Food Preferences of Dominant Salt Marsh Herbivores and Detritivores     

Carol S.  Rietsma  Ivan  Valiela Ana  Sylvester-Serianni 《Marine Ecology》1982,3(2):179-189

Abstract. Food preferences of six dominant salt marsh invertebrates were studied to identify detritivores and to assess differences in their diets. Animals fed on agar suspensions of dead and live foods in petri dishes with four compartments. Only two foods were included in each dish. Relative palatability was assessed by measuring the amount of suspension removed or by counting the number of feeding marks left on the surface of the suspensions.
Feeding marks reflected differences in mouth parts and feeding mechanisms of the six invertebrates. Melampus bidentatus, Orchestia grillus , and Philoscia vittata preferred dead litter over live tissues of marsh graminoids, blue-green algae, and sulfur bacteria. No preference for detritus from different graminoids was shown by M. bidentatus. Orchestia grillus fed preferentially on Spartina patens detritus. Philoscia vittata preferred detritus from S. alterniflora and S. patens. Blue-green algae and sulfur bacteria were preferred over detritus by Littorina saxatalis , but detritus was preferred over live graminoids. Littorina saxatalis fed preferentially on Juncus gerardi detritus. Blue-green algae, sulfur bacteria, and live graminoids were preferred over detritus by L. littorea. Talorchestia longicornis also preferred blue-green algae.
On the basis of their food preferences, Littorina saxatalis, Melampus bidentatus, Orchestia grillus , and Philoscia vittata were classified as detritivores. Feeding on detritus from different plant species could result in a partitioning of this food resource in the detritus-based food chains of the salt marsh ecosystem.  相似文献   

Effects of crab–halophytic plant interactions on creek growth in a S.W. Atlantic salt marsh: A Cellular Automata model     

Darío R. Minkoff  Mauricio Escapa  Flix E. Ferramola  Silvio D. Maraschín  Jorge O. Pierini  Gerardo M.E. Perillo  Claudio Delrieux 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2006,69(3-4):403

The Bahía Blanca Estuary (38° 50′ S, and 62° 30′ W) presents salt marshes where interactions between the local flora (Sarcocornia perennis) and fauna (Chasmagnathus granulatus) generate some kind of salt pans that alter the normal water circulation and condition its flow and course towards tidal creeks. The crab–vegetation dynamics in the salt marsh presents variations that cannot be quantified in a reasonable period of time. The interaction between S. perennis plant and C. granulatus crab is based on simple laws, but its result is a complex biological mechanism that causes an erosive process on the salt marsh and favors the formation of tidal creeks. To study it, a Cellular Automata model is proposed, based on the laws deduced from the observation of these phenomena in the field, and then verified with measurable data within macroscale time units. Therefore, the objective of this article is to model how the interaction between C. granulatus and S. perennis modifies the landscape of the salt marsh and influences the path of tidal creeks. The model copies the basic laws that rule the problem based on purely biological factors.The Cellular Automata model proved capable of reproducing the effects of the interaction between plants and crabs in the salt marsh. A study of the water drainage of the basins showed that this interaction does indeed modify the development of tidal creeks. Model dynamics would likewise follow different laws, which would provide a different formula for the probability of patch dilation. The patch shape can be obtained changing the pattern that dilates.  相似文献   

Semidiurnal Dynamics of Salinity, Nutrients and Suspended Particulate Matter in an Estuary in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, during a Spring Tide Cycle   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Paolo Magni  Shigeru Montani  Kuninao Tada 《Journal of Oceanography》2002,58(2):389-402

The physical and chemical variability of the water column at subtidal station of an estuary in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan, was studied over a 24-hour period during a spring tide (tidal range ca. 2 m) in May 1995. Surface water and several depths through the water column were monitored every one and two hours, respectively. At each occasion, water temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen concentration were measured and water samples were collected for the determination of nutrients and suspended particulate matter (SPM). Disruptive changes in the physical and chemical characteristics of the water was produced by the tidal cycle and the mixing of water masses of different origin. These changes were highly significant both spatially and temporally, yet with varying effects on physical parameters, nutrients and the different components of SPM. Significant differences in nutrient concentrations were also observed when the data-set was divided into ebb and flood components, irrespective of the depth. Nitrate and nitrite rose to 1.8 times higher during the flood. Spatial differences of SPM were less marked than those of nutrients, only particulate organic carbon (POC) being significantly higher at the surface than in the intermediate and the lower layer. Both POC and pheopigment concentrations increased markedly through the water column, being highest shortly before the lower low tide. In contrast, suspended solid (SS) content increased sharply after the lower low tide (>40 mg l⁻¹) and this coincided with a marked decrease of the C/SS content (<20 mg g⁻¹). The lagtime between POC and SS tidal transport was caused by particle resuspension from the exposed intertidal sediments as the tidal level rose, and particle transport selection in relation to the tidal state. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

应用于砂岩型铀矿找矿的遥感-航测信息集成模型构建     

聂俊兵  周铭  谢迎春  李名松 《地质科技情报》2008,27(1):99-102,107

应用遥感-航测(航放和航磁)信息集成技术,针对砂岩型铀矿找矿的几个重要条件:如盆地内部构造、含矿目的层、水文条件和矿化条件,构建了构造、岩性、水文和矿化4种信息集成模型.将这4种信息集成模型应用于示范区,在已知的矿化地段得到的结果与实际勘探的成果符合较好,提高了预测的准确性.  相似文献   

福建安溪铅山铅锌矿床地质特征及成因探讨     

黄铁民 《福建地质》2008,27(2):186-194

铅山铅锌矿位于清流—安溪北西向断裂带与平潭—漳平东西向断裂带的复合部,闽中多金属矿化集中区南端的洛阳—剑斗东西向多金属成矿带中段,矿体贮存于北东向断裂破碎带中,为岩浆期后中低温热液矿床,控矿的北东向断裂带是多期次构造活动的产物,主成矿期为燕山早期,铅山周围尚有较大的找矿远景。  相似文献   

人口空间聚类规则挖掘——全国各省市产业结构分类研究     

谢明霞  吕安民  郭建忠  陈科 《测绘科学》2008,(Z1)

本文采用离差平方和法(Ward方法),对2005年全国31个省市产业结构情况进行分析说明,归纳总结出各省市的主要产业类型及各产业与人均生产总值的关系,并从经济的视角获得各省市的产业结构类型与其经济发展状况的关系。  相似文献   

鄂尔多斯坳陷湖盆缓坡型三角洲前缘沉积微相分带及成因分析——以定边-安边地区延长组长6油组为例   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

LI Feng-jie  JIANG Bin  ZHAO Jun-xingInstitute of Sedimentary Geology  Chengdu University of Technology  Chengdu  China 《矿物岩石》2008,(3)

运用沉积相分析理论对鄂尔多斯盆地定边-安边地区晚三叠世延长组坳陷湖盆缓坡型三角洲前缘沉积微相组合进行系统研究,共识别出其组合形式有:水下分流河道叠加组合、河口坝叠加组合、水下分流河道与河口坝叠加组合以及河口坝与远砂坝、席状砂的叠加组合等4大类9种类型。并深入研究三角洲前缘沉积微相组合的时空分布规律,以三角洲前缘坡折带为界,将三角洲前缘分为"台型前缘"、"坡型前缘"和"盆型前缘"三部分,各部分有独特的沉积微相组合形式。高分辨率层序地层学的基准面旋回原理和沉积物体积分配原理表明:短期基准面的规律性变化影响着储层砂体的成因类型、叠加组合形式和空间分布规律,据此建立坳陷湖盆三角洲前缘不同沉积微相组合的成因分布模式。  相似文献   

渤海湾盆地南堡凹陷原油成因类型及其分布规律   总被引：8，自引：3，他引：5  

李素梅  姜振学  董月霞  王旭东 《现代地质》2008,22(5)

南堡凹陷近年油气勘探取得了重大突破,为揭示该区滩海与陆地油气成因及分布规律,对67个原油和油砂样品进行了详细的地球化学研究。南堡凹陷原油具有低硫、中高蜡含量特征,陆相成因特点显著。共分为4种类型原油:(1)陆地沙三段深部层系原油,具有高4-甲基甾烷丰度、低奥利烷丰度与低甲基菲指数值和轻微偏高成熟度特征;(2)陆地Es1—Ed原油与Ng和Nm原油,其特征与第一类原油相反;上第三系原油普遍遭遇生物降解;(3)滩海东营组原油,以较高伽马蜡烷/C30藿烷和高甾烷/藿烷值区别于陆地原油;(4)滩海奥陶系潜山原油,具有低丰度甾萜类生物标志物、相对高丰度孕甾烷、三环萜烷与重排甾烷系列等特征,显示较高成熟度。上述4种成因类型原油指示南堡凹陷陆地、滩海均存在多层导有利烃源岩;同层位中滩海Es1-Ed存在较陆地更为优越的有利烃源岩,南堡滩海地区具有广泛的油气勘探前景。  相似文献   

上宫构造蚀变岩型金矿床地质特征及化探找金经验   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

付思峰 《物探与化探》2008,32(3):267-269

上宫金矿位于河南省西部熊耳山北麓,在该区1 020 km²范围内进行了1:5万的地球化学水系沉积物测量,按水系划分取样单元,取样本着"小沟多取,支流放稀,大河不管"的原则进行。本次水系沉积物测量的特点是:取样少,控制面积大,速度快,省钱、省人、省物,找矿效果好、经济效益好。本区水系沉积物测量中所发现的金异常,后经异常检查、地质普查评价及钻探验证,确定为一大型构造蚀变岩型金矿床。  相似文献   

CSAMT法在松辽盆地伊胡塔地区嫩江组中的定位应用   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

李茂  许第桥  杨丽娟  乔勇 《物探与化探》2008,32(6)

上白垩统嫩江组不仅是松辽盆地南部重要的生油层系,而且在本区砂岩型铀成矿中也起着非常重要的作用。从ZK4孔的方法过井测深试验以及地电结构的对比分析入手,对探区内嫩江组的空间分布范围进行了分析研究,通过钻探施工,证实了CSAMT法应用的有效性。  相似文献