Vitaliano Joseph J, Reid Robert N, Frame Ann B, Packer David B, Arlen Linda, Sacco John N
National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, Sandy Hook, Highlands, NJ 07732, USA.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2002 Oct;44(10):1100-8. doi: 10.1016/s0025-326x(02)00164-9.
In January 1990, an oil spill damaged salt marshes along the banks of the Arthur Kill (New York and New Jersey, USA). In the years following the spill, Spartina alterniflora seedlings were planted at a number of the oil damaged sites and successfully reestablished at these sites. In 1996, the National Marine Fisheries Service began a study to compare the benthic invertebrate assemblages at the reestablished S. alterniflora marshes to those at nearby existing marshes in the Arthur Kill. Oligochaetes, nematodes, and the small tube-building polychaete, Manayunkia aestuarina were the dominant taxa in the study. Significant differences were found in the abundances of all invertebrate individuals, oligochaetes, and nematodes between the September and May sampling times but not between reestablished and existing marshes. Although benthic invertebrate community structure was similar at reestablished and existing marshes three to four years after planting, the functional similarity of these marshes was not assessed in this study.
1990年1月，一次石油泄漏对亚瑟河（美国纽约和新泽西）沿岸的盐沼造成了破坏。在泄漏后的几年里，互花米草幼苗被种植在一些受石油污染的地点，并在这些地点成功重新生长。1996年，美国国家海洋渔业局开始了一项研究，以比较重新生长互花米草的盐沼与亚瑟河附近现有盐沼中的底栖无脊椎动物群落。寡毛纲动物、线虫以及建造小管的小型多毛纲动物——河口马尼蚓是该研究中的主要类群。在9月和5月的采样时间之间，所有无脊椎动物个体、寡毛纲动物和线虫的丰度存在显著差异，但在重新生长的盐沼和现有盐沼之间没有发现显著差异。尽管在种植三到四年后，重新生长的盐沼和现有盐沼的底栖无脊椎动物群落结构相似，但本研究未评估这些盐沼的功能相似性。
