Edad y crecimiento de Ethmidium maculatum “machete” desembarcado en las caletas de la Región La Libertad durante el año 2012 - 2013

Se determinó la edad y crecimiento de Ethmidium maculatum “machete” capturados de las caletas en la Región La Libertad (Pacasmayo, Huanchaco, Salaverry, Pto. Morín) durante el 2012 y 2013. La edad fue determinada mediante la lectura e interpretación de los anillos de crecimiento de los otolitos sagita. La muestra estuvo constituida por 406 pares de otolitos (152 machos y 254 hembras), se estimaron los parámetros de crecimiento de von Bertalanffy mediante el programa Table Curve 2D V5.01, asimismo se elaboró la clave Talla-edad, lo que permitió estableces 5 grupos de edades, siendo la edad menos representativa la de 5 años de edad y los que presentaron mayor ocurrencia fueron las edades de 2 y 3 años.

Society of Legal Scholars Criminal Justice Section Response to Sexual Offences Guideline Consultation (Sentencing Council Consultation 2012-2013)

Consultation Report

FIU Digital Commons Annual Report, FY 2012-2013

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Division of Research Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Report

This report provides data and a summary of activities for fiscal year 2012-2013 (FY 2013).

Morphometrics of seagrasses at species level, Moreton Bay, Australia determined from core samples collected in 2012-2013

Seagrass meadows are important marine carbon sinks, yet they are threatened and declining worldwide. Seagrass management and conservation requires adequate understanding of the physical and biological factors determining carbon content in seagrass sediments. Here, we identified key factors that influence carbon content in seagrass meadows across several environmental gradients in Moreton Bay, SE Queensland. Sampling was conducted in two regions: (1) Canopy Complexity, 98 sites on the Eastern Banks, where seagrass canopy structure and species composition varied while turbidity was consistently low; and (2) Turbidity Gradient, 11 locations across the entire bay, where turbidity varied among sampling locations. Sediment organic carbon content and seagrass structural complexity (shoot density, leaf area, and species specific characteristics) were measured from shallow sediment and seagrass biomass cores at each location, respectively. Environmental data were obtained from empirical measurements (water quality) and models (wave height). The key factors influencing carbon content in seagrass sediments were seagrass structural complexity, turbidity, water depth, and wave height. In the Canopy Complexity region, carbon content was higher for shallower sites and those with higher seagrass structural complexity. When turbidity varied along the Turbidity Gradient, carbon content was higher at sites with high turbidity. In both regions carbon content was consistently higher in sheltered areas with lower wave height. Seagrass canopy structure, water depth, turbidity, and hydrodynamic setting of seagrass meadows should therefore be considered in conservation and management strategies that aim to maximize sediment carbon content.

Annual financial report for the fiscal year 2012-2013

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Characteristics of samples obtained during Pokhodsk 2012-2013 campaigns in the joint Russian-German POLYGON Project

Polygonal tundra, thermokarst basins and pingos are common and characteristic periglacial features of arctic lowlands underlain by permafrost in Northeast Siberia. Modern polygonal mires are in the focus of biogeochemical, biological, pedological, and cryolithological research with special attention to their carbon stocks and greenhouse-gas fluxes, their biodiversity and their dynamics and functioning under past, present and future climate scenarios. Within the frame of the joint German-Russian DFG-RFBR project Polygons in tundra wetlands: state and dynamics under climate variability in Polar Regions (POLYGON) field studies of recent and of late Quaternary environmental dynamics were carried out in the Indigirka lowland and in the Kolyma River Delta in summer 2012 and summer 2013. Using a multidisciplinary approach, several types of polygons and thermokarst lakes were studied in different landscapes units in the Kolyma Delta in 2012 around the small fishing settlement Pokhodsk. The floral and faunal associations of polygonal tundra were described during the fieldwork. Ecological, hydrological, meteorological, limnological, pedological and cryological features were studied in order to evaluate modern and past environmental conditions and their essential controlling parameters. The ecological monitoring and collection program of polygonal ponds were undertaken as in 2011 in the Indigirka lowland by a former POLYGON expedition (Schirrmeister et al. [eds.] 2012). Exposures, pits and drill cores in the Kolyma Delta were studied to understand the cryolithological structures of frozen ground and to collect samples for detailed paleoenvironmental research of the late Quaternary past. Dendrochronological and ecological studies were carried out in the tree line zone south of the Kolyma Delta. Based on previous work in the Indigirka lowland in 2011 (Schirrmeister et al. [eds.] 2012), the environmental monitoring around the Kytalyk research station was continued until the end of August 2012. In addition, a classical exposure of the late Pleistocene permafrost at the Achchaygy Allaikha River near Chokurdakh was studied. The ecological studies near Pokhodsk were continued in 2013 (chapter 13). Other fieldwork took place at the Pokhodsk-Yedoma-Island in the northwestern part of the Kolyma Delta.

Determinar la erosividad de la lluvia en el municipio de Managua en el campo de la Universidad Nacional Agraria 2012-2013

La energía cinética de la lluvia se ha estimado de forma indirecta y por tanto su erosividad, con el uso de fórmulas empíricas a partir de parámetros de lluvia conocidos. La ecuación empírica para la estimación de la energía cinética más utilizada es la de Wischmeier y Smith que ha servido de modelo para la obtención de otras e interviene en el cálculo del factor pluvial de la ecuación Universal de pérdidas de suelo. Los patrones de lluvia fueron registrados durante el periodo de julio a noviembre de los años 2012- 2013, evaluando intervalos de 20 y 30 minutos, elementos que conducirán a calcular la energía cinética y su erosividad para el área de estudio. La recopilación de la información se realizó con mecanismos y metodologías diferentes, por medio del instrumento Disdrómetro laser y Pluviógrafo de la estación meteorológica, del Aeropuerto Augusto C. Sandino, homogenizando en una sola expresión de unidad de medida del sistema internacional, (Mj.mm.ha/h). Obteniendo como resultado, 122 días de observación para el año 2012, con 361 mm acumulados en 40 días lluviosos registrados, para el 2013 se registró 67 días lluviosos de 129 días de observación con 462 mm acumulados. En comparación a la estación meteorológica con la misma cantidad de días lluviosos evaluados, para el 2012 con 237mm acumulado y para el año 2013 con 438 mm. El estudio demuestra que el mayor conteo de gotas de lluvia se muestra entre los rangos de 0.125 mm y 3 mm, distribuidos a medida que la intensidad de la lluvia aumenta el número de gotas contadas es menor en cuanto a su diámetro. Existe correlación entre la intensidad de la lluvia y el diámetro de las gotas en los rangos de 0,125 mm hasta 5 mm, con un r2= 0,759, cuya relación se ve afectada a medida que aumenta la intensidad el número de gotas mayor a 5 mm son muy pocas distribuidas.