Fine‐scale patterns in the day,night and crepuscular composition of a temperate reef fish assemblage          下载免费PDF全文

Elisabeth M. V. Myers  Euan S. Harvey  Benjamin J. Saunders  Michael J. Travers 《Marine Ecology》2016,37(3):668-678

The distribution, abundance and composition of marine fish assemblages are influenced by changes in behaviour and movement associated with the diel cycle. The majority of studies exploring day–night differences have demonstrated that there is a greater abundance and diversity of fishes during diurnal compared with nocturnal hours, and that fish assemblage composition varies with time of day or night. We investigated fine‐scale (hourly) diel cycles in the composition and relative abundance of temperate reef fishes using unbaited remote underwater video systems. We observed short crepuscular changeover periods with the hours around dawn and dusk sharing many species, some of which are nocturnal and others diurnal. Diurnal surveys recorded a greater number of individuals (16,990) and species (70) than nocturnal surveys (1053 individuals and 19 species). There was a clear difference between the diurnal assemblage, which was characterized by benthic invertivores, and the nocturnal assemblage composition, which contained zooplanktivores and generalist feeders. Within the diurnal period the hourly temporal variation was relatively homogenous, indicating that standardization of diurnal sampling to a particular time of day may not be necessary.  相似文献   

Carlo Gaetan and Xavier Guyon: Review of “Spatial Statistics and Modeling” (Translated by Kevin Bleakley)     

Donald E. Myers 《Mathematical Geosciences》2010,42(6):723-725

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Quantitation of CYP1A expression in two flatfish species showing different prevalences of contaminant-induced hepatic disease     

B. F. Anulacion  M. S. Myers  M. L. Willis  T. K. Collier 《Marine environmental research》1998,46(1-5)

English sole (Pleuronectes vetulus) and starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) are two sympatric flatfish species which show markedly different responses to chemical contaminant exposure. Whereas English sole develop hepatic neoplasms, the prevalences of which are strongly linked to exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), evidence of neoplasia is virtually nonexistent in starry flounder, even those residing in areas with very high levels of PAH in the sediments. Because PAHs are activated to genotoxic forms by the action of cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A) in teleosts, we are examining the hypothesis that variation in the hepatic expression of this major inducible cytochrome P450 isozyme may contribute to the differential contaminant response. These two species were captured in the Duwamish Waterway, a contaminated area of Puget Sound, Washington. Catalytic activity of CYP1A [determined as aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity] was measured in the liver to quantitatively assess the relative induction of CYP1A in these two species, and AHH activity was significantly higher in English sole than in starry flounder (p = 0.015). Cellular expression of CYP1A was determined by immunohistochemical localization of tissues, using an avidin-biotin peroxidase complex method, with polyclonal rabbit anti-cod CYP1A. The results showed a markedly reduced expression of CYP1A in hepatocytes of starry flounder, which is consistent with the apparent resistance of this species to the development of hepatocellular neoplasia. This reduced expression of CYP1A in hepatocytes of contaminant-exposed fish was previously seen in oyster toadfish from the Elizabeth River, Virginia, and this species is also apparently resistant to hepatocellular neoplasia.  相似文献   

Simulating compound flooding events in a hurricane     

Zhang  Yinglong J.  Ye  Fei  Yu  Haocheng  Sun  Weiling  Moghimi  Saeed  Myers  Edward  Nunez  Karinna  Zhang  Ruoyin  Wang  Harry  Roland  Aron  Du  Jiabi  Liu  Zhuo 《Ocean Dynamics》2020,70(5):621-640

Ocean Dynamics - Compound flooding is usually induced by the concurrence of coastal storm surge and heavy precipitation induced river flooding, with the former involving oceanic processes and the...  相似文献