Modelagem de distribuição geográfica potencial de macrófitas aquáticas em bacias hidrográficas

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Assembleias de ciclídeos na área focal da reserva de desenvolvimento sustentável Mamirauá, médio Rio Solimões, Amazonas, Brasil

Este estudo lista a diversidade de peixes da família Cichlidae em diferentes ambientes (lagos, ressacas e paranas) e habitats (macrófitas aquáticas, galhadas, praias e margens dos rios e lagos) da Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá (RDSM) localizada no médio rio Solimões, Amazonas. As coletas foram realizadas em dois momentos: 1) nos meses de março, julho e dezembro de 2003 em 19 pontos em torno da Reserva; 2) coletas mensais entre setembro de 2003 e agosto de 2004 em 5 lagos com presença das macrófitas aquáticas Eichornia crassipes e Paspalum repens. Foram utilizados a malhadeira, o rapiché e rede de arrasto. Ao final do estudo foram capturados 6.397 peixes da família Cichlidae, correspondentes a um peso de 35 quilogramas, distribuídos em 28 espécies e 16 gêneros. Os Ciclídeos representaram, aproximadamente, 35% do número total de peixes coletados. O volume das capturas foi dominado por formas juvenis ou espécies de pequeno porte. Mesonauta insignis e Cichlasoma amazonarum dominaram em abundância e peso durante todo o estudo. No período 1 foram capturadas 28 espécies e 1.876 indivíduos, enquanto no período 2 foram 18 espécies e 5.365 indivíduos. Nove espécies não ocorreram em ambientes de lagos com macrófitas aquáticas. O estudo mostrou que os ciclídeos se deslocam entre os ambientes e habitats da Reserva em busca de melhores condições para a sobrevivência destes.

Imazapyr herbicide efficacy on floating macrophyte control and ecotoxicology for non-target organisms

the aims of this study were to determine imazapyr efficacy for floating macrophyte control and ecotoxicology for non-target organisms. For the floating macrophyte control efficacy tests were used the doses of 0,5; 1,0; 2,0; 2,5; 3,0; 3,5 and 4,0 L ha(-1) and a control with 10 replicates. The acute toxicology for non-target organisms was estimated by lethal concentration 50% (LC50 and EC50). The floating macrophyte control efficacy was over 90%. Imazapyr was classified as moderately toxic for the following biomarkers: L. minor, H. eques, B. rerio, P. caudimaculatus, P. canaliculata, and P. mesopotamicus and lightly toxic for A. caroliniana. Thus, imazapyr herbicide is a tool with great potential to be used on floating macrophyte control (E. crassipes, P. stratiotes e S. molesta) in Brazil and this practice can be evaluated by the use of application biomarkers.

Water quality and communities associated with macrophytes in a shallow water-supply reservoir on an aquaculture farm

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

List of plant species found on Victoria Island

While engaged in geoecological field work on Victoria Island, 277 new plants could be recorded for the vicinities of Holman, Cambridge Bay, Wellington Bay, Mt. Pelly, Richardson Islands, Hadley Bay, and Minto lnlet; 8 of them were new for Victoria Island, 6 for the western Canadian arctic archipelago.

Tab. 1: Distribution of important species along a topographical transect in a siliceous boulder talus near Vårsolbukta, Bellsund

The vegetation pattern of siliceous boulder snow beds (Dicranoweision crispulae all. nov. prov.) of Svalbard was investigated by using transect studies in several places on Spitsbergen. Dicranoweisia crispula is the best diagnostic species. It is found throughout the whole snow bed, is a good differential species against Racomitrium lanuginosum communities above the snow bed, and does not occur on basic rocks. Three Andreaea spp. are also among the most important members of these communities. They are all acidophilous, but with different pH preferences. Eight weakly acidophilous species lacking both on basic and on gneissic/granitic rocks, are reported from Svalbard. Half of these are characteristic species of Dicranoweision crispulae on Svalbard.

Ebridians and actiniscidians from DSDP Leg 90 sites

Ebridians and actiniscidians are described from Sites 588, 591, and 594 in the southwest Pacific. The middle Miocene to early Pliocene interval at Site 591 can be subdivided into five ebridian-actiniscidian zones. These are correlated to standard nannoplankton zones. Five new species are described from the Neogene of the southwest Pacific: Ammodochium serotinum, Hermesinum obliquum, Actiniscus flosculus, A. laciniatus, and A squamosus.

The Global Plankton Database: an inventory and data from the Former Soviet Union expeditions

At present time, there is a lack of knowledge on the interannual climate-related variability of zooplankton communities of the tropical Atlantic, central Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea, due to the absence of appropriate databases. In the mid latitudes, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the dominant mode of atmospheric fluctuations over eastern North America, the northern Atlantic Ocean and Europe. Therefore, one of the issues that need to be addressed through data synthesis is the evaluation of interannual patterns in species abundance and species diversity over these regions in regard to the NAO. The database has been used to investigate the ecological role of the NAO in interannual variations of mesozooplankton abundance and biomass along the zonal array of the NAO influence. Basic approach to the proposed research involved: (1) development of co-operation between experts and data holders in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, UK, and USA to rescue and compile the oceanographic data sets and release them on CD-ROM, (2) organization and compilation of a database based on FSU cruises to the above regions, (3) analysis of the basin-scale interannual variability of the zooplankton species abundance, biomass, and species diversity.