Maximum yield approximation and size distribution patterns of stocker size largemouth bass,Micropterus salmoides reared in a semi‐closed indoor system          下载免费PDF全文

Jeonghwan Park  Nilima Renukdas  Trevor Luna  Luke A Roy 《Aquaculture Research》2017,48(3):780-791

The main objectives of this study were to approximate the maximum yield and evaluate size dispersion of stocker size largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides reared in a semi‐closed recirculating system for 60 days. Fingerlings with an average body weight of 36.7 g were utilized for the study. An experimental system consisting of 18 square plastic tanks (165 L) equipped with a radial flow settler, a sump, a moving bed filter, a centrifugal pump, a rapid sand filter, a down‐flow oxygen saturator and a UV sterilizer was utilized for the trial. The system was operated semi‐closed, accounting for a daily exchange rate of 30–50% of total system water volume. Experimental stocking densities were 4.5, 9.1, 18.8, 36.5, 54.6 and 73 kg m^?3 with three replicates per treatment. At the end of the experimental trial, largemouth bass showed acceptable feed conversion (1.00–1.48), specific growth rate (1.16–1.45% day^?1) and survival rate (81.8–96.6%) in all treatments, displaying the highest performance at an initial stocking density range of 18–36 kg m^?3. Based on a piecewise regression model with breakpoint analysis, maximum yield of largemouth bass fingerlings should not exceed 70 kg m^?3. As stocking density increased, relatively more underweight fingerlings were produced with a higher uniformity of fatness.  相似文献   

Calibration of the Ångström–Prescott coefficients (a,b) under different time scales and their impacts in estimating global solar radiation in the Yellow River basin     

Xiaoying Liu  Xurong Mei  Yuzhong Li  Yanqing Zhang  Qingsuo Wang  Jens Raunsø Jensen  John Roy Porter 《Agricultural and Forest Meteorology》2009,149(3-4):697-710

The Ångström–Prescott (A–P) equation relating in its current form the incident top-of-atmosphere solar radiation to the solar radiation received at the surface, is one of the most accurate and widely used sunshine-based methods estimating global solar radiation (R_s). The key in its application is the calibration of the locally specific coefficients. Although the coefficients have been extensively studied and calibrated in many places over the world, their relations with time scale are much less investigated. This paper addressed the variation in these coefficients caused by time scale and how this variation results on the accuracy of R_s predictions. This was done using long-term data at 31 sites from the Yellow River basin in China by parallel calibration at three time scales: daily, monthly mean daily and yearly mean daily. We found that the A–P coefficients obtained using monthly data generally had higher a and lower b and larger variations over those using daily data. At yearly time scale, the sunshine–radiation relationship can no longer be described by the linear A–P formula. The difference in coefficients between daily and monthly calibration was rather large accounting for 71% of the differences in a and 61% in b that in turn were greater than 0.03, corresponding to 81% for a and 49% for b being greater than 10%. Time scale had a larger effect on a than on b, and it caused a maximum variation of 82% in a and 43% in b in the basin, equaling half of the variation caused by geographical location. However, the large effect of time scales on a and b produced no significant impact on the estimation accuracy of R_s because of the conservative response of the sum a + b to time scale. In this sense, the coefficients calibrated at daily scale are interchangeable with those calibrated at monthly scale, indicating the high flexibility of the A–P formula. Nevertheless, calibration made at daily scale has two important advantages over monthly scale in that it requires fewer years’ data to obtain stabilized coefficients, and that it is easily predicted more accurately with common site information. Our findings have two implications. Firstly, they provide an additional guidance on the explanation of the large variability of the coefficients found in the literature for the same geographical location. Secondly, they facilitate the choice of the coefficients in practical applications by proving their interchangeability in the estimation of R_s.  相似文献   

The soil degradation of the herbicide florasulam     

Roy Jackson  Dipankar Ghosh  Glen Paterson 《Pest management science》2000,56(12):1065-1072

The route and rate of degradation of florasulam, a low‐rate triazolopyrimidine sulfonanilide herbicide, was investigated in six soil types under aerobic conditions at 20 or 25 °C. Degradation products were isolated and identified by mass spectroscopy. Florasulam was rapidly degraded by microbial action with an average half‐life of 2.4 days (range 0.7 to 4.5 days). The first step in the degradation pathway involved conversion of the methoxy group on the triazolopyrimidine ring to a hydroxy group to form N‐(2,6‐difluorophenyl)‐8‐fluoro‐5‐hydroxy[1,2,4]triazolo[1,5‐c]pyrimidine‐2‐sulfonamide. This metabolite degraded, with a half‐life of 10 to 61 days, via partial breakdown of the triazolopyrimidine ring to form N‐(2,6‐difluorophenyl)‐5‐aminosulfonyl‐1H‐1,2,4‐triazole‐3‐carboxylic acid. This was followed by cleavage of the sulfonamide bridge to form 5‐(aminosulfonyl)‐1H‐1,2,4‐triazole‐3‐carboxylic acid. Other degradation processes involved decarboxylation of the carboxylic acid metabolites and mineralisation to form carbon dioxide and non‐extractable residues. © 2000 Society of Chemical Industry  相似文献   

Surface Derivatization of Corn Starch Granules     

Roy L. Whistler  Michael A. Madson  Jingan Zhao  James R. Daniel 《Cereal Chemistry》1998,75(1):72-74

Commercial corn starch, treated with stearoyl chloride in carbon tetrachloride and triethylamine, is surface-derivatized without noticeable swelling. Granules that are reacted with chloroacetic acid under similar conditions undergo surface etherification, visibly identified by their color binding with fuchsin. Interestingly, the dye experiment indicates surface-derivatization as well as derivatization of the granule central interior, suggesting reagent penetration to the granule interior through pores and derivatization of a lower density porous center. Esterification of corn starch granules treated with glucoamylase have five times greater esterification than normal corn starch granules. Placed in water, these and palmitoylated granules have a fatty feel to the fingers. Stearoylated corn and amaranth starches showed indications for use as fat replacers in frozen desserts.  相似文献   

Effects of Temperature,Light Intensity and DIF on Growth Characteristics in Platycodon grandiflorum     

Kwon  Soo-Jeong  Kim  Hye-Rim  Roy  Swapan Kumar  Kim  Hyun-Jung  Boo  Hee-Ock  Woo  Sun-Hee  Kim  Hag-Hyun 《Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology》2019,22(4):379-386

Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology - Bellflower (P. grandiflorum) has been an important medicinal plant since the ancient time. In the present study, we aimed to determine the effects of...  相似文献   

Control of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus,the causal agent of ash dieback,using composting     

Ralph Noble  James W. Woodhall  Andreja Dobrovin‐Pennington  Kate Perkins  Eder Somoza‐Valdeolmillos  Haizea L. Gmez  Yi Lu  Roy Macarthur  Christine M. Henry 《Forest Pathology》2019,49(6)

Viability of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus inocula following temperature treatments for different exposure times was examined in vitro and in aerated flask‐ and large‐scale composting tests using green waste. After an exposure for up to 10 days at 20°C, 97.3% of H. fraxineus mycelium and pseudosclerotia plate cultures remained viable. No viability was detected following a 3‐day exposure to 40°C or a 1‐day exposure to 45°C although pseudosclerotia were more tolerant than mycelium to an exposure to 35°C. Primordial apothecia of H. fraxineus emerged from 62%–100% of infected ash rachises collected from two infected sites and stored at 4°C for 0–5 months; exposure to compost for up to 10 days at 20°C did not affect this emergence. No emergence of H. fraxineus apothecia was observed from ash rachises that were exposed to compost at 45°C for 1 day or at 35°C or 40°C for 3 days in flasks or at 40°C for 1 day or at 30°C for 5 days in a large‐scale composting system. Based on a fitted model, estimates of the survival of H. fraxineus inoculum in infected ash rachises exposed to compost at 50°C for 1 day were 0.081% of that in the untreated H. fraxineus ash rachis inoculum. Increasing loss in viability of H. fraxineus inoculum in infected ash rachises during longer and warmer exposures to compost at 35°C–45°C corresponded with a reduced concentration of pathogen DNA detected in the rachises using real‐time PCR. However, exposure of rachises to compost at >53°C resulted in a smaller reduction in pathogen DNA detected than exposure to compost at lower temperatures, possibly due to the inhibition of enzymatic degradation of DNA at elevated temperatures.  相似文献   

l‐Arabinose Release from Arabinoxylan and Arabinogalactan Under Potential Gastric Acidities     

Pingyi Zhang  Qian Zhang  Roy L. Whistler 《Cereal Chemistry》2003,80(3):252-254

Arabinofuranosyl groups are present in many hemicelluloses as single or multiple units attached to the main xylan or galactan chain where they are sensitive to acid hydrolysis. Under acidic conditions of the human stomach, up to 10% of the L‐arabinose is released from the hemicellulose of corn hull, larch wood, and banana peel hemicellulose.  相似文献   

Habitat partitioning among three predatory fish in a temperate reservoir     

Samuel Westrelin  Julien Cucherousset  Romain Roy  Laurence Tissot  Frdric Santoul  Christine Argillier 《Ecology of Freshwater Fish》2022,31(1):129-142

The diversity of predatory species plays a key role in ecosystem functioning but our understanding of the mechanisms underlying their coexistence is limited, particularly in freshwater ecosystems. Northern pike Esox lucius, European perch Perca fluviatilis and pikeperch Sander lucioperca are three widespread predatory species in European lakes, where they often coexist. As potential competitors, we hypothesised that partitioning habitat is a determinant of species coexistence. This was tested by quantifying the variability of their habitat use in tracking adult individuals in the Bariousses reservoir (France, 86.6 ha, mean depth 7.1 m). Specifically, we investigated their distribution along the littoral–pelagic and depth axes along the daily cycle and across seasons. From littoral to pelagic waters were first found pike, then perch and finally pikeperch. Pike was the closest to the surface while pikeperch was the deepest. This general pattern was, however, variable across seasons with the three species located in the upper layer in summer during reservoir stratification. Individuals were more evenly distributed along the littoral–pelagic axis and closer to the bottom when water was mixing (autumn, winter). In summer, perch used more intensively in the pelagic zone during the daytime. Other species did not show any diel change of habitats. Our results highlighted that species coexistence is associated with habitat partitioning among these three predators, with perch showing a more variable behaviour regarding habitat characteristics. Now more than ever, in the context of global change which modifies habitats, it is of crucial importance to understand the coexistence mechanisms of species that shape ecosystems.  相似文献