The algal community at an ecocline of a cold sulphidic spring (Sovra artesian borehole,Slovenia)     

Tina Eleršek  Janez Mulec 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2014,71(12):5255-5261

The physicochemical parameters of the sulphide spring water from a 500?m deep artesian borehole in Sovra Valley (Slovenia) are stable, with very little variation: temperature, 9.2 ± 0.0 °C; pH 7.70 ± 0.11; specific electrical conductivity, 777 ± 8 μS/cm; and dissolved oxygen, 0.19 ± 0.11 mg/l. The water from the borehole is hard, rich in sulphates, and has a notable concentration of sulphide, while it is low in chlorides. Communities of phototrophs were analysed at the oxygenic ecocline at the outflow from the borehole, and from further downstream. Caloneis tenuis, Frustulla vulgaris, Gomphonema sp., Navicula radiosa, Oscillatoria sp., and Tribonema vulgare successfully thrive exclusively at the outflow from the borehole under sub-optimum conditions for the majority of phototrophs. Downstream from the borehole, where the hydrogen sulphide degasses, autotrophic biofilms were dominated by different diatoms. The Bray–Curtis similarity index confirms the distinctive phototrophic communities along the oxygenic ecocline downstream from the sulphidic spring. The sulphidic ecocline downstream from the spring is indicative of the composition of phototrophic communities, as some species appear only downstream from the spring. An ecocline downstream from the borehole of the sulphidic spring was reflected also in the bacterial indicator groups. This study brings novel insights to the limited knowledge in the field of oxygenic phototrophy related to sulphidic springs.  相似文献   

Implementing Europe's climate targets at the regional level     

Brigitte Wolkinger  Andrea Damm  Stefan Schleicher  Andreas Tuerk  Wolf Grossman 《Climate Policy》2013,13(6):667-689

Having agreed upon a binding emissions reduction path by 2020, the EU plays a leading role in international climate policy. The EU currently pursues a dual approach through an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the EU level and also via national targets in sectors not covered by the ETS. The latter include the buildings sector, transportation, agriculture, and waste. Emissions from these sectors are mainly subject to policies at provincial and local levels. A method is presented for elaborating and implementing a long-term climate policy process up to 2030 for the regional (provincial) level. Building on regional GHG inventory data, a set of indicators for each sector is developed in order to arrive at a target path consistent with the deduced regional GHG reduction requirement. Policy measures and their implementation are then settled subsequent to this process. Quantitative regional targets are found to be a prerequisite for the formation of regional climate policy as they increase participant responsibility and commitment. A five-step process of stakeholder participation ensures effective implementation of regional climate action plans. Insights from an exemplary European region are drawn upon, and policy issues are discussed in both quantitative and institutional terms.  相似文献   

Interactions between European agricultural policy and climate change: a Slovenian case study     

Emil Erjavec  Tina Volk  Miroslav Rednak  Barbara Zagorc  Ben Moljk 《Climate Policy》2013,13(8):1014-1030

This article analyses the interactions between agricultural policy measures in the EU and the factors affecting GHG emissions from agriculture on the one hand, and the adaptation of agriculture to climate change on the other. To this end, the article uses Slovenia as a case study, assessing the extent to which Slovenian agricultural policy is responding to the challenges of climate change. All agricultural policy measures related to the 2007–2013 programming period were analysed according to a new methodological approach that is based on a qualitative (expert evaluation) and a quantitative (budgetary transfers validation) assessment. A panel of experts reached consensus on the key factors through which individual measures affect climate change, in which direction and how significantly. Data on budgetary funds for each measure were used as weights to assess their relative importance. The results show that there are not many measures in (Slovenian) agricultural policy that are directly aimed at reducing GHG emissions from agriculture or at adaptation to climate change. Nevertheless, most affect climate change, and their impact is far from negligible. Current measures have both positive and negative impacts, but overall the positive impacts prevail. Measures that involve many beneficiaries and more budgetary funds had the strongest impact on aggregate assessments. In light of climate change, agricultural policy should pay more attention to measures that are aimed at raising the efficiency of animal production, as it is the principal source of GHG emissions from agriculture.

Policy relevance

Agricultural policy must respond to climate challenges and climate change impact assessment must be included in the process of forming European agricultural policy. Agricultural policy measures that contribute to the reduction of emissions and adaptation, whilst acting in synergy with other environmental, economic and social goals, should be promoted. The approach used in this study combines qualitative and quantitative data, yielding an objective assessment of the climate impact of agricultural policy measures and providing policy makers with a tool for either ex ante or ex post evaluations of climate-relevant policy measures.  相似文献   

Constraining sediment provenance for tsunami deposits using distributions of grain size and foraminifera from the Kujukuri coastline and shelf,Japan     

Jessica E. Pilarczyk  Yuki Sawai  Dan Matsumoto  Yuichi Namegaya  Naohisa Nishida  Ken Ikehara  Osamu Fujiwara  Chris Gouramanis  Tina Dura  Benjamin P. Horton 《Sedimentology》2020,67(3):1373-1392

Tsunami deposits preserved in the geological record provide a more comprehensive understanding of their patterns of frequency and intensity over longer timescales; but recognizing tsunami deposits can prove challenging due to post-depositional changes, lack of contrast between the deposits and surrounding sedimentary layers, and differentiating between tsunami and storm deposition. Modern baseline studies address these challenges by providing insight into modern spatial distributions that can be compared with palaeotsunami deposits. This study documents the spatial fingerprint of grain size and foraminifera from Hasunuma Beach and the Kujukuri shelf to provide a basis from which tsunami deposits can be interpreted. At Hasunuma Beach, approximately 50 km east of Tokyo, the spatial distribution of three common proxies (foraminiferal taxonomy, foraminiferal taphonomy and sediment grain size) for tsunami identification were mapped and clustered using Partitioning Around Medoids cluster analysis. Partitioning Around Medoids cluster analysis objectively discriminated two coastal zones corresponding to onshore and offshore sample locations. Results show that onshore samples are characterized by coarser grain sizes (medium to coarse sand) and higher abundances of Pararotalia nipponica (27 to 63%) than offshore samples, which are characterized by finer grain sizes (fine to medium sand), lower abundances of Pararotalia nipponica (2 to 19%) and Ammonia parkinsoniana (0 to 10%), higher abundances of planktonics (15 to 58%) and species with fragile tests including Uvigerinella glabra. When compared to grain-size and foraminiferal taxonomy, foraminiferal taphonomy; i.e. surface condition of foraminifera, a proxy not commonly used to identify tsunami deposits, was most effective in discriminating modern coastal zones (identified supratidal, intertidal and offshore environments) and determining sediment provenance for tsunami deposits at Kujukuri. This modern baseline study assists the interpretation of tsunami deposits in the geological record because it provides a basis for sediment provenance to be determined.  相似文献   

Discussion in response to Knut Bjørlykke regarding JMPG_1376 "Open-System Chemical Behavior In Deep Wilcox Group Mudstones, Texas Gulf Coast, USA"     

Ruarri J. Day-Stirrat  Kitty L. MillikenShirley P. Dutton  Robert G. LoucksStephen Hillier  Andrew C. AplinAnja M. Schleicher 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2011,28(7):1383-1384

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Adapting rail and road networks to weather extremes: case studies for southern Germany and Austria     

Claus Doll  Christian Trinks  Norbert Sedlacek  Verena Pelikan  Tina Comes  Frank Schultmann 《Natural Hazards》2014,72(1):63-85

The assessment of the current impacts of extreme weather conditions on transport systems reveals high costs in specific locations. Prominent examples for Europe are the economic consequences of the harsh winter periods 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 and the floods in Austria, Eastern Europe, Germany and the United Kingdom in 2005 and 2007. Departing from the EC-funded project WEATHER, this paper delves into the subject of adaptation strategies by revisiting the project’s general findings on adaptation strategies and by adding two specific cases: (1) advanced winter maintenance on roads in southwest Germany and (2) technical and organizational measures in Alpine rail transport. For these two cases, feasible adaptation strategies are elaborated and their potential is discussed in light of damage cost forecasts up to 2050. For the road sector, we find a high potential to mitigate weather-related costs, although damages here are expected to decline. In contrast, rail systems face strongly increasing damages and the mitigation options offered by improved information and communication systems seem to be largely exploited. Consequently, it is easier to justify expensive adaptation measures for high-cost rail infrastructures than for road transport. A generic analysis of 14 damage cases worldwide, however, revealed that generally awareness raising, cooperation and communication strategies are sufficient to mitigate the most severe damages by natural disasters.  相似文献   

Seepage of methane at Jaco Scar,a slide caused by seamount subduction offshore Costa Rica     

Susan Mau  Gregor Rehder  Heiko Sahling  Tina Schleicher  Peter Linke 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2014,103(7):1801-1815

Methane (CH₄) concentrations and CH₄ stable carbon isotopic composition ( \( \delta^{13} {\text{C}}_{{{\text{CH}}_{4} }} \) ) were investigated in the water column within Jaco Scar. It is one of several scars formed by massive slides resulting from the subduction of seamounts offshore Costa Rica, a process that can open up structural and stratigraphical pathways for migrating CH₄. The release of large amounts of CH₄ into the adjacent water column was discovered at the outcropping lowermost sedimentary sequence of the hanging wall in the northwest corner of Jaco Scar, where concentrations reached up to 1,500 nmol L^?1. There CH₄-rich fluids seeping from the sedimentary sequence stimulate both growth and activity of a dense chemosynthetic community. Additional point sources supplying CH₄ at lower concentrations were identified in density layers above and below the main plume from light carbon isotope ratios. The injected CH₄ is most likely a mixture of microbial and thermogenic CH₄ as suggested by \( \delta^{13} {\text{C}}_{{{\text{CH}}_{4} }} \) values between ?50 and ?62 ‰ Vienna Pee Dee Belemnite. This CH₄ spreads along isopycnal surfaces throughout the whole area of the scar, and the concentrations decrease due to mixing with ocean water and microbial oxidation. The supply of CH₄ appears to be persistent as repeatedly high CH₄ concentrations were found within the scar over 6 years. The maximum CH₄ concentration and average excess CH₄ concentration at Jaco Scar indicate that CH₄ seepage from scars might be as significant as seepage from other tectonic structures in the marine realm. Hence, taking into account the global abundance of scars, such structures might constitute a substantial, hitherto unconsidered contribution to natural CH₄ sources at the seafloor.  相似文献   

The sodium exosphere of Mercury: Comparison between observations during Mercury's transit and model results     

Alessandro Mura  Peter Wurz  Helmold Schleicher  Dominique Delcourt  Stefano Orsini  Maxim L. Khodachenko 《Icarus》2009,200(1):1-11

In this study we compare the sodium exosphere observations made by Schleicher et al. [Schleicher, H., and 4 colleagues, 2004. Astron. Astrophys. 425, 1119-1124] with the result of a detailed numerical simulation. The observations, made during the transit of Mercury across the solar disk on 7 May 2003, show a maximum of sodium emission near the polar regions, with north prevalence, and the presence of a dawn-dusk asymmetry. We interpret this distribution as the resulting effect of two combined processes: the solar wind proton precipitation causing chemical alteration of the surface, freeing the sodium atoms from their bounds in the crystalline structure on the surface, and the subsequent photon-stimulated and thermal desorption of the sodium atoms. While we find that the velocity distribution of photon desorbed sodium can explain the observed exosphere population, thermal desorption seems to play a minor role only causing a smearing at the locations where Na atoms are released on the dayside. The observed and simulated distributions agree very well with this hypothesis and indicate that the combination of the proposed processes is able to explain the observed features.  相似文献   

On equivalent widths in a penumbral spectrum (a test of the Moe-Maltby model)     

H. Schleicher  E. H. Schröter 《Solar physics》1971,17(1):31-43

From new observational material we made a curve of growth analysis of the penumbra of a large, stable sunspot. The analysis was done relative to the undisturbed photosphere and gave the following results (⊙ denotes photosphere, * denotes penumbra): $$\begin{gathered} (\theta ^ * - \theta ^ \odot )_{exe} = 0.051 \pm 0.007 \hfill \\ {{\xi _t ^ * } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{\xi _t ^ * } {\xi _t }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {\xi _t }}^ \odot = 1.3 \pm 0.1 \hfill \\ {{P_e ^ * } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{P_e ^ * } {P_e ^ \odot = 0.6 \pm 0.1}}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {P_e ^ \odot = 0.6 \pm 0.1}} \hfill \\ {{P_g ^ * } \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {{P_g ^ * } {P_g }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {P_g }}^ \odot = 1.0 \pm 0.2 \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ The results of the analysis are in satisfactory agreement with the penumbral model as published by Kjeldseth Moe and Maltby (1969). Additionally we tested this model by computing the equivalent widths of 28 well selected lines and comparing them with our observations.  相似文献   

Magmatic muscovite in felsitic parts of rhyolites from Southwest Germany     

H. Schleicher  H. J. Lippolt 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1982,78(3):220-224

In felsitic parts of rhyolites from the Permian volcanism in Southwest Germany muscovite phenocrysts of magmatic origin were observed. They occur besides two other light-mica components of secondary formation. A Permian tuff from the SaarNahe area also contains this primary muscovite type.The muscovite, though mainly euhedral, is in some cases corroded by magmatic resorption. Combined with uncorroded, sharp-edged dihexahedric quartz, however, it proves that the acid host lavas during the Saalian tectonic phase rose and extruded in an unusually rapid manner.  相似文献