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Blain S Guillou J Tréguer P Woerther P Delauney L Follenfant E Gontier O Hamon M Leilde B Masson A Tartu C Vuillemin R 《Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM》2004,6(6):569-575
The MAREL Iroise data buoy provides physico-chemical measurements acquired in surface marine water in continuous and autonomous mode. The water is pumped 1.5 m from below the surface through a sampling pipe and flows through the measuring cell located in the floating structure. Technological innovations implemented inside the measuring cell atop the buoy allow a continuous cleaning of the sensor, while injection of chloride ions into the circuit prevents biological fouling. Specific sensors for temperature, salinity, oxygen and fluorescence investigated in this paper have been evaluated to guarantee measurement precision over a 3 month period. A bi-directional link under Internet TCP-IP protocols is used for data, alarms and remote-control transmissions with the land-based data centre. Herein, we present a 29 month record for 4 parameters measured using a MAREL buoy moored in a coastal environment (Iroise Sea, Brest, France). The accuracy of the data provided by the buoy is assessed by comparison with measurements of sea water weekly sampled at the same site as part of SOMLIT (Service d'Observation du Milieu LIToral), the French network for monitoring of the coastal environment. Some particular events (impact of intensive fresh water discharges, dynamics of a fast phytoplankton bloom) are also presented, demonstrating the worth of monitoring a highly variable environment with a high frequency continuous reliable system. 相似文献
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A database has been developed that demonstrates experimental evidence of hormesis. It includes information from a broad range of biological models, including plants, and information on study design, dose-response features, and physical/chemical properties of the agents. An assessment of plant hormetic dose responses is presented based on greater than 3000 plant endpoints. Plant hormetic dose responses were observed for numerous endpoints including disease incidence, reproductive indices, mutagenic endpoints, various metabolic parameters, developmental processes, and a range of growth indicators. Quantitative features of these dose responses typically display a maximum stimulatory response less than two-fold greater than controls and a width of the stimulatory response usually less than 10-fold in dose range. The database establishes that hormetic dose responses commonly occur in plants, are broadly generalizable, and have quantitative features similar to hormetic dose responses found for animals. 相似文献
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Groundwater treatment biowalls may be located close to a surface water body to prevent contaminant discharge from a groundwater plume into the surface water. Groundwater contaminants passing through the biowall are treated within the biowall or immediately downgradient of the biowall. Biowalls designed and constructed for the treatment of chlorinated solvents typically contain either a solid and/or liquid source of organic carbon to promote contaminant degradation by enhanced anaerobic reductive dechlorination. Common solid organic materials in biowalls include wood mulch or similar waste plant material, and common liquid organic materials are vegetable oil (possibly emulsified) or other long‐chain fatty acids. Such biowalls then develop anaerobic conditions in the constructed biowall volume, and potentially downgradient, as dissolved oxygen originally present in the aquifer is consumed. This groundwater condition can lead to the appearance of sulfide if groundwater influent to the biowall contains moderate to high sulfate concentrations. Other researchers have presented evidence for groundwater conditions downgradient of a biowall or a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) that are altered in relation to groundwater quality, besides the desired effect of contaminant degradation or removal by precipitation. The objective of this work was to investigate with modeling the changes in downgradient groundwater species chemistry as a result of a constructed biowall. This was accomplished with a chemical species model to predict levels of sulfate and sulfide present in groundwater in close downgradient proximity to the biowall. The results indicate that downgradient chemical changes could impact a surface water body to which groundwater discharges. The model described could be enhanced by incorporating additional design variables that should be considered in biowall feasibility assessments. 相似文献
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Caitlin D. Kuempel Kendall R. Jones James E.M. Watson Hugh P. Possingham 《Conservation biology》2019,33(6):1350-1359
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a critical defense against biodiversity loss in the world's oceans, but to realize near-term conservation benefits, they must be established where major threats to biodiversity occur and can be mitigated. We quantified the degree to which MPA establishment has targeted stoppable threats (i.e., threats that can be abated through effectively managed MPAs alone) by combining spatially explicit marine biodiversity threat data in 2008 and 2013 and information on the location and potential of MPAs to halt threats. We calculated an impact metric to determine whether countries are protecting proportionally more high- or low-threat ecoregions and compared observed values with random protected-area allocation. We found that protection covered <2% of ecoregions in national waters with high levels of abatable threat in 2013, which is ∼59% less protection in high-threat areas than if MPAs had been placed randomly. Relatively low-threat ecoregions had 6.3 times more strict protection (International Union for Conservation of Nature categories I–II) than high-threat ecoregions. Thirty-one ecoregions had high levels of stoppable threat but very low protection, which presents opportunities for MPAs to yield more significant near-term conservation benefits. The extent of the global MPA estate has increased, but the establishment of MPAs where they can reduce threats that are driving biodiversity loss is now urgently needed. 相似文献
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Congruence Among Encounters,Norms, Crowding,and Management in a Marine Protected Area 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Over the past few decades, recreation and tourism use has increased at many marine protected areas, generating concerns about
impacts of this increasing use on experiences and conditions at these areas (e.g., crowding, conflict). This article uses
data from Molokini Shoal Marine Life Conservation District in Hawai’i to examine: (a) reported encounters, crowding, normative
tolerances for various use levels, and support of use related management strategies at this site; and (b) whether users who
encounter higher use levels than their norms feel more crowded and are more supportive of restrictive management strategies.
Data were obtained from onsite pre-trip and post-trip questionnaires of 712 passengers on commercial snorkel and dive tours
visiting this site. Norms were measured with acceptance of 12 photographs depicting levels of boat use. On average, users
would accept seeing no more than approximately 16 boats at one time at Molokini and this number was observed on over 20% of
trips to the site. Although the majority of users expected to escape crowds at Molokini, 67% felt crowded and up to 79% supported
actions that would directly restrict use at this site (e.g., limit number of boats). Users who encountered more boats than
their normative tolerance felt more crowded and were more supportive of these management strategies. Findings suggest that
this marine protected area is operating over its capacity and management is needed to improve experiences and conditions. 相似文献
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Caitlin E. Andrews Sandra H. Anderson Karin van der Walt Rose Thorogood John G. Ewen 《Conservation biology》2022,36(4):e13892
Conservation translocation is a common method for species recovery, for which one increasingly frequent objective is restoring lost ecological functions to promote ecosystem recovery. However, few conservation translocation programs explicitly state or monitor function as an objective, limiting the ability to test assumptions, learn from past efforts, and improve management. We evaluated whether translocations of hihi (Notiomystis cincta), a threatened New Zealand passerine, achieved their implicit objective of restoring lost pollination function. Through a pollinator-exclusion experiment, we quantified, with log response ratios (lnR), the effects of birds on fruit set and seed quality in hangehange (Geniostoma ligustrifolium), a native flowering shrub. We isolated the contributions of hihi by making comparisons across sites with and without hihi. Birds improved fruit set more at sites without hihi (lnR = 1.27) than sites with hihi (lnR = 0.50), suggesting other avian pollinators compensated for and even exceeded hihi contributions to fruit set. Although birds improved seed germination only at hihi sites (lnR = 0.22–0.41), plants at sites without hihi had germination rates similar to hihi sites because they produced 26% more filled seeds, regardless of pollination condition. Therefore, although our results showed hihi improved seed quality, they also highlighted the complexity of ecological functions. When an important species is lost, ecosystems may be able to achieve similar function through different means. Our results underscore the importance of stating and monitoring the ecological benefits of conservation translocations when functional restoration is a motivation to ensure these programs are achieving their objectives. 相似文献
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Donelle M. Robinson Andrea S. Aspbury Caitlin R. Gabor 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(5):705-711
Selection should favor strategies that reduce costs associated with spermatogenesis. This is especially true when males are
sympatric with closely related species, and must avoid heterospecific matings, as in the unisexual–bisexual species complex
of mollies. Male sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, are sexually parasitized by Amazon mollies (P. formosa), and produce more sperm in the presence of female sailfin mollies than in the presence of Amazon mollies. We tested the
hypothesis that male sailfin mollies differentially expend sperm when mating with either conspecific or heterospecific females.
We measured sperm expenditure by determining the amount of sperm males have remaining after mating. Male sailfin mollies had
more sperm available after mating with female sailfin mollies than after mating with Amazon mollies. While this result could
indicate higher sperm expenditure to Amazon mollies, males mating with female sailfin mollies had more sperm available after
mating than their baseline sperm reserves. Spermiation, the last stage of spermatogenesis, could be triggered by physical
contact with females, and could increase sperm availability during mating. We examined the relationship between sperm availability
and the amount of time that males mated with females. We found that sperm availability increased as mating trial time increased
with female sailfin mollies, but not with Amazon mollies. Spermiation in the presence of conspecific female stimuli could
reduce physiological costs associated with spermatogenesis while increasing the amount and quality of sperm available for
sperm competition. We suggest that future studies examining sperm priming and expenditure should consider the potential for
spermiation. 相似文献