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Leaf structure and defence control litter decomposition rate across species and life forms in regional floras on two continents 总被引:17,自引:2,他引:17
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MARCELO GARCÍA-GUERRERO ILIE S. RACOTTA CARMEN RODRÍGUEZ-JARAMILLO HUMBERTO VILLARREAL EDILMAR CORTES-JACINTO 《Invertebrate reproduction & development.》2013,57(2-3):101-106
Summary The Australian redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus hatches at an advanced stage. Two post-hatching stages rely on yolk reserves before the organism becomes a juvenile. After a juvenile appears, the yolk is depleted and young crayfish might spend a few days among female pleopods before starting to feed independently. During this phase, the juvenile organism needs alternative energy sources. Offspring from three females were analyzed with histological and histochemical techniques, from hatching until reaching the 2-week juvenile stage, to trace digestive system development and internal organ lipid and glycogen accumulation. Neutral lipids are stored in specialized cells of the hepatopancreatic tissue until the juvenile stage is reached. An increasing rate of accumulation was found. Glycogen was stored in hepatopancreas and tail muscle cells until post-embryo II, and no increasing or decreasing rate was found in storage functions. 相似文献
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CYRIL BONTEMPS GEOFFREY N. ELLIOTT† MARCELO F. SIMON‡ FÁBIO B. DOS REIS JÚNIOR § EDUARDO GROSS¶ REBECCA C. LAWTON NICOLAU ELIAS NETO MARIA de FÁTIMA LOUREIRO SERGIO M. DE FARIA†† JANET I. SPRENT‡‡ EUAN K. JAMES§§ J. PETER W. YOUNG 《Molecular ecology》2010,19(1):44-52
Burkholderia has only recently been recognized as a potential nitrogen-fixing symbiont of legumes, but we find that the origins of symbiosis in Burkholderia are much deeper than previously suspected. We sampled 143 symbionts from 47 native species of Mimosa across 1800 km in central Brazil and found that 98% were Burkholderia . Gene sequences defined seven distinct and divergent species complexes within the genus Burkholderia . The symbiosis-related genes formed deep Burkholderia -specific clades, each specific to a species complex, implying that these genes diverged over a long period within Burkholderia without substantial horizontal gene transfer between species complexes. 相似文献
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CANTÍDIO FERNANDO GOUVÊA MARCELO CARNIER DORNELAS ADRIANA PINHEIRO MARTINELLI 《Botanical journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London》2008,156(4):529-535
The selection of candidate plus trees of desirable phenotypes from tropical forest trees and the rapid devastation of the natural environments in which these trees are found have created the need for a more detailed knowledge of the floral and reproductive biology of tropical tree species. In this article, the organogenic processes related to unisexual flower development in tropical mahogany, Swietenia macrophylla , are described. Mahogany inflorescences at different developmental stages were evaluated using scanning electron microscopy or optical microscopy of histological sections. The unisexual flowers of S. macrophylla are usually formed in a thyrse, in which the positions of the female and male flowers are not random. Differences between male and female flowers arise late during development. Both female and male flowers can only be structurally distinguished after stage 9, where ovule primordia development is arrested in male flowers and microspore development is aborted in female flower anthers. After this stage, male and female flowers can be distinguished by the naked eye as a result of differences in the dimensions of the gynoecium. The floral characteristics of S. macrophylla (distribution of male and female flowers within the inflorescence, and the relative number of male to female flowers) have practical implications for conservation strategies of this endangered species. © 2008 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society , 2008, 156 , 529–535. 相似文献
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MARCELO VALADARES GALDOS CARLOS CLEMENTE CERRI RATTAN LAL† MARTIAL BERNOUX‡ BRIGITTE FEIGL CARLOS EDUARDO P. CERRI§ 《Global Change Biology Bioenergy》2010,2(1):37-44
Biofuels are both a promising solution to global warming mitigation and a potential contributor to the problem. Several life cycle assessments of bioethanol have been conducted to address these questions. We performed a synthesis of the available data on Brazilian ethanol production focusing on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon (C) sinks in the agricultural and industrial phases. Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuels, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from sources commonly included in C footprints, such as fossil fuel usage, biomass burning, nitrogen fertilizer application, liming and litter decomposition were accounted for. In addition, black carbon (BC) emissions from burning biomass and soil C sequestration were included in the balance. Most of the annual emissions per hectare are in the agricultural phase, both in the burned system (2209 out of a total of 2398 kg Ceq), and in the unburned system (559 out of 748 kg Ceq). Although nitrogen fertilizer emissions are large, 111 kg Ceq ha?1 yr?1, the largest single source of emissions is biomass burning in the manual harvest system, with a large amount of both GHG (196 kg Ceq ha?1 yr?1). and BC (1536 kg Ceq ha?1 yr?1). Besides avoiding emissions from biomass burning, harvesting sugarcane mechanically without burning tends to increase soil C stocks, providing a C sink of 1500 kg C ha?1 yr?1 in the 30 cm layer. The data show a C output: input ratio of 1.4 for ethanol produced under the conventionally burned and manual harvest compared with 6.5 for the mechanized harvest without burning, signifying the importance of conservation agricultural systems in bioethanol feedstock production. 相似文献
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MARC DE HERT DAN COHEN JULIO BOBES MARCELO CETKOVICH‐BAKMAS STEFAN LEUCHT DAVID M. NDETEI JOHN W. NEWCOMER RICHARD UWAKWE ITSUO ASAI HANS‐JURGEN MÖLLER SHIV GAUTAM JOHAN DETRAUX CHRISTOPH U. CORRELL 《World psychiatry》2011,10(2):138-151
Physical disorders are, compared to the general population, more prevalent
in people with severe mental illness (SMI). Although this excess morbidity
and mortality is largely due to modifiable lifestyle risk factors, the screening
and assessment of physical health aspects remains poor, even in developed
countries. Moreover, specific patient, provider, treatment and system factors
act as barriers to the recognition and to the management of physical diseases
in people with SMI. Psychiatrists can play a pivotal role in the improvement
of the physical health of these patients by expanding their task from clinical
psychiatric care to the monitoring and treatment of crucial physical parameters.
At a system level, actions are not easy to realize, especially for developing
countries. However, at an individual level, even simple and very basic monitoring
and treatment actions, undertaken by the treating clinician, can already improve
the problem of suboptimal medical care in this population. Adhering to monitoring
and treatment guidelines will result in a substantial enhancement of physical
health outcomes. Furthermore, psychiatrists can help educate and motivate
people with SMI to address their suboptimal lifestyle, including smoking,
unhealthy diet and lack of exercise. The adoption of the recommendations presented
in this paper across health care systems throughout the world will contribute
to a significant improvement in the medical and related psychiatric health
outcomes of patients with SMI. 相似文献
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1. Heterotrophic biofilms are important drivers of community respiration, nutrient cycling and decomposition of organic matter in stream ecosystems. Both organic matter quality and nutrient levels have been shown to affect biofilm biomass and activity individually, but both factors have rarely been manipulated simultaneously. 2. To experimentally manipulate the organic matter quality and phosphorus (P) levels of both the substratum and water column, we first used cellulose cloth as a low‐quality organic material and enhanced its quality and P‐content by amending the underlying agar with maltose and P, respectively (Experiment I). To manipulate water column P, artificial substrata were incubated in low‐ and high‐P sites of a whole‐stream P‐enrichment in lowland Costa Rica. 3. Results from Experiment I suggest that heterotrophic biofilm respiration on cellulose cloth is co‐limited by carbon (C) and P. Biofilm respiration responded in an additive manner to combined effects of maltose and P‐enrichment of water column and synergistically to maltose and high‐P in substrata. 4. As decomposing organic matter that supports heterotrophic biofilms varies naturally in its labile C content along with other physical and chemical properties, we conducted a second experiment (Experiment II) in which we amended leaf discs from two species (Trema integerrima, a labile C source and Zygia longifolia, a recalcitrant C source) with maltose. We incubated the substrata in low‐ and high‐P sites of the P‐enrichment stream. 5. Results from Experiment II indicate that biofilm respiration on a labile C source (Trema) was not C‐limited, while biofilm respiration on a recalcitrant C source (Zygia) was C‐limited. Phosphorus stimulated the biofilm respiration and breakdown rate on Trema, but not on Zygia, supporting the hypothesis that the stimulatory effect of P‐enrichment is dependent on the availability of labile C in decomposing leaves. 6. Our results suggest that the interactive effects of organic matter quality and nutrient loading of streams can significantly increase microbial biofilm activity, potentially altering the trophic base of stream food webs. Researchers should consider both the organic matter quality and the enrichment of both water column and substrata to better predict the effects of anthropogenic nutrient loading to stream the ecosystems. 相似文献
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ERNESTO FUENTES BRITO TIMOTHY P. MOULTON MARCELO L. DE SOUZA STUART E. BUNN 《Austral ecology》2006,31(5):623-633
Abstract: Stable isotope studies of food webs in floodplains, large rivers, mangroves, and seagrasses have shown that, although a large proportion of the biomass may come from higher plants, microalgae provide a disproportionate amount of carbon assimilated by metazoan consumers. Evidence is building that this may also be the case for streams, especially those in the tropics. At the level of individual consumer species we also see that the apparent diet may not be reflected in the carbon assimilated. Tropical streams commonly have omnivore‐detritivore species that potentially show this phenomenon. We tested these concepts in four moderately shaded sites in a stream in well‐preserved Atlantic rainforest at Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro. We sampled aquatic insects, shrimps and fish as well as potential terrestrial and aquatic primary food sources. Carbon stocks from terrestrial sources predominated over carbon of algal origin (>99% of total). The primary sources of carbon showed distinctly different isotopic signatures: terrestrial sources had δ13C values close to ?30‰, microalgae were ?20‰ and macroalgae were ?25‰. All fauna had δ13C values consistent with a carbon source derived from microalgae. Baetid mayflies and atyid shrimps exert a strong grazing pressure on periphyton and organic sediments but appear to assimilate predominantly microalgae. The palaemonid shrimp Macrobrachium olfersi also ingests large amounts of detritus of terrestrial origin, but apparently assimilates animal prey with algal δ13C signatures. These results support the growing view that tropical stream food chains are primarily algal based. 相似文献
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Does leaf quality mediate the stimulation of leaf breakdown by phosphorus in Neotropical streams? 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
1. Lowland tropical streams have a chemically diverse detrital resource base, where leaf quality could potentially alter the effect of high nutrient concentrations on leaf breakdown. This has important implications given the extent and magnitude of anthropogenic nutrient loading to the environment. 2. Here, we examine if leaf quality (as determined by concentrations of cellulose, lignin and tannins) mediates the effects of high ambient phosphorus (P) concentration on leaf breakdown in streams of lowland Costa Rica. We hypothesised that P would have a stronger effect on microbial and insect processing of high‐ than of low‐quality leaves. 3. We selected three species that represented extremes of quality as measured in leaves of eight common riparian species. Species selected were, from high‐ to low‐quality: Trema integerrima > Castilla elastica > Zygia longifolia. We incubated single‐species leaf packs in five streams that had natural differences in ambient P concentration (10–140 μg soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) L?1), because of variable inputs of solute‐rich groundwater and also in a stream that was experimentally enriched with P (approximately 200 μg SRP L?1). 4. The breakdown rate of all three species varied among the six streams: T. integerrima (k‐values range: 0.0451–0.129 day?1); C. elastica (k‐values range: 0.0064–0.021 day?1); and Z. longifolia (k‐values range: 0.002–0.008 day?1). Both ambient P concentration and flow velocity had significant effects on the breakdown rate of the three species. 5. Results supported our initial hypothesis that litter quality mediates the effect of high ambient P concentration on leaf processing by microbes and insects. The response of microbial respiration, fungal biomass and invertebrate density to high ambient P concentration was greater in Trema (high quality) than in Castilla or Zygia (low quality). Variation in flow velocity, however, confounded our ability to determine the magnitude of stimulation of breakdown rate by P. 6. Cellulose and lignin appeared to be the most important factors in determining the magnitude of P‐stimulation. Surprisingly, leaf secondary compounds did not have an effect. This contradicts predictions made by other researchers, regarding the key role of plant secondary compounds in affecting leaf breakdown in tropical streams. 相似文献
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PAULA A. TECCO DIEGO E. GURVICH SANDRA DÍAZ NATALIA PREZ‐HARGUINDEGUY MARCELO CABIDO 《Austral ecology》2006,31(3):293-300
Abstract: Positive interactions between species are known to play an important role in the dynamics of plant communities, including the enhancement of invasions by exotics. We studied the influence of the invasive shrub Pyracantha angustifolia (Rosaceae) on the recruitment of native and exotic woody species in a secondary shrubland in central Argentina mountains. We recorded woody sapling recruitment and micro‐environmental conditions under the canopies of Pyracantha and the dominant native shrub Condalia montana (Rhamnaceae), and in the absence of shrub cover, considering these situations as three treatments. We found that native and exotic species richness were higher under Pyracantha than under the other treatments. Ligustrum lucidum (Oleaceae), an exotic bird‐dispersed shade‐tolerant tree, was the most abundant species recruiting in the area, and its density was four times higher under the canopy of Pyracantha. This positive interaction may be related to Pyracantha's denser shading, to the mechanical protection of its canopy against ungulates, and/or to the simultaneous fruit ripening of both woody invaders. 相似文献