Population structure and conservation status of the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826) in the Eastern Adriatic Sea          下载免费PDF全文

Silvija Kipson  Cristina Linares  Hrvoje Čižmek  Emma Cebrián  Enric Ballesteros  Tatjana Bakran‐Petricioli  Joaquim Garrabou 《Marine Ecology》2015,36(4):982-993

Gorgonians are important structuring species of the Mediterranean hard‐bottom communities that are threatened by disturbances such as increasing seawater temperature, mucilaginous events and destructive fishing, among others. In this study we assessed for the first time the population structure and conservation status of one of the most common gorgonians in the Eastern Adriatic Sea, the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata. During late spring 2009, nine populations dwelling between 30 and 50 m depth were examined by SCUBA diving along 200 km of the Croatian coastline. The density ranged between 7 and 20 colonies·m^?2. The mean and maximum colony heights were 31.2 ± 22.7 cm (±SD) and 138 cm, respectively. Two main patterns of P. clavata size frequency distributions were observed: the first one with a higher proportion of juveniles (~30%) observed mostly in the northernmost populations, and the second one with a higher proportion of larger colonies (>25% of colonies >40 cm in height). Regarding the disturbance impact level, the proportion of healthy colonies (with <10% of injured surface) was high in almost all of the studied populations (>60%) and the mean extent of injury (i.e. denuded axis or epibiosis) was 9.7 ± 4% (±SD), indicating low impacts. Contrasting population size structures with high recruitment in mature populations provides new insights into the demographic structure of the Mediterranean gorgonian forests dwelling in their upper bathymetric range (<50 m depth). Furthermore, these size structures and the low impact levels suggest a current favorable conservation status of the studied populations in the Eastern Adriatic Sea and provide a baseline for their monitoring in the future.  相似文献   

Recovery of meiofauna communities following mudflat disturbance by trampling associated with crab-tiling     

Johnson GE  Attrill MJ  Sheehan EV  Somerfield PJ 《Marine environmental research》2007,64(4):409-416

The provision of artificial shelters for the collection of crabs, known as crab-tiling, and the subsequent harvesting of the soft "peeler" crabs for angling bait, are associated with trampling disturbance of intertidal mudflats in the United Kingdom. Recovery of meiofauna communities following crab-tiling activity was investigated on an intertidal mudflat in SW England. Harvesting of experimental plots was reproduced six times over a 2-week period. Meiofauna was collected at low tides 12h, 36 h and 144 h after treatment. Meiofaunal and nematode abundance, and nematode species number, was significantly greater in controls compared to crab-tile stations at 12h. At 36 h and 144 h there were no significant differences between treatments, indicating recovery had occurred in 12-36 h. Multivariate analysis showed nematode assemblage composition from control plots to be significantly different from crab-tile plots at 12h. No significant differences were observed between sediment physical parameters with treatment. Results suggest that the predominant effect of disturbance may be vibration-induced burial, which causes nematodes to bury deeper into the sediment, beyond the depth sampled, and explains the rapid recovery.  相似文献   

A less disastrous disaster: Managing response to climate-driven hazards in the Cayman Islands and NE Brazil     

Emma L. Tompkins  Maria Carmen Lemos  Emily Boyd 《Global Environmental Change》2008,18(4):736

This paper explores the relationship between disaster risk reduction and long-term adaptive capacity building in two climate vulnerable areas—the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean and Ceará, in NE Brazil. Drawing on past applications of the disaster risk reduction framework, we identify four critical factors that have led to reductions in risk: flexible, learning-based, responsive governance; committed, reform-minded and politically active actors; disaster risk reduction integrated into other social and economic policy processes; and a long-term commitment to managing risk. We find that while the presence of these factors has reduced overall risk in both regions, in Ceará, disaster response as it is currently practiced, has fallen short of addressing the fundamental causes of vulnerability that leave those prone to hazards able to cope in the short term, yet enmeshed in poverty and at risk from the longer-term changes associated with climate change. Although calls for integration of disaster risk management with poverty eradication are not new, there has been insufficient attention paid in the literature on how to foster such integration. Based on the two case studies, we argue that the adoption of good governance mechanisms (such as stakeholder participation, access to knowledge, accountability and transparency) in disaster risk reduction policy may create the policy environment that is conducive to the kind of structural reform needed to build long-term adaptive capacity to climate-driven impacts. We conclude that without a synergistic two-tiered approach that includes both disaster risk reduction and structural reform, disaster risk reduction, in the face of climate changes, will prove to be an expensive and ineffective palliative treatment of changing risks.  相似文献   

Cluster synchronisation: A mechanism for plankton patchiness and a simulation pitfall     

Emma Guirey  Adrian Martin  Meric Srokosz  Martin Bees   《Ocean Modelling》2009,29(4):223-233

We present a study on the emergence of spatial variability, or patchiness, in biophysical simulations of plankton ecosystems. Using a standard approach to modelling such ecosystems, we represent a distribution of plankton as a lattice of non-identical interacting oscillatory populations. Spatial variation is imposed in population parameters, such as maximum growth rate, leading to a spread in the natural (uncoupled) population properties. Using the methods of synchronisation theory, the emergent spatial structure of the coupled system is investigated as a function of the strength of interaction between populations. Surprisingly, a range of coupling strength is found to induce a tenfold increase in the spread in frequency of oscillation of populations in comparison with the uncoupled level of spatial variation. This apparent desynchronisation corresponds to the formation of temporally evolving clusters of local synchronisation: the interplay of grid-cell scale variability and dispersal between populations leads to patchiness at larger scales. However, the occurrence and length-scale of this patchiness is found to be sensitive to typical simulation parameters such as spatial resolution and strength of dispersal, with emergent spatial structure altering abruptly from patchy to homogeneous as these parameters are varied. These results indicate that whilst cluster synchronisation may be a genuine mechanism for the formation of spatial structure in plankton distributions, biophysical modellers should be aware of the possibility of artificial patchiness arising from the basic physical structure of their model.  相似文献   

The host galaxies of strong Ca ii quasar absorption systems at z < 0.5     

Berkeley J. Zych  Michael T. Murphy  Max Pettini  Paul C. Hewett  Emma V. Ryan-Weber  Sara L. Ellison 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(4):1409-1422

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Soils and geomorphology of the chalk in south-east England     

J. A. Catt  J. M. Hodgson 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1976,1(2):181-193

Soil mapping and soil profile studies on the Chalk of south-east England outline the distribution and origin of superficial deposits more clearly than hitherto, and do not support the widely accepted history of landscape development proposed by Wooldridge and Linton (1955). Deposits formed by weathering and periglacial disturbance of a thin cover of basal Tertiary deposits occur on all parts of the dip-slope interfluves, suggesting that the exhumed sub-Tertiary surface, somewhat lowered by dissolution of the Chalk, is much more extensive than supposed by Wooldridge and Linton. The evidence for high Plio-Pleistocene sea levels is reviewed, with particular reference to their limited effect on soils and superficial deposits and on the morphology of the dip-slope. Alternative explanations for the so-called Calabrian marine platform and cliff are considered. Emphasis is placed on periglacial processes in the later Pleistocene denudation of the Chalk, and on the protective role played by the cover of disturbed basal Tertiary sediment.  相似文献   

New evidence for the glacial diversion of the River Teme near Ludlow,Salop     

P. Cross  J.M. Hodgson 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》1975,86(3):313-331

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Direction of faulting in Pacific earthquakes     

Dr. John H. Hodgson 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1955,32(1):31-42

Summary For the past several years the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa has been applyingByerly's method to study the direction of faulting in earthquakes, a total of 34 earthquakes having been analysed to date. For all but 3 of these earthquakes the solutions have been based on data supplied by co-operating seismologists through the medium of questionnaires.It is the conclusion of the work to date that transcurrent faulting plays a more important part in tectonic processes than is normally ascribed to it. In the area from Alaska through the British Columbia coast to Seattle only 2 out of 6 earthquakes were predominately transcurrent, but elsewhere transcurrent faulting appears to be the rule. Of 10 earthquakes from the Southwest Pacific, 1 from Japan and 6 from the Kuriles so far analysed, all exhibit transcurrent faulting, for depths of focus ranging from less than normal to 550 km. In the Aleutians 2 of the 3 earthquakes analysed, and in South America 4 of the 5, resulted from transcurrent faults. The group of South American earthquakes included one at 600 km.If subsequent work should continue to give evidence of the importance of transcurrent faulting, existing theories of the earth's failure will have to be modified. Such studies could be speeded up very much if all stations would include data on first motion in their bulletins. A strong plea is made that this should be done.

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Résumé Depuis déjà plusieurs années le Dominion Observatory emploie la méthodeByerly pour étudier la direction des dislocations causées par les trembrements de terre et 34 séismes en tout ont été analysés jusqu'à présent. Pour tous ces tremblements de terre, sauf 3, la solution s'appuie sur des données fournies par des investigateurs de séismes, qui ont collaboré en répondant à des questionnaires.A la lumière des résultats obtenus à date nous pouvons conclure que la faille transversale a joué un rôle plus important dans l'évolution tectonique qu'on ne lui en attribue normalement. Dans la région partant de l'Alaska, passant par la colombie Britannique, et allant jusqu'à Seattle, la faille transversale est prédominante dans seulement 2 des 6 tremblements de terre, cependant qu'ailleurs la faille transversale semble être de règle. Des 10 tremblements de terre survenus dans le sud de l'océan Pacifique, un au Japon et 6 aux îles Kouriles qui ont été analysés, tous demontrent une dislocation horizontale pour des profondeurs de centre variant de moins que la normale jusqu'à 550 km. Dans les Aléoutiennes 2 des 3 séismes analysés et dans l'Amérique du Sud 4 des 5, résultaient de failles transversales. Le centre d'un des tremblements de terre en Amérique du Sud se trouvait à 600 km de profondeur. Si les résultats des traterre vaux subséquents continuent d'augmenter l'importance de la faille transversale, les théories déjà existantes de l'écroulement de la terre devront être modifiées. Cette étude pourrait être sensiblement accélée si les données du mouvement premier des tremblements de terre étaient ajoutées aux Bulletins des stations séismologiques. Nous insistons fortement pour que cette mesure soit adoptéc.

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A paper read at a joint session of the Associations of Seismology, Geodesy and Volcanology of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Rome, September 22, 1954.Published by permission of the Deputy Minister, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, Ottawa, Canada.  相似文献   

Lahar-Triggering Mechanisms and Hazard at Ruapehu Volcano,New Zealand   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Lecointre  Jerome  Hodgson  Katy  Neall  Vincent  Cronin  Shane 《Natural Hazards》2004,31(1):85-109

Late Holocene volcanic activity at Ruapehu has been characterizedby the generation of small (<10⁵ m³) to very large (>10⁷ m³) lahars and repeated,small to medium (VEI 1-3) tephra-producing eruptions. The Onetapu Formation groupsall lahar deposits that accumulated during the last 2,000 years on the southeastern Ruapehu ring plain. The andesitic tephras are grouped within the Tufa Trig Formation and are intercalated within the laharic sequence. By correlating these two formations with new radiocarbon ages obtained on interbedded paleosols, we reconstruct a detailed volcanic history of Ruapehu for this period.Clast assemblages identified in the laharic sequences record thelithologies of synchronous tephras and rocks within the source region. These assemblages suggest a strong genetic link between the development of Crater Lake, the variation in eruptivestyles, and the production of lahars.Lahar-triggering mechanisms include: (1) flank collapse ofhydrothermally altered and unstable portions of the cone; (2) phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions favoring the generation of snow-rich slurries and hyperconcentrated stream flows; (3) suddenCrater Lake rim collapse, releasing large amounts of water inducing debris flows; and (4) eruptions that generate large volumes of tephra on snow-covered slopes, later remobilized by heavy rain.Two major lahars in the Onetapu sequence had a volume 4 × 10⁷ m³, roughly 1 to 2 orders of magnitude larger than the 1953event leading to the Tangiwai disaster (151 casualties). One of these lahars crossed over a lowinterfluve currently separating the Whangaehu River from a stream feeding the Tongariro River,sometime since peat accumulated between AD 1400 and AD 1660. A repetition of such a large-scaleevent would have devastating consequences on the infrastructure, economy and environment withinthe distal areas of the two catchments. The 1995–1996 eruptions were a timely reminder ofthe hazards posed by the volcano.  相似文献   

Stratigraphic expression of the lateral propagation and growth of isolated fault-related uplifts     

Asdrúbal Bernal  Stuart Hardy†  Rob Gawthorpe‡  Emma Finch‡ 《Basin Research》2004,16(2):219-233

The lateral propagation of faults and folds is known to be an important process during the development of mountain belts, but little is known about the manner in which along‐strike fault–fold growth is expressed in pre‐ and syntectonic (growth) strata. We use a coupled tectonic and stratigraphic model to investigate the along‐strike stratigraphic expression of fault‐related folds/uplifts that grow in both the transport and strike directions. We consider faults that propagate following a quadratic (nonself‐similar evolution) or linear (self‐similar evolution) scaling law, using different slip distributions per episode of fault propagation, under general background sedimentation. We find that the long‐strike geometry of pre‐ and syntectonic strata and the geometry of growth axial surfaces reflect the mode of fault propagation. The geometry of strata observed in the model is similar to that observed in natural contractional structures when: (1) the evolution of the fault is nonself‐similar, or (2) the fault grows as a result of thrust faulting events with similar displacements along strike that are terminated abruptly at the fault tips.  相似文献