茭草和芦苇叶片光合与荧光特性对土壤持续干旱的响应

对茭草Zizania latifolia和芦苇Phragmites australi进行自然持续干旱处理,测定植物叶片光合作用特征参数和叶绿素荧光参数及相应的土壤水分含量,探讨茭草、芦苇叶片对土壤持续干旱胁迫的光合生理响应。随着土壤水分逐渐减少,茭草叶片净光合速率(Pn)、蒸腾速率(Tr)、气孔导度(Gs)均先增大后减小,芦苇叶片的Pn、Tr、Gs均逐渐减小;茭草和芦苇叶片的胞间二氧化碳浓度(Ci)、光化学最大量子效率(Fv/Fm)、非光化学猝灭系数(NPQ)、水分利用率(WUE)、有效荧光产量(Yield)、电子传递速率(ETR)、光化学猝灭系数(qP)变化趋势一致,其中Ci逐渐增大,Fv/Fm、NPQ、WUE先增大后减小,Yield、ETR、qP逐渐减小。分析表明,当茭草和芦苇遭遇较严重干旱时,叶片Pn下降主要是非气孔限制因素导致;当生长基质(沙土)的田间持水量为19%,速效氮、磷、钾分别为28.14、2.25、25.76 mg·kg-1,pH 7.2时,茭草的干旱胁迫阈值在土壤含水量(2.17 ± 0.18)%和(1.66 ± 0.23)%之间,芦苇的干旱胁迫阈值在土壤含水量(1.84 ± 0.17)%和(0.25 ± 0.07)%之间。     

濒危植物长序榆(Ulmus elongata)幼苗叶绿素荧光特性的初步研究

用Li-6400XT便携式光合作用仪对濒危植物长序榆幼苗的各叶绿素荧光参数的日变化和快速光响应曲线进行了测定。结果发现,光系统Ⅱ(PSⅡ)的实际光化学效率(ΦPSⅡ)、电子传递速率(ETR)在整个白天阶段较稳定,下午18:00显著下降。光化学淬灭(qP)先增大后减小。非光化学淬灭(NPQ)呈现出与光化学淬灭(qP)相反的变化趋势,中午最低,说明长序榆幼苗光能利用率较高。快速光曲线表明实际光化学效率(ΦPSⅡ)和光化学淬灭(qP)随着光合有效辐射(PAR)的增大而减小,电子传递速率(ETR)和非光化学淬灭(NPQ)随着光合有效辐射(PAR)的增大而增大。使用幂函数能够很好的拟合实际光化学效率(ΦPSⅡ)和电子传递速率(ETR)随光强的变化,而对数函数能较好的拟合实际光化学淬灭(qP)和非光化学淬灭(NPQ)随光强的变化。     

紫茎泽兰茎和叶片色素及叶绿素荧光相关参数对不同温度处理的响应差异

通过人工模拟低温(12 ℃)、常温(25 ℃)、高温(35 ℃)生境,对紫茎泽兰茎和叶片色素(叶绿素a,b,类胡萝卜素,花青素)含量和组成、叶绿素荧光参数包括最大荧光效率Fv/Fm、光系统II效率ФpsⅡ、光化学淬灭系数qP、非光化学淬灭系数NPQ、热耗散速率HDR进行了动态测定.结果表明:在低温和高温胁迫处理过程中,茎和叶片的色素含量和组成随时间变化趋势基本一致,但茎的变化幅度明显低于叶片.与此类似,茎和叶片叶绿素荧光参数在不同温度处理过程中的变化趋势一致,但是茎各指标的变化幅度普遍小于相应叶片的变化幅度:低温下,茎的ФpsⅡ和ETR较对照最大降低44%,而叶片降低超过60%;高温下,茎的ФpsⅡ和ETR较对照下降16%～57%;而叶片则下降50%～80%.其产生原因在于:在温度胁迫条件下,叶片获取光能用于光化学过程的份额(qP)大幅下降,用于热耗散的份额(NPQ)大幅上升,茎的情况相反,所获取光能用于光化学电子传递的份额较常温下更多、用于热耗散的减少,这使得茎的耗散速率(HDR)升高的幅度显著低于叶片的升高幅度(p<0 05).综合3个温度的测定结果,茎的叶绿素含量相当于叶片的1/3～1/6,茎的叶绿素a/b较叶片低20%左右,但是光合电子传导速率ETR与叶片相当,这使得茎的光合色素利用效率ETR/Chl远高于叶片.叶片和茎叶绿素荧光参数在不同温度处理下变化趋势一致、但叶片的变化幅度远大于茎的这一响应差异,使得在适宜温度下紫茎泽兰叶片光合对整体光合贡献增大,而在温度胁迫条件下茎的光合贡献增大,这种策略使得这一植物在适宜生境下通过叶片光合、快速生长迅速占据生境,而在逆境条件下茎等非同化器官光合贡献增加,有利于其在逆境中的保存.     

高温胁迫下苋菜的叶绿素荧光特性

为了探明高温胁迫对苋菜(Amaranthus tricolor L.)光合过程的影响,用不同温度(25、30、35、40、45℃)处理苋菜植株1h后,随即测定了其叶绿素荧光动力学参数和快速光响应曲线特征参数的变化.结果表明:40℃以上高温胁迫下,苋菜叶片的光系统Ⅱ(PSⅡ)潜在光化学效率(Fv/Fo)、最大光化学效率(Fv/Fm)下降;最大荧光(Fm)、光合电子传递速率(ETR)、PSⅡ实际光化学效率(Yield)、光化学淬灭系数(qP)也均有所下降;而初始荧光(F.)和非光化学淬灭系数(NPQ)在40℃以上高温胁迫下显著上升.叶绿素荧光快速光响应曲线测定结果表明,初始斜率α、最大相对电子传递速率ETRmax和半饱和光强Ik在40℃以上高温胁迫下有所下降.研究表明,40℃以上高温胁迫对苋菜的光能的吸收、转换、光合电子传递和强光耐受能力等均有一定的影响.     

挺水植物与浮叶植物在苏北湿地景观中的应用

本研究通过对挺水植物和浮叶植物微生物群落的分解代谢能力和分解代谢谱的分析,以实现对挺水植物和浮叶植物在湿地景观中的应用探究。在挺水植物和浮叶植物中,根据湿地存在不同植物的物种或组合不同会产生不同景观。本实验将苏北湿地的挺水植物与浮叶植物作为研究对象,使用四种不同的植物物种建立了自由漂浮植物系统处理湿地中生物:菖蒲(L)、荷花(S)、睡莲(E)和田子萍(P)。自由漂浮植物组被安排为单一栽培(一种植物种)、双栽培(两种不同的植物种;所有可能的配对)或四种栽培(每种植物种)。使用稀释的养殖场污泥流出物,每周两次用20 L再生废水喂养自由漂浮植物系统。使用群落级生理剖面法(CLPP)在4个月的操作期后评估每个中胚层中的微生物群落。据观察,单一栽培湿地系统具有不同的分解代谢活性和分解代谢丰富度。本研究还发现来自单一栽培生物群的微生物群落的碳源利用模式彼此明显不同,并且混养群落与相应的单一栽培对应物不同。     

施氮和供水对混播和单播白羊草叶片叶绿素荧光特性的影响

为明确干旱条件下混播和施氮对白羊草〔Bothriochloa ischaemum(Linn.)Keng〕叶片叶绿素荧光参数的影响,采用盆栽法并设置不同混播比例〔白羊草与柳枝稷(Panicum virgatum Linn.)混播比例分别为8:0、6:2、4:4和2:6〕、施氮水平(即不施氮和1kg干土施01g纯氮)和供水条件(即正常供水和干旱胁迫6d后复水),对白羊草叶片叶绿素荧光参数的变化进行比较分析;在此基础上,采用一般线性模型分析这3个因素及其交互作用对白羊草叶绿素荧光参数的影响效应.结果显示:正常供水条件下,各处理组白羊草的最大光化学效率(Fv/Fm)、实际光化学效率(ΦPSⅡ)、表观光合电子传递速率(ETR)、光化学淬灭系数(qP)和非光化学淬灭系数(NPQ)均无明显变化.干旱及复水条件下,不施氮处理组白羊草的Fv/Fm值在干旱胁迫6 d(即土壤相对含水量最低)时降至最低值,并在复水2 d后恢复至与正常供水条件下相近的水平,而施氮处理组的Fv/Fm值则一直保持与正常供水条件下相近的水平;不论施氮与否,各处理组白羊草的ΦPSⅡ、ETR、qP和NPQ值基本上均表现为在干旱胁迫6 d时达到最高值,并在复水2 d后恢复至正常供水条件下各参数值的90%以上.总体上看,混播白羊草的qP和ETR值均高于单播白羊草,而其NPQ值则低于后者.统计分析结果表明:混播比例、施氮水平和供水条件3个因素间的交互作用对白羊草的ΦPSⅡ、qP和ETR值无显著影响,施氮水平对NPQ值的单独作用、施氮水平和混播比例的交互作用对Fv/Fm值以及施氮水平和供水条件的交互作用对ETR值也无显著影响,但这3个因素的单独作用及两两因素间的交互作用对白羊草其余叶绿素荧光参数均有显著或极显著影响.研究结果表明:一定程度的干旱胁迫有利于提高白羊草叶片PSⅡ反应中心的开放程度、光合电子传递速率和热耗散过剩光能的能力;在干旱胁迫条件下,施氮有助于白羊草叶片维持PSⅡ反应中心的活性和光化学效率;并且,与柳枝稷适度混播可改善白羊草叶片的光合性能,提高其种间竞争适应性.     

铝胁迫对蓼科植物生长和光合、蒸腾特性的影响

采用水培试验,设置5种铝处理浓度,研究了铝对3种蓼科植物酸模叶蓼、杠板归和辣蓼叶片光合、蒸腾和叶绿素荧光参数的影响。结果表明,高铝处理(400μmol.L-1)显著抑制3种蓼科植物地上部和根系生长,并且导致3种蓼科植物叶片叶绿素含量、Chla/Chlb、净光合速率(Pn)、水分利用效率(WUE)、PSII光合电子传递量子效率(φPSII)和光化学猝灭系数(qP)显著下降。中低铝处理(25~100μmol.L-1)时,与对照相比,酸模叶蓼生物量显著增加,杠板归显著减少,辣蓼先增加后减少。其中,酸模叶蓼和辣蓼叶绿素含量、Chla/Chlb、Pn、蒸腾速率(Tr)、胞间CO2浓度(Ci)、PSII最大光化学效率(Fv/Fm)、qP均未发生显著变化,但辣蓼WUE、φPSII和非光化学猝灭系数(NPQ)显著下降,酸模叶蓼无显著变化;而杠板归除Ci、Fv/Fm外,其余叶片光合、蒸腾及叶绿素荧光参数均出现显著下降。上述结果表明,酸模叶蓼在中低铝处理条件下可通过保持较高的叶绿素含量、Chla/Chlb、WUE、Pn、PSII反应中心光化学反应效率以及提高非辐射能量耗散来增强其对铝的耐性。     

三峡库区消落带芦苇(Phragmites communis (reed))的光合生理响应和叶绿素荧光特性

模拟三峡库区消落带土壤含水量变化特征,设置了T1(淹水超过土壤表面2cm)、T2(土壤含水量为田间持水量的70%～100%)、T3(土壤含水量为田间持水量的40%～60%)3个不同处理组,用嘉陵江江水灌溉芦苇(Phragmites communis (reed)),研究了三峡库区不同消落带带位土壤不同含水量条件下芦苇穗期的光合生理生态响应机理和适应对策.结果表明,土壤不同含水量对芦苇植株光合色素、叶片气体交换参数、资源利用效率以及叶绿素荧光参数有不同影响.其中,T1的光合色素含量最低,T3的类胡萝卜素含量最高.在T1条件下,芦苇表现出较低的光能利用率(LUE)、CO2利用率(CUE)、净光合速率(Pn)、电子传递速率(ETR)和光化学荧光猝灭系数(qP),但与其它耐水淹植物相比,T1条件下的穗期芦苇仍具有较高的光合速率(17.067μmol·m-2·s-1),说明芦苇具有较强的耐水淹能力.在T2和T3条件下,芦苇具有较高的光能利用率(LUE)、CO2利用率(CUE)、净光合速率(Pn)、电子传递速率(ETR)和光化学荧光猝灭系数(qP).水分利用效率(WUE)大小顺序为T3>T1>T2.虽然T1的PSII有效光化学量子产量(F′v/F′m)最高,T2的光化学荧光猝灭系数(qP)最大,而T3的电子传递效率(ETR)和非光化学淬灭系数(NPQ)最高,表明在高光强和高温条件下,T3具有较强的热耗散能力,能有效保护光合机构,因而光合速率最高(20.47μmol·m-2·s-1).研究证实芦苇不仅具有耐水湿的特点,还具有耐旱性,芦苇适合作为三峡库区消落带植被恢复建设禾本科先锋物种.     

土壤水分对湿地松幼苗光合特征的影响

通过设置常规供水(CK)、轻度干旱(T1)、水饱和(T2)、水淹(T3)4个处理组,研究湿地松当年实生幼苗在不同土壤水分条件下的光合生理响应及叶绿素荧光特性。结果表明:不同水分处理对湿地松幼苗的叶片气体交换参数、水分利用效率(WUE)、光合色素、叶绿素荧光参数等指标有不同的影响;其中,T3的光合色素含量最低;T2、T3组的湿地松幼苗表现出较低的净光合速率(Pn)、电子传递速率(ETR)和PSⅡ光化学的量子效应(ΦPSⅡ),但与其他耐水淹植物相比,T3条件下的湿地松幼苗仍具有较高的Pn,说明湿地松幼苗具有较强的耐水淹能力;在T1条件下,湿地松幼苗具有较高的WUE和较低的蒸腾速率(Tr)、气孔导度(Gs)以对抗干旱的逆境,其Pn、PSⅡ最大光化学效率(Fv/Fm)、ETR和ΦPSII均有所下降,但仍能维持在相对正常的水平。研究证明,湿地松幼苗具有一定的耐淹耐旱特性,可运用于三峡库区消落带的植被重建。     

盐胁迫下AM真菌对沙枣苗木光合与叶绿素荧光特性的影响

为了揭示盐胁迫下AM真菌对苗木光合生理特性的影响,试验采用盆栽法,对接种AM真菌根内球囊霉(Glomus intraradices,GI)与未接种AM真菌(CK)的沙枣幼苗进行浓度为0、100、200、300mmol/L Na Cl处理,测定不同处理沙枣苗木叶片的净光合速率Pn、气体交换参数(蒸腾速率Tr,气孔导度Gs,胞间二氧化碳Ci)、色素含量(叶绿素a、b,叶绿素,类胡萝卜素)、叶绿素荧光参数(最大荧光效率Fv/Fm,光系统Ⅱ效率ФPS Ⅱ,光化学淬灭系数q P,非光化学淬灭系数NPQ,表观电子传递速率ETR,光反应中心PSⅡ潜在活性Fv/Fo,热耗散速率HDR)等指标。结果表明:(1)随着盐浓度的增加,GI和CK处理对沙枣幼苗叶片Pn、Tr、Gs及Ci影响的变化趋势基本一致,均显著下降,但是在同一个盐浓度下,接种GI沙枣叶片的这些指标显著高于CK处理组(P0.05),并且与不加盐处理为对照,其各参数的变化幅度显著低于CK组。(2)接种GI组和CK组的沙枣幼苗叶片随着盐浓度的增加色素含量各参数变化趋势基本一致,均降低或升高,但是与不加盐处理相比,CK处理组的变化幅度显著高于GI处理。(3)随着各处理盐浓度增加,接种GI处理的Fv/Fm、ФPS Ⅱ、q P、ETR、Fv/Fo呈先升高后下降的趋势,NPQ、HDR呈先降低后升高的趋势,相对应的CK处理组各值呈显著下降的趋势,而NPQ和HDR则呈先降低后升高以及逐渐升高的趋势,与不加盐处理为对照,GI处理组的变化幅度显著低于CK组。研究结果进一步揭示了AM真菌在盐生境中通过提高植物的光合和叶绿素荧光特性发挥重要的作用,而盐胁迫强度也是AM真菌发挥这一作用的影响因素。盐生植物与AM真菌共生用于盐碱地的改良具有一定的应用前景。     

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This paper presents a comparative study based on a very comprehensive set of empirical data from many international data bases including fresh water systems, coastal brackish water areas and marine coastal areas. We present a general trophic level classification system (oligotrophic, mesotrophic, eutrophic and hypertrophic categories) for sites/areas characterised by a wide range of salinities. This classification system targets on the following operational effect variables (bioindicators), which are meant to reflect key structural and functional aspects of aquatic ecosystems and characteristic (median) values for entire defined areas (the ecosystem scale) for the growing season: Secchi depth (as a standard measure of water clarity), chlorophyll‐a concentrations (a measure of primary phytoplankton biomass), the oxygen saturation in the deep‐water zone (an indicator reflecting sedimentation, oxygen consumption, oxygen concentrations and the habitat conditions for zoobenthos, an important functional group) and the macrophyte cover (an important variable for the bioproduction potential, including fish production, and the “biological value” of aquatic systems). For a wide range of systems, these bioindicators can be predicted using practically useful models, i.e., models based on variables that can be accessed from standard monitoring programs and maps. These bioindicators are regulated by a set of abiotic factors, such as salinity, suspended particulate matter (SPM), nutrient concentrations (N and P), morphometry and water exchange. Empirical data ultimately form the basis for most ecological/environmental studies and this work uses maybe the most comprehensive data set ever related to trophic level conditions. It also gives compilations of empirically‐based (statistical) models quantifying how the variables are interrelated and how they reflect fundamental aspects of aquatic ecosystems. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Zooplankton Composition and Ecology in Western Boreal Shallow-water Wetlands

Zooplankton are a functionally important but poorly studied component of western boreal forest (WBF) wetland ecosystems. To characterize patterns in zooplankton abundance and composition an exploratory study of 24 shallow-water wetlands in northern Alberta, Canada was carried out over the summers of 2001 and 2002. Results suggest zooplankton communities in WBF wetlands tend to exist as: (1) small-cladoceran dominated communities, (2) larger sized cladoceran (e.g. Daphnia) dominated communities, or (3) communities composed primarily of rotifers and/or other crustacean zooplankton. The presence/absence of brook stickleback (Culea inconstans) was the factor most strongly linked to zooplankton structure with small cladocerans tending to dominate in wetlands with stickleback. In fishless wetlands, communities dominated by medium-large sized cladocerans tended to correspond with low-chlorophyll/high-submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) conditions. Conversely, communities composed of rotifers and other crustaceans were associated with high-chlorophyll/low-SAV states. Macro-invertebrate predator abundance was not strongly linked to patterns in zooplankton composition suggesting macro-invertebrate predation is not a significant factor influencing zooplankton structure in fishless wetlands. Results suggest activities that spread stickleback (e.g. ditching) or inhibit development of macrophyte-dominated/clear-water conditions (e.g. nutrient loading) may seriously alter the zooplankton community structure, and thereby the functional ecology, of these valuable wetland ecosystems.     

Environmental Predictors of Rotifer Community Structure in Two Types of Small Water Bodies

The species diversity and distribution of rotifers between different habitats (elodeids, helophytes and open water) of 34 field and 31 forest ponds, differing in regard to origin, size, depth, macrophyte cover, overshading and the presence of fish were examined (N = 381). 197 taxa were found in both types of ponds with 32 species being rare, endangered or new to Polish fauna. The species composition and Shannon‐Wiener index distribution reflected heterogeinity of the habitats, while rotifer mean densities revealed a reverse pattern in both types of water bodies. The great variability of limnological features contributed to a lack of significant differences in rotifer abundance between both types of water bodies. Although some rotifers preferred one specific type of water body (forest vs. field), the type of habitat was a much stronger predictor of their distribution, which reflects a necessity to examine ponds in relation to their microhabitats created by various macrophytes. Rotifers revealed a strict division into two groups – of pelagic origin (e.g., Polyarthra vulgaris), which were attributed to the open water and helophytes, and of littoral origin (e.g., Lepadella patella), which were associated with elodeids, biomass of a plant habitat and a lack of fish. The selective choice of the most complex habitat (elodeids) by only littoral species suggests the weak impact of fish in the studied ponds and the most advantageous conditions for littoral rotifers among such a habitat. The first group comprised species characteristic of field ponds, while the second was characteristic of forest ponds. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Chemical composition studies on some aquatic macrophytes in three Scottish lochs. I. Chlorophyll,ash, carbon,nitrogen and phosphorus.

The chlorophyll, ash, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus levels in seven species of freshwater macrophytes (Juncus effusus L., Iris pseudacorus L., Carex rostrata Stokes, Glyceria maxima (Hartm.) Holmberg, Nuphar lutea (L) Sm., Polygonum amphibium L. and Schoenoplectus lacustris (L) Pallas) in three Scottish lochs of different trophic levels were studied during 1975. Mean chlorophyll levels varied from a minimum of 1.73 mg g^–1 dry weight in Balgavies Loch Juncus to 10.22 mg g^–1 dry weight for Forfar Loch Iris. Carbon contents ranged from 450 to 520 mg g^–1 ash-free dry weight. For ash, nitrogen and phosphorus, significant differences in mean concentrations were detected among plant species as well as within one plant species growing in different lochs. Positive correlations were apparent between the degree of eutrophication in the study areas and the amount of ash, phosphorus and nitrogen present in the plants growing in them.     

The Underwater Life of Secondarily Aquatic Plants: Some Problems and Solutions

The freshwater secondarily aquatic plants, most of which are higher plants, are those returned to the water environment after spending a period of time living on land. The readaptation to living underwater has made it necessary for these plants to put in place morphological and functional strategies to cope with some major problems due to features of the aquatic environment, but also deriving from the specialized organization of their “terrestrial” bodies. The poor O₂ availability underwater accounted for the evolution of wide aerenchyma tissues throughout the plant organs to improve the photosynthetic O₂ flux from the shoot to the roots buried in anoxic sediments and to the neighboring rhizosphere. This favors sediment oxygenation, sustains the aerobic metabolism of roots, and improves the availability and uptake of mineral nutrients, whose delivery to the entire plants, without a transpirational flux, is ensured by an acropetal mass transport depending on root pressure, guttation from hydathodes and channeling by apoplast closure around the vascular tissues. A great expansion of leaf surfaces and an enhanced surface:volume ratio of chloroplast-rich photosynthetic cells help to contact the water medium and to increase the cell/environment exchanges to gain inorganic carbon. Furthermore, different physiological mechanisms operate to cope with the scarce availability of CO₂ and the prevalence of HCO₃ ^? as inorganic carbon form in water. Some of them, like cell wall acidification through H⁺ extrusion by a light-dependent APTase or activation of an apoplastic carbonic anhydrase, operate outside the cells, leading to a conversion of HCO₃ ^? to CO₂, which then diffuses into the cells. Others, on the contrary, act inside the cells to load the active site of Rubisco with CO₂, thus favoring photosynthesis and lowering photorespiration. Aquatic macrophytes with isoetid life form, moreover, can obtain most ot the fixed CO₂ from sediments. In submerged species, in additin to the C₃ cycle, the C₄ and CAM-like photosynthetic metabolisms can also operate, and are modulated by the environmental inorganic carbon availability and the plant photosynthetic demand. Interestingly, in the aquatic plants the C₄ pathway, which can be concomitant with the C₃ one, does not depend on the Kranz anatomy of leaves, but relies on the intracellular compartmentation of carboxylative and decarboxylative enzymes. The CAM-like pathway, defined AAM, which also coexists with the C₃, allows the submerged plants to fix CO₂ in the dark, thus exploiting the higher CO₂ availability in the water medium during the night, and extending to 24?h the period of inorganic carbon assimilation. In almost all the aquatic macrophytes the AAM is only expressed in the submersion state, whereas it is quickly inactivated in emerging leaves in a cell by cell way.     

Spectrofluorimetric method for the determination of large chlorophyll a/b ratios

A practical spectrofluorimetric calibration method at room temperature is described for determining large chlorophyll a/b ratios on direct extracts from plant material of pigments in 80% aqueous acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, and N,N-dimethylformamide. The method is based on the work of Boardman and Thorne [Boardman NK and Thorne SW (1971) Biochim Biophys Acta 253: 222–231] who used diethyl ether as solvent. We repeated the calibration in diethyl ether and find significantly different parameters for the calibration curve. The range of standards in this work included solutions with chlorophyll a/b ratios of 10–125 in dimethyl sulfoxide, and of 10–220 in the other solvents. Fluorescence emission spectra were found to be a highly sensitive method for assessing chlorophyll purity. We determined the limits of sensitivity for each solvent from the calibration data. The empirically determined slope of the calibration curve was shown to be related to intrinsic properties of the chlorophylls in solution; this allows predictions of the performance of the method in other solvents.     

Similarity between contemporary vegetation and plant remains in the surface sediment in Mediterranean lakes

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Effects of water velocity on photosynthesis and dark respiration in submerged stream macrophytes

The effects of flow velocities on dark respiration and net photosynthesis of eight submerged stream macrophytes were examined in a laboratory oxygen chamber. The shoots/leaves were exposed to saturating free-CO₂ concentrations and were attached basally so that they could move in the flowing water. Net photosynthesis declined by 34–61% as flow velocity increased from 1 to 8.6cm s^?1, while dark respiration increased 2.4-fold over the same range. The increase in dark respiration could only account for between 19 and 67% of the decrease in net photosynthesis. The relationship between flow velocity (U) and net photosynthesis (P) was described by: P=b×U^a. The exponent, a, varied from -0.20 to –0.48 and showed a negative correlation to the surface: volume (SA: V) ratio of the plants, i.e. species with high SA: V ratio were more sensitive to flow. In contrast, net photosynthesis of plants firmly attached to a supporting frame was not significantly affected by increasing flow velocity. This result indicates that the physical stress imposed on the plants by agitation or stretching in the flowing water is a key factor for the observed response.