Detection of the water-soluble fraction of crude oil by the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus     

Walter H Pearson  Stephen E Miller  J.W Blaylock  Bori L Olla 《Marine environmental research》1981,5(1):3-11

The ability of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, to detect petroleum hydrocarbons was measured with behavioural techniques. When presented with a water-soluble fraction of Prudhoe Bay crude oil, blue crabs abruptly changed antennular orientation, began rhythmic beating of the maxillipedal flagellae, and increased antennular flicking rate. The threshold concentration at which 50% of the crabs detected the water-soluble fraction was 2 × 10^?6 mg/litre. The blue crab apparently can readily detect petroleum hydrocarbons at concentrations found in chronically polluted areas as well as oil spill situations.  相似文献   

Digital preprocessing techniques for GLORIA II sonar images     

Richard L. Miller  Fa S. Dwan  Chiu-Fu Cheng 《Geo-Marine Letters》1991,11(1):23-31

Image processing techniques are discussed that correct distortions in GLORIA II side scan sonar imagery including water column offset, slant-range distortion, multiple returns, aspect ratio, speckle noise, striping, and cross-track power drop-off. The software operates within NASA's ELAS image processing system and is applied to the original 12-bit GLORIA II data. Procedures are discussed for generating large scale mosaics and three-dimensional overlays with sea floor bathymetry. The results are shown in four sonographs acquired off the southern coast of California.  相似文献   

Assessment of cytochrome P450 1A in harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) using a minimally-invasive biopsy approach     

Miller KA  Assunção MG  Dangerfield NJ  Bandiera SM  Ross PS 《Marine environmental research》2005,60(2):153-169

Biomarkers of organochlorine exposure, such as the induction of cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A), can be used to assess the impact of environmental contaminants on the health of free-ranging marine mammal populations. The objective of the present study was to measure CYP1A in skin and liver biopsies obtained from live harbour seals (Phoca vitulina). Twelve harbour seal pups, aged three to five weeks, were captured from the Fraser River estuary, British Columbia, Canada, and temporarily held in captivity. Skin ( approximately 60 mg) and liver ( approximately 40 mg) biopsies, obtained while seals were under general anaesthesia, yielded sufficient tissue for the measurement of CYP1A by immunoblot analysis and ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase activity. A short-term exposure experiment, in which harbour seals (n=3) were treated orally with beta-naphthoflavone (BNF), resulted in increased hepatic and cutaneous CYP1A protein levels, consistent with observations in other mammals. This study is the first to measure CYP1A in skin and liver biopsies from live harbour seals and to report in vivo BNF-associated CYP1A induction in a marine mammal. The results demonstrate that microsamples collected using minimally-invasive techniques can provide toxicologically-relevant information form marine mammals.  相似文献   

Shoreline variability via empirical orthogonal function analysis: Part I temporal and spatial characteristics     

Jon K. Miller  Robert G. Dean 《Coastal Engineering》2007

Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) or principal components were used to extract the significant modes of shoreline variability from several data sets collected at three very different locations. Although EOFs have proven to be a valuable tool in the analysis of nearshore data, most applications have focused on the ability of the technique to describe cross-shore or profile variability. Here however, EOFs were used to help identify the dominant modes of longshore shoreline variability at Duck, North Carolina, the Gold Coast, Australia, and at several locations within the Columbia River Littoral Cell in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. In part one of this analysis, characteristic patterns of shoreline variability identified by the EOF analysis are described in detail. At each site, the dominant modes consisting of the first four eigenfunctions were found to describe nearly 95% of the total shoreline variability. At both Duck and the Gold Coast, several interesting longshore periodic features suggestive of sand waves were identified, while boundary effects related to natural headlands and navigational structures/entrances dominated the Pacific Northwest data sets.  相似文献   

Multiple stock structure of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off Newfoundland and Labrador determined from genetic variation   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Beacham  Terry D.; Brattey  John; Miller  Kristina M.; Le  Khai D.; Withler  Ruth E. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2002,59(4):650-665

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中华绒螯蟹仔蟹维生素E营养需求研究   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

艾春香  陈立侨  温小波 《海洋科学》2002,26(11):1-5

以酪蛋白、明胶，糊精和去维生素E的鱼油为原料，配制成等氨等能的半纯化基础饲料，每100g基础饲料中分别添加VE0，10，20，40，60，80mg制成试验饲料，对淡化5d的河蟹大眼幼体和后继仔蟹进行了为期25 d的饲养试验，探讨了VE对大眼幼体和仔蟹生长，存活、蜕皮的影响和适宜需求量，结果表明，每100g饲料中分别添20mgt 40mgVE时，Ⅲ期仔蟹的增重率，存活率和蜕皮频率均较高，分别为436．065，51．17％和2．54和487．61％，61．50％和2．58，而VE缺乏组，同期仔蟹的增重率。存活率和蜕皮频率最低，仅分别是264．94％、26．17％和2．21，但是当每100g饲料中VE的添加量提高到80mg时，仔蟹的上述三项指标，不但没有随之升高，反而明显下降，并与VE缺乏的对照组相接近，表明VE添加过量，也会抑制仔蟹的正常生长，存活和蜕皮。VE对仔蟹的正常生长发育，存活和蜕皮是必需的其适宜添加量为每100g饲料中添加20－40mg.  相似文献   

虾蟹类亲体生殖营养需求研究的进展   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

艾春香  李少菁  王桂忠  林琼武 《台湾海峡》2003,22(2):254-261

本文综述了虾蟹类生殖营养的最新研究成果,并讨论了各营养素对虾蟹类亲体成熟、生殖和幼体质量的影响．此外,就今后在虾蟹类亲体生殖营养方面开展深入研究提出了一些建议。  相似文献   

多目标粒子群算法与选址中的形状优化   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

黎海波  黎夏  刘小平  艾彬  刘涛 《遥感学报》2008,12(5)

选址问题是GIS最基本的任务之一.一般性的选址是基于点的位置优化,可利用有关GIS功能完成.实际的选址问题是很复杂的.在给定设施的数量和面积前提下,需要在空间上确定设施的最佳位置,并对形状进行优化,以获取最大的效用.采用一般的方法无法求解这种最优化问题.而且,当选址问题涉及多个目标和不同的约束性条件时,就会变得异常复杂.提出了利用多目标粒子群优化算法和区域形状变异算法相结合来解决复杂的空间选址问题.具有智能的搜索方法,大大提高了空间搜索能力,并保持了搜索区域的连通性,取得了较好的效果.  相似文献   

基于蚁群智能的遥感影像分类新方法   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

刘小平  黎夏  何晋强  艾彬  彭晓鹃 《遥感学报》2008,12(2):253-262

智能式遥感分类是遥感研究的新热点.提出了一种基于蚁群智能规则挖掘(ant-miner)的遥感影像分类新方法.遥感数据各波段之间存在较强的相关性,这种相关性往往会导致分类产生误差.而ant-miner算法中的信息素是基于规则整体性能的,信息素的动态更新能有效地处理相关性较强的数据,所提供的正反馈信息能纠正启发式函数缺陷所造成的错误.因此,蚁群智能算法应用于遥感分类具有一定的优势.将该方法用于广州市地区的遥感影像,取得了较好的分类结果.并与See5.0决策树方法及最大似然方法(MLH)进行了对比研究,实验结果表明,蚁群智能算法分类精度比后两者的分类精度更高.  相似文献   

三峡水库区兴山后坝滑坡成因分析   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

艾飞  侯天顺  关国杰 《中国地质灾害与防治学报》2008,19(3):1-5

文章通过对三峡水库区兴山后坝滑坡的地质、结构及变形特征研究以及稳定性分析,阐明了该滑坡成因和影响因素。研究发现,滑坡活动主要受地形地貌、地层岩性、人类工程活动以及降雨等因素的影响。运用剩余推力法对比分析天然及暴雨条件下不同层位的滑坡稳定性系数,得出在暴雨作用下滑坡表层滑带稳定性系数最小,不同滑带的稳定性受降雨的影响也各不相同,呈表层〉浅层〉深层的规律;这主要受滑带土的粘土矿物组分的影响。  相似文献