海上风电场对海洋生态环境影响分析以渤中海上风电场为例

    Analysis of the Impact of Offshore Wind Farm on Marine Ecological Environment: Taking the Bozhong Offshore Wind Farm as the Example

    • 摘要: 随着全球海上风电产业的快速发展,海上风电场对海洋生态系统的影响受到广泛关注。本文选择渤中海上风电场及其邻近海域为研究对象,利用在风电场建设前(2019年4月)与正式运营期(2024年5月)场址及其邻近海域获取的生态环境现场调查资料,对比分析了风电场建设前与正式运营后场址海域水质、沉积物质量指标,以及浮游生物、底栖生物、游泳动物群落结构和多样性指数等指标的变化,综合评估了海上风电场对海洋生态环境的影响。结果表明:渤中海上风电场及其邻近海域水质在风电场正式运营后水质有向好转变的趋势,较风电场建设前,无机氮(DIN)、铅(Pb)和汞(Hg)超标因子的质量浓度超过一类水质标准的比率分别降低了45.7%、22.5%和6.8%;表层沉积物质量浓度均符合一类沉积物质量标准,质量状况良好。水体及沉积物中铜的平均质量比在风电场运营后分别升高了9.4%和52.2%,应作为重点指标进行长期监测。风电场正式运营后,浮游植物丰度、浮游动物和底栖生物的生物量分别降低16.9%、64.5%和20.0%,浮游生物物种数量及群落多样性指数、丰富度指数显著升高,浮游植物群落稳定性增强,浮游动物群落稳定性向好转变;底栖生物群落稳定性变差,个体体型小且对环境耐受性更强的多毛类优势度明显较高;同时,海上风电场基础结构产生的人工鱼礁效应导致鱼类优势种中增加了具有趋触性特征的鰕虎鱼,渔获量在风电场运营后升高了6.6%(质量)和30.3%(尾数)。该研究成果可为海上风电场生态系统智慧监管体系的构建提供理论依据,并为海上风电全生命周期、全链条生态环境的监管提供科学参考,对促进海上风电开发及海洋生态保护协调发展与深度融合具有重要意义。

       

      Abstract: With the rapid development of global offshore wind power industry, the impact of offshore wind farm (OWF) on marine ecosystem has received a widespread attention. By selecting the Bozhong offshore wind farm and its adjacent waters as the research object, the changes in water quality and sediment quality indices, as well as in community structures and diversity indices of planktons, benthonic organisms and necton in the waters of wind farm site before the construction of wind farm and after its official operation are compared and analyzed by using the data obtained during the ecological environment surveys carried out in the wind farm site watwes and its adjacient sea areas before the wind farm construction (April 2019) and after its official operation (May 2024). And the influences of offshore wind farms on marine ecological environment are evaluated comprehensively. The results show that the water quality in the Bozhong offshore wind farm and its adjacent waters has a trend of improvement after the official operation of the wind farm. Compared with the situation before the construction of the wind farm, the propotions of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), plumbum (Pb) and mercury (Hg) concentrations exceeding Class I water quality standards have decreased by 45.7%, 22.5% and 6.8% respectively and the surface sediment concentrations all meet the sediment quality standards of Class I. The average content of copper, however, increases by 9.4% in water and 52.2% in sediment after the wind farm operation. This should be observed as a key indicator for long-term monitoring. Aafter the official operation of the wind farm, moreover, the abundance of phytoplankton and the biomass of zooplankton and benthos decrease by 16.9%, 64.5% and 20.0% respectively, while the species number, diversity index and richness index of the plankton community increase significantly, indicating that the community stability of phytoplankton enhances, the community stability of zooplankton improves, the community stability of benthos deteriorates and the dominance of polychaeta which has smaller individual size and higher tolerance to environmental change becomes more obvious. Meanwhile, the artificial fish reef effect generated by the foundation structure of the offshore wind farm leads to an addition of fish with tactile characteristics among the dominant fish species. The fish catch volume has increased by 6.6% (in the mass) and 30.3% (in the length) after the operation of the wind farm. This study can provide a theoretical basis for the construction of intelligent supervision system of offshore wind farm ecosystems and offer technical support for the supervision of the whole life cycle and the entire chain ecological environment for offshore wind farms.

       

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