垂直迁移的游泳者在分层列中产生聚合规模的
Isabel A Houghton1, Jeffrey R Koseff1, Stephen G Monismith1
1Bob and Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Nature
|April 20, 2018
概括
海洋浮游生物,如盐水, 在垂直迁移过程中会产生巨大的, 它们的集体运动会引发流,
科学领域:
- 海洋学
- 生物海洋学
- 流体动力学
背景情况:
- 生物产生的流对于海洋混合和营养物质的运输至关重要.
- 之前的研究表明动物产生的流太小,
- 在迁移期间的动物浮游生物聚集引入了与海洋混合相关的新长度尺度.
研究的目的:
- 调查动物浮游生物的集体行为是否能产生大规模的动荡.
- 量化动物浮游生物诱导的流的混合效率.
- 评估动物浮游生物对海洋分层和混合的影响.
主要方法:
- 在实验中模拟厘米尺度动物浮游生物 (Artemia salina) 的迁移.
- 在分层液体中测量旋的产生和混合.
- 分析与密度分层相对的流量.
主要成果:
- 的集体迁移会产生集聚规模的.
- 这些旋有效地混合稳定的密度分层.
- 观察到流扩散率高达分子扩散率的三倍.
结论:
- 海洋浮游生物聚集可以显著改变水柱物理.
- 动物浮游生物带来的流可能会影响海洋的生态化学循环.
- 这些发现挑战了以前关于生物产生的流的规模限制的假设.
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