Effect of temperature on contents of essential highly unsaturated fatty acids in freshwater zooplankton     

Michail I. Gladyshev  Vitaliy P. Semenchenko  Olga P. Dubovskaya  Elena B. Fefilova  Olesia N. Makhutova  Zhanna F. Buseva  Nadezhda N. Sushchik  Vladimir I. Razlutskij  Ekaterina V. Lepskaya  Mariya A. Baturina  Galina S. Kalachova  Olga N. Kononova 《Limnologica》2011,41(4):339-347

In 11 lakes from cold and warm regions we studied the content of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFA) in seston (<130 μm) and crustacean zooplankton using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. An increase of temperature correlated with a decrease of HUFA content in zooplankton. A multivariate canonical correlation analyses revealed, that the decrease of HUFA content was related with a decrease of per cent of copepods in zooplankton communities, which are known to have higher HUFA levels in their biomass, than cladocerans. This means that temperature primarily affected the HUFA levels indirectly, via changing of taxonomic structure of zooplankton community, while the homeoviscous adaptation of zooplankton individuals had comparatively lower importance. As found, water temperature was better predictor of HUFA contents of zooplankton, than the fatty acid composition of seston. Thus, it can be predicted, that a probable climate warming will decrease the content of the essential HUFA in freshwater zooplankton with possible negative consequences for animals of higher trophic levels.  相似文献   

Sea Ice, 2nd edn     

Vincenzo Saggiomo  Olga Mangoni  Antonio Pusceddu 《Marine Ecology》2011,32(1):132-133

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Paleoclimate study of mountain ecosystems by multiple group biological analysis     

Marina SKRYPNIKOVA  Olga USPENSKAYA  Olga KHOKHLOVA 《山地科学学报》2011,8(1):24-36

Methodological problems of climatic reconstruction for different periods of Holocene are discussed on the basis of a multiple group biological analysis on peat-sapropel sediments.The possibility of biological analysis is exemplified by the paleoclimatic reconstruction for Carpathian and Altai Mountain ranges.For the "Skolevsky Beskidy" national park of Carpaty the paleoclimatic scenarios have been drown up aiming at the more precise definition of climatic conditions for the period of mass mountain slope terracing.The stability of terrace systems of various designs in the current climatic conditions has been assessed.It is shown that during periods of humid climate the terraces,whose designs have been focused on drainage,were built.In periods of dry and warm climate the terrace systems capable of accumulating water were built.Both these types of terrace systems are destroyed in nowadays.Only those terrace systems are stable which were adjusted by their builders to contrast variations of precipitation.For Western Altais the paleoclimatic scenario has been done to forecast the safety of the Bronze Age kurgans(burial earth mounds) with permafrost inside the construction.In the Altay region during the Holocene it has revealed two periods of sharp cooling,the peaks of which occurred in the intervals 4500-4300 and 2500-2300 years ago,and two periods of pronounced climatic drying 4900-4700 and 130-70 years ago.Depletion of the algae composition in the layer corresponding to the last period of drying climate indicates a very sharp change in the parameters of moisture and turning the lake into a dry swamp.Periods of cold weather may have contributed to the formation of special ritual traditions of the Sakan tribes that require the frozen ground to bury the dead.The later climate fluctuations identified have not affected the safety of permafrost in burial mounds constructed in the V-III cc BC.  相似文献   

Coronal Mass Ejections from Magnetic Systems Encompassing Filament Channels Without Filaments     

Alexei?A.?PevtsovEmail author  Olga?Panasenco  Sara?F.?Martin 《Solar physics》2012,277(1):185-201

Well-developed filament channels may be present in the solar atmosphere even when there is no trace of filament material inside them. Such magnetic systems with filament channels without filaments can result in coronal mass ejections that might appear to have no corresponding solar surface source regions. In this case study, we analyze CMEs on 9 August 2001 and 3 March 2011 and trace their origins to magnetic systems with filament channels containing no obvious filament material on the days around the eruptions.  相似文献   

Soil carbon accumulation after open-cast coal and oil shale mining in Northern Hemisphere: a quantitative review   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Olga Vindušková  Jan Frouz 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,69(5):1685-1698

Meta-analysis and other statistical methods were used to evaluate how changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) content in post-mining soils are related to different factors; the data were obtained from 17 studies covering 93 temperate post-mining sites in the Northern Hemisphere that had been revegetated by forest or grassland either by reclamation or natural succession. Because many studies have failed to report any measures of variance, only part of the data were used for meta-analysis. According to the meta-analysis, the rate of SOC accumulation was unrelated to vegetation type. In a separate analysis that included all available data and in which rates of SOC accumulation at each site were used as individual entries, the rate of SOC accumulation differed depending on the age of the site and vegetation type. Under deciduous forests, the rate reached a maximum after 5–10 years and then decreased. Under coniferous forests, the initial SOC values were lower than under deciduous forests, but slowly increased with age and reached a maximum after 30–40 years. No significant temporal trend was found in grasslands, probably because the data set included only relatively young grassland sites. Based on data from sites younger than 30 years, sites with grasslands and deciduous forests accumulated SOC faster than sites with coniferous forests. The rate of accumulation was negatively correlated with temperature under coniferous forests, but positively correlated with temperature in grasslands. This suggests that carbon sequestration is favored by cold climates in coniferous forests, but by warm climates in grasslands. Deciduous forests were intermediate. Compared to conifers, deciduous trees may support SOC sequestration deeper in the soil profile, which may enhance SOC stability. A large proportion of post-mining sites reach the pre-mining SOC stock within 20 years or less after reclamation.  相似文献   

The structure of the natural fossil resins of North Eurasia according to IR-spectroscopy and microscopic data     

Yevgeny?A.?GolubevEmail author  Olga?V.?Martirosyan 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2012,39(3):247-258

Molecular and supermolecular structures of fossilized resins from the North Eurasia have been studied in detail by IR-spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning (SEM), and high-resolution transmission electron (HRTEM) microscopy. The analysis of the IR-spectroscopy data allowed to identify the types of the fossil resins (succinite, rumanite, retinite, etc.). In the succinites and rumanite, the supermolecular structure was observed by AFM. Sizes of the supermolecular particles are 50–120 nm. Some chain-like and cluster-like aggregates can be observed when globules contact with each other. Using SEM and HRTEM techniques, it has been shown that mineral impurities are mainly located as scattered inclusions (from one nanometers up to several tens micrometers in size) in an amorphous organic matrix of the resin.  相似文献   

Arsenic mobility in two mine tailings drainage systems and its removal from solution by natural geochemical barriers     

Nataliya V. Yurkevich  Olga P. Saeva  Nadezhda A. Pal’chik 《Applied Geochemistry》2012

Sulfide-mineral-bearing mill wastes are sources of high concentrations of acid, soluble metals, and As. These are serious problems for ore mining areas such as the Kemerovo and Cheljabinsk regions in Russia. This study evaluated the distribution of the mill wastes, the mobility of As from the wastes, and the potential of natural materials to attenuate As dispersion in the broader environment. Arsenic contents in wastes of the Belovo Zn-processing (Kemerovo) and the Karabash Cu-smelting plants (Cheljabinsk) are 2–3 orders of magnitude higher than the content of continental crust. Main mineral forms of As in these wastes are arsenopyrite (FeAsS) and scorodite (FeAsO₄·2H₂O). High dissolved As concentrations are found in water draining the wastes and in rivers adjacent to the mill sites. The water concentrations commonly exceed drinking water standards. High As concentrations in bottom sediments of the affected rivers extend a 100 m downstream of the waste drainage input. These sediments are also a source of river water contamination. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the ability of natural water to mobilize As from the wastes. The Belovo tailings released 86% of their contained As to the infiltrating water, whereas the less reactive Karabash tailings released only 22% of total As. The experimental leachates were used as influent to columns that tested the ability of limestone and natural clay to reduce the concentration of dissolved As and associated metals. Some dissolved As was precipitated with Fe, Pb and Sb initially in the limestone column. The decrease in dissolved As is consistent with the accumulation of As in yellow ferriferous sediments in the Belovo settling pond. In the pond and wetland sediments, As mobility is also decreased by the formation of sulfides and arsenides. Cubanite (CuFe₂S₃), klaprothite (Cu₃BiS₃)_, rammelsbergite (NiAs₂), maucherite (Ni₁₁As₈), semseyite (Cu₉Sb₈S₂₁), and skutterudite (CoAs₃) were found in the chemically reducing lower sediments of the Belovo settling pond.  相似文献   

Hearing the silence: finding the middle ground in the spatial humanities? Extracting and comparing perceived silence and tranquillity in the English Lake District     

Olga Chesnokova  Joanna E. Taylor  Ian N. Gregory  Ross S. Purves 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(12):2430-2454

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Crater clusters on Mars: Shedding light on martian ejecta launch conditions     

Olga P. Popova  William K. Hartmann  Derek C. Richardson 《Icarus》2007,190(1):50-73

We have identified two classes of crater clusters on Mars. One class is “small clusters” (crater diameter D∼ tens m, spread over few hundred m), fitting our earlier calculations for the breakup of weak stone meteoroids in the martian atmosphere [Popova, O.P., Nemtchinov, I.V., Hartmann, W.K., 2003. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 38, 905-925]. The second class is “large clusters” (D∼ few hundred m, spread over 2 to 30 km), which do not fit any predictions for breakup of known meteoroid types. We consider a range of possible explanations. The best explanation relates to known, high-speed ejection of large, semi-coherent, fractured rock masses from the surface, as secondary debris from primary impacts. The clusters are probably due to breakup of partly fracture, few-hundred-meter scale weak blocks, especially during ascent (producing moderate lateral spreading velocities among the fragments during sub-orbital flight), and also during descent of the resulting swarm. These conclusions illuminate the launch conditions of martian meteorites, including fragmentation processes, although more work is needed on the lateral separation of fragments (during either atmosphere descent or ascent) due to the effects of volatiles in the projectiles. Martian meteorites probably come from smaller martian craters than the clusters' source craters. The latter probably have D?85 km, although we have not ruled out diameters as small as 15 km.  相似文献   

Using SNAP for Galactic &; extragalactic astronomy     

Olga K. Sil’chenko  Alexei S. Rastorguev  Nikolai G. Bochkarev 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,307(4):385-393

SNAP, the SuperNova Acceleration Probe, is planned as a space-based telescope designed specifically to search for and monitor cosmological supernovae and weak lensing. In this paper we propose some other mission objectives which are of great importance in the fields of Galactic and extragalactic astronomy and which can be done as by-products with the same instrumentation and survey strategy as currently proposed for the main SNAP mission.  相似文献