Land cover and land use change related to shrimp farming in coastal areas of Quang Ninh,Vietnam using remotely sensed data     

Thuyet D. Bui  Stefan W. Maier  Chris M. Austin 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2014,72(2):441-455

Rapid development of shrimp farming may lead to unrecognized and undesirable changes of land cover/land use patterns in coastal areas. Of special concern is the loss of mangrove forest in coastal areas such as Quang Ninh, Vietnam, which is adjacent to the World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay. Understanding the status and changes of land cover/land use for coastal shrimp farms and mangrove forests can support environmental protection and decision-making for sustainable development in coastal areas. Within this context, this paper uses the 1999/2001 Landsat ETM+ and the 2008 ALOS AVNIR-2 imagery to investigate the contraction and expansion of shrimp farms and mangrove forests in coastal areas of Ha Long and Mong Cai, which now have a high concentration of intensive and semi-intensive shrimp farms. Images were separately analyzed and classified before using post-classification comparisons to detect land cover/land use changes in the study area. The results of this study found that the area of mangrove forest has been reduced by an estimated 927.5 ha in Ha Long and 1,144.4 ha in Mong Cai, while shrimp farming areas increased by an estimated 1,195.9 and 1,702.5 ha, respectively, over the same period. The majority of shrimp farms in Mong Cai were established at the expense of mangrove forest (49.4 %) while shrimp farms in Ha Long were mainly constructed on areas previously occupied by bare ground (46.5 %) and a significant proportion also replaced mangroves (23.9 %). The remarkable rate of mangrove loss and shrimp farming expansion detected in this study, over a relatively short time scale indicate that greater awareness of environmental impacts of shrimp farm expansion is required if this industry is to be sustainable, the important estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems are to be protected over the long term, and the capturing and storing of carbon in mangrove systems are to be enhanced for global climate change mitigation and for use as carbon offsets.  相似文献   

The Ardón L6 ordinary chondrite: A long‐hidden Spanish meteorite fall     

Josep M. Trigo‐Rodríguez  Jordi Llorca  Mona Weyrauch  Addi Bischoff  Carles E. Moyano‐Cambero  Klaus Keil  Matthias Laubenstein  Andreas Pack  José María Madiedo  Jacinto Alonso‐Azcárate  My Riebe  Rainer Wieler  Uli Ott  Mar Tapia  Narcís Mestres 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(8):1475-1484

We report and describe an L6 ordinary chondrite fall that occurred in Ardón, León province, Spain (longitude 5.5605°W, latitude 42.4364°N) on July 9th, 1931. The 5.5 g single stone was kept hidden for 83 yr by Rosa González Pérez, at the time an 11 yr old who had observed the fall and had recovered the meteorite. According to various newspaper reports, the event was widely observed in Northern Spain. Ardón is a very well‐preserved, fresh, strongly metamorphosed (petrologic type 6), and weakly shocked (S3) ordinary chondrite with well‐equilibrated and recrystallized minerals. The mineral compositions (olivine Fa_23.7±0.3, low‐Ca pyroxene Fs_20.4±0.2Wo_1.5±0.2, plagioclase An_10.3±0.5Ab_84.3±1.2), magnetic susceptibility (log χ = 4.95 ± 0.05 × 10^?9 m³ kg^?1), bulk density (3.49 ± 0.05 g   cm^?3), grain density (3.58 ± 0.05 g   cm^?3), and porosity (2.5 vol%) are typical for L6 chondrites. Short‐lived radionuclides confirm that the meteorite constitutes a recent fall. The ²¹Ne and ³⁸Ar cosmic ray exposure ages are both about 20–30 Ma, similar to values for many other L chondrites. The cosmogenic ²²Ne/²¹Ne ratio indicates that preatmospheric Ardón was a relatively large body. The fact that the meteorite was hidden in private hands for 83 yr makes one wonder if other meteorite falls may have experienced the same fate, thus possibly explaining the anomalously low number of falls reported in continental Spain in the 20th century.  相似文献   

Gamma–hadron separation methods for the VERITAS array of four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes     

H. Krawczynski  D.A. Carter-Lewis  C. Duke  J. Holder  G. Maier  S. Le Bohec  G. Sembroski 《Astroparticle Physics》2006,25(6):380-390

Ground-based arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes have emerged as the most sensitive γ-ray detectors in the energy range of about 100 GeV and above. The strengths of these arrays are a very large effective collection area on the order of 10⁵ m², combined with excellent single photon angular and energy resolutions. The sensitivity of such detectors is limited by statistical fluctuations in the number of Cosmic-ray initiated air showers that resemble γ-ray air showers in many ways. In this paper, we study the performance of simple event reconstruction methods when applied to simulated data of the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) experiment. We review methods for reconstructing the arrival direction and the energy of the primary photons, and examine means to improve on their performance. For a software threshold energy of 300 GeV (100 GeV), the methods achieve point source angular and energy resolutions of σ_63% = 0.1° (0.2°) and σ_68% = 15% (22%), respectively. The main emphasis of the paper is the discussion of γ–hadron separation methods for the VERITAS experiment. We find that the information from several methods can be combined based on a likelihood ratio approach and the resulting algorithm achieves a γ–hadron suppression with a quality factor that is substantially higher than that achieved with the standard methods used so far.  相似文献   

Strontium isotope disequilibrium of plagioclase in the Upper Critical Zone of the Bushveld Complex: evidence for mixing of crystal slurries     

Sheng-Hong Yang  Wolfgang D. Maier  Yann Lahaye  Hugh O’Brien 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2013,166(4):959-974

We report in situ Sr isotope data for plagioclase of the Bushveld Complex. We found disequilibrium Sr isotopic compositions on several scales, (1) between cores and rims of plagioclase grains in the Merensky pyroxenite, the Bastard anorthosite, and the UG1 unit and its noritic footwall, (2) between cores of different plagioclase grains within thin sections of anorthosite and pyroxenite of the Merensky unit, the footwall anorthosite of the Merensky reef and the footwall norite of the UG1 chromitite. The data are consistent with a model of co-accumulation of cumulus plagioclase grains that had crystallized from different magmas, followed by late-stage overgrowth of the cumulus grains in a residual liquid derived from a different level of the compacting cumulate pile. We propose that the rocks formed through slumping of semi-consolidated crystal slurries at the top of the Critical Zone during subsidence of the center of the intrusion. Slumping led to sorting of crystals based on density differences, resulting in a layered interval of pyroxenites, norites and anorthosites.  相似文献   

Dietary niche partitioning in a piscivorous fish guild in response to stocking of an additional competitor - The role of diet specialisation     

Torsten Schulze  Hendrik Dörner  Uli BaadeFranz Hölker 《Limnologica》2012,42(1):56-64

Species belonging to the same ecological guild can coexist only if there are differences in their responses to limiting resources. Thus, competitor introductions may modify the niches of the resident competitors, but empirical studies are rare. The extent of niche modification might further depend on the species’ trophic specialisation along the specialists-to-generalists axis. In this study, we performed a semi-natural experiment by introducing a trophically specialised piscivorous fish (pikeperch) to the resident predator guild of a trophic generalist (perch) and a trophic specialist (pike) in a temperate freshwater lake. Individual diet data were used to calculate total niche hypervolume and inter- and intraspecific dietary niche overlap to evaluate strength of competitive interactions before and after pikeperch introduction. In both pike and perch, there was a moderate niche compression in response to pikeperch stocking. Furthermore, whereas perch diet hypervolume did not overlap at all with that of pikeperch, the intersection of niche space between the two trophic specialists was highly asymmetrical in favour of pike due to its less specialised diet composition in comparison with pikeperch. The intraspecific dietary niche overlap between perch size classes reflected an enhanced partitioning, whereas that of pike size classes was found almost unchanged in response to pikeperch stocking. These empirical results corroborate that competitive interactions and the degree of specialisation may strongly shape the success of introductions of top-predators in freshwater ecosystems. The most specialised species may persist only if the competitors belong rather to the generalists along the specialisation continuum.  相似文献   

Selenium and sulfur concentrations in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa and implications for formation of the platinum-group element deposits     

Sarah-Jane Barnes  Dany Savard  L. Paul Bédard  Wolfgang D. Maier 《Mineralium Deposita》2009,44(6):647-663

We have determined the S, Se, Cu and La contents through a complete stratigraphic section of the Bushveld Complex. The principle aim was to determine which phases controlled these elements. S, Se and Cu show positive correlations, but these elements do not correlate with La. In most cases, the concentration of S, Se and Cu in rocks containing greater than 800 ppm S can be modeled by segregation of a Fe–Ni–Cu sulfide liquid from a fractionating magma. As the magma evolved, Se and Cu were depleted by the continual segregation of sulfide liquid and the S/Se and S/Cu of the rocks increased. The Se/Cu ratio is higher in the more evolved rocks, which suggests that Se has a slightly lower partition coefficient than Cu into sulfide liquid (1,200 versus 1,700). The Lower and lower Critical Zone of the complex contains on average only 99 ppm S. The low S content of these rocks has led some authors to suggest that these rocks do not contain cumulate sulfides, despite the fact that they are moderately enriched in PGE. These samples fall along the same trend as the S-rich samples on the S-versus-Se plot and the S/La and Se/La ratios are greater than the initial magmas suggesting that despite the low S contents cumulate sulfides are present. Three models may be suggested in order to explain the low S content in the Lower and Critical Zone rocks: (a) the sulfides that were present have migrated away from the cumulate pile into the footwall or center of the intrusion; (b) the magma was saturated in sulfides at depth and during transport some sulfides lagged in embayments; (c) the rocks have lost both S and Se at high temperature. The first two models have important implications for exploration.  相似文献   

Microtextural characterisation of the Lower Zone in the western limb of the Bushveld Complex,South Africa: evidence for extensive melt migration within a sill complex     

Bartosz?T.?KarykowskiEmail author  Wolfgang?D.?Maier 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2017,172(8):60

The Lower Zone of the Bushveld Complex comprises an up to 2-km-thick package of different ultramafic rock types with an approx. 90-cm-thick, sulphide-bearing noritic interval that occurs in the western and eastern limbs. The distribution and geometry of the zone are highly variable across the Complex, showing pronounced, yet laterally discontinuous layering on different scales. Together with the ubiquitous lack of large-scale fractionation in the Mg# of orthopyroxene, variable Sr isotope compositions and erratic Pt/Pd ratios, these observations strongly suggest an emplacement of the Lower Zone as a sill complex, as these contrasting geochemical characteristics are difficult to account for in a large Bushveld magma chamber, as previously suggested. It is more likely that these sills were episodically fed from a sub-Bushveld staging chamber, and variably contaminated, while passing through the crust before their final emplacement in the Lower Zone. Detailed mineralogical and microtextural work based on high-resolution elemental mapping of a set of samples, covering the entire Lower Zone stratigraphy of the western Bushveld shows that the variations in the late crystallising interstitial mineral mode are different from what would be expect, if all phases crystallised from a fixed initial mass of interstitial liquid. The interstitial mineral mode, represented by plagioclase, clinopyroxene and other late stage phases, shows variable ratios of these minerals ranging from ca. 21:15:64 to 75:17:8. In comparison to modelled expected ratios, most of the analysed rocks have higher amounts of early crystallising interstitial phases (e.g. plagioclase, clinopyroxene), relative to late crystallising phases (e.g. quartz, alkali feldspar). Therefore, interstitial melt must have migrated at different stages of fractionation during cumulate solidification, as a consequence of either compaction or displacement by convecting interstitial liquids. Two samples, however, show the opposite: late phases are relatively more abundant than early ones, which is consistent with a convection-driven replacement of primitive interstitial liquid by more evolved liquid. These results have important implications for the interpretation of the Lower Zone and, by extension, for layered intrusions in general: (1) interstitial sulphide mineralisation may be introduced into a cumulate through infiltrating melts, i.e. the liquid components of a sulphur-saturated crystal mush are not withheld from further migration, upon interaction with a cumulate pile; (2) most importantly, late stage minerals, such as zircon, rarely crystallise from trapped liquid that was initially in equilibrium with the cumulate. Therefore, dating of interstitial zircon from cumulates is unlikely to record the actual timing of emplacement, but merely the crystallisation of a later episode of residual melt that migrated through the cumulate.  相似文献   

The UG2–Merensky Reef interval of the Bushveld Complex northwest of Pretoria   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

W. D. Maier  M. P. Bowen 《Mineralium Deposita》1996,31(5):386-393

Northwest of Pretoria, the UG2-Merensky Reef interval overlies a Critical Zone-Lower Zone sequence that contains numerous large blocks of floor material. Nevertheless, individual layers can be correlated with equivalent units at Crocodile River mine, the Rustenburg, Impala, Union, and Amandelbult sections. Concentrations of platinum-group elements in two borehole intersections of the UG2 chromitite are 4 ppm over 1.2 m and 2.4 ppm over 2.2 m. Therefore, bulk PGE levels appear to be only moderately lower than those at Western Platinum mine. This renders models explaining PGE enrichment by upward percolating melt or fluids problematic. The Merensky Reef, although containing sulphides, is only weakly mineralized with PGE (0.6 ppm). The UG2 pyroxenite is separated from the UG2 chromitite by a 15 m noritic layer. The introduction of feldspathic cumulates between two units that elsewhere directly overly each other may be explained by the more evolved composition of resident magma in those parts of the chamber distally located with regard to a major feeder zone at Union Section. It also suggests that the UG2 unit is a multiple rather than a single cyclic unit.  相似文献   

The geometry of the joint pattern and its relation with fold structures in the Aywaille area (Ardennes,Belgium)     

G. Maier  G. H. Mäkel 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1982,71(2):603-616

The geometry of the joint pattern in the Aywaille area (Ardennes, Belgium) is analysed with statistical methods. The orientations of intersecting joint-planes were recorded together with the bedding-plane. Four principal sets have been distinguished. These sets are related orthogonally to the bedding-plane and geometrically to the regional fold structure. All sets are considered to represent tensional structures, formed in a single period after the folding. The joint pattern is compared with a model given byPrice (1966). It is concluded that this model, describing the generation of joints in relation with folding, cannot explain completely the formation of the joint-sets under consideration here.

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Zusammenfassung Die Geometrie des Klutgefüges im Aywaille Gebiet (Ardennen, Belgien) wurde mit statistischen Methoden analysiert. Die Orientierungen sich schneidender Kluften und der Schichtflächen wurden erfaßt und vier Hauptkluftscharen unterschieden. Diese Scharen durchsetzen die Schichtflächen im rechten Winkel und in Symmetrie zur Faltenachse. Alle Klüfte werden als gleichzeitig nach der Faltung entstandene Zugklüfte gedeutet, Das Kluftgefüge wird mit einem vonPrice (1966) angegebenen Modell für das Entstehen von Klüften nach der Faltung verglichen. Es ergibt sich, daß dieses Modell nicht zur vollständigen Erklärung der betrachten Kluftscharen ausreicht.

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Résumé La géométrie du régime de fractures dans la région d'Aywaille (Ardennes, Belgique) est analysée par des méthodes statistiques. Les orientations des intersections des plans de fractures ont été enregistrées en inculant le plan de stratification. On a distingué quatre ensembles principaux. Ces ensembles sont reliés orthogonalement au plan de stratification et géométriquement au plissement régional. On considére que tous ces ensembles représentent des structures de traction, formées au cours d'une mème période postérieure au plissement. Ce type de fractures peut-être comparé au modèle donné par Price (1966). On peut en conclure que ce modèle, décrivant la formation des fractures associées au plissement, ne peut pas expliquer complètement le développement des ensembles de fractures étudiés ici.

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Determination of Organic Phosphonates in Aqueous Samples Using Liquid Chromatography/Particle-beam Mass Spectrometry     

J. Klinger  F. Sacher  H.-J. Brauch  D. Maier 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》1997,25(2):79-86

Organic phosphonates are widely used, and in general, they are not easily biodegradable. Therefore, our interest was focussed on the development of an analytical method for the trace-level determination of organic phosphonates in water. Our method combines preconcentration of the analytes by evaporating the water sample with the methylation of the phosphonates using diazomethane. Analysis of the totally methylated phosphonates is done by liquid chromatography coupled with mass Spectrometry by the particle-beam interface. The derivatives could be clearly identified by their electron impact mass spectra as well as their chemical ionisation mass spectra. The totally methylated phosphonates can be separated by liquid chromatography using a 125 mm × 4 mm LiChrospher 100 Diol column and a gradient mobile phase containing n-hexane and isopropyl alcohol. After optimizing preconcentration and derivatization procedures as well as all particle-beam and mass spectra conditions, detection limits in the low ppb range were attained.  相似文献