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Book The Influence of Culture History on Genetic Variation in Cultured Arctic Charr  Salvelinus Alpinus  of Eastern Canada  microform

Download or read book The Influence of Culture History on Genetic Variation in Cultured Arctic Charr Salvelinus Alpinus of Eastern Canada microform written by Craig Thomas Blackie and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Molecular Genetic Examination of the Polymorphic Arctic Charr  Salvelinus Alpinus  of Thingvallavatn  Iceland  microform

Download or read book A Molecular Genetic Examination of the Polymorphic Arctic Charr Salvelinus Alpinus of Thingvallavatn Iceland microform written by John Volpe and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1995 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Effects of Temperature on the Growth of Arctic Charr Salvelinus Alpinus in Ungava and Labrador  Canada

Download or read book Effects of Temperature on the Growth of Arctic Charr Salvelinus Alpinus in Ungava and Labrador Canada written by Alyssa D. Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic surface air temperatures have been warming at twice the global rate, making it one of the most susceptible regions to current climate change. Effects on cold-adapted aquatic species, such as the culturally and ecologically important Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), are difficult to anticipate and may vary depending on site-specific attributes. Temperature has a direct influence on aspects of species' fitness, including growth, reproduction and, ultimately, survival. Previous research on temperature-growth patterns in Arctic charr has yielded variable results, particularly for studies observing these patterns in the wild. Two field-based studies are presented in this thesis, in an attempt to better understand temperature-growth patterns for wild populations of Arctic charr. In the first study, individual measurements of annual, or within-season growth were determined from tag-recaptured Arctic charr and examined in relation to summer sea surface temperatures and within-season capture timing in the Ungava and Labrador regions of eastern Canada. Differences in among-year growth were significant for Ungava Bay Arctic charr, with growth being positively correlated with temperature. Growth of Labrador Arctic charr did not vary significantly among years. Regional comparisons demonstrated that Ungava Arctic charr had significantly higher annual growth rates, with differences among years in all regions being positively correlated with temperature. Within-season growth rates of Labrador Arctic charr peaked in June, declined toward August, and were negatively correlated with the length of time spent at sea and mean experienced sea surface temperatures. A quadratic model relating growth rate to temperature best explained the pattern of within-season growth. The higher annual growth of Ungava Bay Arctic charr was attributed to the high sea surface temperatures experienced in 2010-11 and the localized differences in nearshore productivity as compared to Labrador. Results suggest that increases in water temperature may have profound consequences for Arctic charr growth in the Canadian sub-Arctic, depending on the responses of local marine productivity to those same temperature increases. In the second study, oxygen stable isotope temperature reconstruction methods were used to estimate mean experienced summer temperatures from growth zones within individual otoliths of Arctic charr sampled from contrasting lake environments. For either lake, otolith-estimated temperatures were not significantly related to back-calculated growth. Significant negative effects on back-calculated growth were observed due to increasing air temperatures in the smaller lake, owing to warmer surface waters and a limited amount of preferred cool-water habitat available. A similar relationship was not observed in the larger lake, indicating that the cooler, deeper lake provides ample preferred cool-water habitat for Arctic charr despite climate warming. In addition, young-of-the-year temperatures negatively related to zone 2 growth for the smaller lake, whereas no significant correlation was found for the larger lake. Results here provide evidence for differing climate-influenced growth outcomes depending on the site-specific fish density: preferred thermal habitat volume ratio as dictated by local attributes including lake morphometry, upstream catchment area and life-history strategy. Conclusions from this thesis include the increased need for detailed site- and population-specific assessments of the impacts of increasing temperatures on Arctic charr growth. Better understanding of the drivers of temperature-growth relationships in wild Arctic charr populations will facilitate more accurate stock forecasts with the overall goal of sustaining exploited Arctic charr populations as the climate warms and becomes increasingly variable.

Book Growth and Size Variation in Saimaa Arctic Charr  Salvelinus Alpinus

Download or read book Growth and Size Variation in Saimaa Arctic Charr Salvelinus Alpinus written by Teija Seppä and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life History  Morphometric and Habitat Use Variation in Arctic Charr  Salvelinus Alpinus  Populations of Southern Baffin Island  Nunavut  Canada

Download or read book Life History Morphometric and Habitat Use Variation in Arctic Charr Salvelinus Alpinus Populations of Southern Baffin Island Nunavut Canada written by Tracey Loewen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genome Mapping and Genomics in Fishes and Aquatic Animals

Download or read book Genome Mapping and Genomics in Fishes and Aquatic Animals written by Thomas D. Kocher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapping of animal genomes has generated huge databases and several new concepts and strategies, which are useful to elucidate origin, evolution and phylogeny. Genetic and physical maps of genomes further provide precise details on chromosomal location, function, expression and regulation of academically and economically important genes. The series Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animals provides comprehensive and up-to-date reviews on genomic research on a large variety of selected animal systems, contributed by leading scientists from around the world. This volume summarizes the first era of genomic studies of aquaculture species, in which the tools and resources necessary to support whole-genome sequencing were developed. These tools will enhance efforts toward selective breeding of aquaculture species. Included in this volume are summaries of work on salmonids, cyprinids, catfish, tilapias, European sea bass, Japanese flounder, shrimps and oysters.

Book A Culture Resource Overview of the Bureau of Land Management  Coleville  Bodie  Benton and Owens Valley Planning Units  California

Download or read book A Culture Resource Overview of the Bureau of Land Management Coleville Bodie Benton and Owens Valley Planning Units California written by Colin I. Busby and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity  Patterns  Causes and Ecosystem Consequences

Download or read book Arctic and Alpine Biodiversity Patterns Causes and Ecosystem Consequences written by F.Stuart III Chapin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As human populations expand and have increasing access to technol ogy, two general environmental concerns have arisen. First, human pop ulations are having increasing impact on the earth system, such that we are altering the biospheric carbon pools, basic processes of elemental cycling and the climate system of the earth. Because of time lags and feedbacks, these processes are not easily reversed. These alterations are occurring now more rapidly than at any time in the last several million years. Secondly, human activities are causing changes in the earth's biota that lead to species extinctions at a rate and magnitude rivaling those of past geologic extinction events. Although environmental change is potentially reversible at some time scales, the loss of species is irrevo cable. Changes in diversity at other scales are also cause for concern. Habitat fragmentation and declines in population sizes alter genetic di versity. Loss or introduction of new functional groups, such as nitro gen fixers or rodents onto islands can strongly alter ecosystem processes. Changes in landscape diversity through habitat modification and frag mentation alter the nature of processes within and among vegetation patches. Although both ecological changes altering the earth system and the loss of biotic diversity have been major sources of concern in recent years, these concerns have been largely independent, with little concern for the environmental causes the ecosystem consequences of changes in biodiversity. These two processes are clearly interrelated. Changes in ecological systems cause changes in diversity.

Book Advancements of Mass Spectrometry in Biomedical Research

Download or read book Advancements of Mass Spectrometry in Biomedical Research written by Alisa G. Woods and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the use of mass spectrometry for biomedical applications. Chapters focus on specific therapeutic areas such as oncology, infectious disease and psychiatry. Additional chapters focus on methodology as well as new technologies and instrumentation. This volume provides readers with a comprehensive and informative manual that will allow them to appreciate mass spectrometry and proteomic research but also to initiate and improve their own work. Thus the book acts as a technical guide but also a conceptual guide to the newest information in this exciting field. Mass spectrometry is the central tool used in proteomic research today and is rapidly becoming indispensable to the biomedical scientist. With the completion of the human genome project and the genomic revolution, the proteomic revolution has followed closely behind. Understanding the human proteome has become critical to basic and clinical biomedical research and holds the promise of providing comprehensive understanding of human physiological processes. In addition, proteomics and mass spectrometry are bringing unprecedented biomarker discovery and are helping to personalize medicine.

Book Mysterious Creatures

    Book Details:
  • Author : George M. Eberhart
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-07
  • ISBN : 9781909488076
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Mysterious Creatures written by George M. Eberhart and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

Book Trichier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alessandra Ceretto
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 136509796X
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Trichier written by Alessandra Ceretto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Climate of Past Interglacials

Download or read book The Climate of Past Interglacials written by F. Sirocko and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-08 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, climate fluctuations, such as the Little Ice Age, show that interglacial climate chage in not entirely stable, but responds to even subtle changes in radiative forcing. Through research, it has been made clear that even an abrupt change of climate within years is not just a theoretical possibility but has in fact happened in the prehistoric past. It is therefore clear that in principal it could happen again. Human civilaization has exploded under the mild and relatively stable climatic conditions that have prevailed over the last 11,000 years. This book focuses on revisiting the past and to study climate and environment in a suite of experiments where boundary conditions are similar but not identical to today so we can learn about the climate-environment system, its sensitivity, thresholds and feedback. The palaeoclimate community holds an important key to scientific information on climate change that provides a basis for appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies. The authors of this book have taken up this challenge and summarize their results in this special volume. It presents state-of-the-art science on new reconstructions from all spheres of the Earth System and on their synthesis, on methodological advances, and on the current ability of numerical models to simulate low and high frequency changes of climate, environment, and chemical cycling related to interglacials. * Summarizes important information on climate change, providing a basis for appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies for human civilization* Reports on new reconstuctions on methodological advances, numerical models simulating low and high frequence changes, and chemical cycling related to interglacials* Incorporates palaeovegetaion and numerical modeling of climate and environmental and geochemical parameters to address regional feedback to global change with successful data-models

Book PUR Facts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thea van Oosten
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 9048512077
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book PUR Facts written by Thea van Oosten and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible Polyurethane (PUR) foams, in use since the 1950s and familiar from furniture upholstery and other domestic textiles, can be found in museum collections in numerous art and design objects. However, these exhibits pose severe conservation problems due to the ageing of the foam caused by photo-oxidation, leading to discoloration, loss of strength and fl exibility, and fi nally the crumbling of the object. This defi nitive work outlines the most up-to-date methods of restoring fl exibility of older foams and protecting new foams from degradation by coating them with stabilising systems acting effectively as a `sunblock. The author, an experienced conservator, describes the research involved in developing the new methods and their impact on the visual, textural and chemical properties of treated PUR foams. One of the chapters details the preparation and application of the light stabilizing system to PUR foams.