Dynamics of epiphytic photoautotrophs and heterotrophs inZostera marina (eelgrass) microcosms: Responses to nutrient enrichment and grazing     

Hilary A. Neckles  Eric T. Koepfler  Leonard W. Haas  Richard L. Wetzel  Robert J. Orth 《Estuaries and Coasts》1994,17(3):597-605

The combined effects of nutrient enrichment and grazing by isopods and amphipods on abundances of seagrass epiphytes were tested inZostera marina L. (eelgrass) microcosms. Using epifluorescence microscopy, densities of epiphytic diatoms, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic flagellates, and heterotrophic bacteria were enumerated after 1 mo and 2 mo of treatment. In general, numbers of diatoms decreased, in the presence of grazers and showed little response to nutrient enrichment, whereas numbers of cyanobacteria increased with nutrient enrichment and showed little response to grazing. Thus, macrofaunal grazing maintained a photoautotrophic community domainated by cyanobacteria, particularly under nutrient enriched conditions. Following 2 mo of treatment, dense macroalgal growth under nutrient-enriched conditins with grazers absent appeared to limit populations of both epiphytic autotrophs. Patterns of abundance of heterotrophic bacteria suggested that the original bacteria population was nutrient limited. Bacteria populations may have been limited by organic carbon supplies at the end of the experiment. Abundances of heterotrophic flagellates and bacteria were strongly correlated on both sampling dates. Results suggest that heterotrophic flagellates might serve as a link between heterotrophic bacterial production and higher trophic levels in seagrass epiphyte food webs.  相似文献   

Rock-magnetic proxies of climate change in the loess-palaeosol sequences of the western Loess Plateau of China   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Christopher P. Hunt  Subir K. Banerjee  Jiamao Han  Peter A. Solheid  Eric Oches  Weiwei Sun  Tungsheng Liu 《Geophysical Journal International》1995,123(1):232-244

Results of the first detailed study of the climate proxy record in the loess-palaeosol sequence at Xining-one of the few palaeoclimate sites in the currently arid western Loess Plateau of China-illustrate the importance of making many types of rock-magnetic measurements other than susceptibility. A multiparameter approach yielded confirmation that here, as elsewhere in the Loess Plateau, the susceptibility enhancement in palaeosols was caused primarily by ultrafine magnetite and maghaemite. Nevertheless, magnetic enhancement was caused not exclusively by changes in relative grain size, but also by variations in concentration and mineralogy of the magnetic fraction.
The effects of concentration variations were removed through normalization of susceptibility and anhysteretic remanence with saturation magnetization and saturation remanence, respectively. the resulting signal was ascribed more confidently to variation in magnetic grain size, which in turn was interpreted as a better proxy of pedogenesis than simple susceptibility. Variations in magnetic mineralogy were also determined to constrain interpretations further. the data were then used to discuss climate history at Xining. Finally, results from Xining were compared with other western sites and contrasted with eastern sites.
In summary: (1) data is presented from a new Loess Plateau site which also appears to yield a global climate signal; (2) a demonstration is made of a more rock-magnetically robust way to separate concentration, composition and grain-size controls on susceptibility and other magnetic parameters; and (3) models are provided for inter-regional comparisons of palaeoclimate proxy records.  相似文献   

Large-scale deformation associated with ridge subduction   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Eric L. Geist  Michael A. Fisher  David W. Scholl 《Geophysical Journal International》1993,115(2):344-366

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Variability of dissolved organic carbon in sediments of a seagrass bed and an unvegetated area within an estuary in Southern Texas     

Eric T. Koepfler  Ronald Benner  Paul A. Montagna 《Estuaries and Coasts》1993,16(3):391-404

Pore-water dissolved organic carbon (PWDOC) concentrations were examined in vegetated and bare sediments of aHalodule wrightii seagrass bed, and in a mud bottom sediment of a southern Texas estuary. Temporal variability was examined at diel (dawn and noon) and bimonthly time scales. Distribution patterns of PWDOC were compared with physical, chemical, and biological factors thought to exert control on PWDOC. Concentration of PWDOC, bacterial production, and resultant PWDOC turnover times displayed statistically significant spatial and temporal variability. Concentration of PWDOC ranged from 14 mg C 1^?1 to 107 mg C 1^?1 of pore water, or 9–71 μg C cm^?3 wet sediment. PWDOC was more variable and was approximately 5 times higher than DOC concentrations in the water column. Low PWDOC concentrations (mean = 14.6 μg C cm^?3) and high bacterial production rates (mean = 1.92 μg C cm^?3 h^?1) were observed at the mud station, whereas PWDOC concentrations were high (mean = 24.6 μg C cm^?3) and bacterial production rates were low (mean = 0.43 μg C cm^?3 h^?1) at the bare station. PWDOC turnover times (T_t), assuming 50% bacterial growth efficiency (1–840 h) were shortest at the mud station (mean=13 h) and longest at the bare station (mean=180 h). In the overlying water column, T_t values were longer, ranging from 1,000–10,000 h. PWDOC concentrations were 25% higher in vegetated sediments than in neighboring bare sediments. This difference was probably due to inputs of labile photosynthetic excretia, since bacterial production rates in vegetated sediments displayed significant diel variability and were 4 times greater than that of bare sediments. Based upon the entire data set, PWDOC was significantly related to macrofaunal biomass, sediment POC, sediment C:N ratios, and oxygen metabolism, but was significantly correlated only to the latter two variables in stepwise multiple regression. Our findings suggest that organism activities and detrital quality are the major determinants controlling variability in PWDOC.  相似文献   

1988 Compilation of Elemental Concentration Data for USGS Basalt BCR-1     

Ernest S. GLADNEY  Elizabeth A. JONES  Eric J. NICKELL  Iwan ROELANDTS 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》1990,14(2):209-359

Concentration data on up to 82 individual constituents in USGS Basalt BCR-1 have been collected from 1395 journal articles and technical reports. These data are summarized in consensus (mean) values with uncertainties expressed as ± one standard deviation. Mean values are also calculated as a function of analytical procedure and all raw data are given in the tables. Recommended values are proposed based upon data criteria used by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards or NBS).  相似文献   

Complete chemical analyses of metamorphic hornblendes: implications for normalizations,calculated H2O activities,and thermobarometry   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Michael A. Cosca  Eric J. Essene  Johns R. Bowman 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1991,108(4):472-484

Twenty-two hornblendes separated from amphibolites and granulites of the Grenville Orogen of Ontario have been quantitatively analyzed for major and minor elements by electron microprobe, for FeO/Fe₂O₃ by wet chemistry, and for H₂O by manometric measurement as H₂. Hornblende formulae were calculated on the basis of 24O+OH+Cl+F. Most samples are magnesio-hornblendes, ferroan pargasitic hornblendes and ferroan hastingsitic hornblendes, with weight fractions of Fe³⁺/(Fe²⁺+Fe³⁺) ranging from 0.15 to 0.50. An oxy-amphibole component of 0–25 mol%, with an average value of 17 mol%, is obtained for these complete analyses. When compared with structural formulae determined solely from microprobe data, normalization based on 13=Si+Ti+Al+Fe+Mn+Mg cations provides the best approximation to hornblende formulae calculated from the complete analyses. Less satisfactory agreement is obtained from a normalization scheme based on 15=Si+Ti+Al+Fe+Mn+Mg+Ca, while worst agreement is obtained from normalization to 23 oxygens assuming all Fe is Fe²⁺. No normalization scheme based on microprobe data alone consistently replicates the measured FeO, Fe₂O₃, and H₂O; accurate determination of these values requires complete chemical analysies. Ionic solution models previously have been proposed to evaluate the activity of Ca₂Mg₅Si₈ O₂₂(OH)₂(a _Trem) in hornblende for use in equilibria that constrain the activity of H₂O (a _{H 2}O) in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Application of ionic models to typical hornblendes produces low a _Trem (usually<0.01), consequetly yielding extremely low a _{H 2}O. If an oxy-amphibole component is present, the calculated a _Trem and H₂O is further reduced. An oxy-amphibole component of 25% reduces the calculated H₂O activity and that of any hydroxyl-amphibole component by 50% below that calculated with simplified assumptions regarding X _OH in the hydroxyl site (i.e., X _OH=1, or X _OH=1–X _Cl–X _f). Thus, methods of amphibole normalizations appear to have a substantial effect on calculated amphibole and H₂O activites. Before quantitative hornblende thermobarometry can be calibrated and applied, the amounts of FeO, Fe₂O₃ and H₂O must be measured in order to fully characterize hornblende solid solutions.Contribution No. 478 from the Mineralogical Laboratory, University of Michigan  相似文献   

Multilayer Sampling in the Water-Table Region of a Sandy Aquifer     

Edward Kaplan  Sujit Banerjee  Daniel Ronen  Mordeckai Magaritz  Albert Machlin  Michael Sosnow  Eric Koglin 《Ground water》1991,29(2):191-198

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地面对晴空大气热辐射结构的影响     

王鹏举  周秀骥  EricA.Smith  施蕾 《气象学报》1991,49(2):215-221

本文利用1987年美国FIFE资料及1986年6月TIPMEX资料,并利用大气长、短波一维辐射传输数值模式,计算了晴空大气状态下地面辐射参数(地面热辐射温度、地表反照率等)对大气长波冷却率、短波加热率廓线的影响。结果表明,地球表面对大气边界层内的热辐射结构影响很大,特别是在高原地区这种影响尤其显著。  相似文献   

Genesis and solvus relations of submicroscopically intergrown paragonite and phengite in a blueschist from northern California     

Yen-Hong Shau  Melanie E. Feather  Eric J. Essene  Donald R. Peacor 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1991,106(3):367-378

Electron microbeam techniques have been used to examine submicroscopically intergrown paragonite, phengite and chlorite from the South Fork Mountain Schist of the Franciscan Terrane of northern California, which was subjected to blueschist facies metamorphism. The sample also contains quartz, albite, lawsonite, and rutile. The subassemblage albite-lawsonite-rutile requires metamorphic conditions on the low-temperature side of the equilibrium albite+lawsonite+rutile=paragonite+sphene+quartz+H₂O (T<200° C and P<7.4 kbars based on thermodynamic data of Holland and Powell 1990). The white micas appear to be optically homogeneous, but back-scattered electron images can distinguish two different micas by their slight difference in contrast. Electron microprobe analyses (EMPA) of micas show Na/(Na+K) ranging from 0.2 to 0.8. The two micas are resolved by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) as packets of phengite and paragonite that range from 20 to several hundred nm in thickness. The compositions, determined by analytical electron microscopy (AEM), constrain the limbs of the phengite-paragonite solvus to values of Na/(Na+K)=<0.02 and 0.97, representing less mutual solid solution than ever reported by EMPA. The textural relations imply that the sheet silicates were derived from reactions between fluids and detrital clays and that they are in an intermediate stage of textural development. We caution that microprobe analyses of apparently homogeneous sheet silicates may yield erroneous data and lead to faulty conclusions using phengite barometry and paragonite-muscovite thermometry, especially in fine-grained rocks that formed at relatively low temperatures. Contribution no. 473 from the Mineralogical Laboratory, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA  相似文献   

Modeling in paleoceanography     

Eric J. Barron 《Surveys in Geophysics》1986,8(1):1-23

The two last decades of research in paleoceanography are characterized by extensive data collection and by the development of numerous hypotheses based on these data. Both the nature of the thermohaline circulation and the nature of the surface circulation during past times are currently being debated. Physical models of the ocean circulation are beginning to play an important role in these debates. The models range from highly simplified mathematical representations intended to illustrate physical principles to three-dimensional time-dependent global models intended to simulate temperature, salinity and flow fields. At the very least such models can be applied to explore the limitations or appropriateness of various assumptions in paleoceanography. At the very best, paleoceanographic data may be used as a verification of simulations of past oceans.  相似文献