9 resultados para Metales traza (Bioquímica)
em Acceda, el repositorio institucional de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. España
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[EN]African dust pulses have important effects on the climate and marine biogeochemistry of the Canary Region. Common factors influencing the air mass concentration, elemental and composition of aerosol particles and atmospheric deposition fluxes of soluble Fe, Al, Mn, Ti, Cu and Co were examined. Aerosol samples have been collected at three stations in Gran Canaria Island (Taliarte at sea level, Tafira at 269 m altitude and Pico de la Gorra 1930 m altitude) since 2002. Air-mass back trajectories (HySPLIT, NOAA) suggested that the Sahara desert is the major sources of dust (dominant during 32-50% of days) while the Sahel desert was the major source only 2-10% of the time (maximum in summerautumn).
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Programa de doctorado: Ingeniería ambiental y desalinización.
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[ES] Las entradas de aerosoles procedentes del Continente Africano tienen un importante efecto en el clima y biogeoquímica marina de la Región Canaria. Por tal motivo, se estudiaron los factores que influyen en las concentraciones de partículas en el aire (PTS), la composición química de estas partículas y los flujos de deposición de los metales solubles (Al, Fe, Mn, Co, Ti y Cu). Para ello se tomaron muestras en tres estaciones de la Isla de Gran Canaria (Taliarte al nivel del mar, Tafira at 269 m altitud and Pico de la Gorra 1930 m altitud) desde el 2002. Utilizando las medidas de deposición seca y húmeda se puede estimar una deposición total anual para la Cuenca de Canarias de 1,36 millones de t año-1. Conociendo por tanto los valores de la composición química y la solubilidad de los elementos, podemos estimar los flujos de deposición de estos elementos solubles.
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[EN] This seminar will report the latest activities of the ULPGC»s Plankton Ecophysiology group (PEG). This group studies respiration, growth, nitrogen metabolism, oceanic carbon flux, deep ocean metabolism, and plankton cultivation. It works with zooplankton, phytoplankton, bacteria, and macroalgae. The premise behind the group»s investigations is that enzyme biochemistry controls an organism»s physiology that, in turn, has a strong impact on ocean chemistry and ecology. This research team (PEG) uses as foils, the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) and Kleiber»s law to argue the fact that respiratory metabolism is controlled not by biomass, but by the respiratory electron transport system (R-ETS). It has pointed out that the reason, zooplankton respiration statistically correlates with biomass, is because biomass packages mitochondria and mitochondria package the R-ETS. It has demonstrated, experimentally with Artemia salina, the superiority of using ETS as a respiration proxy rather than using biomass. Working with bacteria it has shown the inadequacy of the MTE in describing respiration in different growth phases of bacteria and has shown that a rival model based on enzyme kinetics works much better.