The strategy of fly-and-forage migration,illustrated for the osprey (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Pandion haliaetus</Emphasis>)

Migrating birds often alternate between flight steps, when distance is covered and energy consumed, and stopover periods, when energy reserves are restored. An alternative strategy is fly-and-forage migration, useful mainly for birds that hunt or locate their prey in flight, and thus, enables birds to combine foraging with covering migration distance. The favourability of this strategy in comparison with the traditional stopover strategy depends on costs of reduced effective travel speed and benefits of offsetting energy consumption during migration flights. Evaluating these cost-benefit effects, we predict that fly-and-forage migration is favourable under many conditions (increasing total migration speed), both as a pure strategy and in combination with stopover behaviour. We used the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) as test case for investigating the importance of this strategy during spring and autumn migration at a lake in southern Sweden. The majority, 78%, of passing ospreys behaved according to the fly-and-forage migration strategy by deviating from their migratory track to visit or forage at the lake, while 12% migrated past the lake without response, and 10% made stopovers at the lake. Foraging success of passing ospreys was almost as good as for birds on stopover. Timing of foraging demonstrated that the birds adopted a genuine fly-and-forage strategy rather than intensified foraging before and after the daily travelling period. We predict that fly-and-forage migration is widely used and important among many species besides the osprey, and the exploration of its occurrence and consequences will be a challenging task in the field of optimal migration.     

RIPARIAN FOREST EFFECT ON LATERAL STREAM CHANNEL MIGRATION IN THE GLACIAL TILL PLAINS1

ABSTRACT: Dendrochronology analyses of point bar complexes were used to quantify the effects of riparian forests on local lateral migration of bends in seven streams in the glacial till plains of north central Missouri. Stream bends were paired with similar bank height, midchannel radius of curvature, soil composition, and watershed size. In each pair, one concave bank was forested and one was unforested. Stream bends with unforested concave banks had an average local migration rate three times greater than stream bends that had forested concave banks.     

Cesium migration in saturated silica sand and Hanford sediments as impacted by ionic strength

Large amounts of 137Cs have been accidentally released to the subsurface from the Hanford nuclear site in the state of Washington, USA. The cesium-containing liquids varied in ionic strengths, and often had high electrolyte contents, mainly in the form of NaNO3 and NaOH, reaching concentrations up to several moles per liter. In this study, we investigated the effect of ionic strengths on Cs migration through two types of porous media: silica sand and Hanford sediments. Cesium sorption and transport was studied in 1, 10, 100, and 1000 mM NaCl electrolyte solutions at pH 10. Sorption isotherms were constructed from batch equilibrium experiments and the batch-derived sorption parameters were compared with column breakthrough curves. Column transport experiments were analyzed with a two-site equilibrium-nonequilibrium model. Cesium sorption to the silica sand in batch experiments showed a linear sorption isotherm for all ionic strengths, which matched well with the results from the column experiments at 100 and 1000 mM ionic strength; however, the column experiments at 1 and 10 mM ionic strength indicated a nonlinear sorption behavior of Cs to the silica sand. Transport through silica sand occurred under one-site sorption and equilibrium conditions. Cesium sorption to Hanford sediments in both batch and column experiments was best described with a nonlinear Freundlich isotherm. The column experiments indicated that Cs transport in Hanford sediments occurred under two-site equilibrium and nonequilibrium sorption. The effect of ionic strength on Cs transport was much more pronounced in Hanford sediments than in silica sands. Effective retardation factors of Cs during transport through Hanford sediments were reduced by a factor of 10 when the ionic strength increased from 100 to 1000 mM; for silica sand, the effective retardation was reduced by a factor of 10 when ionic strength increased from 1 to 1000 mM. A two order of magnitude change in ionic strength was needed in the silica sand to observe the same change in Cs retardation as in Hanford sediments.     

Colloid migration in symmetrical non-uniform fractures: particle tracking in three dimensions

A three-dimensional model for the migration of colloids in a saturated fracture is presented, which considers the motion of colloids as a result of advection and diffusion, as well as colloid-surface interactions at the fracture walls. This model is successfully incorporated into a three-dimensional particle tracking algorithm that tracks particles within a continuum and allows consideration of the migration of colloids in symmetrical, three-dimensional, non-uniform fractures. The framework is general enough to incorporate non-local interactions that provide colloid motion relative to the fluid. The algorithm is verified against classical Taylor dispersion, and its generalization to a sorbing phase, in a uniform fracture and shows excellent agreement with theory. A simple, non-uniform fracture that has an analytically tractable velocity field is also considered, and both quantitative and qualitative comparisons are made with the uniform fracture case. The modelling of more complex fracture geometries is also discussed and a particular case is implemented within the particle tracking framework.     

Soil contamination at abandoned sawmill areas

Contamination of soil by technical chlorophenol formulation at wood preserving sites was studied. The examined soils contained 50 to 1000 mg of polychlorinated phenols (CPs), 1 to 50 mg of polychlorinated phenoxyphenols (“pre-dioxins”, PCPPs) and 0.1 to 5 mg of polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) per kg of dry soil. CPs were found to be mobile, leaching deep into the soil, while PCPPs and PCDFs accumulated in the top soil. All three classes of contaminants were stable in soil.     

A theoretical model of air and steam co-injection to prevent the downward migration of DNAPLs during steam-enhanced extraction

When steam is injected into soil containing a dense volatile non-aqueous phase liquid contaminant the DNAPL vaporized within the heated soil region condenses and accumulates ahead of the steam condensation front. If enough DNAPL accumulates, gravitational forces can overcome trapping forces allowing the liquid contaminant to flow downward. By injecting air with steam, a portion of the DNAPL vapor remains suspended in equilibrium with the air, decreasing liquid contaminant accumulation ahead of the steam condensation front, and thus reducing the possibility of downward migration. In this work, a one-dimensional theoretical model is developed to predict the injection ratio of air to steam that will prevent the accumulation of volatile DNAPLs. The contaminated region is modeled as a one-dimensional homogeneous porous medium with an initially uniform distribution of a single component contaminant. Mass and energy balances are combined to determine the injection ratio of air to steam that eliminates accumulation of the contaminant ahead of the steam condensation front, and hence reduces the possibility of downward migration. The minimum injection ratio that eliminates accumulation is defined as the optimum injection ratio. Example calculations are presented for three DNAPLs, carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), trichloroethylene (TCE), and perchloroethylene (PCE). The optimum injection ratio of air to steam is shown to depend on the initial saturation and the volatility of the liquid contaminant. Numerical simulation results are presented to validate the model, and to illustrate downward migration for ratios less than optimum. Optimum injection ratios determined from numerical simulations are shown to be in good agreement with the theoretical model.     

Intercomparison of reactive transport models applied to UO2 oxidative dissolution and uranium migration

Oxidative dissolution of uranium dioxide (UO₂) and the subsequent migration of uranium in a subsurface environment and an underground waste disposal have been simulated with reactive transport models. In these systems, hydrogeological and chemical processes are closely entangled and their interdependency has been analyzed in detail, notably with respect to redox reactions, kinetics of mineralogical evolution and hydrodynamic migration of species of interest.Different codes, where among CASTEM, CHEMTRAP and HYTEC, have been used as an intercomparison and verification exercise. Although the agreement between codes is satisfactory, it is shown that the discretization method of the transport equation (i.e. finite elements (FE) versus mixed-hybrid FE and finite differences) and the sequential coupling scheme may lead to systematic discrepancies.     

溶解性有机质在岩溶水系统中的迁移转化及影响因素分析

溶解性有机质(DOM)的荧光物质是一种较好的示踪剂,用于鉴别DOM的来源及其在水文系统中的地球化学行为.该物质在岩溶水系统中的研究较少,并且要作为潜在示踪剂,系统中有很多因素影响其光谱信息.实验选取一典型岩溶流域,通过三维荧光光谱技术(EEMs)和平行因子分析(PARAFAC),结合水化学数据分析,揭示DOM荧光物质在不同岩溶含水空间的组成和转化关系,刻画流域尺度DOM的来源,探讨水化学因素对DOM荧光物质转移的影响机制.结果表明,流域外源地表水和岩溶地表水中的DOM以类蛋白色氨酸为主,浅层岩溶水和深层岩溶水以类蛋白色氨酸和酪氨酸为主.荧光指数(FI)、生物指数(BIX)和腐殖化指数(HIX)的综合分析认为,浅层岩溶水和深层岩溶水的DOM主要来自于内源微生物分解,岩溶地表水和外源地表水的DOM既有陆源输入又有内源微生物分解,且内源贡献占有较大比例.受岩溶水化学参数的影响,3种荧光物质具有明显的分异特征:类酪氨酸物质对Ca~(2+)和HCO_3~-具有较强的适应性,在岩溶水中存在的比例比较大.类色氨酸物质则相反,类富里酸物质则与TDS、浊度、Cl~-、SO_4~(2-)等呈现极显著正相关关系.流域上游浅层岩溶水中的DOM主要来自内源.出露地表以后,其有机质同时来自内源和外源输入.在流域下游渗入深层岩溶地下水以后,DOM逐渐向低芳香烃有机质化合物转化,大分子DOM逐渐减少,荧光强度减弱.主成分分析(PCA)提取出3个主成分,分别为反映岩溶水渗滤、转化、水流条件的水体矿化指标,反映土壤淋滤和自然渗滤关系的TOC、NO_3~-及类蛋白质指标,以及反映岩溶水系统水化学、生物化学过程的Ca~(2+)、HCO_3~-、荧光指数和类富里酸指标.此外研究还认为,总荧光强度,类富里酸物质和类蛋白物质可以分别作为岩溶水快速渗流、转化及岩溶含水层脆弱性的示踪剂.研究结果有助于认识岩溶地下水DOM的生物地球化学循环,进行岩溶系统有机污染控制,为岩溶水系统中物质的地球化学过程表征提供一种新的工具.     

模拟酸雨条件下垃圾填埋的重金属地球化学迁移模型——以徐州为例

为研究酸雨沉降条件下垃圾中重金属迁移过程,以重金属浓度变化为基础,建立了生物反应器填埋场重金属浸出和淋出的地球化学迁移过程模型和地球化学迁移的数学预测模型。研究表明,重金属的浸出顺序为As、Ni、Cr、Co、Cd、Mn、Cu、Zn、Sn、Hg、Pb、Fe,淋出顺序为Mn、Co、Ni、Cr、Cu、Cd、As、Fe、Zn、Hg、Pb、Sn;对生活垃圾重金属浸出所建立的数学模型大多为指数函数、幂函数、二次函数,对模拟酸雨条件下的生物反应器填埋场重金属的淋出建立的数学模型大多为二次函数、幂函数,数学模型的相关系数在0.9以上,模型拟合效果较为理想;通过引进重金属元素释放系数建立了生物反应器填埋场重金属淋出累积总量的模型,修正后的模型的计算结果和实测值的误差在千分之一以内,可用于预测填埋场内重金属溶出总量。     

Cd在无瓣海桑模拟湿地系统中的分布迁移及净化效应

在温室中建立红树林植物无瓣海桑模拟湿地系统,分别用正常、5倍和10倍浓度3种人工配制的生活污水定时定量对模拟系统污灌4个月,研究重金属Cd的分布、迁移以及湿地系统对Cd污染的净化效应。结果表明,污水中的Cd主要存留在土壤子系统中(约90%),只有很少部分迁移到植物体和凋落物中;无瓣海桑各器官中Cd含量在根部最高;模拟系统对污水中Cd的净化效果显著,在植物-土壤-水系统中,正常、5倍和10倍浓度组的净化率分别为96.04%、85.19%和92.24%,在无植物系统中,对应组分别为81.18%、85.46%和80.96%。