Biological features of Pupu Springs     

Frances B. Mjchaelis 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(2):357-373

The flora and fauna of Pupu Springs (40°51'S, 172° 46'E) and five other New Zealand cold springs are described. In Pupu Springs there are 16 species of algae, 10 species of bryophytes (including three species of liverworts), and 5 species of angiosperms. The fauna includes a phreatic form (an eyeless planarian, Dugesia sp.), a possible glacial relict (the caddis fly Rakiura vernale), and cold stenotherms (e.g., the caddis fly Psilochorema tautoru). The most abundant animals in the New Zealand springs are Mollusea, Crustacea, and’ larvae of Plecoptera, Diptera, and Trichoptera.

Pupu Springs consist of five biotopes and associated biocoenoses.  相似文献   

Algal populations and characteristics of oxygen exchange of effluent samples from a facultative oxidation pond   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

D. E. Irving  F. I. Dromgoole 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(1):9-16

Algal populations in a facultative oxidation pond were monitored over a 12 month period. The relationships between cell counts of individual species and characteristics of oxygen exchange, determined from changes in dissolved oxygen concentration in response to varying light flux density, were investigated by correlation analysis. These measurements were made in the laboratory at a constant temperature (15°C). Microalgae (Chlorella spp.) usually made up at least 80% of the total cell numbers, whereas Euglena acus, E. gracilis, and Ankistrodesmus falcatus var. acicularis separately made up less than 10% of the total counts. However, when cell volumes were considered, E. acus usually made the greatest contribution, and this species accounted for 86% (=r²) of the variation in total cell volume. The detectable pigment concentration in the water was closely related to the numbers of E. acus present (r=0.81, P <0.001) but not to the numbers of microalgae (r=0.00). Cell counts of E. acus were highly correlated with the light saturated rate of net oxygen production (P_{n max}) and to the rate under limiting light supply (6) because of the high detectable pigment contribution from this species. It was calculated that E. acus contributed, on average, about 44% of the total rate of net oxygen production, whereas the proportion attributed to the microalgae was 8%.  相似文献   

New records of distribution and co‐occurrence of freshwater calanoid copepods in New Zealand (note)     

Carolyn W. Burns 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(1):149-150

Calamoecia lucasi was found with Boeckella propinqua in the Kaihoka Lakes, Nelson, and Boeckella hamata with Boeckella triarticulata in Lake Elterwater, Marlborough. These are the first records of C. lucasi in the South Island, New Zealand, and of B. hamata co‐occurring with B. triarticulata.  相似文献   

Within‐Site Variation in Lichen Growth Rates and Its Implications for Direct Lichenometry     

Richard A. Armstrong 《Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography》2014,96(2):217-226

Variation in lichen growth rates poses a significant challenge for the application of direct lichenometry, i.e. the construction of lichen dating curves from direct measurement of growth rates. To examine the magnitude and possible causes of within‐site growth variation, radial growth rates (RaGRs) of thalli of the fast‐growing foliose lichen Melanelia fuliginosa ssp. fuliginosa (Fr. ex Duby) Essl. and the slow‐growing crustose lichen Rhizocarpon geographicum (L.) DC. were studied on two S‐facing slate rock surfaces in north Wales, UK using digital photography and an image analysis system (Image‐J). RaGRs of M. fuliginosa ssp. fuliginosa varied from 0.44 to 2.63 mm yr^–1 and R. geographicum from 0.10 to 1.50 mm yr^–1.5. Analysis of variance suggested no significant variation in RaGRs with vertical or horizontal location on the rock, thallus diameter, aspect, slope, light intensity, rock porosity, rock surface texture, distance to nearest lichen neighbour or distance to vegetation on the rock surface. The frequency distribution of RaGR did not deviate from a normal distribution. It was concluded that despite considerable growth rate variation in both species studied, growth curves could be constructed with sufficient precision to be useful for direct lichenometry.  相似文献   

Effects of urban wastewater on crab and mollusc assemblages in equatorial and subtropical mangroves of East Africa     

Stefano Cannicci  Fabrizio Bartolini  Farid Dahdouh-Guebas  Sara Fratini  Carlos Litulo  Adriano Macia  Elisha J. Mrabu  Gil Penha-Lopes  Jos Paula 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2009,84(3):305

Mangrove forests are known to accomplish crucial ecosystem functions and services. They are nursery areas for fish, prawns and crabs, which provide coastal communities with a variety of food, timber and chemicals, and protect coasts from catastrophic events, such as tsunamis. Recently, a novel ecological service has been proposed for mangrove systems, namely natural wastewater treatment wetlands. This hypothesis was based on experimental data collected mainly in Chinese mangrove systems, which proved that mangrove soils were efficient in absorbing nutrients. Moreover, sewage loading seemed harmless to both plants and benthic communities in these systems. However, before promoting the use of natural mangroves as pollution buffers, or constructed mangrove wetlands as sewage treatment facilities, more data are needed on their overall tolerance to organic loading. Differences in macrobenthos patterns were thus investigated between peri-urban mangroves and sites not affected by sewage disposal in East Africa. We assessed differences in epifaunal assemblages, comprising crabs and molluscs, employing multivariate ACI unbalanced analyses to compare peri-urban mangrove swamps with those characteristic of non-urban mangroves with similar ecological traits. The sampling design was spatially nested, replicates being assessed at equatorial (southern Kenya) and subtropical (southern Mozambique) sites. The results manifested a consistent increase in crab biomass at the peri-urban sites in both Kenya and Mozambique. Moreover, the peri-urban systems were richer than the non-urban mangroves, both in terms of fiddler crabs (Uca spp.) which feed on benthic microalgae and bacteria, and sesarmids, such as Perisesarma guttatum and Neosarmatium meinerti, which feed on both substratum and leaf litter. The abundance of gastropods, in contrast, decreased significantly, especially in Kenya, mainly due to the disappearance of the mud whelk Terebralia palustris. The results thus indicate that, in East African mangrove systems, domestic wastewater has detectable effects on crabs and molluscs, suggesting their usefulness as bioindicators of its effects in mangroves. Transformed benthic patterns at the peri-urban sites indicated the need for further study of the actual potential of natural mangrove forests to absorb pollution in sewage treatment.  相似文献   

SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATES OF SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP. GROWTH AND GRAZING MORTALITY RATES IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

宁修仁 《中国海洋湖沼学报》1996,(1)

The marine chroococcoid phycoerythrin-containing Synechococcus spp.cyanobacterium has been impli-cated as a subsetantial component of the photosynthetic picoplankton in the ocean. Although its imppr-tance as food source for heterotrophic nanoplankton is now recognized, information about the cycling ofSynechococcus biomass and its diel pattern is limited and study methodology varies among authors. Theselective metabolic inhibitor method was used to simultaneously estimate growth and grazing disappearancerates of Synechococcus in the English Channel where growth rates ranged from 0.25 to 0.72/d (mean±SD=0.51±0.17/d) and grazing mortality rates ranged from 0.19 to 0.64/d (mean ±SD=0.48±0.17/d).Size-fractionated experiments demonstrated that up to 70% of Synechosoccus disappearance could be attri-buted to grazers going through a 2 μm Nuclepore filter. Synechococcus grazing mortality rates (mean=0.74±0.25/d) during the day were alwnys higher than that (mean=0.21±0.20d) during the night, while growthrat  相似文献   

不同郁闭度天山云杉林林冠截留量及穿透雨量特征研究   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

郝帅  张毓涛  刘端  张洪亮  李翔 《干旱区地理》2009,32(6)

天山云杉(Picea schrenkiana var.tianschanica(Rupr.)Chen et Fu)是构成天山山地森林生态系统的主体。选取天山森林生态系统定位研究站不同郁闭度天山云杉林作为研究对象,研究了不同郁闭度条件下天山云杉林冠截留量及穿透雨量的月变化特征、林冠截留量及穿透雨量与总降雨量间的数量关系,通过研究得出结论:林冠截留率与郁闭度表现出显著正相关关系,而穿透雨比率与郁闭度表现出显著负相关关系;穿透雨量、穿透雨比率及林冠截留量的月变化与总降雨量基本一致,林冠截留率则相反;郁闭度为0.8和0.6、0.4和0.2之间的穿透雨量无显著性差异,0.8和0.6与0.4和0.2之间差异明显,林冠截留量相邻郁闭度间均无显著性差异,而不相邻郁闭度之间均差异显著;建立了穿透雨量及林冠截留量与总降雨量间的数学关系,用以定量评价该地区天山云杉林水文生态效益。  相似文献   

播种深度和土壤水分对黄花补血草种子萌发的影响   总被引：6，自引：2，他引：4  

高天鹏  王春燕  张勇  高海  徐世健  安黎哲  王爱勤 《中国沙漠》2009,29(3):529-535

 采集来自腾格里沙漠的黄花补血草种子,分别设置7个水分梯度（3.0%, 5.0%, 8.0%, 10.0%, 15.0%,18.0%,20%) 和6个播种深度（0、0.5、1.0、1.5、2.0、2.5 cm）,进行黑暗（10～15 ℃）和光照(20～25 ℃)处理,研究水分、埋藏深度和温度对黄花补血草种子萌发和出苗的影响。结果表明：黄花补血草种子吸涨速率很快,在6 h种子吸水达到饱和;在土壤水分为3.0%～10.0%时,种子萌发率较高,当土壤水分达到20%时,萌发受到抑制;种子埋藏越深,萌发率越低,土壤水分太低或者太高,都不利于种子萌发。黄花补血草种子萌发和幼苗生长的最佳条件是：白天温度在25 ℃,夜间温度在15 ℃,土壤水分为10.0%,埋藏深度为0.5 cm时种子萌发率和出苗率最高。  相似文献   

Sensitive skates or resilient rays? Spatial and temporal shifts in ray species composition in the central and north-western North Sea between 1930 and the present day   总被引：8，自引：5，他引：3  

Walker  P. A.; Hislop  J. R. G. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1998,55(3):392-402

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应用黄金分割法优选小球藻的培养温度     

刘志媛  周俊如  崔玉兵  郑阵兵  王珺 《海洋科学》2013,37(4):37-40

利用黄金分割(0.618)优选法测定了两株分离自海南近岸海域的小球藻(Chlorella spp.)的最适生长温度。结果表明,黄金分割优选法可以较少的实验次数找到小球藻的最适培养温度。两株小球藻在15～40℃温度范围内均可生长。小球藻HNC11的最适生长温度为34～36.5℃;小球藻HNC2的最适生长温度为28～30.5℃左右。  相似文献