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Aerial measurement of radioxenon concentration off the west coast of Vancouver Island following the Fukushima reactor accident 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Sinclair LE Seywerd HC Fortin R Carson JM Saull PR Coyle MJ Van Brabant RA Buckle JL Desjardins SM Hall RM 《Journal of environmental radioactivity》2011,102(11):1018-1023
In response to the Fukushima nuclear reactor accident, on March 20th, 2011, Natural Resources Canada conducted aerial radiation surveys over water just off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Dose-rate levels were found to be consistent with background radiation, however a clear signal due to 133Xe was observed. Methods to extract 133Xe count rates from the measured spectra, and to determine the corresponding 133Xe activity concentration, were developed. The measurements indicate that 133Xe concentrations on average lie in the range of 30-70 Bq/m3. 相似文献
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Kimberly L. VanderWaal Edward R. Atwill Stacie Hooper Kelly Buckle Brenda McCowan 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2013,67(12):1951-1959
Although pathogen transmission dynamics are profoundly affected by population social and spatial structure, few studies have empirically demonstrated the population-level implications of such structure in wildlife. In particular, epidemiological models predict that the extent to which contact patterns are clustered decreases a pathogen’s ability to spread throughout an entire population, but this effect has yet to be demonstrated in a natural population. Here, we use network analysis to examine patterns of transmission of an environmentally transmitted parasite, Cryptosporidium spp., in Belding’s ground squirrels (Spermophilus beldingi). We found that the prevalence of Cryptosporidium was negatively correlated with transitivity, a measure of network clustering, and positively correlated with the percentage of juvenile males. Additionally, network transitivity decreased when there were higher percentages of juvenile males; the exploratory behavior demonstrated by juvenile males may have altered the structure of the network by reducing clustering, and low clustering was associated with high prevalence. We suggest that juvenile males are critical in mediating the ability of Cryptosporidium to spread through colonies, and thus may function as “super-spreaders.” Our results demonstrate the utility of a network approach in quantifying mechanistically how differences in contact patterns may lead to system-level differences in infection patterns. 相似文献
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Studies of reef fish herbivory have mainly focused on the impacts and behaviour of adults of tropical species. In this study,
the ontogenetic shifts in home range, aggression, feeding rate, diet and gut morphology in juveniles and adults of two temperate
territorial damselfishes, Parma microlepis and Parma unifasciata, were determined. Both P. microlepis and P. unifasciata juveniles under 80 mm TL exhibited no aggressive chases towards conspecifics or other species, while above 80 mm TL aggressive
chase frequency increased in conjunction with an increase in home range, defended as a territory. Ontogenetic diet shifts,
characterised by an increase in herbivory (P. unifasciata: juveniles: 64% plant material, adults: 95% plant material; P. microlepis: juveniles: 43% plant material, adults: 67% plant material) were observed for both species. The ratio of digestive tract
length to body length, which often accompanies a switch to herbivory, increased significantly with ontogeny for both species.
Compared to tropical confamilial grazers, these temperate damselfish species feeding rates were lower, and they had larger
territories which were not as strongly defended (fewer aggressive chases). 相似文献
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