Multi-trophic response and effects of an extensive oil spill in a coastal fish nursery

沿海鱼类苗圃大规模漏油的多营养反应和影响

• 批准号: NE/Y003594/1
• 负责人: Thomas Cameron
• 金额: $ 10.44万
• 依托单位: University of Essex
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FY003594%2F1
• 关键词: Multi; trophic; response; effects; extensive

On the 26th of March 2023 a large reservoir fluid spill occurred (totalling 31,000 Litre) from a Perenco pipeline in Poole Harbour, Dorset. This spill spread across the harbour and became particularly concentrated on the marshes of Brownsea Island - a nationally important juvenile fish nursery. This oil spill brings about several urgent opportunities that the team are uniquely positioned to deliver on; that is, i) to ascertain the effects of the spill on fish health and nursery ground productivity in 2023/24 based on a BACI design, as we have sampled these and nearby sites in 2022; ii) to collect unique polluted fish tissue samples to the UKs first juvenile bass tissue bank, and an invertebrate tissue bank and associated analysis; iv) to document the spatio-temporal response of the in-situ microbial community, particularly hydrocarbon-degrading microbes. In order to achieve these objectives, we require urgent funding to integrate these objectives into the 2023 field season of several research teams. Building on our initial analysis and findings, we will develop a proposal to examine multi-trophic responses to marine oil spills and ecosystem recovery.

2023 年 3 月 26 日，多塞特郡普尔港的 Perenco 管道发生大量水库液体泄漏（总计 31,000 升）。这次泄漏蔓延到整个港口，特别集中在白浪岛的沼泽地——一个全国重要的幼鱼苗圃。这次漏油事件带来了几个紧迫的机遇，我们的团队具有独特的优势来实现这些机遇；也就是说，i) 根据 BACI 设计确定 2023/24 年泄漏事件对鱼类健康和苗圃生产力的影响，因为我们已在 2022 年对这些地点和附近地点进行了采样； ii) 收集独特的受污染鱼类组织样本到英国第一个幼鱼组织库和无脊椎动物组织库并进行相关分析； iv) 记录原位微生物群落，特别是碳氢化合物降解微生物的时空响应。为了实现这些目标，我们需要紧急资金将这些目标整合到多个研究团队的 2023 年野外季节中。基于我们的初步分析和发现，我们将制定一项提案来研究对海洋石油泄漏和生态系统恢复的多营养反应。