Nicaragua: potencial faro regional para el diseño y evaluación de agroecosistemas agroecológicos

En este artículo se expresa la imperiosa necesidad de convertir los sistemas de producción convencionales en fincas agroecológicas como alternativa para que la nueva empresa agraria garantice la implementación de buenas prácticas productivas y de manufactura que contribuyan a ofrecer productos de calidad e inocuos y servicios con un enfoque de calidad total. Desde esta perspectiva, la Univer sidad Nacional Agraria oferta un programa de formación de talentos humanos a diferentes niveles en agroecología, que consta de cinco grandes proyectos. También, se expresa el andamiaje jurídico nacional actual para implementar la política de la producción agroecológica y orgánica, así como los pasos para el diseño y evaluación de sistemas agroecológicos del presente siglo, cuyos tópicos son: grupos y características de agro ecosistemas, tipos de agro ecosistemas complejos o diversificados, biodiversidad a considerar para el diseño de sistemas diversificados sostenibles en el trópico, ejes aconsiderar para el diseño de sistemas diversificados sostenibles en el trópico que incluya un manejo integral de los recursos naturales, procesos para el diseño de sistemas diversificados sostenibles en el trópico, pasos y herramientas para el diseño de sistemas diversificados sostenibles en el trópico oferentes de bienes y servicios a la sociedad, ejemplos de sistemas diversificados sostenibles en el trópico oferentes de bienes y servicios, desafíos para el diseño de sistemas diversificados sostenibles en el trópico y la evaluación de sistemas diversificados sostenibles. El propósito es fomentar una agricultura resiliente al cambio climático, productiva y eficiente (energética, económica y biodiversa), pero también que garantice la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional.

Proposal for improving fishing opportunities off Pt. Loma by construction of an artificial reef

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A report of biological observations at Topanga artificial reef and Santa Monica Bay artificial reef

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Biological surveys of five southern artificial reefs: Oceanside #1, Oceanside #2, Carlsbad, Pacific Beach, and Mission Bay

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A report of biological observations at Oceanside #1 and #2 artificial reefs, Carlsbad artificial reef, Pacific Beach artificial reef, and Mission Bay Park artificial reef

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Tilapia for Biological Control of Giant Salvinia

In August 1999, giant salvinia ( Salvinia molesta Mitchell) was found along the lower Colorado River in irrigation drainages. To investigate the slow spread and apparent control of giant salvinia in this region, the herbivorous fish, tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus Trewavas), was examined as a biological control agent. The study was conducted in a 5,000-L recirculating system. (PDF contains 4 pages.)

A taxonomic guide to the mysids of the South Atlantic Bight.

Following the examination of extensive collections from the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), the Southeastern Regional Taxonomic Center (SERTC), and other regional institutions, 18 species of the family Mysidae are recognized and described from the South Atlantic Bight (Cape Lookout, North Carolina to Cape Canaveral, Florida). This report includes synonymies of previous records, as well as new species distribution records. Previous regional accounts of Metamysidopsis munda and Metamysidopsis mexicana are attributed to Metamysidopsis swifti. New regional records are established for Amathimysis brattegardi, Heteromysis beetoni, and Siriella thompsonii. Two other species tentatively identified as Amathimysis sp. (nr. serrata) and Mysidopsis sp. (cf. mortenseni) may represent new taxa. Neobathymysis renoculata is included and discussed as a potential regional species. An illustrated key to the species currently known from the South Atlantic Bight is presented. Relevant taxonomic, distributional, and ecological information is also included for each species. (PDF file contains 45 pages.)

FORTH for NOAA/MLML Instruments

This report describes FORTH software written for several instruments used in the NASA-sponsored project to design and build Marine Optical Buoy System (MOBS) and in the NOAA-sponsored project "EOS MODIS Execution: Oceanographic Profiling, Data Acquisition and Management for the Marine Optical Buoy System·'. In the NOAA project MLML and NOAA personnel will participate in quarterly cruises at the MOBS Hawaiian site to validate performance of SeaWiFS and will participate in several extended "process" cruises to provide wide geographic surface truthing investigations similar to those lead by Dennis Clark (NOAA) following the "launch of CZCS in 1979. In the NASA project we are designing and building MOBS, a high resolution spectroradiometer that will operate autonomously in a buoy moored west of Lanai in the Hawaiian Islands. That instrument, the "Marine Optical System" (MOS), will transmit by cellular phone in near real time observations of upwelled radiance and downwelled irradiance from three depths. [PDF contains 90 pages]