Construction and analysis of the EWE model of the wetland ecosystem in lake buffering zone of Zhushan Bay, China.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201607.011

Abstract

Abstract: Lake buffering zones play a special role in spatial arrangement of the lake watershed, and the wetland in buffering zones also is of great significance in basin ecological health and lake water environmental quality. Taking Zhushanhu wetland ecosystem in the area of lake buffering zone of Zhushan Bay, Lake Taihu as the research object, the biotic components were divided into 16 functional groups to construct the Ecopath with Ecosim (EWE) model, and the characteristics and state of the ecosystem and the interrelation between the functional groups were analyzed. The results showed that the range of effective trophic level in Zhushanhu wetland ecosystem was 1-3.72, tro-phic flows were mainly concentrated in the first 4 trophic levels, and most of the food chains started from submerged plants and detritus. The total energy conversion efficiency of the wetland ecosystem was 5.1%, being lower than the "1/10 law", indicating that the current energy conversion efficiency was low. The average transmission efficiency of material throughput in the ecosystem was 4.3%. The sum of all production in the ecosystem was 2496.66 t·km^-2·a^-1, and the total system throughput was 10145.2 t·km^-2·a^-1. The characteristic parameters of ecosystem showed that the current ecosystem was at the immature stage.

XIAN Yi, YE Chun, LI Chun-hua, WANG Yan-hua. Construction and analysis of the EWE model of the wetland ecosystem in lake buffering zone of Zhushan Bay, China.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016, 27(7): 2101-2110.

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