Eutrophication gradients in coastal lagoons as exemplified by the Bassin d'Arcachon and the Étang du Prévost

The conditions of eutrophication are described in three lagoon systems differing by their structure, their catchment area and their connection with the sea: the Bassin d'Arcachon on the Atlantic coast, SW France, the semi-artificial fish ponds of the Bassin d'Arcachon, and the Étang du Prévost on the Mediterranean. The Bassin d'Arcachon is a shallow semi-enclosed bay, strongly influenced by climatic factors and tidal currents. The Bassin receives significant inflow of freshwater and the waters are only partially renewed. The greatest part of the primary production is due to the seagrass Zostera noltii. Although the ecosystem remains on the whole in steady state, some evidence of potential eutrophication are visible. For instance, the flux of nitrogen into the Bassin d'Arcachon has increased by more than 50% during the last 25 years. The most significant change among primary producers is the massive development since 1988 of the green alga Monostroma obscurum. The fish reservoirs of the Bassin d'Arcachon are man-made enclosures designed for extensive aquaculture and where the water renewal is only possible during certain periods of time. Thus, because of the shallowness and the confined nature of these fish ponds, acute eutrophication is sometimes observed in summer. The Étang du Prevost is extremely eutrophic due to agricultural and urban run-off. Red waters occur periodically during the warm summer months as a consequence of ecological events beginning in the early spring with a bloom of green macroalgae (Ulva sp.). In summer, the algal biomass is degraded by aerobic heterotrophic bacteria; the oxygen demand encompasses the oxygen production, leading to the predominence of anaerobic processes and dystrophic crisis. From the comparison of the selected sites, three stages of eutrophication are recognized according to the conceptual model of Nienhuis (1992) describing the relation between the relative dominance of primary producers connected to the availability of nutrients. Such macroscopic observations should, now, be explained by the study of microbiological processes including meiofauna, protozoa, bacteria and all the components of the microbial loop.     

Temporal areal changes of wetlands in the lower reaches of the Tarim River and their responses to ecological water conveyance

及时了解和定量分析荒漠区河岸带湿地月度时序变化趋势及对生态输水过程的响应, 对认识湿地生态修复过程, 改进生态输水策略, 维护湿地生态系统稳定具有重要意义。该文基于Landsat ETM+/TM/OLI和Sentinel 2形成的月尺度的密集长时序遥感数据, 分析2000-2018年塔里木河下游英苏-阿拉干之间的湿地时序变化特征, 并评估湿地变化对生态输水过程的响应。结果表明: 近19年来湿地面积持续增加, 其中2011-2013年和2017-2018年是面积快速增加的时段。不同的单、双通道输水方式和输水量大小解释了喀尔达依湿地与博孜库勒湿地在不同时段增长的快慢。对湿地面积与生态输水量、地下水埋深关系的分析表明, 累计生态输水量的持续增加是近20年来塔里木河下游河岸带湿地扩张的重要因素, 每年大于3.5亿m ³的双通道生态输水, 地下水埋深维持在-5.0- -3.5 m是湿地持续稳定增长的关键。     

Studies on the zooplankton community of a shallow lagoon of the Southern Baltic Sea: long-term trends,seasonal changes,and relations with physical and chemical parameters

The Darß-Zingst Lagoon, a coastal inlet of the southern Baltic Sea, was subject to extended monitoring. The biomass data of zooplankton from 1969 to 2001 were used to analyze long-term trends and to correlate zooplankton biomass with abiotic factors. The dominant species in the lagoon were the calanoid copepods Eurytemora affinis and Acartia tonsa, and the rotifer Keratella cochlearis f. tecta. In the long-term trend, two pronounced changes in zooplankton biomass and species composition were observed. They are discussed in connection with a shift in dominance from macrophytes to phytoplankton and the invasion of a polychaet species into the lagoon. Significant relations between zooplankton data and abiotic parameters were found. While temperature, precipitation and NAO winter index correlated positively with copepods and negatively with rotifers, the relationships were inversely for pH-value and duration of ice cover.     

近岸海域贝壳与海水重金属含量的相关性研究

近海海域易于受到城市工业等人类活动的污染,重金属污染是其中之一,持续的低度污染也会造成近海生物体内污染物累积,影响海域渔业和生态环境。通过对大连周边6个海区内采集的牡蛎壳体分析测定发现,壳体中重金属的含量与该海区海水中重金属含量线性相关,其中Zn、Cd、Pb和Cu的相关系数分别为0．9430、0．9822、0．9930、0．9815,生物富集系数在1000左右。实验分析手段采用二阶微分阳极溶出伏安极谱,支持电解液为pH4．0～4．5的Hac-NaAc缓冲溶液,标准偏差RSD=0．11～1．16,实验回收率93～105%。研究结果表明,(1)牡蛎壳体可以替代贝类软组织作为监测海域环境的载体,指示海域环境重金属的变化情况; (2)牡蛎壳体层状的生长过程与同时期水质的状况密切相关,层状物理结构便于分层分析,通过本实验相关性的验证,完全有可能建立一种海水水质短期历史追溯的技术方法。     

Effects of transgenic American chestnut leaf litter on growth and survival of wood frog larvae

Biotechnology offers a new approach for the restoration of tree species affected by exotic pathogens; however, nontarget impacts of this novel strategy on other organisms have not been comprehensively assessed. We evaluated the effect of transgenic American chestnut (Castanea dentata) leaf litter on the growth and survival of larval wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus), a forest‐dwelling amphibian species widely sympatric with American chestnut, that forage almost entirely on periphyton and litter detritus that accumulate in temporary vernal pools in forests. We reared wood frog larvae on Castanea leaf litter (American chestnut genetically engineered for blight tolerance, nontransgenic American chestnut, Chinese chestnut [Castanea mollissima], and an American–Chinese chestnut hybrid) and litter from two non‐Castanea, nontransgenic “control” tree species, coupled with two levels of supplementary food. We observed no differences in growth or survival of wood frog larvae reared on transgenic versus nontransgenic American chestnut leaves. Without supplementary food, wood frog larvae provided leaves from American chestnut (both types) developed faster and grew larger than those exposed to other leaf litter treatments. Results of this study provide preliminary evidence that (1) American chestnut may have formerly been an important source of food for forest‐dwelling amphibians and (2) transgenic American chestnut litter generated as part of chestnut restoration efforts is unlikely to present direct novel risks to developing amphibian larvae in the forest environment.     

中国东海海岸带地区生态系统健康评估及其尺度依赖性

维持生态系统健康是实现社会经济可持续发展的关键性工作之一。本文基于邻域变异度和人为干扰修正后的活力-组织-弹性-服务模型,从5 km至地级市设置8个评估尺度单元,定量化的评估了我国东海海岸地区（包括上海、嘉兴、宁波、温州、台州、宁德、福州、莆田、泉州、厦门和漳州共11个城市）1990—2015年的生态系统健康状况,并分析了其时序变化特征和空间分异规律,探究了生态系统健康的尺度依赖性效应,得到以下结论：1）研究时段内,研究区生态系统健康水平以2000年为节点先下降后上升,但整体呈下降趋势。自2000年起生态系统健康值分布更加离散,呈现健康的生态系统更加健康,劣化的生态系统不断劣化的分化趋势。2）生态系统健康在空间分布上具有较高的异质性特征。沿海地区、宁波以北地区的生态系统健康值较低;远离海洋部分的山地丘陵的生态系统健康值较高。小尺度下上海市中心生态健康最差,地级市尺度下嘉兴市生态健康状况最差。3）生态系统健康评估工作具有一定的空间尺度依赖性。大尺度生态系统健康评估结果趋于平均化,可用于刻画变化趋势的空间分布格局。小尺度评估结果能够更好的解释生态系统健康程度的聚类分异细节。因而,在生态系统健康评估中不存在最佳的研究尺度,多尺度的设置有助于全面解析生态系统健康的时空分异特征。     

近30年中国滨海滩涂湿地变化及其驱动力

随着人类活动影响的不断加剧,滨海湿地正面临着退化的威胁。尤其是近三十年来,中国东部沿海地区经济发展迅速,中国滨海湿地在时空格局等方面发生了巨大改变。以Google Earth Pro （GEP） s遥感影像为数据源,基于Google Earth Engine （GEE）平台和随机森林分类方法,解译了1990-2020年中国滨海地区的遥感影像,提取不同年份滩涂湿地面积,分析了过去30年间滨海滩涂湿地空间分布变化,从自然原因和政策变化两个方面探讨了中国滨海滩涂湿地时空格局变化的驱动机制。研究表明,中国滨海滩涂湿地呈现总体减少的趋势,总面积减少了42.98%,其中光滩面积减少了46.30%,盐沼面积增加了4.95%。不同省份滩涂湿地面积变化总体趋势与全国一致,与国家政策紧密联系;但不同年份各省份因发展需求和压力不同,滩涂湿地的变化的进程有一定差异。泥沙沉积和水动力条件的变化是滩涂湿地变化的主要自然因素,方针政策的贯彻执行是滩涂湿地变化的重要人为因素,通过出台严格合理管控政策可以促进中国滨海滩涂湿地可持续发展。     

Novel facultative anaerobic acidotolerant Telmatospirillum siberiense gen. nov. sp. nov. isolated from mesotrophic fen

Three facultative anaerobic acidotolerant Gram-negative motile spirilla strains designated 26-4b1, 26-2 and K-1 were isolated from mesotrophic Siberian fen as a component of methanogenic consortia. The isolates were found to grow chemoorganotrophically on several organic acids and glucose under anoxic and low oxygen pressure in the dark, tolerant up to 5kPa of oxygen. At low oxygen supply, faint autotrophic growth on the H(2):CO(2) mixture was also observed. All three isolates were able to fix N(2). Major cellular fatty acids were 18:1 omega7c, 17:0 cyclopropane and 16:0. Phylogenetic analyses of the 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that they formed a deep branch within the family Rhodospirillaceae of the Alphaproteobacteria with the highest similarity of 90.9-92.5% with members of genera Phaeospirillum and Magnetospirillum. Phylogenetic study of nifH (nitrogenase) and cbbL (RuBisCO) amino acid sequence identities confirmed that the new isolates represent a novel group. Based on the phylogenetic analyses and distinct phenotypic characteristics, we are of the opinion that strains 26-4b1, 26-2 and K-1 represent a new species of a novel genus for which the name Telmatospirillum siberiense gen. nov. sp. nov. is proposed.     

Nursery ground value of an endangered wetland to juvenile shrimps

Although urban development impacts wetlands around the world, until now there have been no studies of its effects on coastal wetlands in tropical regions of developed countries such as Australia. In fact the ecological value of such wetlands is poorly understood. This study provides an initial step in evaluating the ecological value of urbanised, tropical coastal wetlands by determining (a) the extent to which a remnant wetland, in a highly urbanised estuary in northern Australia, is used by juvenile commercial penaeid shrimps, and (b) the extent to which the shrimps rely on food chains based on wetland plants versus marine based food chains. Juvenile penaeids were abundant in the 11 wetland pools sampled. Catches included 5 commercial penaeids with two species, Fenneropenaeus merguiensis and Metapenaeus bennetae, comprising half the catch. Densities in the wetland pools were usually substantially higher than in adjacent estuarine habitats. Stable isotope analysis indicated that much of the nutrition of juvenile shrimps was supplied by marine primary producers (phytoplankton, epiphytic and epilithic algae, microphytobenthos, green filamentous algae) however the locally abundant saltmarsh grass Sporobolus virginicus was also a major contributor. In contrast, there was little indication of nutritional support from mangrove carbon. The lack of importance of mangrove carbon is surprising because the catches of F. merguiensis are often closely linked to the area or extent of mangroves, suggesting that aspects of mangrove systems other than the supply of mangrove carbon may determine the distribution of juvenile F. merguiensis.     

陕西省水鸟种群和地理分布研究

水鸟是湿地野生动物中最具代表性的类群,是湿地生态系统的重要组成部分,灵敏并深刻地反映着湿地环境的变迁.2002年以来,省林业厅鸟类调查组对我省的鸟类资源及分布进行了全面系统的调查,结果表明陕西省湿地水鸟有10目20科113种.本文阐明了我省水鸟的种类、地理分布及保护价值,并讨论了陕西湿地水鸟种群现状、面临的威胁和相应的保护对策.