A generic framework to assess the representation and protection of benthic ecosystems in European marine protected areas     

Clare Greathead  Paolo Magni  Jan Vanaverbeke  Lene Buhl‐Mortensen  Urszula Janas  Mats Blomqvist  Johan A. Craeymeersch  Jennifer Dannheim  Alexander Darr  Steven Degraer  Nicolas Desroy  Annick Donnay  Yessica Griffiths  Ivan Guala  Laurent Guerin  Hayley Hinchen  Celine Labrune  Henning Reiss  Gert Van Hoey  Silvana N.R. Birchenough 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2020,30(7):1253-1275

1. There is concern across the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) region that a consideration of vulnerable components and the wider support mechanisms underpinning benthic marine ecosystems may be lacking from the process of marine protected area (MPA) designation, management and monitoring.
2. In this study, MPAs across six European ecoregions were assessed from a benthic ecology perspective. The study included 102 MPAs, designated by 10 countries, and focused on three aspects regarding the role of the benthos in: (i) the designation of MPAs; (ii) the management measures used in MPAs; and (iii) the monitoring and assessment of MPAs.
3. Qualitative entries to a questionnaire based on an existing framework (EU project ‘Monitoring Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas’, (MESMA) were collected by 19 benthic experts of the ICES Benthic Ecology Working Group. A pedigree matrix was used to apply a numerical scale (score) to these entries.
4. The results showed clear differences in scores between ecoregions and between criteria. The designation‐phase criteria generally achieved higher scores than the implementation‐phase criteria. Poor designation‐phase scores were generally reiterated in the implementation‐phase scores, such as scores for assessment and monitoring.
5. Over 70% of the MPA case studies were found to consider the benthos to some extent during selection and designation; however, this was not followed up with appropriate management measures and good practice during the implementation phase.
6. Poor spatial and temporal coverage of monitoring and ineffective indicators is unlikely to pick up changes caused by management measures in the MPA. There is concern that without adequate monitoring and adaptive management frameworks, the MPAs will be compromised. Also, there could be an increased likelihood that, with regard to the benthos, they will fail to meet their conservation objectives.
7. This assessment was successful in highlighting issues related to the representation and protection of the benthos in MPAs and where changes need to be made, such as expanding the characterization and monitoring of benthic species or habitats of interest. These issues could be attributable to an ongoing process and/or an indication that some MPAs only have ‘paper protection’.

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Cardiac Arrhythmias in Standardbreds During and After Racing—Possible Association Between Heart Size,Valvular Regurgitations,and Arrhythmias     

Rikke Buhl  Ellen Ekkelund Petersen  Maria Lindholm  Lars Bak  Katarina Nostell 《Journal of Equine Veterinary Science》2013

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Echocardiographic evaluation of changes in left ventricular size and valvular regurgitation associated with physical training during and after maturity in Standardbred trotters     

Buhl R  Ersbøll AK 《Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association》2012,240(2):205-212

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Comparison of the influence of different anesthetic protocols in the development of post-anesthetic arrhythmia in the dog     

Buhl K  Kersten U  Kramer S  Mischke R  Fedrowitz M  Nolte I 《DTW. Deutsche tier?rztliche Wochenschrift》2003,110(10):407-412

Post-anesthetic holter monitoring was performed in 2 patient groups in order to compare the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias as a result of different anesthetic protocols. The 2 groups differed in their anesthetic protocol. Both groups received levomethadone as pre-anesthetic. The dogs in group A (n = 30) additionally received diazepam, the dogs in group B (n = 30) received propofol instead. Anesthesia was maintained by isoflurane in group A and a propofol constant rate infusion in group B. In each patient 2 holter monitorings were performed. The first recording began directly after anesthesia. As a comparison a second recording was performed on the 5th post-operative day. The recorded number of arrhythmias was low and no statistical difference was demonstrated between the 2 patient groups.  相似文献   

SOURCES AND MAGNITUDE OF VARIATION OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS IN NORMAL STANDARDBRED HORSES     

Rikke Buhl  DVM    Annette Kjær Ersbøll  MSc  PhD    Lis Eriksen  DVM  DVSc    Jørgen Koch  DVM  PhD 《Veterinary radiology & ultrasound》2004,45(6):505-512

The purpose of this study was to assess the intraobserver variation of various echocardiographic measures in standardbred trotters. Serial echocardiographic examinations were carried out on eight standardbred mares by one ultrasonographer for 5 separate days. During each examination, five nonconsecutive cardiac cycles (frames) were recorded and an average obtained for each individual measure. Various echocardiographic measures were obtained by use of two-dimensional (2-D), M-mode, color flow Doppler and pulsed wave Doppler echocardiography. The total variation in the echocardiographic measurements was split into three levels: the variation between horses, the day-to-day variation within individual horses, and finally the variation within horse on the same day of examination (intercardiac cycle variation). The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated for each measure. The ICC represents the variability of the measurements because of differences between the horses. In general the 2-D, M-mode and color flow Doppler measures had higher ICC values (ICC from 0.63 to 0.95) than the pulsed wave Doppler measures (ICC from 0.24 to 0.46), and the former measures were more repeatable than the pulsed wave measures. Exceptions to that were left ventricular free wall in diastole, the pulmonary artery in systole and the left ventricular mass, which all had low repeatability (ICC from 0.22 to 0.49). The results were used to calculate the relative differences that must be detected to diagnose a statistically significant change between two measurements in an individual horse. Differences from 4.2% to 21.8% must be achieved to document significant changes between serial measurements. A general tendency is that the color flow and pulsed wave Doppler measures require a larger relative difference (11.4-21.8%) between the measures to point out statistically significant cardiac changes than the 2-D and M-mode measures (4.2-13.9%).  相似文献   

Antiarrhythmic and Electrophysiologic Effects of Flecainide on Acutely Induced Atrial Fibrillation in Healthy Horses          下载免费PDF全文

M.M. Haugaard  S. Pehrson  H. Carstensen  M. Flethøj  E.Z. Hesselkilde  K.F. Præstegaard  J.G. Diness  M. Grunnet  T. Jespersen  R. Buhl 《Journal of veterinary internal medicine / American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine》2015,29(1):339-347

Background

Only few pharmacologic compounds have been validated for treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) in horses. Studies investigating the utility and safety of flecainide to treat AF in horses have produced conflicting results, and the antiarrhythmic mechanisms of flecainide are not fully understood.

Objectives

To study the potential of flecainide to terminate acutely induced AF of short duration (≥15 minutes), to examine flecainide‐induced changes in AF duration and AF vulnerability, and to investigate the in vivo effects of flecainide on right atrial effective refractory period, AF cycle length, and ventricular depolarization and repolarization.

Animals

Nine Standardbred horses. Eight received flecainide, 3 were used as time‐matched controls, 2 of which also received flecainide.

Methods

Prospective study. The antiarrhythmic and electrophysiologic effects of flecainide were based on 5 parameters: ability to terminate acute pacing‐induced AF (≥15 minutes), and drug‐induced changes in atrial effective refractory period, AF duration, AF vulnerability, and ventricular depolarization and repolarization times. Parameters were assessed at baseline and after flecainide by programmed electrical stimulation methods.

Results

Flecainide terminated all acutely induced AF episodes (n = 7); (AF duration, 21 ± 5 minutes) and significantly decreased the AF duration, but neither altered atrial effective refractory period nor AF vulnerability significantly. Ventricular repolarization time was prolonged between 8 and 20 minutes after initiation of flecainide infusion, but no ventricular arrhythmias were detected.

Conclusions and Clinical Importance

Flecainide had clear antiarrhythmic properties in terminating acute pacing‐induced AF, but showed no protective properties against immediate reinduction of AF. Flecainide caused temporary prolongation in the ventricular repolarization, which may be a proarrhythmic effect.  相似文献   

Lunar surface magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind: results from lunar prospector   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

RP Lin  DL Mitchell  DW Curtis  KA Anderson  CW Carlson  J McFadden  MH Acuna  LL Hood  A Binder 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1998,281(5382):1480-1484

The magnetometer and electron reflectometer experiment on the Lunar Prospector spacecraft has obtained maps of lunar crustal magnetic fields and observed the interaction between the solar wind and regions of strong crustal magnetic fields at high selenographic latitude (30 degreesS to 80 degreesS) and low ( approximately 100 kilometers) altitude. Electron reflection maps of the regions antipodal to the Imbrium and Serenitatis impact basins, extending to 80 degreesS latitude, show that crustal magnetic fields fill most of the antipodal zones of those basins. This finding provides further evidence for the hypothesis that basin-forming impacts result in magnetization of the lunar crust at their antipodes. The crustal magnetic fields of the Imbrium antipode region are strong enough to deflect the solar wind and form a miniature (100 to several hundred kilometers across) magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and bow shock system.  相似文献   

Frictional melting during the rupture of the 1994 bolivian earthquake   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

H Kanamori  DL Anderson  TH Heaton 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1998,279(5352):839-842

The source parameters of the 1994 Bolivian earthquake (magnitude Mw = 8.3) suggest that the maximum seismic efficiency eta was 0.036 and the minimum frictional stress was 550 bars. Thus, the source process was dissipative, which is consistent with the observed slow rupture speed, only 20% of the local S-wave velocity. The amount of nonradiated energy produced during the Bolivian rupture was comparable to, or larger than, the thermal energy of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption and was sufficient to have melted a layer as thick as 31 centimeters. Once rupture was initiated, melting could occur, which reduces friction and promotes fault slip.  相似文献   

Synchronous climate changes in antarctica and the north atlantic     

EJ Steig  EJ Brook  JWC White  CM Sucher  ML Bender  SJ Lehman  DL Morse  ED Waddington  GD Clow 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》1998,282(5386):92-95

Central Greenland ice cores provide evidence of abrupt changes in climate over the past 100,000 years. Many of these changes have also been identified in sedimentary and geochemical signatures in deep-sea sediment cores from the North Atlantic, confirming the link between millennial-scale climate variability and ocean thermohaline circulation. It is shown here that two of the most prominent North Atlantic events-the rapid warming that marks the end of the last glacial period and the Bolling/Allerod-Younger Dryas oscillation-are also recorded in an ice core from Taylor Dome, in the western Ross Sea sector of Antarctica. This result contrasts with evidence from ice cores in other regions of Antarctica, which show an asynchronous response between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.  相似文献   

Gründung einer forstwatjenstistung in Württemberg     

Buhl 《European Journal of Forest Research》1903,25(12):664-665

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