Reef status in the Rasfari region (North Malé Atoll,Maldives) five years before the mass mortality event of 1998     

Carla Morri  Stefano Aliani  Carlo Nike Bianchi 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

The Maldives was severely hit by massive coral bleaching and subsequent mortality in 1998. The results of reef monitoring in the following years have supported contrasting views about their recovery potential, partly because of the scarcity of information on the situation before 1998. Quantitative data on coral assemblages collected in 1993 in the Rasfari region (North Malé Atoll) may provide a base-line for the evaluation of the present status of the Maldivian reefs. Five years before the 1998 mortality, most coral communities appeared to be similar, in terms of both coral cover and growth-form composition, to those described in 1958 and 1964, notwithstanding increased human pressure and local events such as minor bleaching episodes in 1987 and crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) attacks in 1989. Three lessons can be learnt from these results to help to understand the present situation, some ten years after the 1998 mass mortality. First, Maldivian reefs proved in the past to be capable of maintaining flourishing coral life despite various disturbances. Second, four years had been sufficient for complete reef recovery after a (minor) bleaching event. Third, recovery after both COTS attack and bleaching follows a predictable path suggesting that the presence of a three-dimensional community structure, which should reduce post settlement mortality of coral recruits, is essential for rapid coral recovery. As coral recruitment remains high and large tabular Acropora colonies are now reappearing, it is expected that Maldivian reefs should return to their original condition within the next few years.  相似文献   

Effects of wave–current interaction on the current profile     

Maitane Olabarrieta  Raul Medina  Sonia Castanedo 《Coastal Engineering》2010

Wave–current laboratory experiments have shown that the logarithmic current profile observed in pure current flows is modified due to the presence of waves. When waves propagate opposite the current, an increase in the current intensity is achieved near the mean water level, while a reduction is obtained for following waves and currents. With the aim of analyzing these nonlinear effects along the whole water column, an Eulerian wave–current model is presented. In contrast to previously presented wave–current models, the present is able to include the variation of the free surface elevation due to the wave motion and the effect of a non hydrostatic pressure field. Therefore it does not restrict its application to waves in shallow waters. Moreover, the model is able to simulate all the possible angles between waves and currents.  相似文献   

A Cascade Approach for Global Trajectory Tracking Control of Underactuated AUVs     

毕凤阳  魏英杰  张嘉钟  曹伟 《中国海洋工程》2010,24(2):369-380

A global trajectory tracking controller is presented for underactuated AUVs with only surge force and yaw moment in the horizontal plane. A transformation is introduced to represent the tracking error system into a cascade form. The global and uniform asymptotic stabilization problem of the resulting cascade system is reduced to the stabilization problem of two subsystems by use of the cascade approach. For the stabilization of the subsystem involving the yaw moment, a control law is proposed based on the feedback linearization method. Another subsystem is stabilized by designing a fuzzy sliding mode controller which can offer a systematical means of constructing a set of shrinking-span and dilating-span membership functions. In order to demonstrate the practicability of the proposed controller, control constraints, parameter uncertainties, and external disturbances are considered according to practical situation of AUVs. Simulation results show very good tracking performance and robustness of the proposed control schemes.  相似文献   

山东半岛南部水温统计分析     

周良明  高劲松  郭佩芳 《海洋湖沼通报》2010,(1)

利用1997—1998年的水温实测资料对麦岛、石岛海洋站和海阳水温观测站的水温进行了相关性分析,分析表明3个站位的水温相关性较好,但8月较差。利用得到的相关关系和等间距分布法,在推算出海阳15 a的水温后,对3个站位1991—2005年的水温进行了统计分析。结果表明:夏半年海阳的水温最高,石岛的水温最低,而在冬半年海阳的水温最低,对其形成原因进行了初步分析。  相似文献   

Role of sea surface temperature and rainfall in determining the stock and fishery of the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris,Mollusca, Cephalopoda) in Tunisia     

Jabeur Chédia  Khoufi Widien  Bakhrouf Amina 《Marine Ecology》2010,31(3):431-438

Octopus (Octopus vulgaris, Mollusca, Cephalopoda) is an important and valuable fishery resource on the eastern and southern coasts of Tunisia, but its landings are highly variable. This paper explores the effect of environment on octopus catch per unit effort (CPUE) during a 12‐year period, through correlation analyses and the incorporation into surplus production models of sea surface temperature (SST) and rainfall data collected during cold (January–May) and hot (August–October) seasons. CLIMPROD software was used to select the appropriate model and fit it to the fishery and environment data. In both seasons, SST significantly contributed to CPUE variability; fishery production was influenced positively by cold season SST but negatively by hot season SST. Due to a poor fit with cold season data, the impact of rainfall was analysed only for the hot season, during which it has a positive effect on production. Results are discussed in view of the life‐cycle of octopus and the dynamics of the Tunisian fishery. This first study of octopus variability in Tunisia highlights the necessity to incorporate environmental influence into stock assessment and management advice.  相似文献   

大规模富社团网络的时空混沌同步     

吕翎  邹家蕊  杨明  孟乐  郭丽  柴元 《海洋学报》2010,32(10):6864-6870

以Plankton时空混沌系统作为网络节点,通过非线性耦合构成富社团(rich-club,RC)网络,研究其时空混沌同步规律.首先给出了RC网络中连接节点之间的非线性耦合函数的一般性选取原则.进而基于Lyapunov稳定性定理,理论分析了实现网络同步的条件.最后,通过仿真模拟检验了网络的时空混沌同步效果.仿真研究表明,RC网络中各富节点之间以及这些富节点各自星形连接的子网络中的所有节点均实现了完全同步.  相似文献   

New finite-gap solutions for the coupled Burgers equations engendered by the Neumann systems     

陈金兵  耿献国  乔志军 《海洋学报(英文版)》2010,29(9)

On the tangent bundle TS^N-1 of the unit sphere S^N-1, this paper reduces the coupled Burgers equations to two Neumann systems by using the nonlinearization of the Lax pair, whose Liouville integrability is displayed in the scheme of the r-matrix technique. Based on the Lax matrix of the Neumann systems, the Abel--Jacobi coordinates are appropriately chosen to straighten out the restricted Neumann flows on the complex torus, from which the new finite-gap solutions expressed by Riemann theta functions for the coupled Burgers equations are given in view of the Jacobi inversion.  相似文献   

海洋侧孢短芽孢杆菌Lh-1 株所产多肽R-1 性质分析及作用原理探讨   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

任召珍  孙谧  郑媛  刘均忠  王跃军  郝建华  张胜军 《海洋科学》2010,34(11):41-45

对海洋侧孢短芽孢杆菌(Brevibacillus laterosporus)Lh-1所产多肽R-1的性质及作用机理进行了研究。R-1对温度和pH稳定,在pH 11.0~12条件下,121℃处理1 h,其活力保持在75%以上。经3种不同浓度的蛋白酶(碱性蛋白酶、胰蛋白酶、胃蛋白酶)处理4 h后,活性保持在80%以上。与常见的金属离子和化学试剂在一起反应,对抗菌肽R-1的活性无明显影响,可以配合一起使用,仅吐温和SDS对其影响较大。氨基酸分析表明,抗菌肽R-1由亮氨酸(Leu)、酪氨酸(Tyr)、缬氨酸(Val)、异亮氨酸(Ile)、赖氨酸(Lys)、甘氨酸(Gly)、蛋氨酸(Met)、丝氨酸(Ser)、丙氨酸(Ala)9种氨基酸组成,其中疏水氨基酸居多。抑菌试验表明R-1的抑菌谱广泛,对经培养分离出来的大肠杆菌及白假丝酵母菌的扫描电境超微结构观察表明,R-1的杀菌机制主要是通过含有带正电荷的Lys与带负电荷的磷脂分子结合,然后R-1的疏水端插入到指示菌的疏水区,改变膜的构象,从而导致菌体的死亡。  相似文献   

A field test of a linear stability model for crescentic bars     

M.C.H. Tiessen  S.M. van Leeuwen  D. Calvete  N. Dodd 《Coastal Engineering》2010

A morphodynamical linear stability analysis is used to predict the natural development of crescentic bed patterns and rip channels. The purpose is to investigate whether this technique, which is useful for understanding the physics of emerging bed-forms, can be used to make quantitative predictions in the field, which may then be of use for coastal engineers.  相似文献   

平台钢在海洋环境中腐蚀因子的灰色关联分析     

兰志刚  侯保荣  宋积文  陈胜利  张杰 《海洋科学》2010,34(11):69-71

结合海洋平台实测的pH值、温度、溶解氧、盐度、生物附着等数据,通过灰色关联算法分析了海水腐蚀因子对平台钢腐蚀的影响,并按实际影响大小进行了排序。结果表明海水腐蚀因子对于A537-1钢和SM50B-ZC钢平均腐蚀速率的影响主次顺序不同。对平台钢的腐蚀规律研究及现场应用提供了可参考的依据。  相似文献