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A new approach for detecting and mapping sewage impacts 总被引：12，自引：0，他引：12
Costanzo SD O'Donohue MJ Dennison WC Loneragan NR Thomas M 《Marine pollution bulletin》2001,42(2):149-156
Increased nitrogen loading has been implicated in eutrophication occurrences worldwide. Much of this loading is attributable to the growing human population along the world's coastlines. A significant component of this nitrogen input is from sewage effluent, and delineation of the distribution and biological impact of sewage-derived nitrogen is becoming increasingly important. Here, we show a technique that identifies the source, extent and fate of biologically available sewage nitrogen in coastal marine ecosystems. This method is based on the uptake of sewage nitrogen by marine plants and subsequent analysis of the sewage signature (elevated delta 15N) in plant tissues. Spatial analysis is used to create maps of delta 15N and establish coefficient of variation estimates of the mapped values. We show elevated delta 15N levels in marine plants near sewage outfalls in Moreton Bay, Australia, a semi-enclosed bay receiving multiple sewage inputs. These maps of sewage nitrogen distribution are being used to direct nutrient reduction strategies in the region and will assist in monitoring the effectiveness of environmental protection measures. 相似文献
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ENCORE: the effect of nutrient enrichment on coral reefs. Synthesis of results and conclusions 总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10
Koop K Booth D Broadbent A Brodie J Bucher D Capone D Coll J Dennison W Erdmann M Harrison P Hoegh-Guldberg O Hutchings P Jones GB Larkum AW O'Neil J Steven A Tentori E Ward S Williamson J Yellowlees D 《Marine pollution bulletin》2001,42(2):91-120
Coral reef degradation resulting from nutrient enrichment of coastal waters is of increasing global concern. Although effects of nutrients on coral reef organisms have been demonstrated in the laboratory, there is little direct evidence of nutrient effects on coral reef biota in situ. The ENCORE experiment investigated responses of coral reef organisms and processes to controlled additions of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (N) and/or phosphorus (P) on an offshore reef (One Tree Island) at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. A multi-disciplinary team assessed a variety of factors focusing on nutrient dynamics and biotic responses. A controlled and replicated experiment was conducted over two years using twelve small patch reefs ponded at low tide by a coral rim. Treatments included three control reefs (no nutrient addition) and three + N reefs (NH4Cl added), three + P reefs (KH2PO4 added), and three + N + P reefs. Nutrients were added as pulses at each low tide (ca twice per day) by remotely operated units. There were two phases of nutrient additions. During the initial, low-loading phase of the experiment nutrient pulses (mean dose = 11.5 microM NH4+; 2.3 microM PO4(-3)) rapidly declined, reaching near-background levels (mean = 0.9 microM NH4+; 0.5 microM PO4(-3)) within 2-3 h. A variety of biotic processes, assessed over a year during this initial nutrient loading phase, were not significantly affected, with the exception of coral reproduction, which was affected in all nutrient treatments. In Acropora longicyathus and A. aspera, fewer successfully developed embryos were formed, and in A. longicyathus fertilization rates and lipid levels decreased. In the second, high-loading, phase of ENCORE an increased nutrient dosage (mean dose = 36.2 microM NH4+; 5.1 microM PO4(-3)) declining to means of 11.3 microM NH4+ and 2.4 microM PO4(-3) at the end of low tide) was used for a further year, and a variety of significant biotic responses occurred. Encrusting algae incorporated virtually none of the added nutrients. Organisms containing endosymbiotic zooxanthellae (corals and giant clams) assimilated dissolved nutrients rapidly and were responsive to added nutrients. Coral mortality, not detected during the initial low-loading phase, became evident with increased nutrient dosage, particularly in Pocillopora damicornis. Nitrogen additions stunted coral growth, and phosphorus additions had a variable effect. Coral calcification rate and linear extension increased in the presence of added phosphorus but skeletal density was reduced, making corals more susceptible to breakage. Settlement of all coral larvae was reduced in nitrogen treatments, yet settlement of larvae from brooded species was enhanced in phosphorus treatments. Recruitment of stomatopods, benthic crustaceans living in coral rubble, was reduced in nitrogen and nitrogen plus phosphorus treatments. Grazing rates and reproductive effort of various fish species were not affected by the nutrient treatments. Microbial nitrogen transformations in sediments were responsive to nutrient loading with nitrogen fixation significantly increased in phosphorus treatments and denitrification increased in all treatments to which nitrogen had been added. Rates of bioerosion and grazing showed no significant effects of added nutrients. ENCORE has shown that reef organisms and processes investigated in situ were impacted by elevated nutrients. Impacts were dependent on dose level, whether nitrogen and/or phosphorus were elevated and were often species-specific. The impacts were generally sub-lethal and subtle and the treated reefs at the end of the experiment were visually similar to control reefs. Rapid nutrient uptake indicates that nutrient concentrations alone are not adequate to assess nutrient condition of reefs. Sensitive and quantifiable biological indicators need to be developed for coral reef ecosystems. The potential bioindicators identified in ENCORE should be tested in future research on coral reef/nutrient interactions. Synergistic and cumulative effects of elevated nutrients and other environmental parameters, comparative studies of intact vs. disturbed reefs, offshore vs. inshore reefs, or the ability of a nutrient-stressed reef to respond to natural disturbances require elucidation. An expanded understanding of coral reef responses to anthropogenic impacts is necessary, particularly regarding the subtle, sub-lethal effects detected in the ENCORE studies. 相似文献
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The Tioga Bentonite ranges from a coarse crystal tuff to a tuffaceous shale enclosed in marine strata. It originally was deposited over the entire northeastern United States during the Middle Devonian. Trends in grain size, thickness, and numbers of preserved ash layers indicate a source volcano in west-central or central Virginia. 相似文献
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Albert S O'Neil JM Udy JW Ahern KS O'Sullivan CM Dennison WC 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,51(1-4):428-437
During the last decade there has been a significant rise in observations of blooms of the toxic cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula along the east coast of Queensland, Australia. Whether the increase in cyanobacterial abundance is a biological indicator of widespread water quality degradation or also a function of other environmental change is unknown. A bioassay approach was used to assesses the potential for runoff from various land uses to stimulate productivity of L. majuscula. In Moreton Bay, L. majuscula productivity was significantly (p<0.05) stimulated by soil extracts, which were high in phosphorus, iron and organic carbon. Productivity of L. majuscula from the Great Barrier Reef was also significantly (p<0.05) elevated by iron and phosphorus rich extracts, in this case seabird guano adjacent to the bloom site. Hence, it is possible that other L. majuscula blooms are a result of similar stimulating factors (iron, phosphorus and organic carbon), delivered through different mechanisms. 相似文献
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Physiological Responses of Five Seagrass Species to Trace Metals 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Trace metal run-off associated with urban and industrial development poses potential threats to seagrasses in adjacent coastal ecosystems. Seagrass from the largest urban (Moreton Bay) and industrial (Port Curtis) coastal regions in Queensland, Australia were assessed for metal concentrations of iron (Fe), aluminium (Al), zinc (Zn), chromium (Cr) and copper (Cu). Trace metal concentrations in seagrass (Zostera capricorni) leaf and root-rhizome tissue had the following overall trend: [Fe] > [Al] > [Zn] > [Cr] > [Cu]. Rainfall events and anthropogenic disturbances appeared to influence metal concentrations in seagrasses with the exception of Al, which does not appear to bioaccumulate. In laboratory experiments, five seagrass species (Halophila ovalis, H. spinulosa, Halodule uninervis, Z. capricorni, Cymodocea serrulata) were incubated with iron (1 mg Fe l−1) and copper (1 mg Cu l−1) and responses assessed by changes in PSII photochemical efficiency (Fv/Fm), free amino acid content and leaf/root-rhizome metal accumulation. Iron addition experiments only affected Halophila spp, while copper additions affected other seagrass species as well. Trace metal contamination of seagrasses could have ramifications for associated trophic assemblages through metal transfer and seagrass loss. The use of photosystem II photochemical efficiency as well as amino acid concentrations and composition proved to be useful sublethal indicators of trace metal toxicity in seagrasses. 相似文献
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吉林省伊通地区橄榄岩包体的同位素特征与岩石圈地幔时代 总被引：6，自引：2，他引：4
吉林省伊通新生代火山群中大孤山所伴生的东小山火山含有丰富的地幔橄榄岩包体,详细的岩石学和矿物学工作显示,这些包体的主要岩石类型为尖晶石二辉橄榄岩,含有少量的方辉橄榄岩和异剥橄榄岩。包体的结构类型多样,包括粒状变晶结构、碎斑状结构、糜棱结构和筛状变晶结构。主量元素及矿物化学资料表明,这些地幔橄榄岩包体大都比较饱满,说明其所经历的部分熔融程度较低。微量元素显示,包体在形成以后经受过不同程度地幔交代作用的影响。矿物平衡温度计算结果表明包体的平衡温度为989～1142℃,来源深度约为40～70km。Sr-Nd-Hf同位素资料反映二辉橄榄岩包体具有亏损地幔的特征。Re-Os同位素资料显示上述岩石圈地幔的主体形成于显生宙期间,少量具有中元古代Re亏损年龄的样品所代表的古老地幔与本区上覆地壳成因无关,可能是软流圈中固有的较古老的大陆岩石圈地幔。 相似文献
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An evacuation trigger is a point on the landscape that, once crossed by a wildfire, triggers an evacuation for a community.
The Wildland-Urban Interface Evacuation (WUIVAC) model can be used to create evacuation trigger buffers around a community
using fuels, weather, and topographic inputs. A strategic, community-scale application of WUIVAC for the town of Julian, California
was investigated. Eight years of wind measurements were used to determine the worst-case (strongest) winds in 16 directions.
Surface fire rate of spread was used to calculate evacuation trigger buffers for the communities of Julian and nearby Whispering
Pines, and for three potential evacuation routes. Multiple trigger buffers were combined to create fire planning areas, and
trigger buffers that predict the closure of all evacuation routes were explored. WUIVAC trigger buffers offer several potential
benefits for strategic evacuation planning, including determination of when to evacuate and locating potential evacuation
routes. 相似文献
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Patricia M. Glibert Cynthia A. Heil Judith M. O'Neil William C. Dennison Mark J. H. O'Donohue 《Estuaries and Coasts》2006,29(2):209-221
Subtropical estuaries have received comparatively little attention in the study of nutrient loading and subsequent nutrient
processing relative to temperate estuaries. Australian estuaries are particularly susceptible to increased nutrient loading
and eutrophication, as 75% of the population resides within 200 km of the coastline. We assessed the factors potentially limiting
both biomass and production in one Australian estuary, Moreton Bay, through stoichiometric comparisons of nitrogen (N), phosphorus
(P), silicon (Si), and carbon (C) concentrations, particulate compositions, and rates of uptake. Samples were collected over
3 seasons in 1997–1998 at stations located throughout the bay system, including one riverine endmember site. Concentrations
of all dissolved nutrients, as well as particulate nutrients and chlorophyll, declined 10-fold to 100-fold from the impacted
western embayments to the eastern, more oceanic-influenced regions of the bay during all seasons. For all seasons and all
regions, both the dissolved nutrients and particulate biomass yielded N:P ratios <6 and N:Si ratios <1. Both relationships
suggest strong limitation of biomass by N throughout the bay. Limitation of rates of nutrient uptake and productivity were
more complex. Low C:N and C:P uptake ratios at the riverine site suggested light limitation at all seasons, low N:P ratios
suggested some degree of N limitation and high N:Si uptake ratios in austral winter suggested Si limitation of uptake during
that season only. No evidence of P limitation of biomass or productivity was evident. 相似文献
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Assessing the influence and distribution of shrimp pond effluent in a tidal mangrove creek in north-east Australia 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Effluent from a land based shrimp farm was detected in a receiving creek as changes in physical, chemical and biological parameters. The extent and severity of these changes depended on farm operations. This assessment was conducted at three different stages of shrimp-pond maturity, including (1) when the ponds were empty, (2) full and (3) being harvested. Methods for assessing farm effluent in receiving waters included physical/chemical analyses of the water column, phytoplankton bioassays and nitrogen isotope signatures of marine flora. Comparisons were made with an adjacent creek that served as the farms intake creek and did not directly receive effluent. Physical/chemical parameters identified distinct changes in the receiving creek with respect to farm operations. Elevated water column NH(4)(+) (18.5+/-8.0 microM) and chlorophyll a concentrations (5.5+/-1.9 microg/l) were measured when the farm was in operation, in contrast to when the farm was inactive (1.3+/-0.3 microM and 1.2+/-0.6 microg/l, respectively). At all times, physical/chemical parameters at the mouth of the effluent creek, were equivalent to control values, indicating effluent was contained within the effluent-receiving creek. However, elevated delta(15)N signatures of mangroves (up to approximately 8 per thousand) and macroalgae (up to approximately 5 per thousand ) indicated a broader influence of shrimp farm effluent, extending to the lower regions of the farms intake creek. Bioassays at upstream sites close to the location of farm effluent discharge indicated that phytoplankton at these sites did not respond to further nutrient additions, however downstream sites showed large growth responses. This suggested that further nutrient loading from the shrimp farm, resulting in greater nutrient dispersal, will increase the extent of phytoplankton blooms downstream from the site of effluent discharge. When shrimp ponds were empty water quality in the effluent and intake creeks was comparable. This indicated that observed elevated nutrient and phytoplankton concentrations were directly attributable to farm operations. 相似文献
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B. Fertig T. J. B. Carruthers W. C. Dennison A. B. Jones F. Pantus B. Longstaff 《Estuaries and Coasts》2009,32(4):773-786
Nitrogen loading from anthropogenic sources, including fertilizer, manure, and sewage effluents, has been linked with declining
water quality in coastal lagoons worldwide. Freshwater inputs to mid-Atlantic coastal lagoons of the USA are from terrestrially
influenced sources: groundwater and overland flow via streams and agricultural ditches, with occasional precipitation events.
Stable nitrogen isotopes ratios (δ15N) in bioindicator species combined with conventional water quality monitoring were used to assess nitrogen sources and provide
insights into their origins. Water quality data revealed that nutrients derived from terrestrial sources increased after precipitation
events. Tissues from two bioindicator species, a macroalgae (Gracilaria sp.) and the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) were analyzed for δ15N to determine spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen sources. A broad-scale survey assessment of deployed macroalgae (June
2004) detected regions of elevated δ15N. Macroalgal δ15N (7.33 ± 1.15‰ in May 2006 and 6.76 ± 1.15‰ in July 2006) responded quickly to sustained June 2006 nutrient pulse, but did
not detect spatial patterns at the fine scale. Oyster δ15N (8.51 ± 0.89‰) responded slowly over longer time periods and exhibited a slight gradient at the finer spatial scale. Overall,
elevated δ15N values in macroalgae and oysters were used to infer that human and animal wastes were important nitrogen sources in some
areas of Maryland’s coastal bays. Different nitrogen integration periods across multiple organisms may be used to indicate
nitrogen sources at various spatial and temporal scales, which will help focus nutrient management. 相似文献