Assessing Effects of Petroleum Oil Pollution on Estuarine Rock Platform Invertebrate Communities

石油泄漏对我们本土潮间带生物的影响几乎是未知的。在1999年悉尼重大石油泄漏之前和之后的几年里，我们对杰克逊港的岩石平台物种组合进行了影响和恢复研究。结果显示，在群落和个体物种水平上都有影响。该项目旨在回答这项工作中产生的重要问题，并将有助于：(1)确定石油暴露与澳大利亚无脊椎动物物种反应之间的因果关系；(2)生成各种石油暴露和最佳做法改进下对无脊椎动物物种的慢性和急性石油影响的量化数据；(3)生成有关石油污染物对澳大利亚河口无脊椎动物影响的第一批毒理学数据；(4)调查石油暴露的可能早期预警生物标志物；(5)为我们的河口系统未来的环境管理制定快速评估监测程序。

The effects of oil spills on our native intertidal organisms are virtually unknown. For some years before and since a major oil spill in Sydney, 1999, we have conducted impact and recovery studies on rock platform species assemblages of Port Jackson. Results show impacts at both community and individual species levels. This project aims to answer important questions arising from this work and would allow: (1) to establish a cause and effect relationship between oil exposure and Australian invertebrate species responses(2) generate quantitative chronic and acute oil impact data on invertebrate species at a range of oil exposures and best practice amelioration, (3) generation of the first toxicological data of the impact of oil pollutants on Australian estuarine invertebrates, (4)investigation of possible early-warning biomarkers of oil exposure, and (5) rapid assessment monitoring procedures for future environmental management of our estuarine systems.