Stocking density and artificial habitat influence stock structure and yield from intensive nursery systems for mud crabs Scylla serrata (Forsskål 1775)     

David L Mann  Tom Asakawa  Beverley Kelly  Trent Lindsay  & Brian Paterson 《Aquaculture Research》2007,38(14):1580-1587

Intensive nursery systems are designed to culture mud crab postlarvae through a critical phase in preparation for stocking into growout systems. This study investigated the influence of stocking density and provision of artificial habitat on the yield of a cage culture system. For each of three batches of postlarvae, survival, growth and claw loss were assessed after each of three nursery phases ending at crab instars C1/C2, C4/C5 and C7/C8. Survival through the first phase was highly variable among batches with a maximum survival of 80% from megalops to a mean crab instar of 1.5. Stocking density between 625 and 2300 m⁻² did not influence survival or growth in this first phase. Stocking densities tested in phases 2 and 3 were 62.5, 125 and 250 m⁻². At the end of phases 2 and 3, there were five instar stages present, representing a more than 20‐fold size disparity within the populations. Survival became increasingly density‐sensitive following the first phase, with higher densities resulting in significantly lower survival (phase 2: 63% vs. 79%; phase 3: 57% vs. 64%). The addition of artificial habitat in the form of pleated netting significantly improved survival at all densities. The mean instar attained by the end of phase 2 was significantly larger at a lower stocking density and without artificial habitat. No significant effect of density or habitat on harvest size was detected in phase 3. The highest incidence of claw loss was 36% but was reduced by lowering stocking densities and addition of habitat. For intensive commercial production, yield can be significantly increased by addition of a simple net structure but rapidly decreases the longer crablets remain in the nursery.  相似文献   

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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不同株型冬小麦冠层结构特征多时相分析   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

杨贵军  邢著荣  黄文江  齐腊  李伟国 《农业工程学报》2010,26(7):227-234

同一株型不同生育期、不同株型相同生育期其结构参数均具有不同的变化特点,了解其变化,一方面有利于区分不同株型结构,进一步提高LAI（叶面积指数）等指标参数的遥感反演精度,另一方面可用于定量作物肥水管理,提高肥水利用效率。该文结合冬小麦整个生育期,在北京小汤山试验基地开展两期品种试验,对比分析实测冠层多角度光谱及结构参数,得出通过多角度光谱数据区分株型的最佳波段是红光波段,两期LAI与平均叶倾角(ALA)变化均表明,最佳时期为拔节期;起身期至拔节期所选试验品种均体现直立型品种LAI大于披散型品种。2009年试验表明利用J411 4月底LAI变化趋势差异也可较好的区分作物株型;披散型品种9428特征尺度变化出现“跷板”效应,可以作为株型识别的依据之一。  相似文献   

西藏农村远程教育与信息服务体系发展对策研究     

黄界  牛磊  唐广元  杨勇  扎西拉宗  拉琼 《计算机与农业》2010,(1):37-41

西藏农村远程教育与信息服务体系是实现西藏农牧业跨越式和可持续发展、增加农牧民收入和促进农村经济、文化快速发展的重要平台。在基于西藏农牧业教育、农村信息化建设的现状的条件下,通过对农村远程教育与信息化服务所面临的主要问题的分析,提出了西藏农村远程教育与信息服务体系发展的对策。  相似文献   

Influence of Salinity in the Bioavailability of Zn in Sediments of the Gulf of Cádiz (Spain)     

Inmaculada Riba  Enrique García-Luque  Alejandra Maz-Courrau  María Luisa González de Canales  Tomás Ángel DelValls 《Water, air, and soil pollution》2010,212(1-4):329-336

This study assesses the effect of salinity in bioavailability and toxicity of Zn by means of laboratory bioassays by observing contamination in both sediment and water, accumulation of Zn in biological tissues, and histopathological damage in the gills and guts tissues of Ruditapes philippinarum clams, which were exposed to different types of sediments from the Gulf of Cádiz (SW Spain) as well as two dilutions of toxic mud coming from an accidental mining spill. With this objective, the coefficients of distribution (K _D) for Zn between overlying water and sediments were calculated, the histopathological frequencies in the tissues of the gills and guts of clams were determined, and the biota-sediment bioaccumulation factors as well as the bioaccumulation factors were quantified in the different stations. Results showed that the greatest histopathological damages appeared when the salinity values decreased. Statistical results showed that salinity was inversely correlated with histopathological damage (p?<?0.01) for the lesion index for gills. The most outstanding results were observed in the two dilutions of toxic mud (0.3% and 7.9%) at a salinity value of 10. Salinity was inversely correlated with the concentration of Zn in biological tissues (p?<?0.05) and inversely correlated with the concentration of Zn in water and sediment. Zn mobilization to the overlying water is produced when salinity values decrease.  相似文献   

Changes in amino acid levels in bacteria adhering to rumen epithelium in sheep after oral administration of very low doses of mercury     

J Legáth  P Kacmár  J Tomás 《Veterinární medicína》1990,35(11):657-665

The effect of low concentrations of mercury taken in the diet (4 mg per a head and day) on the amino acid composition in the proteins of rumen bacteria adhering to the dorsal and ventral parts of the rumen was studied in six sheep. Though the mercury did not influence the amino acid concentration in hydrolyzates of epimural bacteria, low-mercury doses caused significant changes of some amino acids, as compared with the control group of animals. The levels of alanine, histidine, threonine, serine and glycine were significantly decreased and at the same time the levels of proline, valine, isoleucine, tyrosine, lysine and phenylalanine were significantly increased. It was stated in our experiment that the levels of histidine, alanine and threonine in hydrolyzates of epimural bacteria of the rumen were significantly decreased both in the sheep given the balanced feed ration with additions of mercury and nitrogen (according to the standard) and in the sheep given a low-nitrogen diet. Similarly, the levels of proline, tyrosine and phenylalanine in the hydrolizates of epimural bacteria in rumen were significantly increased both with the low-nitrogen diet and in the normal -nitrogen diet with mercury supplement. The results suggest that unexplained disorders frequently occurring in the microbial synthesis in the rumen might be caused by long-continued administration of feed contaminated with extremely low concentrations of heavy metals. The problem deserves detailed investigation in future studies, oriented to explaining the biosynthesis disorders in rumen, reducing the production ability of ruminants.  相似文献   

Genetic parameters of somatic cell count in dairy sheep considering the type of mammary pathogen effect     

C. Gonzalo  A. Ariznabarreta  M. H. Othmane  J. A. Carriedo  L. F. De La Fuente  F. San Primitivo 《Zeitschrift für Tierzüchtung und Züchtungsbiologie》2003,120(4):282-287

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High-resolution maps of forest-urban watersheds present an opportunity for ecologists and managers     

Kirk M. Stueve  Tom P. Hollenhorst  John R. Kelly  Lucinda B. Johnson  George E. Host 《Landscape Ecology》2015,30(2):313-323

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Enhanced resistance to Phoma tracheiphila and Botrytis cinerea in transgenic lemon plants expressing a Trichoderma harzianum chitinase gene   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

A. Gentile    Z. Deng    S. La Malfa    G. Distefano    F. Domina    A. Vitale    G. Polizzi    M. Lorito    E. Tribulato 《Plant Breeding》2007,126(2):146-151

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Screening sorghum genotypes for salinity tolerant biomass production   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

L. Krishnamurthy  Rachid Serraj  C. Tom Hash  Abdullah J. Dakheel  Belum V. S. Reddy 《Euphytica》2007,156(1-2):15-24

Genetic improvement of salt tolerance is of high importance due to the extent and the constant increase in salt affected areas. Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] has been considered relatively more salt tolerant than maize and has the potential as a grain and fodder crop for salt affected areas. One hundred sorghum genotypes were screened for salinity tolerance in pots containing Alfisol and initially irrigated with a 250-mM NaCl solution in a randomized block design with three replications. Subsequently 46 selected genotypes were assessed in a second trial to confirm their responses to salinity. Substantial variation in shoot biomass ratio was identified among the genotypes. The performance of genotypes was consistent across experiments. Seven salinity tolerant and ten salinity sensitive genotypes are reported. Relative shoot lengths of seedlings were genetically correlated to the shoot biomass ratios at all stages of sampling though the relationships were not close enough to use the trait as a selection criterion. In general, the whole-plant tolerance to salinity resulted in reduced shoot Na⁺ concentration. The K⁺/Na⁺ and Ca²⁺/Na⁺ ratios were also positively related to tolerance but with a lesser r ². Therefore, it is concluded that genotypic diversity exists for salt tolerance biomass production and that Na⁺ exclusion from the shoot may be a major mechanism involved in that tolerance.  相似文献