Whole animal respiration rates (R) of myctophid fishes which migrate up to the surface at night were estimated using enzyme activities of the electron-transport-system (ETS). The fish, currently unsusceptible to laboratory experimentation, were caught at sea and stored frozen at –20°C for 14–17 days prior to enzyme assay. Supplemental tests on two tropical marine fishes (gobies and poma-centrids) showed no measurable loss of ETS activity during storage for up to 36 d at –20°C. The ETS/R ratio for gobies and pomacentrids was 1.61. Respiration rates of myctophid fishes estimated using this ETS/R ratio ranged from 17.7 to 453µl O2 individual–1 hr–1 for specimens weighing 26–1101 mg wet weight atin situ temperature of 24–27°C. The relationship between the respiration rate standardized to a temperature of 20°C (R:µl O2 individual–1hr–1) and wet weight (WW: mg) of myctophid fishes was expressed asR=0.790 WW0.84 (r=0.964,n=27). This relationship does not differ appreciably from the respiration rates of other marine fishes calculated from Winberg's equation. 相似文献
An attempt to the approximate figures of seasonal distribution of solar energy reached to and penetrated in the water of the
oceans, as a preliminary step to the estimation of primary production in the oceans from the optical point, was performed
in the Indian Ocean, North Pacific Ocean and Antarctic Ocean on the same lines in the part III. In consequence, the total
amount of solar energy for the year in each depth showed marked differences in each zone of the oceans as illustrated in Fig.
5. By way of example, it could be said that underwater solar energy already came to 33.4 Kg·cal/cm2·year in 10 m deep in the equator of Indian Ocean and was 54% of that, in the Kuroshio region of the North Pacific Ocean,
44% in the Sub-Antarctic zone, 13% in the Antarctic zone and 6% in the Antarctic Convergence zone, respectively.
Besides, on the assumption that a lower limit of the photic zone is marked by the depth here underwater surface solar energy
is reduced to 1% or 5g·cal/cm2·day, the ratio of the total photic zone for the year in unit area of sea surface was approximately 100∶80∶60∶25 or 100∶75∶50∶20
in the equator of the Indian Ocean, Kuroshio region, Sub-Antarctic zone, and Antarctic and Antarctic Convergence zones, respectively. 相似文献
Seasonal changes in nano/micro-zooplankton grazing on pico-, nano- and micro-size phytoplankton and heterotrophic nano-flagellates
(HNF) feeding on heterotrophic bacteria were quantified by the dilution technique in the surface layer off Cape Esan, southwestern
Hokkaido, Japan. Pico- and nano-size phytoplankton were major components throughout the year except in spring when a diatom
bloom was observed. Although there was little seasonal variation in bacteria and HNF biomass throughout the year, the micro-zooplankton
biomass varied appreciably with a peak in spring. Nano/micro-zooplankton grazing or feeding on pico-size chl-a and bacteria were well balanced throughout the year. However, nano-size and micro-size chl-a growth were much greater than grazing in summer. Nano/micro-zooplankton ingestion of phytoplankton was greater than their
ingestion of bacteria almost throughout the year, which suggests phytoplankton are more important as food sources of nano/micro-zooplankton
in microbial food webs off Cape Esan than bacteria off Cape Esan.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
The Algal Growth Potential (AGP) of water samples collected off Gamagori in Mikawa Bay was measured from May 1978 through February 1979, and the limiting nutrient was determined using regression analysis and enrichment bioassays. The surface and bottom water samples had AGP that produced increments of chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 2.1 mg l–1 and 3.1 mg l–1, respectively, on average. These values ofCOD correspond to 46% and 97% of the average COD values of the raw water samples at the surface and bottom, respectively. Seasonal changes of AGP showed a close correlation with those of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) concentration. Enrichment bioassays showed that DIN was the most deficient nutrient. The DIN:phosphate-phosphorus (PO43–-P) ratios and DIN: dissolved phosphorus (DP) ratios in the water samples were below the cellular N:P ratios of the natural algal populations. These results suggest that AGP was mainly limited by DIN concentration. 相似文献
Drowning accidents at beach in Japan are caused by rip currents. To reduce these accidents, a new technology that can detect rip currents and notify beachgoers by using the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) was proposed. However, studies on the effect of visualizing rip currents or considering the effect of optimism bias have not been conducted. This study investigates if visualization of rip currents might help in preventing drowning accidents, while considering the effect of optimism bias. The participants were 90 Japanese beachgoers. They were asked to answer questions based on their knowledge of the beach and rip currents, their optimism bias regarding rip currents, and awareness with or without visualization. The results of the analyses suggest that despite optimism bias, the visualization of rip currents increases the tendency of beachgoers to perceive and avoid rip currents. As described above, it was found that by visualizing the rip current, beachgoers were able to perceive and avoid rip currents. In addition, an understanding of rip currents is positively related to the intent to avoid rip currents even when rip currents are visualized. Therefore, it is necessary not only to enhance the avoidance tendency by visualizing rip currents, but also to further enhance knowledge of beachgoers to deepen the understanding of rip currents including the danger associated and methods to avoid them.
Lipid fraction and cell-wall materials have been separated from three types of algae (blue green, Microcystis sp.; green, Scenedesmus sp. and diatomaceous Diatoma sp.) and their KMnO4 oxidation products (aliphatic dicarboxylic acids; aliphatic normal C14–C24 monocarboxylic acids; benzoic acid and C18 isoprenoidal ketone) examined by gas chromatography and gas chromatographymass spectrometry. The results suggest that the lipid material could make a greater contribution to polymethylene chains in kerogen than the cell-wall material, when the kerogens are mainly derived from algal components. 相似文献
The construction of formulas for sequentially computing solutions and a variance-covariance matrix with the bandtype system of observation equations, which is inherent in geodetic networks, is carried out; these formulas are illustrated with a simple numerical example in which the adjustment for the trilateration of triply coupled quadrilaterals is executed. 相似文献
Lipids, fulvic acid, humic acid and kerogen were isolated from a lacustrine sediment in which the organic matter is probably derived predominantly from phytoplankton (Lake Haruna, Japan). An alkaline KMnO4 oxidation study of the organic matter showed that distributions of polymethylene chain lengths in the lipids, humic acid and kerogen fractions are almost the same. The polymethylene chains in the sediment are dominant in the kerogen, lipids and humic acid, their relative abundance estimated by the oxidation being: kerogen (42% of the total amounts of polymethylene chains estimated) > lipids (38%) > humic acid (19%) > fulvic acid (1%). It was concluded that algal lipids may have been incorporated into the kerogen and humic acid fractions after the death of the algae and during, after, their deposition. 相似文献