M. Vichi, and M. Vichi, and P. Oddo, and M. Zavatarelli, and A. Coluccelli, and G. Coppini, and M. Celio, and S. Fonda Umani, and N. Pinardi

In this paper we show results from numerical simulations carried out with a complex biogeochemical fluxes model coupled with a one-dimensional high-resolution hydrodynamical model and implemented at three different locations of the northern Adriatic shelf. One location is directly affected by the Po River influence, one has more open-sea characteristics and one is located in the Gulf of Trieste with an intermediate behavior; emphasis is put on the comparison with observations and o...

Fatma I. Khattab, and Safa'a M. Riad, and Mamdouh R. Rezk, and Mohamed K. Abd El-Rahman, and Hoda M. Marzouk

A novel ion-pair of a quaternary ammonium compound; malachite green (MG), and an anionic drug sulphadimethoxine sodium (SDM) was prepared. The developed ion pair was incorporated into poly (vinyl chloride)-based membrane sensors for the dual quantification of sulphadimethoxine (sensor 1) and malachite green (sensor 2) in aquatic environment. Linear responses of SDM and MG were obtained within a concentration range of 10−5–10−2 and 10−5–10−3 M, respectively. The slopes of −29.8 ± 0.31 and 35.5 ± ...

I. Hessler, and S. P. Harrison, and M. Kucera, and C. Waelbroeck, and M.-T. Chen, and C. Anderson, and A. de Vernal, and B. Fréchette, and A. Cloke-Hayes, and G. Leduc, and L. Londeix

We present and examine a multi-sensor global compilation of mid-Holocene (MH) sea surface temperatures (SST), based on Mg/Ca and alkenone palaeothermometry and reconstructions obtained using planktonic foraminifera and organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst census counts. We assess the uncertainties originating from using different methodologies and evaluate the potential of MH SST reconstructions as a benchmark for climate-model simulations. The comparison between different analytical approaches (t...

Mariana Ribeiro de Moraes Rego, and Marcelo Ferreira Torres, and Luiz Carlos Santiago, and Ronaldo Lira-Junior, and Eduardo José Veras Lourenço, and Daniel de Moraes Telles, and Carlos Marcelo Figueredo

Purpose: This study aimed at evaluating the bacterial colonization in dental implants inserted in the crestal or supracrestal position and correlated it to radiographic bone measurements. Methods: Thirty-five implants with regular platform in nine patients (mean age 62.4±11.2 years) were inserted either at the bone crest level (control group) or at a suprecrestal level (test group). Radiographic examination was performed at baseline (implant installation) and after 6 months. Clinical and microbi...

Misha Benjamin Ahrens, and Kuo-Hua eHuang, and Sujatha eNarayan, and Brett D Mensh, and Florian eEngert

A full understanding of nervous system function requires recording from large populations of neurons during naturalistic behaviors. Here we enable paralyzed larval zebrafish to fictively navigate two-dimensional virtual environments while we record optically from many neurons with two-photon imaging. Electrical recordings from motor nerves in the tail are decoded into intended forward swims and turns, which are used to update a virtual environment displayed underneath the fish. Several behaviora...

Chomrung, A., and Thongra-ar, W., and Musika, C.

Static 96-hour phytoplankton growth tests were carried out to measure the toxicity of mercury (Hg) and copper (Cu) on growth (cell density) and chlorophyll a content of three marine phytoplankton species: Dunaliella salina, Tetraselmis sp. and Chaetoceros calcitrans. The experiments were carried out at a temperature of 27±1ºC, using natural seawater (salinity 30 psu) filtered with a 0.4 μ polycarbonate membrane, under continuous illumination of 3800±200 lux and they were repeated three times for...

Luiz Ubiratan Hepp, and Rozane Maria Restello, and Silvia Vendruscolo Milesi, and Cristiane Biasi, and Joseline Molozzi

AIMS: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of urban environments on the distribution and occurrence of aquatic Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Trichoptera (EPT) insects in six urban subtropical streams; METHODS: Organisms were collected with a Surber sampler in 2005 and 2006, over two hydrological cycles. We analyzed abundance values, taxonomic richness, Shannon-Wiener diversity and Pielou's evenness. A principal components analysis (PCA) was performed to evaluate the environmen...

Salvador Airton Gaeta, and Sylvia Maria Susini Ribeiro, and Patricia Mercedes Metzler, and Maria Solange Francos, and Donato Seiji Abe

A time series of chlorophyll a and in situ primary production sampled over a period of 33 days during summer in Ubatuba region, southeastem Brazil, was subjected to multivariate and harmonic analysis. Principal Component Analysis has revealed four factors interpreted as (i) South Atlantic Central Water forcing; (ii) Transient ftontal systems and rain fali forcings; (iii) Wind forcing normal to the coast; (iv) Wind forcing parallel to the coast, as main factors in the variability of the phytoplan...

HARYONO

Tambra (Tor tambroides Blkr.) is consumed fish; its exotic size, rare population and expensive price but not yet cultured. The aims of study are to know biological aspects tambra fish, i.e: sexual maturity, fecundity, sexual dimorfism, sex ratio, food habits, parasities and dissease. The results were recorded two levels of sexual maturity that III and IV, fecundity ranges 3,125-8,201 eggs, sex ratio 1:2; sexual dimorfism based on shape and color body, tubercle at cheek and operculum of male, als...

Ermeton Duarte do Nascimento, and Magnólia Fernandes Florêncio de Araújo

This article discusses antibiotic resistance in bacteria isolated from aquatic environments in Brazil, taking into account isolation sites, the main reported antimicrobial agents, the genes involved in resistance, the most prevalent bacterial genera and species, and the main mechanisms of resistance. This review is based upon specialized literature, consulting published scientific articles selected from the SciELO, PubMed and LILACS databases. Based upon the inclusion criteria, we selected 21 ar...

Katleen de Gaetano Donati, and Simona Costanzo, and Lara Campana, and Marco Olivieri, and Rosaria Santangelo, and Maurizio Sanguinetti, and Roberto Cauda, and Licia Iacoviello

<p><strong>Objectives</strong><strong>: </strong>Influenza vaccination protects high-risk populations from severe outcomes. We assessed the feasibility of testing influenza vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization with laboratory-confirmed influenza.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>All hospitalized patients with influenza-like illness within 14 days, were swabbed. Cases were positive at RT-PCR for influenza A/B. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Results:</strong> AtRome “GemelliHospital” (Sea...

Felippe A Daros, and Alberto T Correia, and Alberto T Correia

Odontoscion dentex is reef fish (Sciaenidae) commonly found in the coastal shallow waters of Florida (US) until Santa Catarina (BR). Sciaenids, in general, are highly acoustic fish, both producing and receiving water vibrations through the lateral line system. As consequence they have large and irregular otoliths, associated to a well-developed lateral line and swimbladder. Several irregularities have been observed in fish sagittal otoliths, but mainly restricted to the replacement of the minera...

Débora Andrade, and Nardelly de Fátima Rodrigues

<p>No presente artigo pretende-se analisar a equival&ecirc;ncia entre a extens&atilde;o mel&oacute;dica do repert&oacute;rio aplicado em um coral de terceira idade e a tessitura vocal das integrantes do mesmo. Por n&atilde;o haver materiais que discorrem a respeito deste assunto, os profissionais da &aacute;rea ficam dependentes da experi&ecirc;ncia emp&iacute;rica e sujeitos a cometerem equ&iacute;vocos. No coral pesquisado verificou-se que h&aacute; uma compatibilidade entre a extens&atilde;o ...

Dong Hui Ko, and Shin Taek Jeong, and Hong-Yeon Cho, and Keum-Seok Kang

For the design of wind-power facilities, the highest and lowest astronomical tides (HAT and LAT, respectively) are needed for the tidal-water levels regarding international designs; however, the approximate highest high water and approximate lowest low water AHHW and ALLW, respectively, have been used in Korea. The HAT and LAT in the wind-farm test-bed sea should be estimated to satisfy the international standard. In this study, the HAT and LAT are therefore estimated using the hourly tidal-elev...

Vanessa Moschino, and Luis Chicharo, and Maria Gabriella Marin

The Manila clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) is an important economic resource for fisheries in the Lagoon of Venice, where this species is fished and farmed. With the aim of evaluating possible fishing-induced long-term effects undergone by clam populations subjected to fishing efforts, physiological biomarkers were measured at organism level (clearance and respiration rates, scope for growth and survival-in-air test). Clams were collected on a seasonal basis from sites characterized by various fi...

Fabilene Gomes Paim, and Leandro Aragão da Hora Almeida, and Paulo Roberto Antunes de Mello Affonso, and Patrícia Elda Sobrinho-Scudeler, and Claudio Oliveira, and Débora Diniz

The weakness of physical barriers in the marine environment and the dispersal potential of fish populations have been invoked as explanations of the apparent karyotype stasis of marine Percomorpha, but several taxa remain poorly studied cytogenetically. To increase the chromosomal data in this fish group, we analyzed cytogenetically three widespread Atlantic species from distinct families: Chaetodipterus faber Broussonet, 1782 (Ephippidae), Lutjanus synagris Linnaeus, 1758 (Lut...

R. Jeevapriya, and M. Anand, and M. Maruthupandy, and A. Hameedha Beevi

A laboratory level microcosm analysis of the impacts of ocean acidification on the environmental stress biomarkers in Portunus pelagicus (Linneaus 1758)exposed to a series of pH regimes expected in the year 2100 (pH 7.5 and 7.0) and leakage from a sub-seabed carbon dioxide storage site (pH 6.5 - 5.5) was carried out. Levels of the antioxidant enzyme catalase, the phase II detoxification enzyme, glutathione S. transferase, the lipid peroxidation biomarker, malondialdehyde, acetylcholinesterase, a...

Ruban Dmitry A.

After the so-called “Cambrian explosion”, marine biodiversity peaked either in the early Late Ordovician (as shown by the “classical” curves based on the extensive palaeontological data compilation) or in the late Early Devonian (as shown by the “innovative” curve based on the sampling standardization). The brief review of the modern plate tectonic, palaeoclimatic, and eustatic reconstructions demonstrates that shelves, which likely provided the main space for biotic radiation,...

Iepsen UW, and Munch GDW, and Rugbjerg M, and Rinnov AR, and Zacho M, and Mortensen SP, and Secher NH, and Ringbaek T, and Pedersen BK, and Hellsten Y, and Lange P, and Thaning P

Ulrik Winning Iepsen,1 Gregers Druedal Wibe Munch,1 Mette Rugbjerg,1 Anders Rasmussen Rinnov,1 Morten Zacho,1 Stefan Peter Mortensen,1,2 Niels H Secher,3 Thomas Ringbaek,4 Bente Klarlund Pedersen,1 Ylva Hellsten,5 Peter Lange,1,4,6 Pia Thaning1,4 1The Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism and the Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 2Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 3Department of Anesthe...

M. W. Dendena, and R. R. Oliveira, and P. S. Cella

The ban on the use of antibiotics as growth promoters because of the problems arising from this use, especially bacterial resistance and residues in animal products, he led the search for new alternatives that stood out the use of additives with natural components, who presented economically viable and beneficial. This work aimed to evaluate the effect of functional oils and algae on the weight gain of variables (WG), feed intake (FI), feed conversion (FC), feed cost per kilogram of animals ...

Juan Martínez Leal

As the final hour of defeat loomed, thousands of Republican combatants fled towards ports along the Levantine coast to escape repression by sailing into exile. Most of these were trapped in the port of Alicante, after waiting two days for boats which never came. Only the Stanbrook, an old British collier, agreed to take on board around three thousand refugees - men, women and children - a figure that gready exceeded the capacity of the boat, and which forced it to sail below the water line. Foll...

Aminu Muhammad, and Hasnah Mohd Sirat

Objective: To evaluate leaves and stem bark extracts of Bauhinia rufescens for antimicrobial activities, tyrosinase enzyme inhibition potentials and lethality to brine shrimp larvae (Artemia salina). Methods: The plant materials were extracted based on polarity gradient of petroleum ether, ethyl acetate and methanol. The extracts were investigated for their antimicrobial, antityrosinase and cytotoxicity potentials. Results: The antimicrobial results indicated that the extracts inhibited th...

Jenny Jean-Yves, and Picard Frederic

The goal of this review paper is to retrieve from the existing literature relevant information (1) about the learning curve of the currently existing navigation systems and (2) about the use of navigation system for teaching orthopaedic procedures. All studies reporting on the learning curve of navigation systems support the hypothesis that computer-navigated total knee arthroplasty (TKA) involves only a short learning curve and that beginners can obtain good results from the beginning of their ...

Sofía López, and Ezequiel Mabragaña, and Juan Martín Díaz de Astarloa, and Mariano González-Castro

The aim of the present study provides the first results on the reproductive biology of the anchovy, Anchoa marinii, in a nearby-coastal area of Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon, 37º32'00"S 57º19'00"W, Argentina. To perform this, we employed mainly female gonads, at both microscopic and macroscopic levels. The oocyte diameter distribution and the microscopy analysis of oocytes, showed different batches of growing oocytes, suggesting that the anchovy is a multiple spawner, with constant oocytes recruit...

Serupepeli Tagivakatini, and Carmen Ferreira, and Fátima Matos

The general aim of this research is to examine village governance structure and functions in the use, management and sustainability of coastal resources in Fiji. Traditional and contemporary systems of governance structures within the Fijian village setting play an integral role in decision-making for the well-being of every member in the community, and it is particularly important for matters relating to natural resource use. However, it is believed that poor governance is attributed to uncoord...

Md. Yeamin Hossain, and Md. Foyzul Hassan Fahad, and Md. Mosaddequr Rahman, and Nipa Chaki, and Saleha Jasmine, and Zoarder Faruque Ahmed, and Jun Ohtomi

Objective: To investigate biometrics of the Rhinomugil corsula (Hamilton, 1822) (R. corsula), including length-weight relationships (LWRs), condition factors (Allometric, KA; Fulton’s, KF; Relative, KR; Relative weight, WR), and sex ratio and length-frequency distributions in the Ganges (Padma River), Northwestern Bangladesh. Methods: Monthly sampling was conducted using traditional fishing gears during June to August 2012. Total length was measured to the nearest 0.01 cm using digital slid...

Malgorzata Stramska, and Jagoda Białogrodzka

Satellite measurements provide synoptic view of sea surface temperature (SST) and can be used to trace global and regional climate trends. In this study we have examined the multiyear trends and variability of the Baltic Sea SST using 32-years (1982–2013) of satellite data. Our results indicate that there is a statistically significant trend of increasing SST in the entire Baltic Sea, with values ranging from 0.03 to 0.06°C year−1, depending on the location. SSTs averaged over the entire Baltic ...

E. E. Ampou, and O. Johan, and C. E. Menkes, and F. Niño, and F. Birol, and S. Ouillon, and S. Andréfouët

The 2015–2016 El-Niño and related ocean warming has generated significant coral bleaching and mortality worldwide. In Indonesia, the first signs of bleaching were reported in April 2016. However, this El Niño has impacted Indonesian coral reefs since 2015 through a different process than temperature-induced bleaching. In September 2015, altimetry data show that sea level was at its lowest in the past 12 years, affecting corals living in the bathymetric range exposed to unusual emersion. In March...

Neil C. S. Chan, and Daniel eWangpraseurt, and Daniel eWangpraseurt, and Michael eKühl, and Michael eKühl, and Sean eConnolly, and Sean eConnolly

The future impact of ocean acidification (OA) on corals is disputed in part because mathematical models used to predict these impacts do not seem to capture, or offer a framework to adequately explain, the substantial variability in acidification effects observed in empirical studies. The build-up of a diffusive boundary layer (DBL), wherein solute transport is controlled by diffusion, can lead to pronounced differences between the bulk seawater pH, and the actual pH experienced by the organism,...

Alinne Z. Barrera, and Robert E. Wickham, and Ricardo F. Muñoz

Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a maternal mental health problem that affects women from all regions of the world. Unfortunately, even in developed countries, half of the cases go undetected and, consequently, untreated. Individuals from low and middle income countries trend toward underutilization of mental health services, partly due to the limited number of available psychological resources. The primary aims of this pilot randomized controlled trial were to adapt to the Internet us...

Matheus Oliveira Freitas, and Rodrigo Leão de Moura, and Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho, and Carolina Viviana Minte-Vera

Although information on the spawning seasons of commercially important snappers (Lutjanidae) and groupers (Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae) is available for the north and central west Atlantic, there is little information for the tropical western South Atlantic (Brazil). As a consequence, there are few fishery regulations in this entire region that take into consideration such information. In this study, we characterized the reproductive cycles of three Epinephelinae serranids (Epinephelus m...

Daniel Golani, and Brenda Appelbaum-Golani

The Indo-Pacific fish Terapon jarbua is recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean. This record is evidentially the result of T. jarbua entering the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal (Lessepsian migration). The present record increases the total number of known Lessepsian fish to 74. A comparison of Mediterranean and Red Sea specimens of T. jarbua with specimens from the Far East suggests the necessity for genetic studies in order to clarify the unity of this taxon.

Corinna Bolloni, and Riccardo Panella, and Mariano Pedetti, and Anna Grazia Frascella, and Cristiana Gambelunghe, and Tommaso Piccoli, and Giuseppe Maniaci, and Anna Brancato, and Carla Cannizzaro, and Marco Diana

Background: Chronic cocaine consumption is associated to a decrease in mesolimbic dopamine transmission that maintains drug intake. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is gaining reliability a useful therapeutic tool in drug addiction since it can modulate cortico-limbic activity resulting in reduction of drug craving. Aims: In the present study we investigated the therapeutic effect of bilateral TMS of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in reducing cocaine intake, in a sample of treatment-seeking pa...

A. Alunno, and O. Bistoni, and F. Pratesi, and F. Topini, and I. Puxeddu, and V. Valentini, and G. Cafaro, and E. Bartoloni, and P. Migliorini, and R. Gerli

In recent years several antibodies against citrullinated peptides (ACPAs) have been identified in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their pathogenic, diagnostic and prognostic significance is under intense investigation. Among ACPAs, those targeting citrullinated alpha enolase (anti-CEP1) have been identified in RA but data about their ability to predict the development of erosive disease are conflicting. Furthermore, no data are currently available concerning their possible associatio...

Agata Mieszkowska, and Marcin Górniak, and Agata Jurczak-Kurek, and Marek S. Ziętara

In this research, grayling-specific Gyrodactylus salaris Malmberg, 1957 isolates from Baltic Sea basin were collected in Sweden for the first time. Samples were obtained in three drainage systems: Kalixälven (River Kaitum), Ljungan (River Sölvbacka strömmar), and Umeälven (River Juktån). Three molecular markers were analysed: nuclear ITS rDNA (Internal Transcribed Spacer) and ADNAM1 (Anonymous DNA Marker 1), and mitochondrial cox1 gene. As a result, four new mitochondrial haplotypes were identif...

Christophe Messager, and Vincent Faure

The region south of South Africa, encompassing the Agulhas Current and Retroflection, and part of the Southern Ocean, is known for its severe meteorological conditions. Because of these conditions, in-situ observations are rare. Consequently, remote-sensing satellite observations and high-resolution regional weather forecasts at the ocean surface are difficult to assess. However, atmospheric data collected in the southern hemisphere summer of 2008 during the International Polar Year-BONUS-GoodHo...

W. D. H. Gillan

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C. A. Stock, and J. P. Dunne, and J. G. John

Pronounced projected 21st century trends in regional oceanic net primary production (NPP) raise the prospect of significant redistributions of marine resources. Recent results further suggest that NPP changes may be amplified at higher trophic levels. Here, we elucidate the role of planktonic food web dynamics in driving projected changes in mesozooplankton production (MESOZP) found to be, on average, twice as large as projected changes in NPP by the latter half of the 21st century under a high ...

J. Stroeve, and A. Barrett, and M. Serreze, and A. Schweiger

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Elvira S Poloczanska, and Elvira S Poloczanska, and Michael T Burrows, and Christopher J Brown, and Jorge eGarcia Molinos, and Jorge eGarcia Molinos, and Jorge eGarcia Molinos, and Benjamin S Halpern, and Benjamin S Halpern, and Benjamin S Halpern, and Ove eHoegh-Guldberg, and Carrie Vanessa Kappel, and Pippa Jane Moore, and Pippa Jane Moore, and Anthony J. Richardson, and Anthony J. Richardson, and David S Schoeman, and William J Sydeman, and William J Sydeman

Climate change is driving changes in the physical and chemical properties of the ocean that have consequences for marine ecosystems. Here, we review evidence for the responses of marine life to recent climate change across ocean regions, from tropical seas to polar oceans. We consider observed changes in calcification rates, demography, abundance, distribution and phenology of marine species. We draw on a database of observed climate change impacts on marine species, supplemented with evidence i...

Nancy Cabanillas-Terán, and Peggy Loor-Andrade, and Ruber Rodríguez-Barreras, and Jorge Cortés

Sea urchins are important grazers and influence reef development in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP). Diadema mexicanum and Eucidaris thouarsii are the most important sea urchins on the Ecuadorian coastal reefs. This study provided a trophic scenario for these two species of echinoids in the coral-rocky reef bottoms of the Ecuadorian coast, using stable isotopes. We evaluated the relative proportion of algal resources assimilated, and trophic niche of the two sea urchins in the most southern c...

Katherine A. Allen, and John F. Bruno, and Fiona Chong, and Damian Clancy, and Tim R. McClanahan, and Matthew Spencer, and Kamila Żychaluk

Coral reefs are dynamic systems whose composition is highly influenced by unpredictable biotic and abiotic factors. Understanding the spatial scale at which long-term predictions of reef composition can be made will be crucial for guiding conservation efforts. Using a 22-year time series of benthic composition data from 20 reefs on the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast, we developed Bayesian vector autoregressive state-space models for reef dynamics, incorporating among-site variability, and quantified...

Alice Mannocci, and Claudio Bontempi, and Vittoria Colamesta, and Filippo Ferretti, and Guglielmo Giraldi, and Annamaria Lombardi, and Angela Meggiolaro, and Anna Miani, and Silvia Miccoli, and Annalisa Rosso, and Rosella Saulle, and Brigid Unim, and Antonio Boccia, and Giuseppe La Torre

<p><strong>Background:</strong> the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) is an instrument for crossnational monitoring of physical activity and inactivity. The aim of the study was the reliability evaluation of the Italian telephone-administered IPAQ version in Rome.</p><p><strong>Methods:</strong> the IPAQ short form (IPAQ-SF), consisting of 7 items, was administered. The responses, used to compute Metabolic Equivalent Task (MET in minutes per week), were processed to analyze th...

L. CERIOLA, and N. MILONE

Life span, growth and cost of reproduction of Illex coindetii were examined for the first time in the southern Adriatic Sea, central Mediterranean Sea. Age and growth were investigated through statoliths reading. Cost of reproduction was explored by studying the relative investment between somatic and gonad growth. The life span of I. coindetii was less than nine months in both sexes. Females (128-234 days) showed longer life span than males (124-178 days). In both sexes the linear model best de...

Bruno ePoucet, and Bruno ePoucet, and Franck eChaillan, and Franck eChaillan, and Bruno eTruchet, and Bruno eTruchet, and Etienne eSave, and Etienne eSave, and Francesca eSargolini, and Francesca eSargolini, and Francesca eSargolini, and Vincent eHok, and Vincent eHok

Since the discovery of place cells, the hippocampus is thought to be the neural substrate of a cognitive map. The later discovery of head direction cells, grid cells and border cells, as well as of cells with more complex spatial signals, has led to the idea that there is a brain system devoted to providing the animal with the information required to achieve efficient navigation. Current questioning is focused on how these signals are integrated in the brain. In this review, we focus on the issu...

Jonas eSchoelynck, and Sara ePuijalon, and Patrick eMeire, and Eric eStruyf

The response of aquatic plants to abiotic factors is a crucial study topic, because the diversity of aquatic vegetation is strongly related to specific adaptations to a variety of environments. This biodiversity ensures resilience of aquatic communities to new and changing ecological conditions. In running water, hydrodynamic disturbance is one of the key factors in this context. While plant adaptations to resource stress (nutrients, light…) are well documented, adaptations to mechanical stress,...

Roger Raupp Cipriano, and Alberto Sérgio Fenocchio, and Roberto Ferreira Artoni, and Wagner Molina, and Rafael Bueno Noleto, and Daniel Luis Zanella Kantek, and Marta Margarete Cestari

In this study, five species of marine fishes from the Paranaguá Bay in the Brazilian coast were evaluated. Eucinostomus argenteus and Diapterus rhombeus (Gerreidae) presented 48 chromosomes, all of which more acrocentric (FN = 48); Strongylura timucu and S. marina (Belonidae) also presented 48 chromosomes, but with a higher karyotypic complexity than the Gerreidae, 10M+2SM+36A (FN = 60) and 4M+44A (FN = 52), respectively. The fifth species, Mugil curema (Mugilidae), different than the others, pr...

Joe Schittone

This paper summarizes the results of a monitoring event designed to track the recovery of a repaired coral reef injured by the M/V Alec Owen Maitland vessel grounding incident of October 25, 1989. This grounding occurred within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Pursuant to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, NOAA recovers money for injury to Sanctuary resources, and uses it to restore those resources. A monitoring program tracks patterns of recovery, in order to determine the success ...

R Kumar, and A Indrayan, and P Chhabra

Background: Use of multivariable logistic regression (MLR) modeling has steeply increased in the medical literature over the past few years. Testing of model assumptions and adequate reporting of MLR allow the reader to interpret results more accurately. Aims: To review the fulfillment of assumptions and reporting quality of MLR in selected Indian medical journals using established criteria. Setting and Design: Analysis of published literature. Materials and Methods: Medknow.com publishes 68 Ind...

M. Anzidei

A Marine Digital Elevation Model (MDEM) of the still active volcanic area of Panarea caldera is presented in this paper. A fast and accurate survey was performed by means of the Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) geodetic technique coupled with an echo-sounding gear and a real time navigation software. The instrumentation was installed on board of a low draught boat in order to collect data starting from the bathymeter of one meter. Planar positions and depths were obtained with avera...