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Marine Chemistry
Evaluation of diagnostic ratios of medium and serious weathered oils from five different oil sources
HE Shijie, WANG Chuanyuan, LI Yantai, YU Hongjun, HAN Bin
2016, 35(4): 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s13131-015-0721-9
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Laboratory experiments were conducted to simulate oil weathering process, a medium to long term weathering process for 210-d, using samples collected from five different oil resources. Based on relative deviation and repeatability limit analysis abou...
Marine Geology
Distributions of surficial sediments and its response to dynamic actions in the Xiamen Bay sea area, China
ZUO Shuhua, HAN Zhiyuan, HUANG Yunxin, HAN Jie, XIE Mingxiao
2016, 35(4): 9-18. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0840-y
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Sediment distribution is important for morphodynamic evolution and shoreline changes in coastal zones and estuaries. In the study, the data of 230 surface sediment samples collected from the Xiamen Bay sea area in September 2008 are used to investiga...
Compositional and temperature variations of the Pacific upper mantle since the Cretaceous
ZHANG Guoliang
2016, 35(4): 19-25. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0839-4
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The geological evolution of the Earth during the mid-Cretaceous were shown to be anomalous, e.g., the pause of the geomagnetic field, the global sea level rise, and increased intra-plate volcanic activities, which could be attributed to deep mantle p...
The spatial relationship between salt marsh vegetation patterns, soil elevation and tidal channels using remote sensing at Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve, China
ZHENG Zongsheng, ZHOU Yunxuan, TIAN Bo, DING Xianwen
2016, 35(4): 26-34. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0831-z
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The analysis of vegetation-environment relationships has always been a study hotspot in ecology. A number of biotic, hydrologic and edaphic factors have great influence on the distribution of macrophytes within salt marsh. Since the exotic species Sp...
Detecting and assessing Spartina invasion in coastal region of China: A case study in the Xiangshan Bay
ZHU Changming, ZHANG Xin, QI Jiaguo
2016, 35(4): 35-43. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0836-7
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Spartina alterniflora is one of exotic plants along the coastal region in China. It was introduced as an important engineering approach to ecological restoration in the later 1970s. However, owing to its good adaptability and strong reproductive capa...
Marine Biology
Molecular characteristics of three thymosin-repeat proteins from Marsupenaeus japonicus and their responses to WSSV infection
MA Jinyou, RUAN Lingwei, XU Xun, GAO Zhaoming
2016, 35(4): 44-50. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0835-8
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β-thymosins, a family of highly conserved peptides, play a vital role in wound-healing, angiogenesis, antimicrobial process and antiviral immunity. Three novel β-thymosin-repeat proteins, named mjthm4, mjthm3 and mjthm2, were cloned from Marsupenaeus...
Combined effects of temperature and copper ion concentration on the superoxide dismutase activity in Crassostrea ariakensis
WANG Hui, YANG Hongshuai, LIU Jiahui, LI Yanhong, LIU Zhigang
2016, 35(4): 51-57. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0838-5
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Superoxide dismutase(SOD) is a crucial antioxidant enzyme playing the first defense line in antioxidant pathways against reactive oxygen species in various organisms including marine invertebrates. There exist mainly two specific forms, Cu/Zn-SOD(SOD...
Food web structure and trophic levels in a saltwater pond sea cucumber and prawn polyculture system
GUO Kai, ZHAO Wen, WANG Shan, LIU Baozhan, ZHANG Peng
2016, 35(4): 58-62. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0834-9
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The food sources of aquacultured Apostichopus japonicus and the trophic levels of organisms in a sea cucumber(A. japonicus) and prawn(Penaeus japonica) polyculture system in a saltwater pond in Zhuanghe, Liaoning Province were examined using carbon a...
Implementing a multispecies size-spectrum model in a data-poor ecosystem
ZHANG Chongliang, CHEN Yong, THOMPSON Katherine, REN Yiping
2016, 35(4): 63-73. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0822-0
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Multispecies ecological models have been used for predicting the effects of fishing activity and evaluating the performance of management strategies. Size-spectrum models are one type of physiologically-structured ecological model that provide a feas...
A New model to forecast fishing ground of Scomber japonicus in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea
GAO Feng, CHEN Xinjun, GUAN Wenjiang, LI Gang
2016, 35(4): 74-81. doi: 10.1007/s13131-015-0767-8
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The pelagic species is closely related to the marine environmental factors, and establishment of forecasting model of fishing ground with high accuracy is an important content for pelagic fishery. The chub mackerel(Scomber japonicus) in the Yellow Se...
Gorgan Bay:a microcosm for study on macrobenthos species-environment relationships in the southeastern Caspian Sea
GHASEMI Amir Faraz, TAHERI Mehrshad, FOSHTOMI Maryam Yazdani, NORANIAN Majid, MIRA Seyed Sahab, JAM Armin
2016, 35(4): 82-88. doi: 10.1007/s13131-015-0728-2
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The relationship between spatial patterns of macrobenthos community characteristics and environmental conditions(salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, organic matter content, sand, silt and clay) was investigated throughout the Gorgan Bay in June ...
Is maturity index an efficient tool to assess the effects of the physical disturbance on the marine nematode assemblages?-A critical interpretation of disturbance-induced maturity successions in some study cases in Maldives
SEMPRUCCI F., COLANTONI P., BALSAMO M.
2016, 35(4): 89-98. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0832-y
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Maturity index(MI), based on nematode life strategies, has been proposed in 1990 to assess the possible variations of the terrestrial and freshwater nematode assemblages induced by anthropogenic activities. It was subsequently applied also to marine ...
Community structure and spatial-temporal variation of netz-phytoplankton in the Bering Sea in summer
WANG Yu, XIANG Peng, YE Youyin, LIN Gengming, YANG Qingliang, LIN Heshan, LIN Mao
2016, 35(4): 99-107. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0833-x
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Marine biodiversity is changing in response to altered physical environment, subsequent ecological changes as well as anthropogenic disturbances. In this study, phytoplankton samples in situ collected in the Bering Sea in July of 1999 and 2010 were a...
The morphological identification of Protoperidinium(Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) species on the coasts of China
LI Ruixiang, PAN Yulong, SUN Huiying, LI Yan, MA Xin, WANG Yan
2016, 35(4): 108-117. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0823-z
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The classification and identification for Protoperidinium species are the most difficult work during its taxonomic study. In this research, taxonomic status of Protoperidinium was clarified by tracing its taxonomic history, 23 species belong to genus...
Morphological and molecular discrimination of green macroalgae Chaetomorpha aerea and C. linum
HUANG Bingxin, TENG Linhong, DING Lanping
2016, 35(4): 118-123. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0841-x
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Green macroalgae Chaetomorpha aerea and C. linum are taxonomically confused. In this paper, we tried morphological and molecular analyses to separate these two species. C. aerea and C. linum can be distinguished from morphological characteritics, suc...
Research on stability and Hopf bifurcation of marine ecosystem dynamics models
SHI Honghua, HU Long, FANG Guohong, WEI Zexun, SHEN Chengcheng, LIU Yongzhi
2016, 35(4): 124-132. doi: 10.1007/s13131-016-0809-x
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The predictability of marine ecosystem dynamics models is one of the most vital factors to limit their practical applications, of which the stability is the fundamental condition. In order to discuss the stability and Hopf bifurcation of marine ecosy...