Sobre la planta del genero 'Crassula' descubierta en el Baix Llobregat

En 1969 dos de nosotros (TERRADAS y VIGO) dimos cuenta en una publicación titulada 'Sobre la vegetación de la zona de acantilados del Baix Llobregat' del hallazgo en dicha región de una planta del género Crassula que resultó especie nueva para la flora de Europa. De acuerdo con las indagaciones que pudimos llevar a cabo entonces, llegamos a la conclusión de que la planta descubierta por nosotros debía considerarse como muy afín de Crassula pentandra (Royle ex Edgew) Schoenl., especie extendida por el África tropical y la India, y la describimos bajo el nombre de Crassula pentandra subsp. catalaunica. Los caracteres que separan esta planta de Crassula pentandra típica, especificados en la publicación mencionada, corresponden a diferencias cuantitativas de orden general y, más especialmente, en el menor tamaño de las piezas florales así como de los frutos y semillas

Competition and resource availability in an annual plant community dominated by an invasive species, Carrichtera annua (L. Aschers.), in South Australia

The last decade has seen spirited debates about how resource availability affect the intensity of competition. This paper examines the effect that a dominant introduced species, Carrichtera annua, has upon the winter annual community in the arid chenopod shrublands of South Australia. Manipulative field experiments were conducted to assess plant community response to changing below-ground resource levels and to the manipulation of the density of C. annua. Changes in the density of C. annua had little effect on the abundance of all other species in the guild. Nutrient addition produced an increase in the biomass of the most abundant native species, Crassula colorata. An analysis of the root distribution of the main species suggested that the areas of soil resource capture of C. annua and C. colorata are largely segregated. Our results suggest that intraspecific competition may be stronger than interspecific competition, controlling the species responses to increased resource availability. The results are consistent with a two-phase resource dynamics systems, with pulses of high resource availability triggering growth, followed by pulses of stress. Smaller plants were nutrient limited under natural field conditions, suggesting that stress experienced during long interpulse phases may override competitive effects after short pulse phases. The observed differences in root system structure will determine when plants of a different species are experiencing a pulse or an interpulse phase. We suggest that the limitations to plant recruitment and growth are the product of a complex interplay between the length and intensity of the pulse of resource availability, the duration and severity of the interpulse periods, and biological characters of the species.

Contribuição para o conhecimento de alguns cestódeos do gênero Raillietina Fuhrmann, 1920, (Cestoda-Davaineidae), parasitos de columbiformes

Contribuindo para o conhecimento de alguns cestódeos do gênero Raillietina Fuhrmann, 1920, parasitos de Columbiformes, são estudadas aqui duas espécies encontradas em intestino delgado de columba livia dom. L. 1758. Uma delas, Raillietina (Raillietina) allomyodes (Kotlan, 1921), originalmente descrita da Nova Guiné, é agora assinalada pela primeira vez no Brasil, em novo hospedeiro. A outra, Raillietina (Fuhrmannetta) crassula (Rudolphi, 1819) apesar de ter sido descrita de material do Brasil e África, não tem uma descrição detalhada.

Plantas de la Sierra de Orihuela (Alicante, SE de EspaÑa)

Como resultado de una excursión realizada el 23 de Marzo de 1980 a la Sierra de Orihuela, macizo perteneciente a la provincia corológica murciano-alménense, sector murciano, se citan 87 táxones de los que la mayor parte (cerca de un 70%) corresponden a terófitos. De entre las citas cabe destacar como nuevas para la provincia de Alicante: Crassula tillaea Lester-Garl. y Eryngium ilicifolium Lam. Plantago ovata Forsk. y Notoceras bicorne (Aitón) Amo fª. hispanicum WK. no se habían vuelto a encontrar en la zona desde que Rouy y Lagasca respectivamente lo hicieran el siglo pasado.

Helmintofauna Columba livia (Aves, Columbidae) procedentes do Estado de São Paulo

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Neogene planktonic foraminifera of ODP Site 130-806

The Neogene biostratigraphy presented here is based on the study of 230 samples through 737 m of pelagic sediment in Hole 806B. Sediment accumulation is interrupted only once in the uppermost lower Miocene (Zone N6), apparently coincident with a widespread deep-sea hiatus. Preservation of planktonic foraminifers through the section ranges from good to moderately poor. One hundred and ten species of planktonic foraminifers were identified; taxonomic notes on most species are included. All of the standard low-latitude Neogene foraminiferal zones are delineated, with the exceptions of Zones N8 and N9 because of a high first occurrence of Orbulina, and Zones N18 and N19 because of a high first occurrence of Sphaeroidinella dehiscens. Good agreement exists between the published account of the variation in planktonic foraminiferal species richness and the rates of diversification and turnover, and measurements of these evolutionary indexes in the record of Hole 806B. The global pattern of change in tropical/transitional species richness is paralleled in Hole 806B, with departures caused by either ecological conditions peculiar to the western equatorial Pacific or by inexactness in the estimation of million-year intervals in Hole 806B. Temporal changes in the relative abundance of taxa in the sediment assemblages, considered in light of their depth habitats, reveal a detailed picture of historical change in the structure of the upper water column over the Ontong Java Plateau. The dominance of surface dwellers (Paragloborotalia kugleri, P. mayeri, Dentoglobigerina altispira, Globigerinita glutinata, and Globigerinoides spp.) throughout the lower and middle Miocene is replaced by a more equitable distribution of surface (D. altispira and Globigerinoides spp.), intermediate (Globorotalia menardii plexus), and deep (Streptochilus spp.) dwellers in the late Miocene, following the closing of the Indo-Pacific Seaway and the initiation of large-scale glaciation in the Antarctic. The shoaling of the thermocline along the equator engendered by these climatic and tectonic events persisted through the Pliocene, when initial increases in the abundance of a new set of shallow, intermediate, and deep dwelling species of planktonic foraminifers coincide with the closing of the Panamanian Seaway.