Ecological status assessment in the lower Eo estuary (Spain). The challenge of habitat heterogeneity integration: a benthic perspective   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

de Paz L  Patrício J  Marques JC  Borja A  Laborda AJ 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(7):1275-1283

The implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires evaluation of the ecological status (ES) of benthic communities in coastal and transitional water systems, and the intercalibration of assessment methodologies therefore becomes a research challenge. Our aim was to test the suitability of applying the M-AMBI index to assess the status of the Eo estuary (northern coast of Spain). Our results showed that M-AMBI was influenced by the natural variability of benthic communities, and presented an apparent dependence on habitat characteristics. Consequently, the definition of homogeneous areas in transitional water systems should be based on the salinity gradient combined with other factors. To achieve an accurate ES assessment, habitat-specific reference conditions should then be defined prior to the application of M-AMBI; this necessitates dividing an estuary into several sections, which may be classified as different ESs. From this perspective, a novel approach to integrate habitat heterogeneity in a global ES assessment was tested.  相似文献   

Constraints on the use of phytoplankton as a biological quality element within the Water Framework Directive in Portuguese waters   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Domingues RB  Barbosa A  Galvão H 《Marine pollution bulletin》2008,56(8):1389-1395

The European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD), a new regulation aiming to achieve and maintain a clean and well-managed water environment, refers to phytoplankton as one of the biological quality elements that should be regularly monitored, and upon which the reference conditions of water quality should be established. However, the use of phytoplankton as a biological quality element will result in several constraints, which are analyzed in this article with examples from Portuguese waters. Specifically, the establishment of reference conditions of water quality may be difficult in some water bodies for which no historical data exists. The sampling frequency proposed for phytoplankton monitoring does not seem suitable to assess phytoplankton succession, and may preclude the detection of algal blooms. Finally, the use of chlorophyll a as a proxy of phytoplankton biomass and abundance has been proposed by some authors, but it may overlook blooms of pico- and small nanophytoplankton, and overestimate the importance of large microphytoplankton. Furthermore, most studies in Portugal have used only inverted microscopy for phytoplankton observation and quantification; this method does not permit the distinction between autotrophic and heterotrophic cells, especially in samples preserved with Lugol's solution, and does not allow the observation of smaller-sized cells. Finally, some techniques, such as remote sensing and chemotaxonomic analysis, are proposed to be used as supplements in phytoplankton monitoring programs.  相似文献   

Quality assessment of benthic macroinvertebrates under the scope of WFD using BAT, the Benthic Assessment Tool     

Heliana Teixeira  João Magalhães Neto  Joana Patrício  Helena Veríssimo  Rute Pinto  Fuensanta Salas  João Carlos Marques 《Marine pollution bulletin》2009,58(10):1477-1486

Assessing the health of ecosystems has become a focal point among researchers worldwide. Recently, the European Water Framework Directive intensified the development of approaches to assess ecosystems’ ecological quality. The Benthic Assessment Tool (BAT) is a multimetric approach to evaluate condition of subtidal soft bottom macroinvertebrates of coastal and transitional waters. The effects of anthropogenic disturbances on benthic macroinvertebrate communities, from 1990 to 2006, allowed testing BAT performance in Mondego estuary (Portugal). The method was able to detect decrease on ecological quality, induced essentially by eutrophication and physical disturbances, and follow communities’ subsequent recovery. It evidenced, nevertheless, some limitations associated with the unstable nature of estuaries. The ecological classification of key species in the community and the balance expected between ecological groups of estuarine communities had great influence in the final ecological assessment. Shortcomings of the method were discussed in the light of its suitability for assessing transitional waters’ condition.  相似文献   

Occurrence and seasonal variation of butyltin species along the mediterranean coast of Turkey     

Yemenicioglu S  de Mora S 《Marine pollution bulletin》2009,58(1):163-166

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山东半岛及附近海域地震活动特征及近期地震危险性趋势分析     

赵金花  陆汉鹏  吴丹桐  季爱东  李铂 《东北地震研究》2009,25(2):17-22

本文通过对山东半岛及附近海域地质构造分析、地震学参数时空扫描计算、地震背景形势分析等认为：山东半岛及附近海域有发生5级左右地震的异常背景。预测区域为：胶东及北部海域3-4级地震条带及边缘有发生4.5级左右地震的可能;渤海海域自1969年7.4级地震后,其地震能量释放呈下降趋势,近20年活动水平为4级左右,渤海海域近期发生大于5级以上地震的可能性较小。北黄海海域近几年地震活动水平明显高于渤海海域。北黄海未来一、二年或稍长时间有发生5级左右地震的可能,应注意山东半岛及北部海域地震活动趋势的发展。  相似文献   

Oxygen consumption rates of fecal pellets produced by three coastal copepod species fed with a diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana     

Loklun Shek 《Marine pollution bulletin》2010,60(7):1005-116

Fecal pellet production rate and oxygen consumption rate of copepod fecal pellets egested by Paracalanus sp., Acartia spinicauda and Centropages orsinii feeding on a diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana were measured. Fecal pellet production rates varied between 3.6 and 80.6 pellets ind⁻¹ d⁻¹ among three species, with fecal pellet production of Paracalanus sp. significantly higher than the other two copepod species. Average pellet size varied between 2.82 × 10⁵ μm³ for Paracalanus sp. and 5.36 × 10⁵ μm³ for A. spinicauda. Average volumetric oxygen consumption rates were 27.32, 5.84 and 45 fmol O₂ μm⁻³ d⁻¹ for fecal pellets produced by Paracalanus sp., A. spinicauda and C. orsinii, respectively. The potential oxygen consumption of fecal pellets egested from Paracalanus sp. was the highest due to its high fecal pellet production rate and high population abundance throughout the year. Overall, the approximate in situ oxygen consumption due to copepod fecal pellet degradation was significant in estuarine and coastal waters of Hong Kong. Results of this study give insight of the role of zooplankton in potential occurrence of hypoxia in coastal waters during summer.  相似文献   

Temporal and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter in Coastal Waters of Jiangsu Province     

Ma Qiqi  Ke Changqing 《地球科学进展》2017,32(5):524-534

Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) is one of important ocean color factors. In the background of “Jiangsu Coastal Development”, it is important to monitor the water quality and pollution status of coastal waters by analyzing its spatial and temporal distribution characteristics with remote sensing data. This paper was based on the high temporal resolution of Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) image downloaded from Korea Ocean Satellite Center. The temporal-spatial distribution of CDOM in Jiangsu coastal waters was analyzed on daily, weekly and monthly time scales from April, 2011 to May, 2016. CDOM in Jiangsu coastal waters are mainly terrigenous, and higher inshore than that of offshore. The monthly average concentration of CDOM in the western coast of the South Yellow Sea was 0.167~0.201 m^-1, and those of central and southern regions were 0.086~0.187m^-1. The maximum values were outside the maximum turbidity zone of the Yangtze River Estuary, which was 0.180~0.206 m^-1 (absorption coefficient at 440 nm). The diurnal variation of CDOM in near shore waters was found to coincide with the change of tide, which decreased at first and then increased in the sea area. By fitting the monthly mean using cosine function, significantly cyclical variation of mean CDOM was found in the South Yellow Sea. The central region of the South Yellow Sea waters fitting coefficient was 0.823. Affected by the Yellow Sea cold water mass, the sub-regions of the South Yellow Sea changed seasonally, whose CDOM concentration in winter and spring was higher than that in summer and autumn. Because of Changjiang Diluted Water and other water masses, seasonal variation of the Yangtze River Estuary was contrary to that of the South Yellow Sea. On monthly scale, CDOM concentration was positively correlated with total suspended matter, with correlation coefficient r being 0.72. The trend of the central and southern region was more significant.  相似文献   

九孔鲍肠道及其养殖水体中弧菌抗药性的研究   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

祝玲  周毅频  蔡创华  蔡俊鹏 《海洋通报》2005,24(4):32-35

为更好地防治鲍鱼病害的发生和流行,我们对分离自广东汕尾粤顺鲍鱼养殖场九孔鲍肠道及其养殖水体的弧菌菌株的耐药性进行了研究。对所分离鉴定的菌株进行了16种抗生素药物敏感性试验。结果表明,对绝大多数分离的菌株,四环素、青霉素G、卡那霉素、丁胺卡那霉素和新生霉素都不敏感或无作用,氟哌酸、红霉素、氯霉素以及环丙沙星等则均比较敏感：复方新诺明、链霉素和多粘霉素B对所有所实验的菌株均有作用。  相似文献   

Predicting iron speciation in coastal waters from the kinetics of sunlight-mediated iron redox cycling     

Andrew?L.?Rose  T.?David?WaiteEmail author 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2003,65(4):375-383

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Chlorohydrocarbon pesticides in the Australian marine environment after banning in the period from the 1970s to 1980s     

Connell DW  Miller G  Anderson S 《Marine pollution bulletin》2002,45(1-12):78-83

The chlorohydrocarbon pesticides (CHPs) (principally DDT, dieldrin, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) including lindane, chlordane, heptachlor and heptachlorepoxide, aldrin and hexachlorobenzene (HCB)) were used extensively in Australia during the 1960s and 1970s. These were progressively banned from the 1970s with DDT being totally banned in 1987. The levels in marine waters are believed to have progressively declined as indicated by water in the Brisbane River, which consistently fell from maximum concentrations of about 1.7 μg/l in 1972–1973 to not detectable in 1986–1987. In some urban areas sediment concentrations, up to 1700 μg/kg dry weight, were recorded in the early 1990s which may reflect the reworking and exposure of older more contaminated material. Fish exhibited consistent occurrence of DDT, HCH, dieldrin and HCB through the 1970s to the 1990s. Maximum concentrations of DDT and dieldrin occurred generally in the 1970s at 40.3 and 8.8 μg/g wet weight, and minimums in the 1990s at 2.4 and 0.041 μg/g wet weight respectively. Inputs of dialdrin from sewage and DDT from the broad environment, reflected by the calculated daily human uptake in the diet, were shown to decline with half-lives of 1.1–1.5 and about 3 years respectively. This evidence suggests that banning of the CHPs has greatly reduced the inputs into the marine environment with consequent reductions in concentrations in biota but there is the occasional occurrence of relatively high concentrations.  相似文献