Distribution and ecological risk assessment of some heavy metals in coastal surface sediments along the Red Sea,Egypt   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

《国际泥沙研究》2016,(2):164-172

The ecological risk assessment for Al,Zn,Cu,Ni,V,Pb,Cd,and Hg in surface sediment collected from the Egyptian Red Sea coast was evaluated using the Geo-accumulation Index(I_(geo)).Sediment Enrichment Factor(SEF) and Potential Ecological Risk Index(PERI) methods.The predominant heavy metal,aluminum,showed high concentrations along both of Aqaba Gulf(4378.8 ± 2554.1 μg/g) and southern part of the Red Sea(2972.8 + 1527.5 μg/g).while it recorded the lowest concentration in Suez Gulf(829.7 ± 398.2 μg/g).The determined heavy metal concentrations had the order of Al Zn -Ni V Pb Cu Cd Hg.The statistical analyses showed some correlations among the heavy metals contents.Several international sediment quality guidelines were used to estimate the quality of the collected sediments.Interestingly,the recorded average heavy metals concentrations were lower than those of the permissible contents for sediment quality guidelines.The Geo-accumulation index calculations(I_(geo)) proved that the investigated region could be classified as an unpolluted area.Sediment Enrichment Factor(K_(SEF)) study showed high values in Suez Gulf region.The single pollution index analysis of heavy metals in the sediments(C~i_f) indicated that Al,Zn,V,and Pb were of natural origin,while Ni,Cd and Hg were seriously affected by human activities.Interestingly,amongst,all the determined heavy metals,Cd and Hg gave moderate ecological risk indicators.  相似文献   

Divergent Perspectives on Water Security: Bridging the Policy Debate     

Patricia A. Gober  Graham E. Strickert  Douglas A. Clark  Kwok P. Chun  Diana Payton  Kristin Bruce 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):62-71

Environmental policy discussion is replete with references to water security, food security, ecosystem health, community resilience, sustainable development, and sustainable urbanism. These terms are, by their very nature, ambiguous and difficult to define; they allow room, however, for a variety of actors to conceptualize water, food, ecological, economic, and urban problems in ways that allow them to move forward on contentious issues. This article focuses on the idea of water security and asks how it is conceptualized and used for regional policy debate in western Canada. We asked fifty-eight water stakeholders from the Saskatchewan River Basin to define water security, identify major barriers to security, and prioritize water problems. Responses showed there are myriad ways to think about water security, ranging from narrow conceptualizations, such as reliability, quality, and quantity, to broader sustainability perspectives about the nature of resource development and its social and economic consequences. The human dimensions of water security (governance, land use, and competing demands) were assigned higher priority than its biophysical aspects (flooding, droughts, and climate change). Framing water security to emphasize the human capacity to manage uncertain and rapid biophysical and societal change offers the opportunity to unite actors who otherwise would be separated by core environmental values, definitions of water security, provincial context (Alberta vs. Saskatchewan), and occupation.  相似文献   

南四湖生态湿地产业发展模式   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

徐建国  郑国建  孔维健 《湿地科学与管理》2013,(1):45-48

通过对南四湖湿地调研,分析了南四湖发展生态湿地产业的优势和存在问题,提出了适合南四湖生态湿地产业发展的模式。  相似文献   

湖北沉湖湿地生态补偿机制的浅析     

陈君  赵柒新 《湿地科学与管理》2013,(2):63-65

湿地生态补偿是指由湿地环境受益主体补偿给湿地生态服务的生产者与提供者。沉湖湿地自然保护区是武汉市目前唯一的省级湿地自然保护区,是浅湖和沼泽湿地草甸相连续的湿地生态系统。在对沉湖湿地的生态功能和生态补偿必要性分析的基础上,开展了生态补偿的前期调查,对沉湖湿地补偿原则、范围、对象、标准、资金来源等提出一些想法,以供探讨。  相似文献   

Heavy metal pollution and assessment in the tidal flat sediments of Haizhou Bay,China     

Rui Zhang  Li Zhou  Fan Zhang  Yingjun Ding  Jinrong Gao  Jing Chen  Hongqiang Yan  Wei Shao 《Marine pollution bulletin》2013

The heavy metal inventory and the ecological risk of the tidal flat sediments in Haizhou Bay were investigated. Results show that the average concentrations of heavy metals in the surface sediments exceeded the environment background values of Jiangsu Province coastal soil, suggesting that the surface sediments were mainly polluted by heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Pb and Zn). In addition, the profiles of heavy metals fluxes can reflect the socio-economic development of Lianyungang City, and heavy metals inputs were attributed to anthropogenic activities. Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn were mainly present in the non-bioavailable residual form in surface sediments, whereas Cd and Mn were predominantly in the highly mobile acid soluble and reducible fractions. The ecological risk of the polluted sediments stemmed mainly from Cd and Pb. According to the Sediment quality guidelines (SQGs), however, the adverse biological effects caused by the heavy metals occasionally occurred in tidal flat.  相似文献   

Ecological Risk Assessment of Benzo[a]pyrene in Yellow River Delta     

Qin Jin  Qunou Jiang  Feng Wu  Xing Li  Xiangzheng Deng 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2013,41(4):370-376

Ecological risk assessment is of great significance to promoting the rational management effectively for the oil‐polluted areas. A comprehensive evaluation method of ecological risk, including probabilistic risk assessment and regional ecological risk assessment, is developed through employing the contaminant benzo[a]pyrene as an indicator to assess ecological risk of five oil mining plots, respectively in Yellow River Delta. In this study, firstly we evaluate the ecological risk probability of five oil mining plots using overlapping area of probabilistic curves, and the results show that local ecological risk varies between the maximum 0.4 and the minimum 0.01. Then we overlay boundaries of five administrative divisions in Yellow River Delta and the spatial distribution patterns of ecosystems to generate new risk receptor plaques, and calculate the integrated value of 30 specifically classified plaques for comprehensive evaluation of ecological risk. The results, fluctuating within the range of 0.00005 and 0.25, indicate that local government should be vigilant to ecological risk of benzo[a]pyrene to some extent, although the current situation is not severe in whole.  相似文献   

济南破损山体概况及生态修复技术研究     

赵入臻  赵鹏  赵环金 《山东地质》2012,(9):31-36

城市破损山体不仅造成了大量陡坡岩面裸露,恶化了城市自然生态环境,而且还带来了坍塌、滑坡等安全隐患,是城市建设发展中亟待解决的问题。该文首先对济南城市破损山体现状及修复情况进行了调查分析,结合破损山体具体的生态修复工程实例,较详细总结研究了破损山体生态修复的技术和方法。经过几年的生态修复建设与养护管理,济南破损山体的生态景观功能得到了极大的恢复提升,该文筛选总结出的台地续坡式等治理方式及挂网喷播等生态修复技术,可为类似破损山体的生态修复提供借鉴。  相似文献   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111001320   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Weiguo Hou  Bin Lian  Hailiang Dong  Hongchen Jiang  Xingliang Wu 《地学前缘(英文版)》2012,3(3):351-356

Ectomycorrhizal fungi,a group of widcspread symbiotic fungi with plant,obtain carbon source from trees and improve plant mineral nutrient uptake with their widespread hyphal network.Ectomycorrhizal fun...  相似文献   

Ecological quality assessment of small estuaries from the Portuguese coast based on fish assemblages indices     

Cardoso I  Pais MP  Henriques S  da Fonseca LC  Cabral HN 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,62(5):992-1001

The importance of establishing the ecological quality of estuarine systems has been widely acknowledged and led to the development of several fish community-based multimetric indices. Nevertheless, a question rose about the accuracy of these tools when natural disturbance is acting upon the organization of the systems’ communities. Four multimetric indices were used to examine their ability to differentiate the ecological status of five small estuarine systems (southern Portugal), and also to test if they reflected the level of anthropogenic pressures. Fish assemblages from Mira, Odeceixe and Aljezur (in the Southwest coast), Gilão and Bensafrim (in the South coast) estuaries were sampled seasonally for one year, and anthropogenic sources of pressure were identified and quantified. We found that although the applied indices provided information on ecological condition differentiation among systems, they are unable to explain different classes of ecological status in systems with equivalent pressure levels.  相似文献   

Critical appraisal on the identification of Reference Conditions for the evaluation of ecological quality status along the Emilia-Romagna coast (Italy) using M-AMBI   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Paganelli D  Forni G  Marchini A  Mazziotti C  Occhipinti-Ambrogi A 《Marine pollution bulletin》2011,62(8):1725-256

According to the European Water Framework Directive, the ecological status (ES) of a water body is determined by comparing observation data with undisturbed Reference Conditions (RCs). Defining RCs is crucial when evaluating the ES of a water body as it strongly affects the final outcome of any index application. Identifying RCs by observing real sites is not feasible in many marine environments, such as the Emilia-Romagna coast (Italy, N-Adriatic Sea). We used a statistical approach on a large dataset to derive RCs for the application of the benthic index M-AMBI in this area. We then applied M-AMBI to samples collected along a gradient of presumed environmental disturbance. The results put 14.8% of the Emilia-Romagna samples in “High” ES, 60.2% in “Good”, 23.0% in “Moderate” and 2.0% in “Poor”, showing a spatial gradient of improving quality. These results are in agreement with the extensive ecological knowledge available for this area.  相似文献