Centropages typicus (Crustacea,Copepoda) reacts to volatile compounds produced by planktonic algae          下载免费PDF全文

Chingoileima Maibam  Patrick Fink  Giovanna Romano  Maria Cristina Buia  Emanuela Butera  Valerio Zupo 《Marine Ecology》2015,36(3):819-834

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) may play the role of infochemicals and trigger chemotaxis and ecologically relevant responses in freshwater and marine invertebrates. Aquatic grazers use these signals as chemical cues to trace the presence of their food or to detect their predators. However, detailed data are still needed to fully understand the role of these relationships in marine plankton. We investigated the ability of the copepod Centropages typicus to perceive the odour of three planktonic diatoms (Skeletonema marinoi, Pseudonitzschia delicatissima and Chaetoceros affinis) and a dinoflagellate (Prorocentrum minimum). This information is ecologically relevant for orientation, habitat selection, predator avoidance and communication. In addition, as the pH of the medium influences the perception of chemical cues in aquatic environments, we tested the effect of seawater acidification resulting from increasing levels of CO₂, and its influences on the olfactory reactions of copepods. For this reason, our tests were repeated in normal (pH 8.10) and acidified (pH 7.76) seawater in order to simulate future ocean acidification scenarios. Using replicated chemokinetic assays we demonstrated that VOCs produced by Ps. delicatissima and Pr. minimum attract copepods at normal pH, but this effect is lowered in acidified water. By contrast, the odour of S. marinoi mainly induces a reaction of repulsion, but in acidified water and at higher concentrations this toxic diatom becomes attractive for copepods. Our experiments demonstrate, for the first time, that copepods are sensitive to the volatile compounds contained in various microalgae; VOCs prompt chemokinesis according to algal species and odour concentrations. However, seawater acidification induces changes in copepods' perception of odours. These findings highlight the sensitivity of chemically mediated interactions to global changes  相似文献   

Hydrological regimes in different slope environments and implications on rainfall thresholds triggering shallow landslides     

Fusco  Francesco  Bordoni  Massimiliano  Tufano  Rita  Vivaldi  Valerio  Meisina  Claudia  Valentino  Roberto  Bittelli  Marco  De Vita  Pantaleone 《Natural Hazards》2022,114(1):907-939

Natural Hazards - Assessing hazard of rainfall-induced shallow landslides represents a challenge for the risk management of urbanized areas for which the setting up of early warning systems, based...  相似文献   

In situ monitoring of the groundwater field in an unsaturated pyroclastic slope for slope stability evaluation   总被引：4，自引：4，他引：0  

Marianna Pirone  Raffaele Papa  Marco Valerio Nicotera  Gianfranco Urciuoli 《Landslides》2015,12(2):259-276

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Incorporating Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction into River Management Models     

Allison Valerio  Harihar Rajaram  Edith Zagona 《Ground water》2010,48(5):661-673

Accurate representation of groundwater-surface water interactions is critical to modeling low river flows in the semi-arid southwestern United States. Although a number of groundwater-surface water models exist, they are seldom integrated with river operation/management models. A link between the object-oriented river and reservoir operations model, RiverWare, and the groundwater model, MODFLOW, was developed to incorporate groundwater-surface water interaction processes, such as river seepage/gains, riparian evapotranspiration, and irrigation return flows, into a rule-based water allocations model. An explicit approach is used in which the two models run in tandem, exchanging data once in each computational time step. Because the MODFLOW grid is typically at a finer resolution than RiverWare objects, the linked model employs spatial interpolation and summation for compatible communication of exchanged variables. The performance of the linked model is illustrated through two applications in the Middle Rio Grande Basin in New Mexico where overappropriation impacts endangered species habitats. In one application, the linked model results are compared with historical data; the other illustrates use of the linked model for determining management strategies needed to attain an in-stream flow target. The flows predicted by the linked model at gauge locations are reasonably accurate except during a few very low flow periods when discrepancies may be attributable to stream gaging uncertainties or inaccurate documentation of diversions. The linked model accounted for complex diversions, releases, groundwater pumpage, irrigation return flows, and seepage between the groundwater system and canals/drains to achieve a schedule of releases that satisfied the in-stream target flow.  相似文献   

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution in native and caged mussels.   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

M T Piccardo  R Coradeghini  F Valerio 《Marine pollution bulletin》2001,42(10):951-956

During 1999, a biological monitoring study was conducted at four sites along the Ligurian coast (Cornigliano, Voltri, Vado Ligure and Sanremo). At each site the concentration and composition of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were investigated in native and caged mussels. The mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis), sampled in the Spring and the Autumn, showed different accumulation patterns according to the source of pollution they were exposed to. The PAH concentrations were higher in the native than in the caged mussels. The coastal sites were classified according to PAH concentrations found in mussel tissue samples: Native mussels: Vado Ligure < Voltri < San-remo < = Cornigliano, Caged mussels: Vado Ligure = Voltri = San-remo < Cornigliano. The different classification is explained by the different location of the organisms: native mussels were located near the air-water interface, while caged mussels were situated at -3 m from the water surface. The PAH concentrations in the native and caged mussels showed a similar seasonal variability, and can provide the same information about the sources of PAHs.  相似文献   

Temporal variations in the spatial distribution of shoot density in a Posidonia oceanica meadow and patterns of genetic diversity     

Valerio Zupo  Maria Cristina Buia  Maria Cristina Gambi  Maurizio Lorenti  & Gabriele Procaccini 《Marine Ecology》2006,27(4):328-338

The meadows of the Mediterranean endemic seagrass Posidonia oceanica exhibit relatively high variations of structural and biometric features at various spatial scales. An investigation performed in 1992 in the meadow off Lacco Ameno (Island of Ischia, Gulf of Naples, Italy) detected peculiar spatial patterns of plant distribution, characterized by nestlike structures with radially increasing or decreasing shoot densities. Eight years later (2000), geo‐referenced collections at selected points were repeated to trace the temporal variations of shoot density and investigate the recurrence of the density cores previously detected. In addition, shoots for molecular analyses were collected to check the hypothesis that nestlike patterns exhibit highest levels of genetic variability, due to the confluence of several genetically distinct stolons. The 2000 survey confirmed the presence of the main density cores detected in 1992, although their spatial distribution was slightly shifted and a general decrease of spatial anisotropy was observed, probably due to an increased disturbance, mainly due to pleasure boat anchoring. Patterns of genetic diversity showed a more complex picture, well related to the shoot density spatial pattern, especially when compared with the previous 1992 survey. Patterns of genetic diversity confirmed our previous hypotheses on the genesis of shoot density cores, suggesting they are produced over long time, due to a slow stolonization process and a convergence of different genotypes. Regression of the meadow and decrease of density may lead, in short periods, to a homogenization of the density patterns, while genetic diversity cores represent a long‐term ‘memory’ of their previous distribution.  相似文献   

Radiation Physics     

Pirronello  Valerio  Manicó  Giulio 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1998,80(1-3):261-283

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Preface     

Ehrenfreund  Pascale  Krafft  Catherine  Kochan  Hermann  Pirronello  Valerio 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1998,80(1-3):1-1

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Geohazards Monitoring in Roma from InSAR and In Situ Data: Outcomes of the PanGeo Project   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Valerio Comerci  Eutizio Vittori  Carlo Cipolloni  Pio Di Manna  Luca Guerrieri  Stefania Nisio  Claudio Succhiarelli  Maria Ciuffreda  Erika Bertoletti 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2015,172(11):2997-3028

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On the potential of an RST-based analysis of the MODIS-derived chl-a product over Condor seamount and surrounding areas (Azores,NE Atlantic)     

Emanuele Ciancia  Clara Magalhães Loureiro  Ana Mendonça  Irina Coviello  Carmine Di Polito  Teodosio Lacava  Nicola Pergola  Valeria Satriano  Valerio Tramutoli  Ana Martins 《Ocean Dynamics》2016,66(9):1165-1180

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