Mass Diving Tourism – A New Dimension Calls for New Management Approaches     

Peter van Treeck  Helmut Schuhmacher 《Marine pollution bulletin》1999,37(8-12):499-504

Diving has become a booming branch of the tourism business. The economies of many countries with reef-lined coasts depend on high numbers of tourist divers; the resultant degradation of reefs by mechanical damage is accepted due to the short-term gain from the tourism business. Many activities of recreational diving do not particularly require coral reefs – any varied three-dimensional structure (e.g. a wreck) may be sufficiently attractive. The conflict between the needs of nature conservation and the economic interests of diving tourism can be mitigated by the formation of artificial underwater attractions as reef substitutes. Based on experiments in the northern Red Sea, we propose to deposit calcium minerals from the seawater in situ by electrolysis on a template of any desired shape. After transplantation of living coral fragments, a diverse community will develop. With this method different modules can be designed and formed on the seabed which can serve different needs such as diver training, environmental education and recreation as well as reef rehabilitation. By a combination of such modules, a recreational underwater park can be formed well suited to function as a DAD (diver aggregation device) and therefore, divert diver pressure from the natural reef.  相似文献   

Digital mapping of coastal boulders – high-resolution data acquisition to infer past and recent transport dynamics     

Fabian Boesl  Max Engel  Rodrigo C. Eco  JaN B. Galang  Lia A. Gonzalo  Francesca Llanes  Eva Quix  Helmut Brückner 《Sedimentology》2020,67(3):1393-1410

Coastal boulder fields provide clues to long-term frequency-magnitude patterns of coastal flooding events and have the potential to play an important role in coastal hazard assessment. Mapping boulders in the field is time and labour-intensive, and work on intertidal reef platforms, as in the present study, is physically challenging. By addressing coastal scientists who are not specialists in remote sensing, this contribution reports on the possibilities and limitations of digital applications in boulder mapping in Eastern Samar, Philippines, where recent supertyphoons Haiyan and Hagupit induced high waves, coastal flooding and boulder transport. It is demonstrated how satellite imagery of sub-metre resolution (from Pléiades and WorldView-3 imagery) enables efficient analysis of transport vectors and distances of larger boulders, reflecting variation in latitudes of both typhoon tracks and approaching angles of typhoon-generated waves. During the investigated events, boulders with a-axes of up to 8 m were clearly identified to have been shifted for up to 32 m, mostly along the seaward margin of the boulder field. It is, however, hard to keep track of smaller boulders, and the length of a-axes and b-axes including their orientation is often impossible to map with sufficient accuracy. Orthophotographs and digital surface models created through the application of an unmanned aerial vehicle and the ‘Structure from Motion’ technique provide ultra-high-resolution data, and have the potential to not only improve the results of satellite image analysis, but also those from field mapping and may significantly reduce overall time in the field. Orthophotographs permit unequivocal mapping of a-axes and b-axes including their orientation, while precise values for c-axes can be derived from the respective digital surface models. Volume of boulders is best inferred from boulder-specific Structure from Motion-based three-dimensional models. Battery power, flight speed and altitude determine the limits of the area covered, while patches shielded by the boulders are difficult to resolve. For some tasks, field mapping remains mandatory and cannot be replaced by currently available remote sensing tools: for example, sampling for rock type, density and age dating, recording of lithological separation of boulders from the underlying geological unit and of geomorphic features on a millimetre to decimetre-scale, or documentation of fine-grained sediment transport in between the boulders in supratidal settings. In terms of future events, the digital products presented here will provide a valuable reference to track boulder transport on a centimetre to decimetre-scale and to better understand the hydrodynamics of extreme-wave events on a fringing reef coastline.  相似文献   

Seasonal input of heavy metals to Antarctic snow   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

E. D. SUTTIE  E. W. WOLFF 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》1992,44(4):351-357

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Consumer Diversity Enhances Secondary Production by Complementarity Effects in Experimental Ciliate Assemblages     

Stefanie D. Moorthi  Helmut Hillebrand  Martin Wahl  Ulrike-G. Berninger 《Estuaries and Coasts》2008,31(1):152-162

Diversity within distinct trophic groups is proposed to increase ecosystem functions such as the productivity of this group and the efficiency of resource use. This proposition has mainly been tested with plant communities, consumer assemblages, and multitrophic microbial assemblages. Very few studies tested how this diversity–productivity relationship varies under different environmental regimes such as disturbances. Coastal benthic assemblages are strongly affected by temporal instability of abiotic conditions. Therefore, we manipulated benthic ciliate species richness in three laboratory experiments with three diversity levels each and analyzed biomass production over time in the presence or absence of a single application of a disturbance (ultraviolet-B [UVB] radiation). In two out of three experiments, a clear positive relationship between diversity and productivity was found, and also the remaining experiment showed a small but nonsignificant effect of diversity. Disturbance significantly reduced the total ciliate biomass, but did not alter the relation between species richness and biomass production. Significant overyielding (i.e., higher production at high diversity) was observed, and additive partitioning indicated that this was caused by niche complementarity between ciliate species. Species-specific contribution to the total biomass varied idiosyncratically with species richness, disturbance, and composition of the community. We thus present evidence for a significant effect of consumer diversity on consumer biomass in a coastal ciliate assemblage, which remained consistent at different disturbance regimes.  相似文献   

Simulation of a reactive tracer experiment using stochastic hydraulic conductivity fields     

Stefan Gödeke  Helmut Geistlinger  Anko Fischer  Hans-Hermann Richnow  Mario Schirmer 《Environmental Geology》2008,55(6):1255-1261

Reactive tracer tests are performed to derive flow, transport and in situ biodegradation parameters. This paper describes the 3D simulation of a reactive tracer test using the transition probability geostatistical approach. Fifty different equally probable aquifer realizations were generated based on the geological information of 107 boreholes in an area of 62,500 m². One realization was chosen for the reactive transport simulation based on the results of groundwater flow modeling and on particle tracking calculations for the site. Field velocities at the site vary between 0.4 and 3 m/d. The transport of the reactive tracers deuterium ring labeled toluene-d₅ and fully deuterated toluene-d₈ was simulated and first-order biodegradation rates of 0.017 d⁻¹ for toluene-d₅ and 0.012 d⁻¹ for toluene-d₈ were determined.  相似文献   

GRAVEL SLUICING IN ALPINE RUN-OF-RIVER HYDROPOWER PLANTS     

Helmut SCHEUERLEIN Institut flier Wasserbau  Univeristy of Innsbruck  Technikerstn . A- Innsbruck  Austria. 《国际泥沙研究》2001,16(2)

1 INTRODUCTIONNdsral rivers entering reservoirs carry also sediment, partly as bedload and patly in suspension. At theentrance of the reservoir flow velocity is considerably reduced and the capability of sediment transport isdrashcally fading. Bedload maerial is deposited totally at the reservoir entrance fondng a delta, material...in suspension is cAned further intO the reservoir ulh.. it is partly deposited and partly dischargedthrough the dam towards downstreaxn (depending on the trapp…  相似文献   

Application of210Pb in soils   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Helmut Dörr 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1995,13(2):157-168

The spectroscopic measurement of soil samples is described.²¹⁰Pb data from a soil survey in western-Europe are briefly reviewed. The average²¹⁰Pb flux from the atmosphere, as determined from²¹⁰Pb _exc soil inventories, is 90 Bq m^–2a^–1. A simple one-dimensional box-chain model is described. The model simulates the vertical, post depositional transport of natural and fall-out radionuclides in the soil. Simulation of measured²¹⁰Pb _exc ,¹³⁴Cs,¹³⁷Cs, and²⁴¹Am soil profiles shows that mixing (bioturbation) is a very efficient transport mechanism. Lead seems to be strongly fixed to organic and clay particles. It is transported by the displacement of the organic and clay carrier substances. The mean residence time of lead, caesium, plutonium and americium in organic rich forest soils is in the order of 250–1000 years. An applicability study in investigate the use of²¹⁰Pb in erosion problems showed erosion rates from 60–180 g m^–2a^–1 on organic rich forest and meadow sites with 10°–25° slopes.This is the eighth of a series of papers to be published by this journal following the 20 ^th anniversary of the first application of²¹⁰Pb dating of lake sediments. Dr P. G. Appleby is guest editing this series.  相似文献   

Über Spaltbarkelt und Kristallstruktur     

Prof. Dr. Helmut G. F. Winkler 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1950,2(3):255-268

Zusammenfassung Die Zusammenhänge zwischen Spaltbarkeit und Kristallstruktur werden aufgezeigt. Es werden dieverschiedenen Spalebarkeitsgrade einiger Kristallarten gedeutet, wodurch die bei der Spaltbarkeit wirksamen Faktoren sich zu erkennen geben. Die Vorstellung, daß die dichtest besetzte Netzebéne als beste Spaltfläche auftritt, gilt nicht allgemein und ist nicht ursächlich richtig. Vielmehr hängt Verlauf und Güte der Spaltbarkeit von zwei Faktoren ab: l. Diejenige Netzebene ist die beste Spaltfläche zwischen deren paralleler Schar schwächste Kräftearten (heterodesmische Kristalle) bzw. geringste Anzahl von Bindungen je Flächeneinheit wirksam sind (homodesmische Kristalle). 2. Bei allen nicht stark anisometrischen Kristallen, wenn ihre Bausteine einen — wenn auch nur geringen — heteropolaren Bindungscharakter tragen, muß stets die Bedingung erfüllt sein, daß durch geringe Verschiebung eines Gitterteiles gegenüber dem anderen gleichnamige Ionen einander auf kürzest möglichen Abstand genähert werden können. Dadurch erfolgt elektrostatische Zersprengung des Kristalls parallel einer Ebene. Diese HypotheseJ. Starks wird hier bewiesen, und es wird gezeigt, daß bei Gleichheit der Größe der Bindungskräfte, welche zwischen parallelen Netzebenen im ungestörten Kristall wirksam sind, die Güte der Spaltbarkeit dann am besten ist, wenn nicht nur die nächst-benachbarten sondern auch die übernächsten gleichnamigen Ionen nach Verschiebung des einen Kristallteiles gegenüber dem anderen in Abstoßungsstellung gebracht worden sind.  相似文献   

Growth Dynamics in Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Helmut  Pirc 《Marine Ecology》1985,6(2):141-165

Abstract. Amounts of photosynthate in the rhizomes, in photosynthetically inactive basal parts of the leaves and different old leaf blades were examined. Winter leaf growth was supported by mobilisation of starch in the rhizome. This winter growth enables Posidonia oceanica to utilize the increased energy influx in early spring via the substantial leaf area already developed and to approach highest productivity in spring. During summer and autumn considerable concentrations of soluble carbohydrates were found in the leaves and rhizomes. Starch was stored in the rhizomes in concentrations of up to 6.8 % of dry weight. Levels of nitrogen and free amino acids were correlated with growth rates. The percentage of total nitrogen present as free amino acid-nitrogen decreased from November (35 %) to summer (less than 1 %), by which time leaf growth had stopped. In contrast to this, amounts of organic anions were low in winter and spring and reached their maximum in summer.
Within a shoot, sites of leaf growth were characterized by high amounts of total nitrogen and free amino acids (innermost leaves), while carbon Fixation was highest in the leaves #2–#4. Particularly high concentrations of soluble carbohydrates were found midway along leaf blades.
It is evident that this unusual growth rhythm of Posidonia oceanica was only possible because of the ability to store considerable amounts of carbon and nitrogen in the rhizomes.
The results of this investigation demonstrate on the one hand that the chemical composition of the plant is strongly correlated with growth and production, and on the other hand that it is dependent on environmental factors, such as energy influx and temperature, which change with season.  相似文献   

Development of a Neural Network Algorithm for Retrieving Concentrations of Chlorophyll, Suspended Matter and Yellow Substance from Radiance Data of the Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner   总被引：1，自引：4，他引：1  

Akihiko Tanaka  Motoaki Kishino  Roland Doerffer  Helmut Schiller  Tomohiko Oishi  Tadashi Kubota 《Journal of Oceanography》2004,60(3):519-530

An algorithm is presented to retrieve the concentrations of chlorophyll a, suspended pariclulate matter and yellow substance from normalized water-leaving radiances of the Ocean Color and Temperature Sensor (OCTS) of the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS). It is based on a neural network (NN) algorithm, which is used for the rapid inversion of a radiative transfer procedure with the goal of retrieving not only the concentrations of chlorophyll a but also the two other components that determine the water-leaving radiance spectrum. The NN algorithm was tested using the NASA's SeaBAM (SeaWiFS Bio-Optical Mini-Workshop) test data set and applied to ADEOS/OCTS data of the Northwest Pacific in the region off Sanriku, Japan. The root-mean-square error between chlorophyll a concentrations derived from the SeaBAM reflectance data and the chlorophyll a measurements is 0.62. The retrieved chlorophyll a concentrations of the OCTS data were compared with the corresponding distribution obtained by the standard OCTS algorithm. The concentrations and distribution patterns from both algorithms match for open ocean areas. Since there are no standard OCTS products available for yellow substance and suspended matter and no in situ measurements available for validation, the result of the retrieval by the NN for these two variables could only be assessed by a general knowledge of their concentrations and distribution patterns. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献