Erodibility of a mixed mudflat dominated by microphytobenthos and Cerastoderma edule, East Frisian Wadden Sea,Germany     

T.J. Andersen  M. Lanuru  C. van Bernem  M. Pejrup  R. Riethmueller 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

Sediment erodibility and a range of physical and biological parameters were measured at an intertidal site in the German Wadden Sea area in June, September and November 2002 and February and April 2003 in order to examine the influence of macrozoobenthos and microphytobenthos on sediment erodibility and the temporal variation. The study site was a mixed mudflat situated in the mesotidal Baltrum–Langeoog tidal basin at the East Frisian barrier coast. The mud content at the site was about 35% and the filter-feeding cockle Cerastoderma edule was the dominating macrozoobenthic species (by biomass). The erodibility of the sediment showed strong temporal variation with high erosion thresholds in spring and late summer and significantly lower thresholds during the rest of the study period. The erosion thresholds were strongly dependent on the contents of chlorophyll a (chl a) and colloidal carbohydrates, both indicators of the content of microphytobenthos, in this environment primarily benthic diatoms. The content of microphytobenthos was high in September 2002 and April 2003, and regression analysis indicated that this was the only likely reason for the low erodibility found at these times. A biostabilisation index of about 4.5 was found for a situation with both abundant biofilms and cockles.  相似文献   

胜利油田部分岸段岸滩演化和防护问题     

吴世迎  臧启运 《海洋科学进展》1997,(4)

本文在综合我所多年实地观测资料的基础上,讨论了黄河三角洲胜利油田所辖部分岸段岸滩演化和防护问题。认为岸滩演化主要受制于黄河尾闾变化和海动力的相互作用,预测了１９９６年汛期到来前黄河入海口由北汊１南侧人工改道后,岸滩发育的基本趋势和需要重视的问题。文章也讨论了防潮堤和有关海上设施的防护问题。  相似文献   

On diffusion of the tangential fluctuations of the geomagnetic field through the mantle     

D. D. Sokoloff  B. G. Zinchenko 《Astronomische Nachrichten》1992,313(2):115-123

In this paper we develop a statistical approach to resolve the transport problem for the tangential fluctuations of the geomagnetic field in the mantle. For the sake of simplicity we treat the mantle as a thick layer of vacuum and assume in addition that only a radial component of the magnetic field of the core penetrates through the core-mantle boundary. These assumptions allow us to find exact expressions for the tangential field components throughout the mantle. By using such expressions we construct a correlation tensor of tangential components and then, since the mantle is thick enough, study its asymptotic properties on the Earth surface. Incidentally, the correlation tensor trace happens to be equal to the correlation function of the radial component that was obtained by Pilipenko and Sokoloff (1992). Indeed, we provide a simple boundary problem which initially describes the diffusion functions. We also pay a special attention to transformation properties of the correlation tensor and find here some interesting analogies with secular variation data of the geomagnetic field  相似文献