An evaluation of underlying mechanisms for“fishing down marine food webs”

Since the concept of ＂fishing down marine food webs＂ was first proposed in 1998, mean trophic level of fisheries landings（MTL） has become one of the most widely used indicators to assess the impacts of fishing on the integrity of marine ecosystem and guide the policy development by many management agencies. Recent studies suggest that understanding underlying causes for changes in MTL is vital for an appropriate use of MTL as an indicator of fishery sustainability. Based on the landing data compiled by Food and Agriculture Organization（FAO） and trophic information of relevant species in Fishbase, we evaluated MTL trends in 14 FAO fishing areas and analyzed catches of upper and lower trophic level groups under different trends of MTL and found that both the cases of a recovered MTL trend and a generally increasing MTL trend could be accompanied by decreasing catches of lower trophic level species. Further, community structure and exploitation history should be considered in using MTL after excluding species with trophic levels lower than 3.25 to distinguish ＂fishingthrough＂ from ＂fishing-down＂. We conclude that MTL used as an indicator to measure fishery sustainability can benefit from a full consideration of both upper and lower trophic level species and masking effects of community structure and exploitation history.

Damage, failure and stability control of evolutionary process caused by re-exploitation of the residual resources

On the basis of considering the heterogeneity and using the finite element numerical simulation, this thesis investi- gates the damage of the roof and coal as well as the failure of evolutionary process during the re-exploitation of the residual coal. According to the analysis of the damage field, stress field and the failure process, it explores the damage evolution, stress distribution laws and the damage models. Besides, this thesis puts forward the idea of penetrating and establishing drilling steels aimed at solving the problem of wall carving and roof fall, meanwhile this suggestion accomplishes the successful appli- cation effect in the testing ground. This thesis demonstrates that the re-exploitation of the residual coal can be carried out and the safe production can be ensured by adopting some measures. What＇s more, the research result provides the theoretical and practical experience for the re-exploitation of the residual coal in the similar conditions.