Noves citacions de Chondrymenia lobata (Meneghini) Zanardini i Laminaria rodriguezii Bornet per a la Peninsula Iberica

Noves citacions de Chondrymenia lobata (Meneghini) Zanardini i Laminaria rodriguezii Bornet, per a la Peninsula Ibèrica PAÍS VALENCIA: Peniscola, entre 100-120 braces de profunditat, a les xarxes dels pescadors (14-6-1983).

Notes taxonomiques i nomenclatures sobre el genere Verbascum L. (Celsia L.) a la Peninsula Iberica i Illes Balears

En el presente trabajo se proponen cuatro cambios nomenclatures: Verbascum erosun Cav. (= V. laciniatum (Poiret) O. Kuntze); V. masguindali (Pau) comb, nov.; V. pseudocreticurn nom. nov. y V. fontqueri nom. nov. Se adjuntan dos nuevas ilustraciones, una clave dicotómica de las ocho especies ibéricas y baleáricas con cuatro estambres (Celsia L.) y una relación de los ejemplares de herbario estudiados. Verbascum masguindali se indica por primera vez en la Península Ibérica.

Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt, nueva cita para la Peninsula Iberica

Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt, feofícea originaria de Japón (Pacífico Oeste), está extendiendo rápidamente su área de distribución, asociada a los transportes de ostras japonesas (CRITCHLEY, A. & R. DIJKEMA, Bot. Mar. 27:211-216,1984). Actualmente está citada en el Japón, en la costa Pacífica de América del Norte, en el Atlántico europeo de Inglaterra, Canal de la Mancha y Holanda y en el Mediterráneo francés (CRITCHLEY, A. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 63: 617-625, 1983).

The genus Halopeplis Ung.-Sternb. (Salicorniaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula

New data on anatomy, biology, seed morphology, ecology and nomenclature of Halopeplis amplexicaulis (Vahl) Cesati and al. are presented; this species is the only Iberian representative of the genus Halopeplis Ung.-Sternb. (Salicomiaceae). For the first time the whole genus pollen structure is described and chromosome number is reported.

Estudio de la comunidad de Cystoseira mediterranea en dos localidades de la peninsula del cabo de Creus (Alt Emporda, Nordeste de España)

Se ha realizado un estudio de la comunidad de Cystoseira mediterránea a partir de ocho muestras recolectadas estacionalmente en dos localidades de la península del cabo de Creus (nordeste de España). Los resultados obtenidos se comentan en relación con las condiciones ambientales y se comparan con los obtenidos por otros autores.

Gautieria trabutii (Gasteromycetes), nueva cita para la Peninsula Iberica

Se describe y comenta un raro e interesante hongo hipogeo, Gautieria trabutii (Chat.) Pat. (Gasteromycetes), recolectado por primera vez en la Península Ibérica.

Ecologia y distribucion de Senecio pterophorus (Compositae) en la Peninsula Iberica.

En este trabajo se describen el área de distribución y el número de poblaciones de la especie sudafricana Senecio pterophorus DC. en Cataluña, única área de la Europa continental de donde hasta ahora se conoce. Esta especie coloniza ambientes perturbados, como lechos de ríos, márgenes de carreteras y áreas forestales perturbadas, siempre que no haya limitación por la luz y la humedad. En los hábitats riparios y ruderales las poblaciones son más estables y densas, con un gran número de individuos de diversas clases de edad, mientras que en ambientes forestales las poblaciones suelen contar con pocos individuos adultos distribuidos de forma dispersa. Senecio pterophorus presenta, además, una acusada plasticidad morfológica en relación con el hábitat, de modo que en ambientes riparios y ruderales los individuos desarrollan un porte esférico, de menor tamaño, y unas hojas más pequeñas que en ambientes forestales, donde el porte de las plantas es más alargado y el tamaño de las hojas mucho mayor. Esta especie, en creciente expansión, debe ser considerada una planta invasora en la Península Ibérica, ya que ha aumentado considerablemente el número de sus poblaciones en un período relativamente corto. Además, se sugiere que S. pterophorus puede llegar a ser una amenaza para la conservación de la diversidad de especies y de hábitats naturales autóctonos, como ocurre en Australia, donde desplaza a las especies nativas e incluso se hibrida con otras especies de Senecio.

Coastal salina evaporites of the Triassic-Liassic boundary in the Iberian Peninsula: the Alacón borehole

The evaporite unit (the Lécera Formation), which was formed at the Triassic¿Liassic boundary in the Aragonian Branch of the Iberian Chain, was studied at the 01 Alacón borehole (Alacón village, Teruel province), where it is mainly constituted by a thick (>e and reflect deeper water settings, whereas in the upper part they correspond to shallower water settings. The evaporite sedimentation mainly occurred in a subsiding coastal basin of the salina or lagoon type. In this setting, the subaqueous precipitation of the carbonate and gypsum lithofacies was followed, in each cycle, by the interstitial growth of anhydrite in exposed conditions. As a whole, the evaporite succession reflects an infilling process. The conversion into anhydrite of the selenitic gypsum -probably also of the rest of depositional gypsum lithofaciesstarted under synsedimentary conditions and followed during shallow to moderate burial diagenesis.

Relationship between potassium fertilization and panicle blast severity in upland rice

The influence of K2O (0, 40, 80, 120 kg ha-1) at varying rates of N application (0, 30, 60 kg ha-1) at planting, on panicle blast (Pyricularia grisea (Cooke) Sacc.) was studied in a field experiment conducted during three consecutive years with the upland rice cultivar Douradão. Panicle blast severity decreased with increasing rates of potassium in the absence of nitrogen (N0). The relationship between panicle blast and K rates was quadratic at 30 kg ha-1 of nitrogen. Significant response to K fertilization was not obtained at 60 kg ha-1 of nitrogen in relation to panicle blast severity.

Effect of phosphorus and potassium on yield and on agronomical characteristics of cotton

With the objective of studying the effect of increasing phosphorus and potassium doses on the agronomical and technological characteristics of the cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), cultivar IAC 20, an experiment was carried out during 1994/95 on a Red-Dark Latossol at the Embrapa-Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Oeste (CPAO) in Ponta Porã, MS, Brazil. A randomized bloch design was used in a 3 x 5 factorial arrangement with four replications. The doses were 30, 60 and 90 kg ha-1 of P2O5, applied as triple superphosphate, and 0, 30, 60, 90 and 120 kg ha-1 of K2O as KCl. The K2O doses used had a significant influence on the seed cotton yield, plant height and weight of 100 seeds and of bolls.

Fruit size, mineral composition and quality of trickle-irrigated tomatoes as affected by potassium rates

An experiment was conducted to determine the fruit size, mineral composition and quality of trickle-irrigated tomatoes as affected by potassium fertilizer rates. Six potassium (K) rates were applied as KCl, corresponding to 0, 48.4, 118.6, 188.8, 259.0 and 399.4 kg ha-1, with four replicates, following a randomized block design. Quadratic responses to K rates were observed for double extra large (diameter > 60 mm), extra large (56 to 60 mm) and large (52 to 56 mm) fruit yields. Maximum yields of these classes were achieved with K rates of 116, 190 and 233 kg ha-1, respectively. Fruit dry matter, phosphorus, sulfur and magnesium contents were not affected by K rates, but nitrate and K contents showed significant increments as K rates were increased. Vitamin C, total soluble solids, lycopene and beta-carotene contents in the fruits were not affected by K rates. Increments in the K rate lowered the fruit pH and increased total acids content.

Tomato yield and potassium concentrations in soil and in plant petioles as affected by potassium fertirrigation

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cv. Santa Clara was grown on a silt clay soil with 46 mg dm-3 Mehlich 1 extractable K, to evaluate the effects of trickle-applied K rates on fruit yield and to establish K critical concentrations in soil and in plant petioles. Six potassium rates (0, 48, 119, 189, 259 and 400 kg ha-1 K) were applied in a randomized complete block design with four replications. Soil and plant K critical levels were determined at two plant growth stages (at the beginning of the second and fourth cluster flowering). Total, marketable and weighted yields increased with K rates, reaching their maximum of 86.4, 73.4, and 54.9 ton ha-1 at 198, 194, and 125 kg ha-1 K , respectively. At the first soil sampling date K critical concentrations in the soil associated with K rates for maximum marketable and weighted yields were 92 and 68 mg dm-3, respectively. Potassium critical concentrations in the dry matter of the petioles sampled by the beginning of the second and fourth cluster flowering time, associated with maximum weighted yield, were 10.30 and 7.30 dag kg-1, respectively.

Evidence for middle Cretaceous accretion at Santa Elena Peninsula (Santa Rosa Accretionary Complex), Costa Rica

An oceanic assemblage of alkaline basalts, radiolarites and polymictic breccias forms the tectonic substratum of the Santa Elena Nappe, which is constituted by extensive outcrops of ultramafic and mafic rocks of the Santa Elena Peninsula (NW Costa Rica). The undulating basal contact of this nappe defines several half-windows along the south shores of the Santa Elena Peninsula. Lithologically it is constituted by vesicular pillowed and massive alkaline basaltic flows, alkaline sills, ribbon-bedded and knobby radiolarites, muddy tuffaceous and detrital turbidites, debris flows and polymictic breccias and megabreccias. Sediments and basalt flows show predominant subvertical dips and occur in packages separated by roughly bed-parallel thrust planes. Individual packages reveal a coherent internal stratigraphy that records younging to the east in all packages and shows rapid coarsening upwards of the detrital facies. Alkaline basalt flows, pillow breccias and sills within radiolarite successions are genetically related to a mid-Cretaceous submarine seamount. Detrital sedimentary facies range form distal turbidites to proximal debris flows and culminate in megabreccias related to collapse and mass wasting in an accretionary prism. According to radiolarian dating, bedded radiolarites and soft-sediment- deformed clasts in the megabreccias formed in a short, late Aptian to Cenomanian time interval. Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous radiolarian ages are found in clasts and blocks reworked from an older oceanic basement. We conclude that the oceanic assemblage beneath the Santa Elena Nappe does not represent a continuous stratigraphic succession. It is a pile of individual thrust sheets constituting an accretionary sequence, where intrusion and extrusion of alkaline basalts, sedimentation of radiolarites, turbidites and trench fill chaotic sediments occurred during the Aptian-Cenomanian. These thrust sheets formed shortly before the off-scraping and accretion of the complex. Here we define the Santa Rosa Accretionary Complex and propose a new hypothesis not considered in former interpretations. This hypothesis would be the basis for further research.

Estimating potassium nutrition of Norway spruce with needle analysis during different seasons

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