论海洋生态系统的监测方法

Soluble phosphate washed into the sea may change the ocean patterns of fishery resources and food supply for human. For future marine ecologists, they should focus to monitor the migration of phosphorus, as well as the impact of phosphorus on different marine organisms, and the marine-wide food web. One possible strategy is to set up three-staged continuous observation systems from land to sea (fresh water - estuarine or coastal - marine), which could be used as reference for the ocean monitoring system. In this paper, a number of the monitoring methodological issues are addressed, such as deployment of observation areas and sites, parameters to be monitored, methods of observation, analytical methods and quality control, and data exchange, integration and modeling. It was suggested that the observations should be centered on food webs to define the structure of functional groups in the web, determine the biomass of each functional group, and quantify the energy flow between the functional groups. It was also emphasized the importance of international cooperation for ocean monitoring.