Assessing the Response of Estuarine Intertidal Assemblages to Urbanised Catchment Discharge

Measurement of intertidal rock assemblages was investigated as a potential biological indicator to provide a quantitative estimate of the impact of urbanised catchment discharge on the estuaries of Sydney, Australia, from 1995 to 1999. Based on the presence and characteristics of adjacent human activities, sampling locations were categorised as: Bush; Urban; Urban with Sewer Overflows; and Industry with Sewer Overflows. In Sydney Harbour, variation in assemblage structure was measured between most impact categories, however differences between impact categories were not consistent for each year. Nevertheless, in years of above average rainfall (1998–1999), reference assemblages adjacent to national parks and distant from urbanisation were different to all other putatively impacted assemblages. Variability within assemblages was least at reference locations in each year and greatest at locations adjacent to stormwater canals and sewer overflows, particularly in 1998–1999. Variation in assemblage structure in Sydney estuaries was most strongly correlated with chlorophyll – a concentrations. Univariate analysis also identified highly significant differences for a number of factors, however, interactions between year, impact categories and location for numerous analyses, confounded the differentiation between impact categories. The results suggest that intertidal rock assemblages in Sydney Harbour and surrounding estuaries appear to be responding to the quality and quantity of discharge from urbanised catchments and, furthermore, that assemblages are more suitable than individual taxa to indicate the difference between Bush and anthropogenically disturbed estuarine locations.     

华北地区霾期间对流层中低层气溶胶垂直分布

基于美国宇航局(NASA)的CALIPSO星载激光雷达监测数据,通过分析总后向散射系数、体积退偏比和色比,对华北地区2007年1月1日至2008年12月31日期间出现灰霾时对流层中低层气溶胶光学和微物理特性的垂直分布进行了研究.结果表明:灰霾期间对于4 km以下的对流层中低层大气总体来说,非球形气溶胶出现频率略高于球形气溶胶,小粒径气溶胶出现频率高于大粒径气溶胶.在4 km以下的大气中,气溶胶出现频率在1 ～2 km高度范围内最高,在2～3 km高度范围内最低;球形气溶胶在2～3 km高度范围内出现频率最高,非球形气溶胶出现频率在1 ～2 km高度范围内最高;大粒径气溶胶在l～2 km高度范围内出现频率最高,小粒径气溶胶在0～1 km高度范围内出现频率最高.     

渤海湾大型底栖动物群落优势种长期变化研究

以2008年4月,2009年5月、8月,2011年5月、9月以及2012年9月采集的大型底栖动物资料为基础,结合历史数据,描述渤海湾底栖动物群落优势种的变化规律,探讨变化原因.结果表明,近60年来,渤海湾底栖动物群落优势种多为营埋栖生活的小型双壳类和蟹类,而近几年则以小型双壳类为绝对优势种.其中,干扰耐受种凸壳肌蛤(Musculus senhousei)在渤海湾迅速增值并成为绝对优势种,影响了底栖动物群落结构的稳定性.胶州湾、莱州湾、辽东湾及渤海湾的主要优势种较为相似,变化规律皆为个体较大、生命周期较长的双壳类、虾蟹类逐步被个体更小、生命周期更短的干扰耐受种代替,说明4个海湾的底栖生态环境皆受到了一定程度的干扰.渤海湾优势种的变化可能与海湾本身的底质状况、人为干扰(如围海造陆工程的实施)、过量的陆源排污以及食物链的变化有关.     

合肥市黑炭气溶胶浓度分布和变化特征研究

根据合肥市黑炭气溶胶自动在线监测结果、相关污染物监测数据、气象数据,分析了合肥市城区黑炭气溶胶的浓度分布特征。结果表明,2013年6月—2014年5月黑炭浓度的年平均值为(4.88±2.99)μg/m3,总体呈现春夏季浓度较低、秋冬季浓度较高的分布。黑炭浓度日变化呈双峰型,峰值出现在早07:00和晚20:00,早间峰值受大气扩散条件和人为活动的共同影响,晚间峰值受人为活动影响较大。在与其他污染物的相关性研究中,黑炭浓度与粒径较小的颗粒物PM1质量浓度相关性最好,波长为950 nm的测量通道测得的黑碳气溶胶与元素碳的相关性最好。     

鹤山大气超级站旱季单颗粒气溶胶化学特征研究

利用单颗粒气溶胶飞行时间质谱等仪器在鹤山大气超级站开展综合观测,结合ART-2a自适应共振神经网络聚类算法,将2013年11月4日~2013年12月30日期间监测到的1637330个细颗粒分成9类: EC-Fresh颗粒、EC-Nitrate/Sulfate颗粒、K-EC颗粒、Ca-EC颗粒、ECOC颗粒、OC-Levoglucosan颗粒、OC-Nitrate/Sulfate颗粒、K-Nitrate/Sulfate颗粒和Metal-rich颗粒.结果表明:该大气超级站所在地区旱季霾日有利于与水溶性二次无机组分混合的EC-Nitrate/Sulfate颗粒、K-Nitrate/Sulfate颗粒的累积;晴朗天更有利于二次有机组分在气溶胶颗粒中生成,雨天受当地排放源的影响显著,含有较高EC-Fresh和K-EC颗粒.相关性的研究发现,EC-Nitrate/Sulfate颗粒与能见度有良好的相关性,它们对霾的形成有至关重要的作用.     

北京地区大气颗粒物中有机物的分析

报告了一年四个季节组合样品中的有机成分分析结果。GC/MS定性分析表明,颗粒物有机物可抽提部分中,可分析识别的主要种类有正构烷烃、脂肪酸、多环芳烃等。其中正构烷烃有明显的奇数碳优先,而脂肪酸有明显的偶数碳优先。GC定量分析正构烷烃的结果和HPLC定量分析多环芳烃的结果均显示,天坛站点的有机物污染浓度大于十三陵站点。污染水平秋冬季高,春夏季低,这种季节变化趋势与有机碳总量相同。      

Comparative Assessment of the Level of Plant Cover Synanthropization in Specially Protected Areas

Tendencies in plant cover synanthropization depending on the pattern and intensity of anthropogenic impacts on natural complexes have been revealed in specially protected areas of different classes (a nature reserve and a nature park).     

海州湾潮滩重金属污染的历史记录

近岸海域是区域源汇过程的汇,记载了区域环境演变的重要信息.2010年在海州湾潮滩采集得到4个沉积物柱样,对沉积物柱样进行了重金属元素测定,结合核素210Pb测年结果,研究了海州湾潮滩重金属污染历史及人类活动对其影响.运用Al元素作为粒度的代用指标对重金属进行标准化,并获取了重金属富集系数和人为污染的重金属通量.研究表明,粒度控制效应并不是影响海州湾潮滩地区重金属分布的最主要因素,并且各重金属元素之间具有良好的相关性,说明该区域重金属元素具有来源一致性;海州湾潮滩沉积物中除重金属Cr和Cu表现为弱富集外,其他重金属元素Cd、Cr、Cu、Mn、Pb和Zn均表现为强富集,并且表层沉积物中重金属含量均高于该区域的背景值,这表明近50年以来,海州湾潮滩已明显受到人类污染源的影响,从而造成沉积物中重金属不断富集累积;自20世纪50年代至2000年初海州湾潮滩沉积物中人为污染活动输入的重金属通量呈现出波动增加的趋势,这种变化特征与区域社会、经济发展阶段相吻合;而从2005年以来随着区域产业结构优化调整,环境监管力度加强,潮滩沉积物中人为来源的重金属通量呈现出减少的趋势.     

Pollution sources of atmospheric fine particles and secondary aerosol characteristics in Beijing

To investigate the secondary formation and pollution sources of atmospheric particles in urban Beijing,PM_2.5 and its chemical components were collected and determined by URG-9000 D ambient ion monitor(AIM) from March 2016 to January 2017.Among water-soluble ions(WSIs), NO_3-,SO₄^2- and NH₄⁺(SNA) had the largest proportion(77.8%) with the total concentration of 23.8 μg/m³.Moreover,as fine particle pollution wors...     

Ubiquity of bisphenol A in the atmosphere

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a suspected endocrine disruptor in the environment. However, little is known about its distribution and transport in the atmosphere. Here, the concentrations of BPA in the atmospheric aerosols from urban, rural, marine, and the polar regions were measured using solvent extraction/derivatization and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry technique. The concentrations of BPA (1-17,400 pg m⁻³) ranged over 4 orders of magnitude in the world with a declining trend from the continent (except for the Antarctica) to remote sites. A positive correlation was found between BPA and 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene, a tracer for plastic burning, in urban regions, indicating that the open burning of plastics in domestic waste should be a significant emission source of atmospheric BPA. Our results suggest that the ubiquity of BPA in the atmosphere may raise a requirement for the evaluation of health effects of BPA in order to control its emission sources, for example, from plastic burning.