Population biology of bryozoans: correlates of sessile,colonial life histories in freshwater habitats

Bryozoans are common, often abundant, sessile, colonial invertebrates of freshwaters. By reviewing what is known of their general ecology and considering in further detail the population biology of specific groups, we provide evidence that 1) populations are locally ephemeral and regional persistence is attained via a dynamic equilibrium between dispersal and colonization, and 2) sex may often be infrequent and a high degree of clonality obtains at both local and regional scales. On the basis of these characteristics we discuss how the group offers exceptional opportunities for investigating a number of fundamentally important ecological and evolutionary questions.The highly curious modification of the Molluscan type which the Polyzoa [=Bryozoa] present... the great beauty of their forms, and the facility with which they can in general be observed in a living state, cannot but render them special favorites for every lover of Nature; and for the more profound student must confer on them a peculiar significance, and invest their study with a scientific interest which is scarcely surpassed by that of any other group of animals.... (Allman 1856)     

一种适用于牧区的新型太阳能系统

我国是世界上地质灾害最严重的国家之一,对人民群众的生命财产安全构成了极大的威胁.湖南省又是我国地质灾害较严重的省份之一,且水系发育,河湖地地质灾害较多.本文以澧县为例,介绍了河湖地区管涌、岸崩的发育特征、分布规律及形成因素等,并提出了相应的防治措施,最后对河湖地质灾害进行了易发性分区,取得了较好的实际效果.结果表明:文中提出的方法对河湖地区的地质灾害防治具有一定的实际指导意义.     

云南高原湖泊群的统计学聚类识别 及水质响应模式研究

为探究湖泊群水质变量的响应模式,构建适用于监测数据匮乏的湖泊群聚类和响应模式识别方法体系(PCA-BN),包括4个步骤:数据预处理、PCA降维与湖泊聚类、贝叶斯网络构建及参数学习、湖泊响应关系模拟。以云南高原湖泊群为例开展研究,结果表明:所研究的26个湖泊可分为两类;由于第一类湖泊受到的人为干扰更严重,因而叶绿素a对总氮和总磷的响应比第二类湖泊更敏感;第一类湖泊表层水温高,溶解氧趋近饱和,随叶绿素a变化不显著,第二类湖泊溶解氧随叶绿素a升高而显著升高;两类湖泊的透明度与叶绿素a的关系一致。     

北京六湖水体和表层沉积物中氮污染特征与评价

调查和分析了北京市六个城市湖泊水体和沉积物的氮营养盐污染特征和污染程度,并对六湖水体和表层沉积物中各指标作了相关分析,拟为城市湖泊富营养化的防治提供基础数据.结果表明,所调查的北京城市湖泊氮污染程度较严重,调查期间半数湖泊的水体总氮(TN)含量超过地表水(湖、库)Ⅴ类标准值.在太湖流域的有机氮(ON%)污染评价标准下,...     

A new species of Schizopera (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Japan,its phylogeny based on the mtCOI gene and comments on the genus Schizoperopsis

The predominantly marine genus Schizopera Sars, 1905 has only two significant inland water species-flocks, one in the ancient African Lake Tanganyika and the other in subterranean waters of Western Australia. Discovery of Schizopera abei sp. nov. from several interstitial locations in the vicinity of the ancient Lake Biwa has wider implications for the study of morphological homoplasies in the genus, as well as for the study of freshwater invasions in harpacticoid copepods. The new Schizopera species belongs to a small group of congeners with a two-segmented endopod of the fourth leg, which used to be recognised as a separate genus, Schizoperopsis Apostolov, 1982. Our reconstructed phylogenies based on the mtCOI partial sequences suggest that this character probably evolved convergently in at least some Schizopera, thus rendering the genus Schizoperopsis polyphyletic. However, almost all basal nodes in our cladograms are weakly supported, which shows limitations of a single-gene approach for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships. The new species is the first member of its genus from Japanese inland waters, and it has no close relatives among extent congeners anywhere in the world. We speculate that its ancestor may have invaded Lake Biwa, and subsequently its surrounding subterranean waters, from brackish areas around central Japan, presumably during a period of high sea water level through its major outflow river. This discovery may provide further support for the hypothesis about the role of ancient lakes as biodiversity pumps for subterranean habitats.

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Allozyme electrophoresis demonstrates the presence of a species boundary in freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Potamonautidae)

Potamonautes granularis, P. perlatus and P. sidneyi are morphologically similar species of freshwater crab occurring in the middle to lower reaches of rivers. Potamonautes perlatus and P. sidneyi are known to exhibit clinal morphological differentiation between two distinct morphotypes and their specific status has remained obscured. This study investigates the species boundaries between these three species, as well as genetic differentiation and gene flow between populations within each species, using allozyme electrophoresis. Twenty-five populations (including two P. granularis, 10 P. perlatus and 13 P. sidneyi populations) were utilized, collected along a transect of 2300 km. Individuals were screened for 11 presumptive loci, using a horizontal starch-gel electrophoresis protocol. Mean genetic identities obtained in pair-wise comparisons of populations of different species (I =0.748-0.846) were typical of interspecific comparisons. Diffuse species boundaries (over which gene flow and hybridization may be possible) were observed between P. granularis and P. perlatus, and between P. perlatus and P. sidneyi. A fixed allele difference at the ME locus distinguished P. granularis and P. sidneyi. Hierarchical F -statistics revealed significant genetic sub-structuring between populations within each species and within the entire sample, illustrating low-levels of gene flow. Although some regional groupings were evident from the genetic data, no distinct distance-related patterns, or patterns of clinal variation could be observed. Patterns of genetic differentiation resemble a patchwork that is probably the product of mutations, genetic drift, balanced by low levels of gene flow, and natural selection. The extensive morphological variation must now be seen against the backdrop of three genetically defined species.     

A new species of Hyalella from Colombia,and the redescription of H. meinerti Stebbing, 1899 from Venezuela (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

The new species H. quindioensis is described from Colombia. This species is close to H. paramoensis Andres, 1988 also in Colombia. Hyalella meinerti Stebbing, 1899 is figured and redescribed. The type locality for this species is Venezuela. However, it has a wide distribution including Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil.     

内蒙古达来诺尔地区全新世湖群地貌特征及其演化

从全新世以来湖泊地貌特征入手,结合~(14)C年代数据,探讨了湖泊退缩演化的基本规律和程序:全新世湖泊演化历经早期的大湖时期,中期的分离时期和晚期的继续收缩时期。指出达来诺尔湖群的演化,明显受气候干旱化趋势的控制和影响,在我国北方高原区域内具有一定的可比性,并确定了各时期湖泊演化的基本参数。     

徐州淡水枝角类的调查

在徐州市郊调查,共获淡水枝角类31种,其中有6种为江苏省新记录。对这些枝角类进行分析,可以认为,徐州的淡水枝角类的区系组成,具有南方种与北方种过渡地区的特点,但又偏重于南方种。     

Rediscovery of Gastrostyla setifera (Engelmann, 1862) Kent, 1882: morphology and divisional morphogenesis (Ciliophora,Hypotrichida)

The morphology and morphogenesis of the poorly known hypotrichous ciliate Gastrostyla setifera, isolated from a freshwater pond near Harbin, China, are described from both living and protargol silver-impregnated specimens. The Harbin population of this species is characterized thus: medium-sized freshwater Gastrostyla, 150-205 × 70-95 μm in vivo, ellipsoid in shape but somewhat narrowed posteriorly. Contractile vacuole located in left half of mid-body region. On average 48-56 (mean 52) adoral membranelles; 10 frontal and 9-11 ventral cirri; 23-26 left and 30-34 right marginal cirri; usually with four complete dorsal kineties and two dorsomarginal kineties; three caudal cirri present at posterior margin; invariably two macronuclear nodules and two micronuclei. Its morphogenesis reveals the following characteristics: (1) adoral zone of membranelles (AZM) in the opisthe arises from the new oral primordium while the proter inherits the entire parental structure; (2) 10 frontal, 9-11 ventral and five transverse cirri are derived from five frontoventral transverse cirral anlagen together with the undulating membrane anlage; (3) left and right marginal cirri are derived from new anlagen which originate within the old marginal rows; (4) the generation of the dorsal kineties is of the 'two-group-mode'; three left primary dorsal anlagen and two dorsomarginal anlagen appear as two groups in both dividers from which all dorsal kineties are derived (the fourth kinety is formed due to the fragmentation of the third anlage); (5) one caudal cirrus is formed at the ends of each of the first, second and fourth dorsal anlagen.