Seasonal changes in condition and biochemical composition of the scallop Pecten maximus L. from suspended culture in the Ria de Arousa (Galicia, N.W. Spain) in relation to environmental conditions

1997 ◽  
Vol 211 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Pazos ◽  
G. Román ◽  
C.P. Acosta ◽  
M. Abad ◽  
J.L. Sánchez
Author(s):  
Connie Y. Chiang

This chapter focuses on the maintenance of the camps. It explores how wartime shortages and Japanese American labor protests intersected with harsh environmental conditions, complicating the WRA’s efforts to keep the camps running smoothly. One of the first challenges was finding adequate coal to heat the camps during the winter. The WRA then confronted the protests of detainees, who called attention to how seasonal changes added to their labor duties. Alkaline soil, moreover, ate away at water pipelines and required constant repairs. The natural world helped to shape modes of Japanese American resistance, as some individuals refused to work or went on strike.


Aquaculture ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 142 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio J. Pazos ◽  
Guillermo Román ◽  
Carmen P. Acosta ◽  
Marcelina Abad ◽  
JoséLuis Sánchez

2004 ◽  
Vol 180 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
JD Johnston

Many mammalian species utilise day-length (photoperiod) to adapt their physiology to seasonal changes in environmental conditions, via secretion of pineal melatonin. Photoperiodic regulation of prolactin secretion is believed to occur via melatonin-mediated changes in the secretion of a putative prolactin secretagogue, tuberalin, from the pituitary pars tuberalis. Despite the in vivo and in vitro evidence in support of this intra-pituitary signalling mechanism, the identity of tuberalin has yet to be elucidated. This paper reviews recent advances in the characterisation of tuberalin and the regulation of its secretion. Furthermore, the hypothesis that pituitary lactotroph cells display heterogeneity in their response to changing photoperiod and tuberalin secretion is examined.


1980 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 589 ◽  
Author(s):  
CM Finlayson ◽  
TP Farrell ◽  
DJ Griffiths

The stratification characteristics of Lake Moondarra (24�34'S.,139�35'E.), a man-made lake in north- western Queensland, have been studied. Evidence is presented that the lake approximates the warm polymictic type in which no persistent thermal stratification ever develops. During the cooler months, thermal stratification breaks down during the night; in the warmer months, the intense rainstorms prevent the establishment of a persistently stratified water column. The shallowness of the lake relative to its surface areaand the prevailing environmental conditions ensure that extensive periods of oxygen depletion do not develop in the water column. It is concluded that a strong and prolonged period of thermal stratification, with subsequent serious effects of the availability of dissolved oxygen in the deeper layers, would only arise if, in a particular year. there were no significant rainstorms.


2000 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. G. BOËCHAT ◽  
A. GIANI

Sestonic biochemical composition (lipids, proteins and carbohydrates) may change with varying environmental fluctuations. These changes and the effects in the nutritional status of algae consists of an actual increasing source of interest. The aims of this work were to establish the relationship between biochemical composition of seston and 1) a range of physical, chemical and climatological factors, and 2) the natural fluctuation in the species composition in phytoplankton assemblages of the Pampulha Reservoir, an urban eutrophic lake located in Belo Horizonte, MG. Seasonal changes in the biochemical composition were observed in this study. None of the considered abiotic factors alone seem to affect the biochemical composition. So the effects could only be understood by interactions among different environmental factors. On the other hand, the dominant algal groups probably have some influence in the observed changes in biochemical composition of seston.


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