing CO₂-stability in the Martian atmosphere. Lastly, we identify a previously unknown chemical pathway involving HO_x, O_x, and HO₂-photodissociation, contributing 8% towards global CO₂-production by chemical pathways using recommended up-to-date values for reaction rate coefficients.  相似文献   

The Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS critical zone observatory M-TROPICS dataset I: The Nyong River Basin,Cameroon     

Stéphane Audry  Henriette Ateba Bessa  Jean-Pierre Bedimo Bedimo  Jean-Loup Boeglin  Laurie Boithias  Jean-Jacques Braun  Bernard Dupré  Mikael Faucheux  Christelle Lagane  Jean-Christophe Maréchal  Jules Remy Ndam-Ngoupayou  Bernadette Nka Nnomo  Justin Nlozoa  Jean-Claude Ntonga  Olivier Ribolzi  Jean Riotte  Emma Rochelle-Newall  Laurent Ruiz 《水文研究》2021,35(5):e14138

Simultaneously acquiring time series of climate, hydrology and hydrochemical data over decades on river systems is pivotal to understand the complex interactions involving rock, soil water, air and biota in the Critical Zone, to build integrated modelling and to propose predictive scenarios. Among the Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) implemented in the past 25 years, only a few are located in the humid Tropics despite the importance of these regions in terms of population density, fast-changing land use, biodiversity hotspots, biomass stock on continents, size of river systems, etc. Since 1994, weathering and erosion processes and fluxes have been investigated at both local (experimental watershed) and regional scales in the Nyong River Basin (Cameroon) which belongs to the Critical Zone Observatories network named Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS (M-TROPICS). The data shared by M-TROPICS in Cameroon are: (1) rainfall; (2) air temperature, air relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and global radiation; (3) stream and river water level; (4) pH, electrical conductivity, water temperature and suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentration; (5) major ion, alkalinity and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations. The dataset already contributed to describe the water partitioning in these tropical humid watersheds, to better understand the factors controlling chemical weathering and physical erosion in tropical ecosystems, particularly the role of organic matter. The dataset also contributed to calculate elemental weathering fluxes and saprolite production rate and to propose denudation rates on tropical cratonic landscapes. Hydrological modelling allowed quantification of the geographical water sources contributing to streamflow. DOC data were used to determine greenhouse-gas emissions and carbon budgets from African inland waters. However, long-term solute concentrations at the outlet of a small tributary of the Nyong River exhibit non-stationary behaviour over the last 26 years. The processes governing those fluctuations are not yet fully understood and might be related to changes in the hydrological regime, land-cover and land-use. The latter highlights the need for longer time-series and continued support for CZOs particularly in the humid tropics.  相似文献   

A new late Pleistocene subfossil site (Tsaramody,Sambaina basin,central Madagascar) with implications for the chronology of habitat and megafaunal community change on Madagascar's Central Highlands     

Karen E. Samonds  Brooke E. Crowley  Tojoarilala Rinasoa Nadia Rasolofomanana  Miora Christelle Andriambelomanana  Harimalala Tsiory Andrianavalona  Tolotra Niaina Ramihangihajason  Ravoniaina Rakotozandry  Zafindratsaravelo Bototsemily Nomenjanahary  Mitchell T. Irwin  Neil A. Wells  Laurie R. Godfrey 《第四纪科学杂志》2019,34(6):379-392

Madagascar is a complex ‘biodiversity hotspot’ with a rapidly dwindling biota. The Late Quaternary subfossil record includes many extinct species whose loss is attributed to natural climate change and human impacts. Investigation of the chronology of these events is challenging because few localities document pre‐Holocene communities not impacted by humans. Caves with extinct lemurs of large body size comprise some of Madagascar's richest subfossil sites, but provide only a limited window into the island's past. Open highland sites may have fewer primates, but may better document other megafauna, and allow the analysis of the role of the Central Highlands as refugia and as corridors for the dispersal of vertebrates before and after human arrival. Here we present a new subfossil site, Tsaramody (Sambaina basin, Central Madagascar), a high‐altitude wetland area that preserves a diverse late glacial and postglacial vertebrate community. Tsaramody bears testimony to fluctuations in the highland flora during the transition from glacial to postglacial conditions, and the composition of a highland vertebrate community before humans arrived. We compare its biota to those of other sites to begin to document the decline and disappearance of megafauna from some of Madagascar's open ecosystems – wetlands dominated by hippopotamuses and crocodylians. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Effect of Sludge Retention Time on Nitrifiers' Biomass and Kinetics in an Anaerobic/Oxic Process     

Tzu‐Yi Pai  Terng‐Jou Wan  Yung‐Pin Tsai  Chwen‐Jeng Tzeng  Hsiao‐Hsing Chu  Yao‐Sheng Tsai  Ching‐Yuan Lin 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2010,38(2):167-172

In this study, the effect of sludge retention time on ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in an anaerobic/oxic (AO) process, was explored. The results indicated that the growth rate constants of AOB were 0.97, 0.88, and 0.79 d^–1, respectively, meanwhile, those of NOB were 1.22, 1.03, and 0.93 d^–1, respectively, when the sludge retention time (SRT) was 15 days, 10 days and 5 days. The relation between the growth rate constant and the SRT could be best described using a simple exponential curve and a second type hyperbolic curve. The lysis rate constants for AOB and NOB were 0.13 and 0.18 d^–1, respectively. The yield coefficients values of AOB and NOB were 0.22 and 0.21, respectively. The percentage of AOB to mixed liquid suspended solids (MLSS) was 0.64%, 0.53%, and 0.35%, respectively. Meanwhile, the percentage of NOB was 2.24%, 1.87%, and 1.11%, respectively, at SRT values of 15 days, 10 days and 5 days. When the SRT value decreased, the AOB and NOB biomass levels decreased by 12.75 and 47.01 mg L^–1, respectively. Meanwhile the removal efficiency of NH₄⁺‐N decreased from 90 to 26%, while the removal efficiency of total nitrogen (TN) decreased from 14 to 8%.  相似文献   

Mission architecture decision support system for robotic lunar exploration     

P. Weiss  K.L. Yung 《Planetary and Space Science》2009,57(12):1434-1445

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基于全局低分辨率CT扫描的合成层析成像技术     

曾凯  赵世英  王革 《CT理论与应用研究》2005,14(2):63-69

合成层析成像可由有限几个投影数据重建三维物体,与传统CT相比,该方法所需的射线剂量少得多.由于投影数据不完备,导致的重建图像伪影是合成层析成像的一个主要问题.本文提出一种对感兴趣区域进行合成层析成像方法,和其他方法相比可以得到更好的重建图像质量.该方法首先对目标进行低分辨率全局扫描,然后对感兴趣区域进行高分辨率局部扫描,最后,利用两次扫描的投影数据集合重建感兴趣区域的图像.数值仿真结果表明,用本方法重建感兴趣区域图像,要明显好于没有使用全局扫描信息的方法.  相似文献