长江口滨岸潮滩底栖动物泥螺受锌污染的急性毒理试验研究

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福建罗源湾潮间带大型底栖动物的次级生产力

根据2009年罗源湾潮间带大型底栖动物调查资料, 应用Brey公式对大型底栖动物的次级生产力、生产量/生物量系数（P/B)及其空间分布进行估算.结果表明： 该区域大型底栖动物的年次级生产力为18.58 g AFDM(无灰干质量)·m^-2·a^-1, P/B系数为0.97; 潮间带上部互花米草盐沼区域的年次级生产力（8.97 g AFDM·m^-2·a^-1）低于下部光滩区域（28.19 g AFDM·m^-2·a^-1）.与20世纪80年代末互花米草生长前相比, 潮间带的年次级生产力约增加4倍.栖息在光滩下部区域的凸壳肌蛤对次级生产力的贡献达66.4%.若除去该蛤拓殖因素, 则盐沼区域的次级生产力显著高于光滩区域, 并且25年来次级生产力的变化较小.互花米草加速了细颗粒物质的沉降, 为蛤类拓殖提供了重要条件; 凸壳肌蛤的摄食活动可增加沉积物中叶绿素a含量.大型底栖动物的次级生产力与沉积物中叶绿素a和有机碳含量显著相关.盐沼植物对潮间带生态系统的影响涉及物理和生物等多种因素     

不同起源秋茄林湿地沉积物重金属污染与健康风险评价

秋茄（Kandelia obovata）林生态系统的重金属污染是滨海湿地研究的重要组成。为探究闽东不同起源秋茄林湿地的健康风险与重金属污染的状况,运用污染负荷指数法和人体健康风险评价法分析闽东不同起源秋茄林湿地表层沉积物重金属的含量特征并评估其健康风险。结果表明：（1）秋茄天然林湿地表层沉积物重金属平均含量排序为Zn(102.38 mg·kg^-1)> Pb(101.53 mg·kg^-1)> Cu(11.72 mg·kg^-1)> Cd(0.91 mg·kg^-1);秋茄人工林表层沉积物重金属含量排序为Zn(152.81 mg·kg^-1)> Pb(105.83 mg·kg^-1)> Cu(16.38 mg·kg^-1)> Cd(1.33 mg·kg^-1)。（2）天然红树林表层沉积物重金属的区域污染负荷指数(I_{PL zone})低于人工红树林,对应的污染等级均为1,属于...     

崇明岛潮间带夏季大型底栖动物多样性

2006年6月,在上海市崇明岛潮间带设置21个断面,进行了大型底栖动物定量定性采样调查.采集到大型底栖动物63 种,其中甲壳动物29种,占总种数的46.03%;软体动物20种,占31.75%;环节动物10种,占15.87%;底栖鱼类 2种;其它2种.优势种为无齿相手蟹、天津厚蟹、谭氏泥蟹、中华拟蟹守螺、堇拟沼螺、绯拟沼螺、光滑狭口螺和丝异蚓虫.大型底栖动物总平均丰度为138.28ind/m2,平均生物量为 79.11g/m2.系统聚类分析和MDS分析结果基本吻合,可以把21个断面分为3组,崇明北部断面群、崇明东部断面群和崇明南部(含西部)断面群.Shannon-Weiner指数H′＝1.85±0.528(范围0.946～2.783),Pielou均匀度指数J＝0.306±0.098(范围0.142～0.489),Simpson优势度指数D＝0.622±0.141(范围0.303～0.797).底栖动物的种类组成、丰度、生物量、多样性指数在各断面的差异主要与盐度分布、底质及人为干扰有关.与同期的历史资料相比,底栖动物总物种数变化不大,但种类组成有所变化;优势种有所变化;丰度和生物量均有所下降;多样性指数近年来变化不大.围垦减缓使崇明潮间带底栖动物多样性有所恢复,但在人为干扰和其他因素综合影响下,原为优势种的河蚬、彩虹明樱蛤、麂眼螺、小头虫和疣吻沙蚕等的密度下降,已不再是优势种.     

广东湛江红树林保护区大型底栖动物群落的空间分带

用生态样带研究了广东湛江红树林保护区高桥镇核心区大型底栖动物的空间分带。结果表明：德耀村红树剖面中出现的大型底栖动物优势种类为琵琶拟沼螺、悦目大眼蟹、扁平拟闭口蟹、宽身闭口蟹、黑口滨螺、等齿角沙蚕、弧边招潮和中华伪露齿螺。该剖面大型底栖动物从高潮位到低潮位可分为3个分布带：琵琶拟沼螺-弧边招潮-浓毛拟闭口蟹带；宽身闭口蟹．悦目大眼蟹．黑口滨螺带；扁平拟闭口蟹-珠带拟蟹手螺带。群落生物量的变化主要由软体动物所主导，栖息密度的变化主要由软体动物和甲壳动物所主导，多样性指数变化主要由软体动物所主导。红寨村红树剖面中出现的大型底栖动物优势种类为琵琶拟沼螺、蝼姑虾、扁平拟闭口蟹、宽身闭口蟹、耳螺科的一种、黑口滨螺、中华伪露齿螺、哈氏仿对虾、弧边招潮和等齿角沙蚕。该剖面大型底栖动物也可分为4个分布带：黑口滨螺-中华伪露齿螺-等齿角沙蚕带；琵琶拟沼螺-宽身闭口蟹-耳螺科的一种带；蝼蛄虾．扁平拟闭口蟹带；沈氏长方蟹-珠带拟蟹守螺带。群落生物量的变化也主要由软体动物所主导，栖息密度的变化主要由甲壳动物所主导，多样性指数变化主要由软体动物所主导。底栖动物群落的等级聚类和非参数多变量标序显示，大型底栖动物分带与红树植物群落类型相一致。大型底栖动物分带受红树植物群落类型影响的主要原因是不同红树植物群落间的群落特征、沉积物性质和所处潮位线存在差异。     

椒江口潮间带大型底栖动物的生态位

2007年10月,运用生态位理论,对椒江口潮间带大型底栖动物优势种群生态位宽度和生态位重叠进行了分析,并采用典范对应分析法分析了各采样断面自然因子（盐度、水温、沉积物温度、滩涂宽度和沉积物粒度）和污染因子（油类、重金属含量）对环境异质性的影响以及环境因子与各类群生物数量分布的关系.结果表明：研究区大型底栖动物的优势种按取食方式可分为穴居底表捕食型、底表啮食型、底内滤食型和底内吞食型四大类群;各优势种群间生态位宽度的差异较大,最大值和最小值分别为0.428和0.168,表明各类群动物对环境因子的适应能力存在差异;在生态位重叠值大于0.6水平上,日本大眼蟹与明秀大眼蟹(第一类群)间和微黄镰玉螺、泥螺、习见织纹螺、勋章饰孔螺、短拟沼螺、彩拟蟹守螺(第二类群)间以及光滑河蓝蛤、中国绿螂、彩虹明樱蛤(第三类群)间的生态位重叠较为显著,对环境资源利用方式较为相似.     

黄河三角洲高潮滩芦苇植被区天津厚蟹的食源食性

通过稳定同位素方法,研究植物在大型底栖动物的食源占比,可以为滨海湿地下行效应提供直接证据。本文研究了黄河三角洲高潮滩芦苇区天津厚蟹的食性和食源。结果表明: 该植被区蟹类密度为(5.5±1.5) ind·m^-2,存在夜间攀爬芦苇取食的行为。在室内试验条件下,天津厚蟹具有明显的食物偏好,偏好取食芦苇新鲜叶片。通过稳定同位素食源分析发现,在野外自然环境下,芦苇叶片是天津厚蟹的重要食源之一。鲜叶[5月:(6.4±4.9)%;7月:(5.8±4.9)%;9月:(12.5±8.8)%]和枯叶[5月:(12.4±7.8)%;7月:(15.5±9.9)%;9月:(15.1±9.4)%]的食源占比均具有时间异质性。天津厚蟹不仅可能通过取食抑制芦苇生长,还可能通过取食的扰动行为影响该植被区的枯落物分解。     

瓯江口海域大型底栖动物分布及其与环境的关系

对瓯江口及邻近海域大型底栖动物进行了春（2006年5月）、冬（2007年1月）两季的调查,分析了研究区大型底栖动物的季节分布及其与环境的关系.结果表明：共鉴定出大型底栖动物65种,多毛类和软体动物是该海域大型底栖动物的主要类群;春季,小头虫的优势度最高,冬季,红带织纹螺的优势度最高;研究区大型底栖动物的种类分布为河口区＜邻近海域、冬季＜春季;该区大型底栖动物两季平均生物量和栖息密度分别为19.66 g·m^-2和131 ind·m^-2,春、冬季的密度差异显著,但生物量差异不显著;春冬两季研究区大型底栖动物的Shannon-Weiner指数差异显著,Pielou均匀度指数、Margalef种类丰富度指数和Simpson优势度指数的差异不显著.春季,温度和浮游植物是影响研究区大型底栖动物类群的主要环境因子,冬季的主要影响因子为总有机碳和溶解氧.     

滩涂湿地蟹类活动对表层土壤的扰动效应

为探究在不同植物群落中的大型底栖动物无齿螳臂相手蟹(Chiromantes dehaani)对滨海滩涂湿地表层土壤的生物扰动效应, 在江苏大丰糜鹿国家级自然保护区第三核心区的滩涂湿地潮坪区, 春季末期在潮沟附近的互花米草(Spartina alterniflora)群落、白茅(Imperata cylindrica)群落、芦苇(Phragmites australis)群落3个植物群落中, 分别设置多蟹围隔区、少蟹围隔区和无围隔区, 冬季采集并检测处理后围隔区蟹洞数量、土壤的理化性质及植物生物量等生态指标, 分析底栖动物对表层土壤的扰动效应。研究发现: 互花米草及白茅群落中土壤总有机碳(TOC)、总氮(TN)含量在多蟹区显著低于少蟹区, 蟹丘土壤的TOC及TN含量显著高于多蟹区表层土壤; 而在芦苇群落中则相反。互花米草群落多蟹区土壤C/N、白茅群落多蟹区土壤C/N及C/P显著低于少蟹区, 芦苇群落不显著。互花米草群落蟹穴数量与植物生物量呈显著正相关。研究结果显示, 相手蟹扰动降低了互花米草及白茅植物群落表层土壤的有机质稳定性, 加速碳氮分解, 降低表层土壤的碳氮含量, 并促进互花米草植物生物量的增长, 但对芦苇群落表层土壤扰动的影响则相反。     

氨氮对软体动物生长的影响:以铜锈环棱螺为例

为探究氨氮对底栖动物的毒性效应,在位于湖北保安湖的近自然生态系统(单个水域面积约600 m²,水深约1.5 m)中开展了为期1年的模拟实验,分析了6个不同氨氮浓度[N25>N20>N15>N10>N5>N0(对照);0.2—33.7 mg/L]条件下,大型底栖动物(软体动物)群落特征的差异。结果表明:(1)实验系统中采集的软体动物主要为铜锈环棱螺(Bellamya aeruginosa);(2)从B. aeruginosa密度来看, N0、N5、N10和N15处理相差不大[28(0—85) ind./m²],均显著高于N20和N25处理[5(0—29) ind./m²](P<0.05);(3)从B. aeruginosa生物量来看,N0、N5、N10、N15和N20处理相差不大[40.0(0—85.5) g/m²],均显著高于N25处理[0.8(0—4.0) g/m²](P<0.05);(4)从B. aeruginosa壳长、壳宽和带壳...     

The effects of bioturbation on particle redistribution in Mediterranean coastal sediment. Preliminary results

In order to quantify bioturbation processes in a coastal Mediterranean ecosystem, experiments were performed to determine sediment mixing rates resulting from macrobenthos activity. Particle flux was measured in situ for 22 days using luminophores, which are colored sediment particles with sizes ranging from 10 to 200 µm.In sediment depths from 0–5 cm, particle mixing was intensive due to high macrobenthos abundance. A small quantity of luminophores was transported down to a depth of 14 ± 2 cm, where the macrofauna was represented principally by Polychetes. In a control experimental structure — without benthic fauna — no transfer of luminophores into the sediment was recorded.Sediment particle mixing measured in the ecosystem studied is intensive, and is the result of high macrobenthos activity. Different mixing modes occur with scales and rates depending on the organisms present. The luminophore profile resulting from bioturbation processes is explained by an intensive bioadvection sediment mixing added to a biodiffusive mixing with an order of magnitude of 10^–6 cm² s^–1. Tracer accumulations between 1 and 2 ± 1 cm and between 4 and 5 ± 1 cm are attributed to bioadvection activity of two or more distinct populations. Studies over a larger time scale have been undertaken to monitor developments in the observed subsurface maxima.     

二氧化碳浓度升高对太湖沉水植物马来眼子菜生长的影响

通过室外培养试验,研究不同CO₂浓度条件下沉水植物马来眼子菜的生长及生理变化.结果表明：CO₂浓度升高(1000 μmol·mol^-1)条件下,马来眼子菜单株的平均生物量增加了44.3%(P<0.01),茎生物量比重下降了5.5%(P<0.05);根和叶中氮含量分别下降了18.1%和6.4%(P<0.05),而茎中氮含量变化不明显(P>0.05);根、茎、叶中磷含量分别增加了22.2%(P<0.05)、26.6%(P>0.05)和38.8%(P<0.05);可溶性糖含量增加了27.3%、18.3%和37.5%(P<0.05);根、茎和叶中全碳含量增加了4.6%、5.3%和2.0%;CO₂浓度升高使水体中氮、磷含量分别下降了7.9%和5.1%(P<0.05),但对底泥中氮、磷的含量影响不明显.CO₂浓度升高将对沉水植物生长及其生境有一定影响.     

Benthivorous fish bioturbation reduces methane emissions,but increases total greenhouse gas emissions

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The influence of sediment oxygen heterogeneity, due to bioturbation, on diffusive oxygen flux was investigated. Laboratory experiments were carried out with 3 macrobenthic species presenting different bioturbation behaviour patterns: the polychaetes Nereis diversicolor and Nereis virens, both constructing ventilated galleries in the sediment column, and the gastropod Cyclope neritea, a burrowing species which does not build any structure. Oxygen two-dimensional distribution in sediments was quantified by means of the optical planar optode technique. Diffusive oxygen fluxes (mean and integrated) and a variability index were calculated on the captured oxygen images. All species increased sediment oxygen heterogeneity compared to the controls without animals. This was particularly noticeable with the polychaetes because of the construction of more or less complex burrows. Integrated diffusive oxygen flux increased with oxygen heterogeneity due to the production of interface available for solute exchanges between overlying water and sediments. This work shows that sediment heterogeneity is an important feature of the control of oxygen exchanges at the sediment-water interface.     

Composition, abundance and stratification of soft-bottom macrobenthos from selected areas of the Ross Sea shelf (Antarctica)

Composition, abundance and stratification of soft-bottom macrobenthos were studied at three selected sites on the Ross Sea shelf (Antarctica) with different geomorphology and sedimentation regimes. Sites A (southwest Ross Sea, 810 m depth) and B (Joides basin, 580 m depth) were characterized by biogenic mud and clay sediments, whereas site C (Mawson bank, 450 m depth) featured sandy sediments mixed with a conspicuous biogenic component characterized by shells and tests of calcareous invertebrates (mainly barnacles of the genus Bathylasma). The macrofauna of sites A and B was mainly composed of infaunal polychaetes and bivalves. The assemblages comprised both surface and sub-surface deposit feeders, including some conveyor-belt polychaetes (Maldanidae and Capitellidae) that are responsible for high sediment mixing and bioturbation. The macrobenthos of site C was dominated by crustaceans, polychaetes and echinoderms (ophiuroids), and mainly by filter feeders and epifaunal or interstitial forms. Abundances were higher (up to 1040 ind. m⁻²) at site B than at sites A and C (430 and 516 ind. m⁻², respectively). At sites A and B the benthos was mainly concentrated in the upper 5 cm of the sediment, and abundances declined sharply in the deeper sediment layers. These results indicate a high degree of consistency between sediment features and benthic community structure, which are both strongly related to local hydrography and bottom dynamics. Sites A and B represent areas where the organic input to the seafloor by vertical sedimentation from the upper water column is high. Site C, however, is characterized by high sediment instability and food particles advecting mainly horizontally. The community is more physically controlled by unpredictable, and probably frequent, disturbance events (e.g., bottom turbid currents, sediment reworking and displacement). Individuals were relatively small, indicating that probably they are not able to grow up to the adult size and reproduce. The community may be represented by “pseudopopulations” depending on the settlement of larvae invading from neighbouring areas. Accepted: 23 October 1998     

Rapid reworking of subtidal sediments by burrowing spatangoid urchins

The mixing and displacement of sediment by benthic macrofauna (bioturbation) has major biogeochemical implications, and can control rates of organic matter degradation and carbon burial. Large, abundant, mobile macrofauna often dominate sediment bioturbation, and heart urchins of the genus Echinocardium are regarded as key sediment bioturbators in marine systems throughout the world. To better understand the bioturbation potential and functional role of Echinocardium, we developed a mathematical model and parameterized it with field data from six locations in northern New Zealand in order to estimate bioturbation rates in these places. Although urchin sizes and densities were measured in consecutive years at all six locations, we obtained a third model parameter, urchin movement rate, from one time and place only (Site OB5). Because confidence in model output was greatest at OB5, and since OB5 had the highest sediment reworking rate of all sites, our model yielded a good upper bound estimate for the bioturbation potential of Echinocardium in the areas examined. The volume of sediment displaced by Echinocardium populations reached 20,000 cm³ m⁻² d⁻¹ at OB5, suggesting that surface sediment is reworked about every 3 days at sites where Echinocardium is abundant. Experimental work with a fluorescent tracer at OB5 suggested limited downward particle movement as a result of Echinocardium bioturbation, though vertical profiles of chlorophyll a and organic matter content indicated well mixed sediment. The loss of Echinocardium because of broad-scale anthropogenic disturbance to the seabed could have major consequences on marine ecosystem functioning.     

Biodiversity of benthic invertebrates and organic matter processing in shallow marine sediments: an experimental study

The main objective of this study was to measure the impact of benthic invertebrate diversity on processes occurring at the water-sediment interface. We analyzed the effects of interactions between three shallow water species (Cerastoderma edule, Corophium volutator, and Nereis diversicolor). The impacts of different species richness treatments were measured on sediment reworking, bacterial characteristics, and biogeochemical processes (bromide fluxes, O₂ uptake, nutrient fluxes, and porewater chemistry) in sediment cores. The results showed that the three species exhibited different bioturbation activities in the experimental system: C. edule acted as a biodiffusor, mixing particles in the top 2 cm of the sediments; C. volutator produced and irrigated U-shaped tubes in the top 2 cm of the sediments; and N. diversicolor produced and irrigated burrow galleries in the whole sediment cores. C. edule had minor effects on biogeochemical processes, whereas the other species, through their irrigation of the burrows, increased the solute exchange between the water column and the sediment two-fold. These impacts on sediment structure and solute transport increased the O₂ consumption and the release of nutrients from sediments. As N. diversicolor burrowed deeper in the sediment than C. volutator, it irrigated a greater volume of sediments, with great impact on the sediment cores.Most treatments with a mixture of species indicated that observed values were often lower than predicted values from the addition of the individual effects of each species, demonstrating a negative interaction among species. This type of negative interaction measured between species on ecosystem processes certainly resulted from an overlap of bioturbation activities among the three species which lived and foraged in the same habitat (water-sediment interface). All treatments with N. diversicolor (in isolation and in mixture) produced similar effect on sediment reworking, water fluxes, nutrient releases, porewater chemistry, and bacterial characteristics. Whichever species associated with N. diversicolor, the bioturbation activities of the worm hid the effect of the other species. The results suggest that, in the presence of several species that use and modify the same sediment space, impact of invertebrates on ecosystem processes was essentially due to the most efficient bioturbator of the community (N. diversicolor). In consequence, the functional traits (mode of bioturbation, depth of burrowing, feeding behaviour) of an individual species in a community could be more important than species richness for some ecosystem processes.     

Environmental and behavioural factors affecting activity in the intertidal gastropod Hydrobia ulvae

Laboratory microcosms were used to investigate the mud snail Hydrobia ulvae (Pennant) bioturbation activities and behavioural changes in response to snail density, algal food, sediment moisture content, light regime and water cover conditions. Density-dependent kinetics of bioturbated muddy areas were described by von Bertalanffy equations, which provided reliable estimates of mud surface covering rates by snail tracks (m² h⁻¹ snail⁻¹). Snails need a wet habitat to be active either covered by seawater or by moving in fluid layers for low-tide conditions. Light and microphytobenthic biomass, which are less potent to affect snail activity, are positively interrelated to increase covering rates in the tested chl a concentrations within the range of 1-15 μg g⁻¹. Experimental results suggested us the relevance of microphytobenthos migration processes in affecting crawling activities of H. ulvae that appeared to adjust their foraging efforts in response to benthic algal biomass. Behavioural processes of H. ulvae, in terms of floating, crawling, burrowing and inactive snails, were described using a Markov model. Finally, an empirical model based on von Bertalanffy equations was proposed to describe kinetics of sediment covering by snail tracks under the influences of snail density, sediment moisture content, chl a concentrations and the four combinations of presence/absence of light and seawater. This model should provide a base for further development of a hydrosedimentary model to simulate the effects of H. ulvae bioturbation activities on the resuspension of the intertidal cohesive sediment-water interface for various in situ conditions.