Cladocora caespitosa bioconstructions in the Columbretes Islands Marine Reserve (Spain,NW Mediterranean): distribution,size structure and growth     

Diego‐Kurt Kersting  Cristina Linares 《Marine Ecology》2012,33(4):427-436

Today, living banks of the coral Cladocora caespitosa appear to be restricted to a few Mediterranean locations and are threatened by the escalating impacts affecting coastal areas. In this study the exceptional occurrence of the Mediterranean coral C. caespitosa in the Columbretes Islands Marine Reserve (NW Mediterranean, Spain) is characterised in terms of spatial distribution, cover area, colony size and growth rates. The coral colonies form beds and banks in rocky bottoms within a semi‐enclosed bay that offers both hydrodynamic protection and high water exchange. The spatial distribution of the C. caespitosa colonies, from 5 to 27 m depth, is highly aggregated, depending on sea‐floor morphology and showing up to 80% of substrate coverage. The annual corallite growth rates obtained through the alizarin red staining method and x‐ray image analysis are similar, and range between 2.55 ± 0.79 mm and 2.54 ± 0.81 mm, respectively. The exceptional nature of these bioconstructions is due to their cumulative cover area, which is comparable in size to the largest C. caespitosa bioconstructions described to date in Mljet National Park (Croatia, Adriatic Sea).  相似文献   

Paleoenvironments of the evolving Pliocene to early Pleistocene foreland basin in northwestern Taiwan: An example from the Dahan River section          下载免费PDF全文

Tsun‐You Pan  Andrew Tien‐Shun Lin  Wen‐Rong Chi 《Island Arc》2015,24(3):317-341

The overriding of the Luzon volcanic arc atop the underlying Chinese rifted‐continental margin has caused the formation of the Taiwan mountain belts and a peripheral foreland basin west of the orogen since the late Miocene. In this study, lithofacies analysis and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphic investigations of the Dahan River section in northwestern (NW) Taiwan were performed. Our results offer insights into the temporal evolution of the sedimentary environments and the competing effects of the sedimentation and basin tectonics of the NW Taiwan foreland basin from the Pliocene to early Pleistocene. Nannofossil biostratigraphic studies showed that the upper Kueichulin Formation and the overlying Chinshui Shale can be assigned to the NN15 biozone of the Pliocene age, and the Cholan Formation pertains to NN16–NN18 of the early Pleistocene. The NN15–NN16 boundary coincides roughly with the boundary of the Chinshui Shale and Cholan Formation. We recognized three major sedimentary environments in the studied foreland succession comprising the upper Kueichulin Formation, Chinshui Shale, Cholan Formation and Yangmei Formation, in ascending order. During the deposition of the upper Kueichulin Formation in the early Pliocene, the dominant environment was a wave‐ and tide‐influenced open marine setting. During the late Pliocene, the environment deepened to an outer‐offshore setting when the sediments of Chinshui Shale were accumulated. In the Pleistocene, the environment then shallowed to wave‐dominated estuaries during the deposition of the lower Cholan Formation, and the basin was rapidly filled, generating a meandering and sandy braided river environment during the deposition of the upper Cholan to the Yangmei Formation. In summary, the evolution of sedimentary environments in the studied succession shows a deepening then a shallowing and coarsening upward trend during the period from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene, spanning the age from approximately 4 to 1 Ma.  相似文献   

Impact of cross-reef water fluxes on lagoon dynamics: a simple parameterization for coral lagoon circulation model,with application to the Ouano Lagoon,New Caledonia     

Cristele Chevalier  Damien Sous  Jean-Luc Devenon  Marc Pagano  Gilles Rougier  Jean Blanchot 《Ocean Dynamics》2015,65(11):1509-1534

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Numerical modelling of mixed-sediment consolidation     

Florent Grasso  Pierre Le Hir  Philippe Bassoullet 《Ocean Dynamics》2015,65(4):607-616

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Effect of Natural Zeolite Application on Nitrite Concentrations in Rape (Brassica campestris L.) in Pb‐Contaminated Soils in Peri‐Urban Areas          下载免费PDF全文

Wei‐yu Shi  Hua Li  Sheng Du  Yiping Chen  Kaibo Wang 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(3):408-413

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Improvement of Oxygen Release from Calcium Peroxide‐polyvinyl Alcohol Beads by Adding Low‐cost Bamboo Biochar and Its Application in Bioremediation          下载免费PDF全文

Chih‐Hung Wu  Shih‐Hsien Chang  Chi‐Wen Lin 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(2):287-295

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Interaction between Microbes DNA and Atrazine in Black Soil Analyzed by Spectroscopy          下载免费PDF全文

Ying Zhang  Huosheng Guo  Dongfang Meng  Yang Wang  Po‐keung Wong 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(6):867-871

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Salinity Tolerance in Wheat Cultivars Is Related to Enhanced Activities of Enzymatic Antioxidants and Reduced Lipid Peroxidation          下载免费PDF全文

Abdul Khaliq  Muhammad Zia‐ul‐Haq  Faizan Ali  Farhena Aslam  Amar Matloob  Abubakr Navab  Saddam Hussain 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(8):1248-1258

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Dimethyl Phthalate Degradation by UV/H2O2: Combination of Experimental Methods and Quantum Chemical Calculation          下载免费PDF全文

Er‐Deng Du  Xin‐Xin Feng  Ying‐Qing Guo  Ming‐Guo Peng  Hong‐Qi Feng  Juan‐Lin Wang  Shuo Zhang 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(6):811-821

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Biodegradation of 2,4‐Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Contaminated Soil in a Roller Slurry Bioreactor          下载免费PDF全文

Yasmen A. Mustafa  Hayder M. Abdul‐Hameed  Zainab Abdul Razak 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2015,43(8):1241-1247

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