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 Bohai Zhong Offshore Wind Farm as an 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: As the rapid development of the global offshore wind power industry, the impact of offshore wind farms (OWF) on marine ecosystems has received widespread attention. This paper selects the Bohai Zhong offshore wind farm and its adjacent waters as the research object, the field survey data before the wind farm construction (April 2019) and after its operation (May 2024) are used to compare and analyze the changes in water quality, sediment quality, as well as the community structure and diversity index of phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic organisms, and fishery resources in the water area of the wind farm. Furthermore, the impact of OWF on marine ecological environment are evaluated comprehensively. The results show that the water quality indicators in the area of the Bohai Zhong offshore wind farm and adjacent waters showed a trend of improvement after its operation, the ratios of Average concentrations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), plumbum (Pb) and mercury (Hg) had decreased significantly by 45.7%, 22.5% and 6.8% respectively to those before the construction of the wind farm. The concentrations of surface sediment all meet the first -class sediment quality standards indicating that the sediment was in good condition, but the content of Copper in the water and sediment had increased by 9.4% and 52.2%, respectively, which should be observed as a key indicator for long-term monitoring. After the wind farm is officially put into operation, the abundance of cell abundance of phytoplankton, the biomass of zooplankton and benthic organisms had decreased by 16.9%, 64.5% and 20.0% respectively, but the species number and diversity index of the plankton community increased, indicating that the community stability of phytoplankton was enhanced, and the community stability of zooplankton was improved; the community stability of benthic was deteriorated, the advantage of benthic organisms with smaller individual size and higher tolerance to environmental changes had obvious dominance, the number of fish species and amount of fish caught increased slightly after the operation of the wind farm. Meanwhile, the artificial reef effect generated by the foundation structure of the OWF had led to a slight increase in the dominated species of fish with tactile characteristics in the fish community, and the number of species and catch volume had slightly increased by 6.6% in the mass and 30.3% in the length after the operation of the wind farm. The research results can provide a scientific theoretical basis for the construction of the intelligent ecological supervision system to the OWF ecosystems, and offer technical support for the supervision of the whole life cycle and the entire chain ecological environment for the OWF. It is of great significance for promoting the coordinated and integrated development of offshore wind power development and marine ecological protection.

       

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