Inverse reconstructions of ecosystem flows in investigating regime shifts: impact of the choice of objective function     

Alain F. Vzina  Florence Berreville  Svetlana Loza 《Progress in Oceanography》2004,60(2-4):321

Inverse analysis is increasingly used in ecosystem modelling to objectively reconstruct a large number of unknown flows or interactions from a small number of observations. This type of analysis may be useful in relating observed regime shifts in ecosystem structure to underlying processes. Inversions of ecosystem flow networks currently use a constrained least-squares solution which at the same time minimizes the squared norm (the sum of squares) of the reconstructed flows. This minimum norm (MN) inversion is thought to be a parsimonious solution to the ecosystem flow inverse problem, but it may well not reflect how ecosystems are organised. It has been proposed instead that ecosystems evolve to maximize energy/mass flows or that they maximize the information content of the network weighted by ecosystem flows (ascendancy). We used simulated inverse experiments, where inverse analyses are applied to simulations of flow networks, to explore objective functions different than the MN generally used. We could not compute inverse solutions that maximize ascendancy because the objective function is unbounded. We could calculate inversions that maximize flows; however, these generally overestimated the simulated flows, even though the simulations were designed to maximize flows. It appears that the ecosystem flow inverse problem is too under-determined (too few data relative to the number of unknowns) to allow the use of these maximizing goal functions. We introduce a new minimization that simultaneously minimizes the squared flows and the squared differences between flows. This smoothing minimization makes the inverse flows as even as possible and it helps with some technical issues with MN inversions. The simulated inverse experiments indicated that this smoothed norm (SM) is the most robust in comparative analyses of contrasting ecosystem states, such as those that can be associated with regime shifts. Like the MN inversion, the SM inversion has no ecological basis. However, it is a conservative norm that is less likely to produce false differences between the dynamics of regimes.  相似文献   

威海地区高压岩石组合及其成因演化     

韩宗珠  王来明  张希道  毛振业 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》1993,(3)

利用矿物地质温压计估算变质高峰期温压条件、退变质作用温压条件。研究表明,本区为鲁苏构造带的北延部分,代表本区晚元古代华南陆块与华北陆块的碰撞及三叠纪华北陆块向华南陆块推覆事件的发生和演化。  相似文献   

海上孤立混凝土构筑物的爆破拆除     

詹发民  许明清  王兴雁  周方毅 《海洋技术学报》2007,26(1):86-88

在海洋工程中,采用爆破手段拆除海上孤立混凝土构筑物或清理孤立大块石是一种快速、有效的方法。文中详细介绍了爆破方案的确定、爆破孔网参数的设计、爆破药量的计算以及安全防护措施,对于类似工程的实施具有重要的参考价值。  相似文献   

双壳类软体动物精子发生及其在系统演化研究中的应用前景   总被引：11，自引：0，他引：11  

竺俊全  杨万喜 《海洋湖沼通报》2002,(4):25-31

综述了双壳类软体动物精子发生及精子形态结构方面的研究进展，指出双壳类软体动物精子发生过程中精细胞分化具有种、属特异性，精细胞分化的细节是区别个体外部形态很近的物种的依据；精子的形态结构具有种的特征，精子结构的比较研究将成为双壳类软体动物系统演化研究的重要方法之一。  相似文献   

冲绳海槽热流机制浅析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

李官保  李乃胜 《海洋科学》2002,26(9):57-61

冲绳海槽是一个高热流区，平均热流值极高，但不均匀，实测最小值与最大值相差三个数量级以上，结合海槽地区的构造和地球物理特征，探讨了导致这一高而分散热流特征的多种因素。包括异常壳幔结构。海底热液循环以及地下水对流等，并分析了相应的控制机制。  相似文献   

海洋平台阴极保护监测系统的研制及应用   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

熊信勇  严涛  许川壁  严文侠  姚植忠  王华接  许世力  严岩  林连进  程志强  郑斌  杨立辉 《热带海洋学报》2003,22(1):70-75

介绍了自行研制的海洋平台阴极保护监测系统，它由双电极电位测量探头，牺牲阳极输出电流测量探头，信号传输电缆系统和微机数据采集系统组成，并结合近10a其在南海北部近海石油开发区的应用和运行状况，对阴极保护监测系统的性能，作用及意义进行了系统论述，以期为进一步的工作奠定基础。  相似文献   

Eastern and Western Poor Cod (Trisopterus minutus capelanus) Populations in the Mediterranean Sea: Evidence from Allozyme and Minisatellite Loci     

Valeria Mattiangeli  Anthony W. Ryan  Paul Galvin  Jarle Mork  & Thomas F. Cross 《Marine Ecology》2003,24(4):247-258

Abstract. Nine allozyme and two minisatellite loci were used to investigate potential genetic differentiation among three samples of Mediterranean poor cod, Trisopterus minutus capelanus, from the Gulf of Lion, the Tuscan Archipelago and the Aegean Sea. Both types of markers showed consistent results, with F_ST values of 0.0262 and 0.0296 (P < 0.0015, after Bonferroni correction for multiple tests) for allozymes and minisatellites, respectively. Allele frequency heterogeneity tests between pairs of samples showed a clear separation between the two western Mediterranean samples (Gulf of Lion, Tuscan Archipelago) and the eastern one (Aegean Sea). The results indicate that at least two reproductively isolated populations of poor cod occur in the Mediterranean.  相似文献   

三亚湾浮游动物数量分布及群落特征的季节变化   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

时翔  王汉奎  谭烨辉  黄良民 《海洋通报》2007,26(4):42-49

根据三亚湾2005年春、夏、秋和冬季航次的调查资料,分析了这4个季度的浮游动物的种类组成、优势种、群落结构、丰度和生物量的时空变化。经过鉴定共有终生性浮游动物125种,阶段性浮游动物17种,其中毛颚类幼虫和短尾溞状幼虫是各个季度都出现的优势种。三亚湾的浮游动物可以分为河口类群、暖水沿岸类群和广布暖水外海类群。全年浮游动物平均丰度为95.91ind·m-3,浮游动物平均生物量为69.22mg·m-3;浮游动物丰度的季节分布是夏>秋>春>冬,平均生物量的季节分布是秋>夏>春>冬,总体上一般是夏秋季高于冬春季。冬季浮游动物丰度与浮游植物细胞总密度之间没有相关性。  相似文献   

Variation in microbial biomass and community structure in sediments of peter the great bay (sea of japan/east sea), as estimated from fatty acid biomarkers     

Natalia V. Zhukova 《Ocean Science Journal》2005,40(3):34-42

Variation in the microbial biomass and community structure found in sediment of heavily polluted bays and the adjacent unpolluted areas were examined using phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Total microbial biomass and microbial community structure were responding to environmental determinants, sediment grain size, depth of sediment, and pollution due to petroleum hydrocarbons. The marker fatty acids of microeukaryotes and prokaryotes - aerobic, anaerobic, and sulfate-reducing bacteria -were detected in sediments of the areas studied. Analysis of the fatty acid profiles revealed wide variations in the community structure in sediments, depending on the extent of pollution, sediment depth, and sediment grain size. The abundance of specific bacterial fatty acids points to the dominance of prokaryotic organisms, whose composition differed among the stations. Fatty acid distributions in sediments suggest the high contribution of aerobic bacteria. Sediments of polluted sites were significantly enriched with anaerobic bacteria in comparison with clean areas. The contribution of this bacterial group increased with the depth of sediments. Anaerobic bacteria were predominantly present in muddy sediments, as evidenced from the fatty acid profiles. Relatively high concentrations of marker fatty acids of sulfate-reducing bacteria were associated with organic pollution in this site. Specific fatty acids of microeukaryotes were more abundant in surface sediments than in deeper sediment layers. Among the microeukaryotes, diatoms were an important component. Significant amounts of bacterial biomass, the predominance of bacterial biomarker fatty acids with abundance of anaerobic and sulfate-reducing bacteria are indicative of a prokaryotic consortium responsive to organic pollution.  相似文献   

2001年夏季胶州湾浮游植物群落结构的特征   总被引：7，自引：2，他引：7  

刘东艳  孙军  陈洪涛  张利永 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》2003,33(3):366-374

本文根据 2 0 0 1年 8月 2 0～ 2 2日期间对胶州湾海域进行的大面积调查资料 ,对浮游植物的群落结构进行了初步研究。结果表明 ,浮游植物群落主要由沿岸暖水性种类组成 ,以硅藻为主 ,还有少量的甲藻、金藻和绿藻。湾中央出现的种类最多 ,湾口其次 ,湾边缘最少。细胞数量的高值区出现在B断面和 A5站周围的水域 ,低值区出现 D断面和 E断面。此外 ,对群落多样性的研究表明 ,Shannon指数在湾北部的多数站位高于湾南部水域 ,在 D2和 B1站出现 2个低值区 ;Margalef指数在湾内东部和 D4站周围水域明显高于湾内西部和湾口水域 ;均匀度则在 B1和 D2站周围水域偏高。浮游植物群落同营养盐的相关分析表明 ,调查期氨盐和磷酸盐是影响浮游植物生长的主要营养盐 ,中肋骨条藻、浮动弯角藻和旋链角毛藻等几种优势种类决定了这一关系  相似文献