Hydromorphological rehabilitation improves channel morphology,instream biotopes,and macroinvertebrate communities,and thus enhances the conservation of an urban river     

Ahmed Faraj Ali Al-Zankana  Lisa S. Smallwood  Tom Matheson  David M. Harper 《水产资源保护:海洋与淡水生态系统》2021,31(10):2697-2713

1. Many river rehabilitation projects have been criticized for failing to meet their goals or for being insufficiently monitored. There is, therefore, an urgent need to develop robust approaches for assessing treatment efficacy and thus guide the increasing investment in rehabilitation.
2. Instream biotopes (formerly called ‘functional habitats’ or ‘mesohabitats’ by different authors) and their macroinvertebrate assemblages were used to assess the effectiveness of entire-channel hydromorphological rehabilitation of a 1.8-km stretch of a lowland stream through the town of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, UK.
3. The project successfully enhanced the physical diversity, measured in the rehabilitated reach as the coefficients of variability for channel water depth and width, wet surface area, number of instream biotopes, and biotope diversity.
4. The project also enhanced the biodiversity conservation value, measured as macroinvertebrate total density, total biomass, richness, diversity, Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT) richness, EPT diversity, EPT count%, and EPT biomass%, all of which significantly increased following rehabilitation. Chironomidae count% and biomass% significantly decreased following rehabilitation. Rehabilitation was also successful in significantly increasing macroinvertebrate shredder, scraper, and filter-feeder group density.
5. Changes in the macroinvertebrate community metrics in the rehabilitated reach were related significantly to changes in the percentages of cover of instream biotopes and increases in biotope diversity in the rehabilitated reach.
6. Macroinvertebrate structural and functional metrics can provide quantitative data for assessing reach-level rehabilitation outcomes, if samples are collected in a pre-defined sampling protocol stratified at the instream biotope level.
7. The practical implications of this work are that the design of rehabilitation projects, if based upon the recreation of biotope heterogeneity, will succeed in improving biological value and restoring the area to near naturalness if a suitable upstream source of macroinvertebrates for natural recolonization is available. The study shows that the concept of biotopes has an important role to play in river conservation management.

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Bacterial diversity of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) cultured in brackish water in Saudi Arabia     

Ahmed H. Al-Harbi  Naim Uddin 《Aquaculture (Amsterdam, Netherlands)》2005,250(3-4):566-572

The bacterial flora occurring in brackish pond water, sediment, gills and intestine of healthy tilapia cultured in Saudi Arabia were estimated both quantitatively and qualitatively, and the isolates were identified to genus or species level. Total viable count of bacteria ranged from 1.4±1.5×10³ to 8.6±2.7×10³ cfu ml⁻¹; 1.2±3.1×10⁶ to 7.3±1.1×10⁷ cfu g⁻¹; 8.7±1.9×10⁵ to 2.1±0.9×10⁶ cfu g⁻¹; and 2.8±2.4×10⁷ to 1.0±1.6×10⁸ cfu g⁻¹ in the pond water, sediment, gills and intestine of brackish water tilapia, respectively. In total, 19 bacterial species were identified. The bacteria were predominantly Gram-negative rods (87%). Pond water and sediment bacteria influenced the bacterial composition of gills and intestine of tilapia. In contrast to gill bacteria, more diversification was observed in intestinal bacteria. The predominant (prevalence >10%) bacterial species were Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio carchariae, Vibrio alginolyticus, Chryseomonas sp., Vibrio vulnificus, and Streptococcus sp. in all the populations with the exception of the sediment population where Streptococcus sp. was replaced by Shewanella putrefaciens. Vibrio spp. (58% of the total isolates) dominated the total bacterial population.  相似文献   

Chemical Constituents of Lagenaria siceraria Mesocarp and Its Xanthine Oxidase and Alpha-Amylase Inhibitory Activities     

Dildar Ahmed  Parsa Dar  Raza Chaudhery  Rashid Masih 《International Journal of Fruit Science》2017,17(3):310-322

The present study was conducted to identify natural products in the bioactive fractions of Lagenaria siceraria mesocarp. Column chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was used for separation and identification of phytochemicals. Methanolic extract and its fractions displayed alpha-amylase and xanthine oxidase inhibitory activities comparable to standard drugs. GC-MS analysis of the fractions and column eluates revealed the presence of a variety of chemical compounds, including 4-(methoxymethyl)phenol, 2,2?-methylenebis{6(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-ethyl}phenol, methyl 2-hydroxy-3-phenylpropanoate, oxacyclododecane-2,8-dione, N-(2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethyl] acetamide, 2,3-Epoxycarane, 4-(propan-2-yl)benzaldehyde, octadec-1-ene, 4a-methyl-1-methylidene-1,2,3,4,4a,9,10,10a-octahydrophenanthrene, 2,6-di(propan-2-yl)naphthalene, methyl 3-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethylphenyl)propanoate, 4,8a-dimethyl-6-(prop-1-en-2-yl)-3,5,6,7,8,8a-hexahydronaphthalen-2(1H)-one 1,3-dihydro-2-benzofuran, methyl N-hydroxybenzenecarboximidoate, linoleic acid, and palmitic acid. Many of these compounds are being reported for the first time from this plant, the presence of which may explain, at least partly, its medicinal efficacy. The fruit possesses significant anti-enzymatic properties against alpha-amylase and xanthine oxidase, and the most active compounds of mesocarp of the fruit appear in ethyl acetate fraction of its methanolic extract.  相似文献   

Veins of the Head and Neck of the Donkey (Equus asinus)     

M. A. A. Ahmed    H. Anis  M. S. M. Moustafa 《Anatomia, histologia, embryologia》1985,14(2):149-157

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The Cytological Status of Plants Regenerated from Shoot-Meristem Culture of Pisum sativum L     

Rina  Ahmed  S. Dutta  Gupta P. D. Ghosh 《Plant Breeding》1987,98(4):306-311

The cytological status of plantlets regenerated from shoot apical meristems of Pisum sativum was investigated. Chromosome counts in root apices of in vitro regenerated plants showed a preponderance of diploid cells. Moreover, the karyotypes of root-tips from plants derived from culture and from normal plants were basically the same. Topics such as the treatment of chromosomal armlength data, simple statistical comparison of samples derived from normal and regenerated plants are discussed.  相似文献   

Comparison of leaf and pod disease reactions of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) inoculated by different methods with strains of Xanthomonas campestris pv. Phaseoli (Smith) dye     

Ahmed R. Aggour  Dermot P. Coyne  Anne K. Vidaver 《Euphytica》1989,43(1-2):143-152

Summary Common blight disease in beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli, reduces crop yield and seed quality. Information is needed on the variation of leaves and pods disease reaction to strains of the bacterium after different inoculation methods. Phaseolus vulgaris cultivars Red Kidney Charlevoix, GN Harris, GN 1140, and GN Emerson were inoculated with three different strains of Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli at two inoculum concentrations (10⁸ and 10⁶ bacterial cells/ml) using water soaking, multiple needle, and razor blade inoculation on leaves, and razor blade scratch, dissecting needle, and razor blade cut inoculation on pods. Differential cultivar disease reactions of leaves, pods, or both to the bacterial strains were observed in some cases. Significant interactions among cultivars, inoculation methods, strains, and inoculum concentrations (leaves) were found. A rapid leaf chlorosis developed 6 to 7 days after inoculation. Strains of bacteria did not show specificity in inducing this reaction, but rapid leaf chlorosis was associated with high inoculum concentration and with the water soaking and multiple needle methods. Another experiment was conducted to count the number of living bacterial cells deposited in the leaf tissue after inoculation by different methods. The number of bacteria deposited by water soaking or multiple needle was higher than that deposited by razor blade.Published as Paper No. 8584, Journal Series, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. Research was conducted under Project No. 20–36.  相似文献   

用SSR标记分析豫综5号和金皇后综合种的遗传变异   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

吴连成  侯本军  库丽霞  王铁固  孟庆雷  陈彦惠 《华北农学报》2007,22(3):30-34

利用40对SSR标记引物分析了豫综5号和金皇后综合种的遗传变异.结果表明:40对引物在两群体中都扩增出115个多态位点;累加40对引物扩增的基因型种类,豫综5号196种,金皇后194种;豫综5号的平均遗传距离为0.383 4,金皇后综合种为0.339 7;豫综5号的平均观察杂合度是0.382 6,平均期望杂合度是0.474 7;金皇后综合种的平均观察杂合度是0.329 2,平均期望杂合度是0.414 3.从以上结果来看,豫综5号的遗传变异较丰富.  相似文献   

Selection of diverse parents of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) by multivariate analysis and the degree of heterosis of their F1 hybrids     

Imtiaz Ahmed Khan  Seema Imtiaz  Bashir Ahmed Malik 《Euphytica》1990,51(3):227-233

Summary Studies on genetic diversity in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) indicated the existence of considerable amount of variation for grain yield and its components in the material. One hundred and thirty two genotypes fell into eight clusters. The covariation structure studied by means of factor analysis indicated the possibility of obtaining, through hybridization, genotypes physiologically and morphologically more efficient. Multivariate analysis of data from 7 parents and 21 F1 hybrids indicated weak correspondence between D²-analysis and canonical variate analysis. As there was no relationship between heterosis over midparent and genetic distance between the parents, so the traditional approach of making a large number of crosses is being suggested.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Genetic variation of stem characters in wheat and their relation to kernel weight under drought and heat stresses     

Ahmed Sallam  Mervat Hashad  El-Sayed Hamed  Mohamed 《Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology》2015,18(5):361-361

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利用若干单株混合提取DNA方法进行玉米群体SSR的分析   总被引：9，自引：1，他引：9  

王铁固  陈彦惠  吴连成  库丽霞  侯本军 《华北农学报》2005,20(1):6-11

以金皇后玉米群体90个单株：DNA和6个自交系DNA为供试材料，利用15对SSR引物，比较了同一群体4种DNA样品处理(单株DNA样品、3个单株混合DNA样品、10个单株混合DNA样品、15个单株混合DNA样品)的SSR遗传多态性。结果表明，利用单株DNA样品能获得等位基因数、基因频率、基因型杂合度等较全面的遗传信息，适宜进行单个或少量群体的遗传结构研究，但试验工作量大；利用混合DNA样品所能获得的遗传信息有所减少，比较4种DNA样品处理的检测结果发现，15个单株混合样品的检测结果误差较大，而采用3～10个单株DNA混合的样品基本可以反映出一个群体的等位基因数目和SSR带型的差异，由于试验工作量大大减少，可以应用于较多玉米群体间遗传差异的比较。  相似文献