Nekton community response to a large-scale Mississippi River discharge: Examining spatial and temporal response to river management     

Bryan P. Piazza  Megan K. La Peyre 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2011,91(3):379-387

Freshwater flow is generally held to be one of the most influential factors affecting community structure and production in estuaries. In coastal Louisiana, the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion (CFD) is managed to control freshwater discharge from the Mississippi River into Breton Sound basin. Operational since 1991, CFD has undergone several changes in management strategy including pulsed spring flooding, which was introduced in 2001. We used a 20-yr time series of fisheries-independent data to investigate how variation in freshwater inflow (i.e., pre- and post-CFD, and pre and post spring pulsing management) influences the downstream nekton community (abundance, diversity, and assemblage). Analyses of long-term data demonstrated that while there were effects from the CFD, they largely involved subtle changes in community structure. Spatially, effects were largely limited to the sites immediately downstream of the diversion and extended only occasionally to more down-estuary sites. Temporally, effects were 1) immediate (detected during spring diversion events) or 2) delayed (detected several months post-diversion). Analysis of river management found that pulsed spring-time inflow resulted in more significant changes in nekton assemblages, likely due to higher discharge rates that 1) increased marsh flooding, thus increasing marsh habitat accessibility for small resident marsh species, and 2) reduced salinity, possibly causing displacement of marine pelagic species down estuary.  相似文献   

Remote sensing mapping of the regeneration of coastal natural habitats in Singapore: Implications for marine conservation in tropical cities     

Y. H. Jonathan Tan  Jacqueline K. Q. Tham  Aayush Paul  Umair Rana  Hui Ping Ang  Nhung T. H. Nguyen  Alex T. K. Yee  Bryan P. I. Leong  Simon Drummond  Karenne P. P. Tun 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2023,44(1):130-148

Rapid urbanization has resulted in the loss of coastal and marine habitats in cities worldwide. The effective conservation of urban coastal ecosystems requires detailed knowledge of their spatial distribution, necessitating high-resolution mapping. Our study produces a high-resolution coastal and marine habitat map and shoreline map for the tropical city-state of Singapore created through pixel-based supervised classification of satellite imagery, bathymetry data and expert ground knowledge. These maps can be used as a base reference for multiple applications including ecological research, conservation and urban planning. They also help identifiy trends in the extent of key coastal habitats, providing insight into their differing levels of vulnerability to loss and potential for restoration to ensure long-term resilience. The method used for mapping shoreline typologies and resulting insights gained, can guide other rapidly urbanizing coastal cities on strategies to assemble useful spatial knowledge for effective conservation of their urban coastal ecosystems.  相似文献   

Repeated century-scale droughts over the past 13,000 yr near the Hudson River watershed, USA     

Paige E. Newby  Bryan N. Shuman  Jeffrey P. Donnelly  Dana MacDonald 《Quaternary Research》2011,75(3):523-530

Long-term sediment and ground-penetrating radar data from Davis Pond, a small lake near the Hudson River valley, reveal past droughts in a historically humid region that presently supplies water to millions of people in and around New York City. A minimum of eleven sandy paleoshoreline deposits in the lake date from 13.4 to 0.6 cal ka BP. The deposits span 1500 to 200 yr between bracketing radiocarbon ages, and intrude into lacustrine silts up to 9.0 m below the modern lake surface in a transect of six sediment cores. Three low stands, ca. 13.4–10.9, 9.2 and 8.2 cal ka BP indicate low regional moisture balance when low temperatures affected the North Atlantic region. Consistent with insolation trends, water levels rose from ca. 8.0 cal ka BP to present, but five low stands interrupted the rise and are likely associated with ocean–atmosphere interactions. Similar to evidence from other studies, the data from Davis Pond indicate repeated multi-century periods of prolonged or frequent droughts super-imposed on long-term regional trends toward high water levels. The patterns indicate that water supplies in this heavily populated region have continuously varied at multiple time scales and confirm that humid regions such as the northeastern United States are more prone to severe drought than historically expected.  相似文献   

Provenance of the northern part of the Kahramanmaraş Peripheral Foreland Basin (Miocene,S Turkey)     

Murat Gül  Kemal Gürbüz  Bryan T. Cronin 《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》2011,40(2):475-495

The Miocene Kahramanmara? Peripheral Foreland Basin (KPFB) resemble to classic foreland basin model, with small differences. In the classic model, both the accretionary wedge and foredeep extend lengthways parallel to the plate margin. In addition, accretionary wedge includes wedge top basin or piggy back basin that extends parallel to foredeep. However, the accretionary wedge of the KPFB contains small half-graben type basins that obliquely intersect the plate margin between the Arabian Plate and the Anatolide–Taurides Platform (due to the irregular shape of the plate boundary). Tectonic lineaments controlled the shape and orientation of these basins and larger main depocentre of the KFPB, which were predominantly filled with deep-sea sediments. This paper focuses on the provenance of features of the KFPB, predominantly was fed from the northern basin margin, while also aiming to resolve the complex basin evolution that occurred during the Miocene.Clasts of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic limestone and ophiolites are common components of the confined deep-water clastic systems, which evolved as elongated trenches in the north-western sector of the KPFB during the Early-Middle Miocene. During the Middle Miocene, continuous thrusting of the northern basin margin to south caused depocentre migration to south-east, through the basin interior. At that time, the north-east and central depocentres of the KPFB were filled primarily by clasts of ophiolite and metamorphic units. The tectonic control on basin fill architecture can be observed anywhere in the KFPB. The principal tectonic features controlled the geometry and orientation of the canyon, the channel geometry of the deep-water slope on the northern basin margin, the frequency and distribution of slump-slide-debris flows and the overall pattern of sedimentation cycles in the stratigraphy of the slope and the central basin floor. Some basin sectors have continuously reactivated and as a result, different sediment entry points with substantial local accumulation of sediment and deformation have evolved on the slope and basin floor. Three scales of provenance were used to investigate the source rock: (a) field-based observation and analysis of conglomerate clasts, (b) modal analysis of sandstone facies and (c) geochemical analysis, all of which were in agreement.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Short- and Long-Term Response of Deteriorating Brackish Marshes and Open-Water Ponds to Sediment Enhancement by Thin-Layer Dredge Disposal     

Megan K. La Peyre  Bryan Gossman  Bryan P. Piazza 《Estuaries and Coasts》2011,34(1):185-186

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Circumspection, reciprocity, and optimal carbon prices     

Robert E. Kopp  Bryan K. Mignone 《Climatic change》2013,120(4):831-843

Assessments of the benefits of climate change mitigation—and thus of the appropriate stringency of greenhouse gas emissions abatement—depend upon ethical, legal, and political economic considerations. Global climate change mitigation is often represented as a repeated prisoners’ dilemma in which the net benefits of sustained global cooperation exceed the net benefits of uncooperative unilateral action for any given actor. Global cooperation can be motivated either by circumspection—a decision to account for the damages one’s own actions inflict upon others—or by the expectation of reciprocity from others. If the marginal global benefits of abatement are approximately constant in total abatement, the domestically optimal price approaches the global cooperative optimum linearly with increasing circumspection and reciprocity. Approximately constant marginal benefits are expected if climate damages are quadratic in temperature and if the airborne fraction of carbon emissions is constant. If, on the other hand, damages increase with temperature faster than quadratically or carbon sinks weaken significantly with increasing CO₂ concentrations, marginal benefits will decline with abatement. In this case, the approach to the global optimum is concave and less than full circumspection and/or reciprocity can lead to optimal domestic abatement close to the global optimum.  相似文献   

Hydrodynamical simulations of the Lyα forest: data comparisons     

Avery Meiksin  Greg Bryan †  Marie Machacek ‡ 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,327(1):296-322

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Alma and E-merlin Data Transmission Systems: Lessons for Ska     

Ralph Spencer  Roshene Mccool  Bryan Anderson  Dave Brown  Mike Bentley 《Experimental Astronomy》2004,17(1-3):221-228

ALMA, EVLA and e-MERLIN use high data rate optical fibre links based on commercially available 10 Gbps opto-electronics. This paper describes the systems designed by NRAO and JBO staff to be used in ALMA and e-MERLIN. ALMA has a requirement for a 120 Gbps data rate per telescope, requiring the use of 12 lasers in the 1550 nm telecommunication band, with maximum link lengths around 20 km. e-MERLIN has a lower bandwidth and requires 30 Gbps links per telescope and therefore three lasers per telescope; however, the link lengths reach up to around 400 km, and amplification, de-dispersion and regeneration are required. Dense wavelength division multiplexing is used to avoid fibre management problems and save fibre costs. The design criteria and experience gained in these projects is very relevant to SKA as the proposed configuration of the antenna elements maps well to the link lengths used here. The chosen data rate will be a major cost driver.  相似文献   

内蒙锡林浩特晚石炭世辉长质岩体的成因:陆内伸展背景下富水地幔源区熔融的产物   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

庞崇进  王选策  温淑女  Krapez Bryan  王炎阳  廖闻 《岩石学报》2018,34(10):2956-2972

内蒙中部晚石炭世岩浆活动的成因及动力学背景对于揭示古亚洲洋俯冲和兴蒙造山带演化的具有重要意义。本文选取锡林浩特南部晚石炭世辉长质侵入体为研究对象,开展高精度SIMS锆石U-Pb定年、全岩主微量和Sr-Nd-Hf同位素分析,旨在讨论其岩石成因,为制约兴蒙造山带的演化和理解深部流体循环过程提供更多信息。辉长质岩体样品的锆石CL图像呈弱环状结构、条带状或岩浆生长带(Th/U=0. 3～2. 5)。SIMS锆石U-Pb定年结果表明,锡林浩特辉长质岩体的侵位年龄为316. 9±2. 2Ma,为兴蒙造山带晚石炭世区域性岩浆活动的产物。该岩体经历了橄榄石和单斜辉石的分离结晶作用,但受堆晶作用和地壳物质混染作用的影响较小;同时具有较低的87Sr/86Sr初始比值(0. 7034～0. 7041),但相对高的εNd(t)(+5. 58～+6. 88)和εHf(t)值(+12. 07～+13. 44),并显示Rb、Sr、U和Pb等流体活动性元素相对富集,但Nb和Ta等非流体活动性元素相对亏损的特征,暗示其起源于遭受含水流体交代富集的地幔源区。流体交代富集作用很可能发生在源区部分熔融过程中或者在部分熔融之前较短的时间内,即反映较为年轻的交代事件。锡林浩特辉长闪长岩具有相对较高的Si O_2(51. 7%～53. 2%)、Cr (138. 4×10~(-6)～757. 2×10~(-6))和Ni (50. 4×10-6～141. 1×10~(-6))含量以及Zn/Fe比值(10. 8～11. 5),但相对较低的Al2O3(13. 1%～16. 8%)含量,暗示源区可能富含斜方辉石,由橄榄岩+辉石岩脉组成。通过对比总结兴蒙造山带晚石炭世岩浆岩岩石组合的地球化学特征以及其他地质资料,本文认为古亚洲洋在晚石炭世之前已经闭合,而锡林浩特辉长质岩体形成于陆内伸展的构造背景。结合同期玄武岩母岩浆的高含水量特征(高达4. 41%),本文认为锡林浩特及其邻区晚石炭世岩浆活动是遭受地幔转换带滞留俯冲板块析出富水流体交代的地幔源区部分熔融的产物,从而建立了深部流体循环过程与造山后伸展背景下岩浆活动的成因联系。  相似文献   

Linking Habitat Use and Trophic Ecology of Spotted Seatrout (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Cynoscion nebulosus</Emphasis>) on a Restored Oyster Reef in a Subtropical Estuary     

Thomas C. TinHan  John A. Mohan  Mark Dumesnil  Bryan M. DeAngelis  R. J. David Wells 《Estuaries and Coasts》2018,41(6):1793-1805

Predicting population- and ecosystem-level benefits of habitat restoration minimally requires an understanding of the link between the trophic ecology of a species and their use of a habitat. This study combined novel, non-lethal natural tracers of trophic ecology with acoustic tagging techniques to examine spatial and temporal patterns of habitat use of spotted seatrout Cynoscion nebulosus on Half Moon Reef (HMR), a recently restored oyster reef in Matagorda Bay, Texas. Forty-one spotted seatrout (408?±?25 mm total length) were captured at HMR, surgically implanted with acoustic transmitters, and monitored by an array of underwater listening stations from December 2015 to August 2016. Patterns of presence-absence on HMR were strongly influenced by water temperature, and to a lesser extent, salinity and tidal height. Overall, spotted seatrout residency to HMR was low, with fish being present on the reef 24% of days. When present, individual fish exhibited strong site-attachment to small portions of the reef. Residency to HMR increased significantly with size, while scale stable isotope analysis revealed fish exhibiting high residency to HMR occupied significantly smaller isotopic niches. If indeed smaller fish with decreased residency rely upon a wider range of prey items across multiple habitats than larger, more resident individuals, restored oyster reef habitat may be expected to primarily benefit larger spotted seatrout.  相似文献