The Health of the Oceans - A 1994 Update

Three collectives of substances - plastics, plant nutrients, biotoxins - are candidates for monitoring programmes that could keep track of the quality of ocean waters for vital life processes. All three are not subject to systematic surveillance at present. They are each characterized by long residence times in the marine environment, by increasing influx, and by growing evidence of their deleterious impacts on living systems.     

基于水生态功能区的巢湖环湖带生态服务功能评价

水生态功能区被认为是流域生态环境保护、治理与修复的基本单元,以其为基础进行生态服务功能评估对于流域内的土地利用结构优化配置、生态环境保护、治理与修复等都有重要的意义。选取巢湖环湖带,采用物质量的方法,对其12种生态服务功能进行评价,其中陆域生态系统4种,水域生态系统8种。研究结果表明:(1)研究区生态系统服务功能空间差异明显,南部和东北部较高,西北部和东南部较低;而研究区单位面积生态服务功能西部较高,东部较低;(2)生态服务功能总量较高的区域,其单位面积生态服务功能并不一定高;(3)环湖带生态系统服务功能的管理和恢复既要考虑生态服务功能总量的大小,也要考虑单位面积生态服务功能的大小,依据实际情况区别对待,生态服务功能较强的地区,应积极发挥其生态功能的优势,在保护与治理并重的情况下充分发挥其生态服务功能;生态服务功能较弱的地区,应采取一定的措施,在保护的基础上对其生态服务功能进行恢复。     

Ecological pressures on grassland ecosystems and their conservation strategies in Northern China

In this study,we identified ecological pressures on grassland ecosystems and adaptive countermeasures in Northern China.Our research revealed that the main sources of these pressures included population growth,economic development,resources exploitation,and global climate change,with human-related activities being overriding factors.Overgrazing was an important reason for grassland imbalance,causing soil erosion and desertification,especially during the sensitive spring greening phase.In steppe zones,commercial coal mining was destructive to the ecological environment.Regarding long-term strategies,we recommend that policy-makers devote more consideration to a new conceptual approach for transforming grasslands through shifting the focus from die grassland’s traditional production functions to meir ecological functions.Applying this concept,adaptive countermeasures should be developed to reduce human impacts based on the environmental capacities of grasslands.Moreover,we recommend the development of environment-friendly industries and reduction of pressures from human activities as effective measures for maintaining the balance between sustainable economic development and grassland conservation.Lastly,we suggest that restoration of degraded grasslands should conform to the principle of natural vegetation to further improve the ecological adaptability of plants and ecosystem stability.This study is expected to provide scientific support for policy-makers engaged in grassland protection.     

关于水生生态系统中汞的国内外研究进展评述

本文介绍了国内外对于水生生态系统中汞的生物地球化学循环研究的各项进展,从汞对水生动植物的毒性、汞的迁移转化、甲基汞的形成以及甲基汞对食物链及人体健康的影响等几方面进行评述。     

水生生物基准推导中物种选择方法研究

运用Mann-Whitney U检验法对不同生物分类群内的物种对氨氮的毒性敏感性进行分析和统计检验,并基于毒理学、生物分类学,从抽样-推断的角度对物种选择进行讨论,并对物种选择与基准推导方法的关系进行梳理.结果发现,物种毒性数据中脊椎动物占绝大部分,尤其是辐鳍纲,与真实生态系统中物种类群结构不符;大部分不同分类群间物种对氨氮的敏感性差异显著,随着物种分类阶元级别降低,大部分分类群内物种的差异逐渐减小,个别分类群内物种的敏感性未呈现相似的规律,尤其是相对不敏感的物种;总体上,能在一定程度上说明同一分类群内的生物有相对接近的敏感性.由抽样-推断理论与方法可知,基准推导属于基于抽样设计的统计推断,因此,可以将生物分类类群作为物种选择的辅助变量,依据水生态系统中物种组成,运用分层随机抽样技术进行物种选择,以提高抽样效率和精度.     

剑潭水库浮游植物群落特征与水环境因子关系研究

2010年6—12月对剑潭水库浮游植物群落及11项水环境因子进行了采样调查,并对调查区域内的54种浮游植物和11个环境因子进行了典范对应分析(CCA).结果表明,调查期间共检出浮游植物7门78属103种,浮游植物群落组成以绿藻为主,硅藻其次;藻类细胞密度季节差异大,7月最高,为8.04×106cells·L-1,12月最低,为2.23×105cells·L-1,浮游植物群落变化规律为夏季的蓝藻和绿藻向秋季的隐藻、蓝藻、绿藻,以及冬季的绿藻、硅藻转变,剑潭水库富营养化程度较蓄水初期有加剧趋势,且富营养程度夏季比冬季严重.CCA分析结果表明,水温和TP是影响剑潭水库浮游植物群落分布最主要的环境因子.     

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from a subtropical coastal embayment (Moreton Bay,Australia)

Surface water methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) concentrations and fluxes were investigated in two subtropical coastal embayments (Bramble Bay and Deception Bay, which are part of the greater Moreton Bay, Australia). Measurements were done at 23 stations in seven campaigns covering different seasons during 2010–2012. Water–air fluxes were estimated using the Thin Boundary Layer approach with a combination of wind and currents-based models for the estimation of the gas transfer velocities. The two bays were strong sources of both CH₄ and N₂O with no significant differences in the degree of saturation of both gases between them during all measurement campaigns. Both CH₄ and N₂O concentrations had strong temporal but minimal spatial variability in both bays. During the seven seasons, CH₄ varied between 500% and 4000% saturation while N₂O varied between 128 and 255% in the two bays. Average seasonal CH₄ fluxes for the two bays varied between 0.5 ± 0.2 and 6.0 ± 1.5 mg CH₄/(m²·day) while N₂O varied between 0.4 ± 0.1 and 1.6 ± 0.6 mg N₂O/(m²·day). Weighted emissions (t CO₂-e) were 63%–90% N₂O dominated implying that a reduction in N₂O inputs and/or nitrogen availability in the bays may significantly reduce the bays' greenhouse gas (GHG) budget. Emissions data for tropical and subtropical systems is still scarce. This work found subtropical bays to be significant aquatic sources of both CH₄ and N₂O and puts the estimated fluxes into the global context with measurements done from other climatic regions.     

海河干流水产品汞污染特征及摄入风险评估

通过现场实地采样和实验测定分析了天津市海河干流水产品中汞含量水平及食用人群的暴露风险.结果表明,海河淡水水产品中甲基汞和总汞的含量(以湿重计)分别为42.51 ng·g~(-1)和77.31 ng·g~(-1),甲基汞是水生生物中汞的最主要存在形式,且与鱼体中总汞含量水平显著相关.鱼体在不同器官中和不同养殖方式下的汞含量水平差异显著.海河淡水鱼类和底栖动物的甲基汞富集系数(BCF)分别为1.00×105m L·g~(-1)和4.23×104m L·g~(-1),与总汞相比,甲基汞具有更强的生物富集特性.海河淡水生物生物链中的甲基汞和总汞营养级放大系数分别为1.38和1.36.水产品中的甲基汞和总汞含量最大允许含量均低于我国国家标准限定值,但同时应该注意,以海河淡水野生鱼类为食的儿童,汞摄入风险相对较高,其总汞和甲基汞摄入量分别达到154.07 ng·(kg·d)~(-1)和81.11 ng·(kg·d)~(-1).     

漂浮水生植物对富营养化水体中N2O产生及输移过程的调节作用

漂浮水生维管束植物具有发达的通气组织,然而关于其传输水体中产生温室气体N_2O方面的研究还很匮乏.本研究以漂浮水生植物凤眼莲为代表,利用稳定氮同位素示踪技术,设计能够分隔根室和叶室的水生植物生长系统,通过微宇宙实验定量追踪N-15标记的氮素在凤眼莲根系介导下的转化途径、N_2O产生规律及N_2O通过通气组织向空气的传输过程.研究结果表明,加入水体的~(15)NO_3~-有少部分通过异化还原成为铵(DNRA)过程转化为NH_4~+-~(15)N,主要通过反硝化反应生成N_2O;加入的~(15)NH_4~+主要发生了耦合硝化-反硝化反应.种植凤眼莲均使叶室中N_2O-~(15)N原子百分超和~(15)N_2O浓度明显高于无植物的对照,一方面说明凤眼莲根系能够促进反硝化、硝化-反硝化反应过程,同时也说明水体中的~(15)N_2O有相当一部分通过植株体传输到空气中.凤眼莲通气组织主要通过分子扩散从高浓度空间向低浓度空间输送~(15)N_2O.在标记NO_3~--~(15)N的水体中,凤眼莲在前期促进了~(15)N_2O向顶空排放,但并未在整个生长期持续促进N_2O释放.在标记NH_4~+-~(15)N的水体中,植株体富集是NH_4~+-~(15)N的一个主要归趋途径,但同时也有部分NH_4~+-~(15)N转化为N_2O通过植株通气组织持续、缓慢地释放到顶空当中.研究结果阐明了漂浮植物对水体氮转化过程及N_2O输移途径的调节作用,可为全面理解水体生态系统氮循环过程提供理论基础.     

Ecological-biogeochemical role of macrophytes in aquatic ecosystems of urbanized territories (an example of small water bodies of St. Petersburg)

The accumulation of heavy metals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni, Pb, Cd) and biogenic elements (P, S, K, Ca, Na) in leaves has been studied in macrophytes of different ecological groups growing in small water bodies of St. Petersburg. The ecogeological and biogeochemical role of macrophytes in the water-aquatic plants-bottom sediments system and their contribution to the stability of aquatic ecosystem functioning under conditions of a megalopolis are considered. Prospects for using macrophytes for bioindication and phytoremediation of polluted aquatic ecosystems are discussed.