Artemia parthenogenetica in Lake Hayward, Western Australia. II. Feeding biology in a shallow, seasonally stratified, hypersaline lake     

Alan Savage  Brenton Knott 《International Journal of Salt Lake Research》1998,7(1):13-24

Primary production in Lake Hayward, Western Australia, is dominated by benthic microbial communities, with limited planktonic primary production. This study investigated the question of howArtemia, commonly regarded as simple, obligate, non-selective filter feeders, were able to survive in this system. Bacteria (heterotrophic and autotrophic, filamentous and unicellular) were the major components in the diet of theArtemia in Lake Hayward. These bacteria were derived from bacterial aggregates in the water column and also from benthic mat material (both still attached to the substrate and from pieces floating in the water column). Benthic diatoms were a substantial dietary component of animals living in the unstratified shallow regions. Photosynthetic eukaryotic nanoplankton comprised a minor component of the diet of thisArtemia population. Gut contents of a large number of animals and the results of a simple laboratory test indicated that these animals utilise substrate-bound food resources. The results of the present study raises the question of the ecological significance of surface grazing by brine shrimps in other shallow, benthos dominated saline systems.  相似文献   

Magnetostratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of the late Miocene to early Pleistocene sediments, Quseir region, Egyptian Red Sea     

Candida B. Lean  Mark W. Hounslow  Fred J. Vine  Gill M. Harwood  Liz Elvidge  Kevin Fisk  Alan C. Kendall  & Paul Montgomery§ 《Geophysical Journal International》1998,133(2):435-450

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Fire-related hyperconcentrated and debris flows on Storm King Mountain, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

S. H. Cannon  P. S. Powers  W. Z. Savage 《Environmental Geology》1998,35(2-3):210-218

 The South Canyon Fire of July 1994 burned 800 ha of vegetation on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA. On the night of 1 September 1994, in response to torrential rains, debris flows inundated seven areas along a 5-km length of Interstate Highway 70. Mapping from aerial photographs, along with field observations and measurements, shows that the September rainstorm eroded unconsolidated, burned surficial soil from the hillsides, flushed dry-ravel deposits from the tributary channels, and transported loose, large material from the main channels. The hyperconcentrated flows and debris flows inundated 14 ha of Interstate Highway 70 with 70 000 m³ of material. Although the burned area was seeded in November 1994, the potential for continuing debris-flow activity remains. Incision and entrainment of channel alluvium, as well as erosion of loose material from the hillslopes could result in future debris- and hyperconcentrated-flow activity. Received: 15 October 1996 / Accepted: 25 June 1997  相似文献   

Tropicality Imagined and Experienced     

Victor R. Savage 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2004,25(1):26-31

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Modelling shear wave splitting observations from Wellington, New Zealand     

Katrina Marson-Pidgeon  Martha K. Savage 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,157(2):853-864

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Editorial: In the tracks of disaster     

James D. Sidaway  Victor R. Savage  Carl Grundy‐Warr 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2008,29(3):245-250

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Distribution of seismic anisotropy in the subduction zone beneath the Wellington region, New Zealand     

I. Matcham  M. K. Savage  & K. R. Gledhill 《Geophysical Journal International》2000,140(1):1-10

Shear wave splitting measurements from S arrivals of local earthquakes recorded at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) broadband sensor SNZO are used to determine a basic anisotropic structure for the subduction zone in the Wellington region. With the use of high-frequency filters, fast anisotropic polarization ( φ ) and splitting time ( δt ) measurements typical of crustal anisotropy are evident, but the larger splitting expected from the mantle is often not resolved. The small splitting seen agrees well with the results of previous studies concerning shallow crustal anisotropy. With the use of lower-frequency filters, measurements more consistent with mantle anisotropy are made. Anisotropy of 4.4 ± 0.9 per cent with a fast polarization of 29° ± 38° is calculated for the subducting slab, from 20 to 70  km depth. Using this result in addition to the results of previous studies, a model is proposed. The model requires a frequency-dependent anisotropy of less than 1.4 per cent when measured with a period of ~2  s to be present in the sub-slab mantle.
Separate from this population, a band of events in northern Cook Strait with an 86° ± 10° fast polarization is seen. This is at about 40° from the strike of the Hikurangi margin, and suggests a source of shear strain 40° removed from that found in the majority of the region. The cause of this is probably a deformation in the subducting slab in this region, as it moves towards a greater incline to the south.  相似文献   

Timeline analysis and wavelet multiscale analysis of the AKARI All-Sky Survey at 90 μm     

Lingyu Wang  Michael Rowan-Robinson  Issei Yamamura  Hiroshi Shibai  Rich Savage  Seb Oliver  Matthew Thomson  Nurur Rahman  Dave Clements  Elysandra Figueredo  Tomotsugu Goto  Sunao Hasegawa  Woong-Seob Jeong  Shuji Matsuura  Thomas G. Müller  Takao Nakagawa  Chris P. Pearson  Stephen Serjeant  Mai Shirahata  Glenn J. White 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(2):601-615

We present a careful analysis of the point-source detection limit of the AKARI All-Sky Survey in the WIDE-S 90-μm band near the North Ecliptic Pole (NEP). Timeline analysis is used to detect IRAS ( Infrared Astronomy Satellite ) sources and then a conversion factor is derived to transform the peak timeline signal to the interpolated 90-μm flux of a source. Combined with a robust noise measurement, the point-source flux detection limit at signal-to-noise ratio  (S/N) > 5  for a single detector row is  1.1 ± 0.1 Jy  which corresponds to a point-source detection limit of the survey of ∼0.4 Jy.
Wavelet transform offers a multiscale representation of the Time Series Data ( tsd ). We calculate the continuous wavelet transform of the tsd and then search for significant wavelet coefficients considered as potential source detections. To discriminate real sources from spurious or moving objects, only sources with confirmation are selected. In our multiscale analysis, IRAS sources selected above 4σ can be identified as the only real sources at the Point Source Scales. We also investigate the correlation between the non- IRAS sources detected in timeline analysis and cirrus emission using wavelet transform and contour plots of wavelet power spectrum. It is shown that the non- IRAS sources are most likely to be caused by excessive noise over a large range of spatial scales rather than real extended structures such as cirrus clouds.  相似文献   

Implications for intraplate volcanism and back-arc deformation in northwestern New Zealand, from joint inversion of receiver functions and surface waves   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

N. A. Horspool  M. K. Savage  S. Bannister 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,166(3):1466-1483

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Layered ultramafic-gabbro bodies in the Lewisian of northwest Scotland: geochemistry and petrogenesis     

Jane D. Sills  David Savage  Janet V. Watson  Brian F. Windley 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1982,58(3):345-360

Layered ultramafic-gabbro bodies occur widely in the Archaean of northwest Scotland. They were metamorphosed at granulite or high amphibolite facies and were tectonically thinned and broken up during deformation. They comprise repeated ultramafic-gabbro layers, locally with Ni-poor sulphide-rich tops, each rhythmic unit showing decreasing MgO, Ni and normative anorthite with stratigraphic height. Major, trace and rare earth element data are presented for the range of rock types. In ultramafic rocks, MgO varies from 22 to 37 wt.%, Ni from 1000 to 2500 ppm and TiO₂ from 0.08 to 0.40 wt.%, while the MgO content of the gabbros ranges from 14 to 6 wt.%. The REE patterns are flat to LREE enriched with no significant Eu anomalies. In ultramafic rocks REE are from 4 to 10 times chondrite, and in the gabbros LREE range from 8 to 30 times chondrite and HREE from 6 to 15 times chondrite. Study of incompatible elements (Ti, Zr, Y) which are relatively immobile during metamorphism shows that neither garnet nor hornblende were involved in fractionation. Trace element modelling shows it is improbable that the ultramafic rocks represent primary MgO-rich liquids even though their incompatible element contents are quite high. The chemical trends are interpreted in terms of olivine and pyroxene settling from a tholeiitic high-Mg magma with 15–20 wt.% MgO derived by 30–40% partial melting of an undepleted mantle. The ultramafic rocks are the cumulates and the gabbros the derived liquids.  相似文献