The paratabulate calcareous cyst of Calciodinellum operosum Deflandre was recorded in a sediment trap sample collected in the Bay of Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). The germination of this resting stage produced a phototrophic vegetative cell that had the typical plate pattern of a Scrippsiella species. The cyst morphotypes, observed in a clonal culture of this species, ranged from cysts with well-developed paratabulation to cysts in which the paratabulation was barely visible, to cysts covered by irregularly shaped crystals. The analysis of thin sections of the calcareous cysts using the polarized light microscope equipped with crossed nicols and a gypsum plate showed that the optical orientation of the calcite crystals was tangential in all the morphotypes examined. We suggest that the crystallographic method we describe might provide insights for calcareous cyst taxonomy and phylogeny . 相似文献
The global warming at the end of the last glacial period led to a sea level rise, which induced substantial long-term landscape changes in the southwestern Baltic Sea. During the Preboreal and Boreal periods, this region, bordering on the Ancylus Lake in the east, was dry land with numerous lakes and rivers. However, with the beginning of the Littorina Transgression around 6700 BC, during the Atlantic period, the area became connected to the ocean. People settling along the coast of the former Ancylus Lake, Mesolithic hunter–gatherers, continuously had to adapt to rapid changes.
The Littorina Transgression made a new source available to man: the young Baltic Sea. Important settlement sites were founded in the coastal regions, and were consumed one by one by the constantly rising sea level. At the time of the decline of the sea level rise and the beginning consolidation of the coast lines, a socially motivated turn towards a productive economy started. Hunting and fishery were widely replaced by agriculture and stock farming.
To understand the interplay between all of these developments, it is necessary that scientists from a variety of disciplines undertake collective investigations. This paper presents first culture-historical, palaeozoological, palaeobotanical, palaeoecological and palaeogeographical results yielded by from the multidisciplinary research group SINCOS (Sinking Coasts) and uses these to create a new comprehensive picture of the development of the south-western Baltic Sea region during the Ancylus Lake and Littorina Sea stages. 相似文献
Multi-decadal time-series of biological indices that reflect the state of a population are rare in ecological studies, but invaluable for assessing environmental regulation of population dynamics. We utilized canine teeth extracted from ringed seals (Pusa hispida) killed by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Beaufort Sea, Canada, in 1985–2011, to obtain widths of annual growth layers in the cementum. Canine teeth for 75 individuals were measured and compared across years using a proportional width index (PWI) spanning 1965–2007. PWI was positively correlated with ringed seal ovulation rate obtained independently from other studies and was significantly lower than normal during ringed seal reproductive declines in 1974–75, 1984–87, 1991–93, and 2004–05, suggesting that PWI reflects ringed seal reproductive capacity. The PWI was also examined against climatic and sea ice factors to assess environmental regulation of ringed seal reproduction. Results suggest that ringed seals benefit from cyclonic circulation regimes in the Beaufort Sea, and an earlier breakup of sea ice in summer that may positively influence the quality and quantity of food during the open water season. Results highlight how cementum annuli in the canine teeth of ringed seals can provide an index of body state and linkages to sea ice conditions. Canine teeth from ringed seals can function as a means to monitor the effects of past Arctic marine variability on area-specific populations for which there are few independent empirical data. 相似文献
Brachypalpus (Brachypalpus) longifacies sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Eastern Asia (Russian Far East and Japan). It differs from other species of the nominative subgenus by several unusual characters, i.e. face in profile weakly convex dorsally and concave ventrally, antennae very elongated, and abdomen with reddish transversal maculae on 2nd tergum (male) or 2nd and 3rd terga (female). A key is given for known species of the subgenus Brachypalpus.LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:634CB6E2-B2C1-40EC-8811-BF3DD4BDE69A 相似文献
The alga Analipus japonicus (Harv.) Wynne displays a distinct seasonal pattern in its development in Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan). In winter and spring, it occurs only in the form of basal crusts, and vertical axes develop in the summer–autumn period. It reproduces mostly asexually from July to November. Algae with unilocular sporangia occur very seldom, only in June and July. 相似文献
Afternoon observations in summer comparing shoreline with inland atmospheric conditions were made during onshore winds at
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The onshore wind came from a cool water surface. Mean monthly water temperatures near
to shore were between 11 and 11.5° C. The onshore wind brought lower air, ground surface radiant and sky radiant temperatures;
lower humidity and greater wind speed. All of these combine to produce a cooler human environment at the shoreline than inland.
The relative importance of climatic elements in producing the cooler environment was assessed using sensitivity analyses with
eight different human thermal exchange models/indices. Air temperature and wind speed had the greatest effect, followed by
ground surface radiant temperature, sky radiant temperature and humidity. Wind speed is the most practical element to consider
when trying to maximize human comfort along the shoreline.
Received: 9 July 1996 / Revised: 31 March 1997 / Accepted: 14 April 1997 相似文献
A conceptual model is proposed, describing potential Zostera marina habitats in the Wadden Sea, based on reported data from laboratory, mesocosm and field studies. Controlling factors in the
model are dynamics, degree of desiccation, turbidity, nutrients and salinity. A distinction has been made between a higher
and a lower zone of potential habitats, each suitable for different morphotypes of Z. marina. The model relates the decline of Z. marina in the Wadden Sea to increased sediment and water dynamics, turbidity, drainage of sediments (resulting in increased degree
of desiccation) and total nutrient loads during the twentieth century. The upper and lower delineation of both the higher
and the lower zone of potential Z. marina habitats appear to be determined by one or a combination of several of these factors. Environmental changes in one of these
factors will therefore influence the borderlines of the zones. The lower zone of Z. marina will be mainly affected by increased turbidity, sediment dynamics, degree of desiccation during low tide and nutrient load.
The higher zone will be affected by increases in water and sediment dynamics, desiccation rates and nutrient loads. Potential
Z. marina habitats are located above approx. –0.80 m mean sea level (when turbidity remains at the same level as in the early 1990s)
in sheltered, undisturbed locations, and preferably where some freshwater influence is present. At locations with a high,
near-marine, salinity, the nutrient load has to be low to allow the growth of Z. marina. The sediment should retain enough water during low tide to keep the plants moist. Our results suggest that the return of
Z. marina beds within a reasonable time-scale will require not only suitable habitat conditions, but also revegetation measures, as
the changes in the environment resulting from the disappearance of Z. marina may impede its recovery, and the natural import of propagules will be unlikely. Furthermore, the lower zone of Z. marina may require a genotype that is no longer found in the Wadden Sea.
Received: 26 April 1999 / Received in revised form: 15 October 1999 / Accepted: 16 October 1999 相似文献
Symbiotic dinoflagellates are abundant in the endoderm cells of tropical marine anthozoans, but the cell-specific density
(CSD) of symbionts has not yet been investigated. In this study we used mechanical and enzymatic methods of maceration, and
staining with substrate-specific fluorochromes, to observe a large number of individual host cells from 33 species of tropical
anthozoans collected in Florida, Hawaii and Jamaica or cultured in Monaco. In the majority of species, most of the host cells
contained a single algal cell (singlet). Host cells with two or more (up to six) algae were much less abundant. The average
CSD for the 33 species was 1.54±0.30 (range 1.11 to 2.19). Singlets arranged in a monolayer can account for the areal density
of algae observed in many anthozoans. The dinoflagellates occupy most of the interior of macerated host cells, leaving the
host cytoplasm and cell membrane as a thin outer layer, often unresolvable by light microscopy. This spatial arrangement may
favor diffusion and transport of CO2, bicarbonate ions, and nutrients from the environment to the algae. The effect of nutrient enrichment on CSD was determined
by exposing eleven species to chronically elevated levels of ammonium-N. After four weeks all species exhibited a dramatic
increase in algal mitotic index and CSD. The potential consequences of environmentally induced increases in CSD in tropical
anthozoans are discussed in terms of the decreased cell-specific photosynthesis (CO2 limitation) and decreased rates of calcification observed in other studies.
Accepted: 16 February 1998 相似文献