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Glenn Plumb and other scientists believe oil spill will harm base of Gulf food chain

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Some scientists say oil from the Gulf Oil spill is harming the base of the region’s food chain. They say it will create a ripple effect that will reach all the way up to the fishing industry.

一些科學(xué)家指出海灣地區(qū)食物鏈的底層生物正遭受石油泄漏的危害，這會(huì)帶來(lái)連鎖反應(yīng)，并最終波及水產(chǎn)業(yè)。

Glenn Plumb: If we anticipate that this is a short-lived event with a short-lived expression in disturbance of the ecosystem, then we’re probably not anticipating the right scenario.

格倫?普萊伯：如果我們期望這只是暫時(shí)的事故，給生態(tài)系統(tǒng)帶來(lái)影響也只是暫時(shí)的，那么可能事與愿違。

That’s Glenn Plumb, a chief scientist with Yellowstone National Park. In May 2010, Plumb was sent to the Gulf Coast by the U.S. Department of the Interior to help determine how the April 2010 ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill might affect the Gulf ecosystem. He explained that right now, along more than 100 miles of the Gulf coastline, the oil is harming tiny organisms at the very base of the food web.

這位是格倫?普萊伯，黃石國(guó)家公園的首席科學(xué)家。在2010年5月，美國(guó)內(nèi)政部派普萊伯去幫助評(píng)定2010年4月發(fā)生的墨西哥灣石油泄漏對(duì)海灣生態(tài)系統(tǒng)的影響。他說(shuō)，100多英里海灣海岸線上的微生物正遭受油污危害，這些微生物處在食物鏈的最底層。

Glenn Plumb: In the top two millimeters of the mudflats is just the food factory that feeds much of the Gulf, the microscopic worms, the tiny invertebrates that then become part of the food web feeding the oysters and the small?crabs and the small fish that then become the food for larger and larger animals.

格倫?普萊伯：泥灘頂層的兩毫米泥層其實(shí)算是食物制造廠，為海灣那些微小的蠕蟲供給食物，這種微小的無(wú)脊椎動(dòng)物就成了食物鏈的一部分，成為牡蠣、小螃蟹和小魚等的食物來(lái)源，然后這些小魚小蝦又成為更大動(dòng)物的食物來(lái)源。

If these tiny invertebrates at the bottom of the food chain die, he said, that ultimately harms bigger sea creatures and the entire fishing industry.

他說(shuō)，如果這些處在食物鏈底層的微小的無(wú)脊椎動(dòng)物死掉了，將最終危害那些大的海洋生物及整個(gè)水產(chǎn)業(yè)。

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