Biogenic structure and foraging by five species of shorebirds (Charadrii)     

Mark W. Luckenbach   《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1984,19(6):691-696

Observations were made of the location and duration of foraging by five species of shorebirds in relation to the tubes of Diopatra cuprea (Polychaeta). Infaunal abundances in sites with D. cuprea tubes exceeded those in surrounding tubefree areas (120 individuals vs 29 individuals per 0·01 m², respectively). Of 112 shorebird foraging episodes observed only 4 were in the vicinity of D. cuprea tubes. Despite a greater abundance of prey items around worm tubes, shorebirds avoided feeding in such areas. D. cuprea tubes appear to provide an effective refuge for macrofauna from shorebird predation.  相似文献   

雷州半岛红树林滩涂底栖生物多样性的初步研究   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10       下载免费PDF全文

梁超愉  张汉华  颉晓勇  邹发生 《海洋科学》2005,29(2):15-28

分析了广东省雷州半岛红树林滩涂底栖生物种类组成与数量分布特点，用Shan non-Wiener多样性指数(H′)、Pielous种类均匀度(J)、种类丰度(D)、Berger-Parker优势度指数(I)4个测定红树林群落种类多样性指标进行数值分析。结果表明，调查所采获的底栖生物种类共有68科165种，种类组成以软体动物和甲壳类动物为主。红树林滩涂全年平均生物量为223．25g／m^2，平均栖息密度为2lO．97个／m^2。H′甚高，2个季度平均为2．2633～2.7411，J平均为0．6407～0．6411，D平均达到1．4910～2．6232。全年各类群生物组成中，生物量及栖息密度以软体动物居首位。红树林滩涂底栖生物主要经济种类有中国绿螂(Glauconome chinensis)、四角蛤蜊(Mactrar Mactra) veneriformis)、青蛤(Cyclinasinensis)等20多种。  相似文献   

Recovery of the seabed following marine aggregate dredging on the Hastings Shingle Bank off the southeast coast of England     

Keith Cooper  Sian Boyd  Jacqueline Eggleton  David Limpenny  Hubert Rees  Koen Vanstaen 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2007,75(4):547-558

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of dredging intensity on the physical and biological recovery times of the seabed following marine aggregate dredging. Two areas of seabed, previously subject to, respectively, relatively high and lower levels of dredging intensity, were identified on the Hastings Shingle Bank. Two reference areas were also selected for comparative purposes. All four sites were monitored annually over the period 2001–2004, using a combination of acoustic, video and grab sampling techniques. Since the site was last dredged in 1996, this was intended to provide a sequence of data 5–8 years after cessation of dredging. However, an unexpected resumption of dredging within the high intensity site, during 2002 and 2003, allowed an additional assessment of the immediate effects and aftermath of renewed dredging at the seabed. The early stages of recovery could then be assessed after dredging ceased in 2003. Results from both dredged sites provide a useful insight into the early and latter stages of physical and biological recovery. A comparison of recent and historic dredge track features provided evidence of track erosion. However, tracks were still visible 8 years after the cessation of dredging. Within the high dredging intensity site, recolonisation was relatively rapid after the cessation of dredging in 2003. Rather than indicating a full recovery, we suggest that this initial ‘colonization community’ may enter a transition phase before eventually reaching equilibrium. This hypothesis is supported by results from the low intensity site, where biological recovery was judged to have taken 7 years. Further monitoring is needed in order to test this. An alternative explanation is that the rapid recovery may be explained by the settlement of large numbers of Sabellaria spinulosa. As the resumption of dredging within the high intensity site limited our assessment of longer-term recovery it is not yet possible to assume that a 7-year biological recovery period will be applicable to other, more intensively dredged areas at this or more distant locations.  相似文献   

Eiefsis Bay Anoxia: Nutrient Conditions and Benthic Community Structure     

Nikolaos  Friligos Argyro  Zenetos 《Marine Ecology》1988,9(4):273-290

Abstract. The changes in the concentrations of silicate, phosphate, and inorganic nitrogen in Eiefsis Bay. an intermittently anoxic basin, arc described and related to the changes in the physical properties of the water. Winter convection resulted in a very small vertical gradient of temperature, salinity, oxygen, and nutrients. Stratification started to develop in May and persisted for about 6 months. High values of silicate, phosphate, and ammonia occurred during the anoxic conditions prevailing in summer. The vertical transport of particulate organic matter and decomposition of abundant pelagic and benthic organic matter during the summer produced a low oxygen level in the bottom layer below the pycnoclinc. A high sea water temperature and vertical stability contributed to the development of anoxic conditions during the summer in the near bottom layer and to mass mortality of benthic macrofauna. Also the Eiefsis Bay anoxia appears to have had significant ecological effects on many other marine species, including several of economic importance.  相似文献   

胶州湾海域大型底栖生物的调查与研究     

朱爱美  叶思源  卢文喜 《海洋地质前沿》2006,22(10):24-27

根据2003年6月初对胶州湾海域的调查资料,分析了该海域的底栖生物的种类组成及生物量分布。共鉴定了40种底栖生物,平均总生物量为23.93g/m2,平均栖息密度为400个/m2。调查结果表明,生物量受盐度影响,而栖息密度受水深和有机质含量影响。胶州湾由于受污染缘故,多样性指数远低于3,生物群落呈非健康状态,并与20世纪90年代的调查结果相比较发现,生物量呈严重下降趋势,而栖息密度呈上升趋势。  相似文献   

Effects of sediment mixing and benthic algal production on fossil pigment stratigraphies     

P. R. Leavitt  S. R. Carpenter 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1989,2(2):147-158

Effects of sediment mixing and benthic algal production on fossil pigment profiles were quantified by fine-interval analysis of cores in a transect across the basin of Paul Lake, MI. Annually resolved profiles (1957–1986) of carotenoids and chlorophyll a from varved sediments at deepwater (15 m) sites were compared to fine-interval (2.5–3.5 mm) stratigraphies from sites with increasing sediment mixing and benthic algal production (4 m>7 m>9 m). The degree of sediment mixing was also modelled using running means of pigment concentrations in varved sediments and compared to disturbed profiles. Effects of sediment mixing included reduction of peak pigment concentrations, broadening of peaks and migration of maxima deeper into deposits. Sedimentary signal strength was defined as the ratio of peak concentrations to baseline levels. Short-lived or weak signals ( 1.5 x baseline) were resolved only in the least disturbed deposits, while strong signals (5 x baseline) withstood sediment homogenization to depths greater than 1 cm (>5 year accumulation). Comparison of core-wide mean pigment concentrations suggested that cores recovered from within the photic zone are influenced by benthic algal production and will not represent either historical or current ecological dynamics in the water column. We conclude that: moderate levels of mixing do not destroy fossil pigment profiles; disturbed stratigraphies can remain ecologically interpretable; and fine-interval analyses are warranted in lakes with undisturbed ¹³⁷Cs profiles and where sediment porosity <90%.  相似文献   

On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity     

M.A. McArthur  B.P. Brooke  R. Przeslawski  D.A. Ryan  V.L. Lucieer  S. Nichol  A.W. McCallum  C. Mellin  I.D. Cresswell  L.C. Radke 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

A growing need to manage marine biodiversity sustainably at local, regional and global scales cannot be met by applying existing biological data. Abiotic surrogates of biodiversity are thus increasingly valuable in filling the gaps in our knowledge of biodiversity patterns, especially identification of hotspots, habitats needed by endangered or commercially valuable species and systems or processes important to the sustained provision of ecosystem services. This review examines the use of abiotic variables as surrogates for patterns in benthic biodiversity with particular regard to how variables are tied to processes affecting species richness and how easily those variables can be measured at scales relevant to resource management decisions.  相似文献   

Benthic assemblage composition on subtidal reefs along a latitudinal gradient in Western Australia     

D.A. Smale  G.A. Kendrick  K.I. Waddington  K.P. Van Niel  J.J. Meeuwig  E.S. Harvey 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

At regional scales, the distribution of species and the structure of assemblages vary with latitude within many marine and terrestrial systems. The oligotrophic coastal waters of Western Australia (WA) support highly speciose and endemic assemblages, yet spatial patterns in benthic structure are currently poorly known. We examined benthic assemblage composition along a latitudinal gradient of 28.5–33.5°S and a depth gradient of 14–62 m, on subtidal reefs in warm-temperate WA. We surveyed benthos using a remotely triggered digital stills camera. In total, we sampled macroalgae and sessile invertebrates at 201 sites spread across four locations. Percent cover of coarse taxonomic groups and dominant species was estimated from over 2000 photoquadrat samples. We recorded significant differences in benthic assemblage composition between locations, and along depth gradients within each location. However, the magnitude of change with depth was not consistent between locations, and shifts in assemblage composition along the depth gradients were not as pronounced as expected. The percent cover of all dominant benthic groupings differed between locations, and several key taxa, such as the kelp Scytothalia dorycarpa, brown foliose macroalgae, hard corals and sponges, changed predictably along the latitudinal gradient. Our study adopted a coarse taxonomic, but assemblage-wide, approach to describing macrobenthic assemblages, and clear differences between locations and depths were detected. The surveys have provided baseline data on broad scale ecosystem structure against which to detect future ecological change.  相似文献   

Diversity of meiofauna in the lacustrine profundal zone: Bathymetric differences and influence of environmental factors   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jukka Särkkä 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1993,55(3):197-205

The diversity and species richness of total meiofauna, Harpacticoida and Oligochaeta in relation to depth and other environmental variables were studied at nine stations and in two profundal depth zones in Lake Päijänne which includes both oligotrophic and eutrophicated or organically loaded areas.Diversity was on average higher in the upper part of the profundal zone than at maximum depths. This may show that the greater temporal stability in temperature at greater depths does not surpass the effect of the lower temporal stability in oxygen content. The productivity factor may be a more important reason for the bathymetric difference in diversity than the stability factor. Diversity in the lower profundal zone shows a negative correlation with variables indicating pollution while in the upper profundal zone a positive one with those variables, thus emphasizing the importance of the production factor in determining diversity in the upper profundal. Diversity was higher within the oligochaetes than within the harpacticoids, which may imply that oligochaetes have a longer evolutionary history as part of the lacustrine benthic system.Of the environmental variables, phytoplankton biomass had the highest influence on total diversity in the lower profundal zone, oxygen being next in importance. The sedimentation of organic matter was most important in the upper part of the profundal zone, where oxygen did not have any significant effect on diversity. Some explaining factors determining bathymetric diversity differences are discussed in relation to the theoretical expectations.  相似文献   

Sub-fossil Chironomidae from East Africa. 2. Chironominae (Chironomini and Tanytarsini)     

Hilde Eggermont  Dirk Verschuren 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2004,32(4):413-455

This paper and a companion article present illustrated guides to the identification of sub-fossil chironomid larvae (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae) preserved in the sediments of low- and mid-elevation lakes in East Africa. They are based on analysis of surface-sediment death assemblages from 61 lakes located in the humid to semi-arid environments in equatorial East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania), supplemented with similar surface-sediment samples from 12 lakes in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia), and sub-recent core samples from six lakes in Kenya and two in Uganda. We analyzed about 11,000 specimens and identified 98.4% of these to species, species group, genus, or tribe level, depending on current -taxonomic knowledge of the various considered genera and the taxonomic resolution of preserved diagnostic features. We distinguished 90 different sub-fossil morphotypes, of which 16 are Tanypodinae, 19 are Orthocladiinae, and 55 are Chironominae. In this paper we focus on the subfamily Chironominae (tribes Chironomini and Tanytarsini). The diagnostic characters distinguishing these morphotypes from each other resemble differences at the species level in the better-known Holarctic fauna, hence we consider most of our morphotypes equivalent to morphological species or groups of closely related species. Given that core samples yielded only seven morphotypes not also found in the surface-sediment samples, the current inventory of 90 taxa likely represents the large majority of distinct sub-fossil chironomid larval types to be found in East African lakes, excluding the few very large Rift lakes, cold-water lakes above treeline, and special standing-water environments such as fens and bogs. Consistent use of a single set of morphological characters to identify both fossil and living chironomid larvae would ensure exchangeability of information between modem and paleoenvironmental studies on aquatic invertebrate communities in African lakes, and increase the relevance of paleoenvironmental reconstructions to water-quality evaluations aimed at sustainable management of scarce, fluctuating surface-water resources in tropical East Africa.  相似文献