A broad-scale assessment of the risk to coastal seagrasses from cumulative threats     

A. Grech  R. Coles  H. Marsh 《Marine Policy》2011

Informing the management of coastal marine habitats at broad spatial scales is difficult because of the costs associated with collecting and analyzing ecological data at that scale. Spatially explicit assessments of the risk to coastal marine habitats from cumulative threats provide an alternative approach by identifying sites that are exposed to multiple anthropogenic threats at broad scales. In this study, qualitative measures of vulnerability were combined with geospatial data to evaluate the risk to coastal seagrasses at the scale of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region (∼26,000 km²) of Queensland, Australia. The risk assessment outputs identified agricultural, urban and industrial runoff, and urban and port developments as the major anthropogenic activities threatening coastal seagrasses. ‘Hot spots’ with multiple threat exposure were all in industrial port locations and the southern two-thirds of the GBR. There is a distinct discontinuity in threat exposure along the GBR coast with 98% of seagrass meadows in the northern third exposed to only low levels of anthropogenic risk. The clustering of threat exposure is discussed in terms of coastal management policy. The approach outlined in this study provides management agencies a method of achieving maximum return for minimal investment in data collection at broad spatial scales by identifying sites where management intervention would be best targeted.  相似文献   

海底输水管道敷设过程中悬浮泥沙对海洋环境影响的数值研究     

黄兰芳  孙志林 《海岸工程》2011,30(1):9-17

海底管道敷设过程中产生的悬浮泥沙会对工程海域的水质和海洋生物造成影响.建立了2D悬浮泥沙输移模型,结合水动力模型,对舟山市临城至虾峙岛、六横岛输配水工程中海底管线敷设引起的悬浮泥沙的输移规律进行模拟研究,预测悬浮泥沙的影响程度和范围,为海洋环境影响评价提供依据.计算结果表明:1号工段管道敷设对海水水质影响最大,2号工段...  相似文献   

Hydroelastic impact of a wedge-shaped body     

Kevin J. Maki  Donghee Lee  Armin W. Troesch  Nickolas Vlahopoulos 《Ocean Engineering》2011,38(4):621-629

In this paper a hydroelastic method for the design of marine structures is used to study the impact of a wedge-shaped body onto a calm free-surface. The method combines computational fluid dynamics and dynamic finite-element techniques to predict the hydroelastic response of a structure in the time domain. The basic idea of the method is to predict the stress field on the fluid-structure interface due to rigid-body impact, and then to transfer the information to a wet modal model. The one-way transfer of information from the fluid simulation to the structure has two important advantages with respect to a fully coupled simulation: a single rigid-body motion computation can be reused for subsequent analyses after the structure has been redesigned, and cost of the fluid dynamic simulation is not increased due to iteration which is required in coupled simulations. The maximum displacement of an elastic wedge during the impact and penetration stages are compared with published results from a fully coupled theoretical model and a fully coupled numerical solver. The present method requires approximation of the flexural added mass, and the comparison with other results shows that the approximation is satisfactory for predicting maximum displacement.  相似文献   

Axisymmetric liquid block impact on a solid surface     

G.D. Xu  G.X. Wu  W.Y. Duan 《Applied Ocean Research》2011,33(4):366-374

The hydrodynamic problem of collision of an axisymmetric water block and solid boundary has been analyzed based on the velocity potential theory. The three dimensional axisymmetric hydrodynamic problem is converted to a quasi two dimensional one and is solved in axisymmetric coordinate system using the boundary element method. Numerical simulations are made for collision of a solid cone with a liquid cone or a spheroidal liquid block. The results in the former are compared with those obtained from similarity solution and excellent agreement is found. Numerical results are then presented for the collision between different solid cones and various spheroidal liquid blocks.  相似文献   

舟山海域外来物种地中海贻贝的自然分布现状及生态影响     

申望  叶茂  王日昕  石戈  赵淑江 《台湾海峡》2011,30(2):250-256

以筛选的2个可鉴别的地中海贻贝（Mytilus galloprovincialis）、厚壳贻贝（M.coruscus）及其杂交后代的PCR标记（扩增核基因Glu-5’特异片段PCR标记Me14/Me17和延伸因子1α第一个内含子区段PCR标记引物EFbisF/EFbisR）,对舟山海域3个贻贝主产区（马鞍列岛海域、浪岗山列岛海域、中街山列岛海域）采集的贻贝样本的种类进行鉴别.研究结果显示：100个马鞍列岛海域贻贝个体和30个中街山列岛海域贻贝个体均为厚壳贻贝;而54个浪岗山列岛海域贻贝样本中,16个个体（29.6%）为厚壳贻贝,38个个体（70.4%）为地中海贻贝;3个群体中均未检测到2种贻贝的杂交个体.因此,推测舟山海域地中海贻贝自然分布仅局限于局部海区,但在适宜的海区地中海贻贝可取代厚壳贻贝成为贻贝床的优势物种,舟山海域贻贝床的动态变化值得进一步关注;贻贝样本中没有检测到地中海贻贝与厚壳贻贝的杂交个体,表明调查海域可能没有杂交贻贝分布或数量极少,地中海贻贝通过杂交、基因渐渗污染厚壳贻贝基因组的风险较小.  相似文献   

目的地居民旅游感知态度研究——以丹江口水库南部东岸及南岸为例   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

薛宝琪  刘长运  范红艳 《地域研究与开发》2011,30(1):99-103

目的地居民对旅游业的感知态度因旅游发展阶段不同而不同。以丹江口水库南部东岸及南岸——南水北调中线工程渠首核心区为研究区域,通过构建居民潜在旅游影响感知评价指标体系,采用实地调查和统计分析方法,分析了研究区居民对潜在旅游影响的一般感知态度,并就居民社会人口统计学特征与潜在旅游影响感知的内在关系进行了探索,揭示了不同居民群体对研究区旅游开发潜在影响的感知态度差异,为研究区旅游业可持续发展提供科学依据。  相似文献   

Environmental and Cultural Implications of Visitor Access in the Kimberley Region,Australia     

Pascal Scherrer  Amanda J. Smith  Martin Randall  Ross Dowling 《The Australian geographer》2011,42(3):257-271

The Kimberley coast in Australia's far north-west is the traditional country and home of a number of Indigenous groups and hosts some of the country's richest cultural heritage, most spectacular rock art, scenery and wildlife, making it an attractive tourism destination. A growing expedition cruise industry provides the main means of visitor access to remote coastal sites and offers excursions to shore-based attractions in what are mostly Aboriginal Reserve lands. In light of concerns about environmental and cultural site impacts resulting from increasing visitor numbers, this study examined biophysical site impacts along access trails to shore-based attractions and used qualitative methods to ascertain cultural impacts. The synthesis of the findings highlights that cultural concerns arising from visitor access without having sought traditional owner consent for such access, combined with a lack of traditional owner involvement in the planning, management or running of visitor activities, overshadow currently low environmental impacts of onshore expedition cruise activities. To overcome the continuing impasse regarding the issue of unsanctioned visitor access, the Kimberley urgently needs a coordinated approach by key stakeholders and the traditional owners which recognises and acknowledges the historical context. Such a process would facilitate tourism activities to become culturally sustainable.  相似文献   

Forms and Balance of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Cage Culture Waters in Guangdong Province, China     

WEN Yanmao WEI Xiange SHU Tingfei ZHOU Jingfeng YU Guanghui LI Feng HUANG Yanyun 《中国地理科学(英文版)》2007,17(4):370-375

In order to approach the characteristics of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution caused by cage culture and the balance of nitrogen and phosphorus during the process of cage culture, a monitoring was conducted in Daya Bay of Guangdong Province, China from April 2002 to Jane 2003. The results show that the concentrations of total nitrogen (TN) in the waters at the sites with five and ten years of cage culture history are 1.8 and 2.3 times of that at control site respectively. Ammonium (NH3-N) is the main form of nitrogen in spring while nitrate ( NO3 -) in winter. The concentrations of TN, total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) and dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) are highest in autumn. The concentration of phosphorus increases with the increasing of the culturing time, among which phosphate ( PO 34-) increases most obviously. The concentrations of total phosphorus (TP) and total dissolved phosphorus (TDP) are highest in autumn. The nitrogen and phosphorus are accumulated significantly in the sediment of cage culture area. The model of N balance in the cage culture area: bait (70.62%) fry (0.28%) input by tide (14.8%) release from sediment (14.3%) = harvest of adult fish (12.07%) deposition into sediment (28.75%) output by tide (56.18%) others (3.00%). The model of P balance: bait (83.11%) fry (0.17%) input by tide (12.23%) release from sediment (4.49%) = harvest of adult fish (8.43%) deposition into sediment (48.59%) output by tide (41.94%) others (1.04%). In one fish growth year, the contents of nitrogen and phosphorus in harvest of adult fish are only 17.0% and 10.1% of the contents of nitrogen and phosphorus in fish bait and fry, wherein 83% of nitrogen and more than 89% of phosphorus in fish bait became marine pollutants.  相似文献   

Overexploitation and continuous drought effects on groundwater yield and marine intrusion: considerations arising from the modelling of Mamora coastal aquifer,Morocco     

Brahim Ben Kabbour  Lahcen Zouhri  Jacky Mania 《水文研究》2005,19(18):3765-3782

This paper studies the effect of drought and pumping discharge on groundwater supplies and marine intrusion. The investigation concerns the Mamora coastal aquifer, northwest of Morocco. A large‐scale groundwater model was established to model (a) the amount of freshwater discharge towards the ocean and the sea water volumes flowing inland as a consequence of the inverse hydraulic gradient, (b) the impact of drought and pumping discharge on the water table level and, as a consequence, on marine water intrusion. In fact, the simulated submarine groundwater discharge (SGWD) would decrease from 864 m³/d/km in 1987 to 425 m³/d/km in 2000. The simulated volumes of sea water intruding the aquifer as a result of inverse hydraulic gradient would increase from 0·25 Mm³/y in 1987 to 0·3 Mm³/y in 2000. As a consequence of a negative rainfall gradient of −5 mm/y, the simulated SGWD would decline to 9 m³/d/km and the sea water intrusion (SWI) would increase to 0·35 Mm³/y since the year 2010. Due to insufficient data on the trend of pumping discharge, a hypothetical increase of this latter from 38·3 Mm³/y to 53·2 Mm³/y is simulated to induce an increase of marine water intrusion from 0·25 Mm³/y to 0·9 Mm³/y. Consequently, to optimally exploit this seemingly fragile coastal aquifer, a plan of future actions to implement is proposed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

雪峰山波峰构造特征及其找煤意义     

方道恕 《地球科学与环境学报》1992,(1)

雪峰山冲浪波峰带属于环太地壳波系,位于衡阳波谷带以西,向北西冲滑于沅水波谷带之上,可划分为冲浪波峰区、基底冲浪区、深层冲浪区、浅层冲浪区、浅层荡浪区和浅层塌浪区等六个区段。煤层主要赋存于浅层荡浪区,其次是浅层塌浪区和浅层冲浪区。  相似文献