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Tracking management-related water quality alterations by phytoplankton assemblages in a tropical reservoir

2015

Water quality improvement and suppression of cyanobacterial blooms were planned in a eutrophic reservoir in southern China through ecological engineering measures from 2006 to 2011. This consisted in (i) a hydraulic resetting of inflows and outflows to increase the distance between inlet and outlet and the water residence time in the reservoir, and in (ii) the installation of floating frames hosting wetland vegetation to promote an alteration in phytoplankton composition. The environmental changes were therefore followed through the analysis of biotic responses in phytoplankton assemblages. Ecological engineering was effective in reducing phytoplankton total biomass, in re-establishing more…

0106 biological sciencesGeneralized additive modellingContext (language use)Aquatic Science010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesMorpho-functional groupsC–S–R-modelSettore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIAPhytoplanktonRuderal speciesReservoirTrophic levelHydrologyPhytoplankton Morpho-functional groups C–S–R-model Generalized additive modelling Ecological engineering Reservoirgeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryEcology010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyEcological engineeringInletEcological engineeringPhytoplanktonSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataEnvironmental scienceWater qualityEutrophication
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Shape and size in phytoplankton ecology: do they matter?

2007

This paper summarises the outcomes of the 14th Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology (IAP). The authors mostly addressed their contributions on the following topics: morphological and morpho-functional descriptors of phytoplankton, size and shape structure of phytoplankton related to different kinds of environmental variables and the role of morphological and physiological plasticity of phytoplankton in maintaining the (apparently) same populations under different environmental conditions. Case studies from different kinds of aquatic environments (deep and shallow lakes, reservoirs with different age, purpose and trophic state, floodplain wetlands m…

EcologyAquatic ecosystemEcology (disciplines)Morphological traits Morpho-functional descriptors Plasticity of phytoplankton Organisational levelsPhytoplanktonTemperate climateSubtropicsAquatic ScienceBiologyEnvironmental forcingTrophic levelHydrobiology
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ISOLATION, MORPHO-FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION AND TRANSDIFFERENTIATION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM ADULT HUMAN HEART.

2011

Settore BIO/16 - Anatomia UmanaMESENCHYMALMORPHO-FUNCTIONALCHARACTERIZATIONHUMAN HEARTSTEM CELLS
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Comparing biological classifications of freshwater phytoplankton: a case study from South China

2012

The use of ecological classification systems is becoming more and more widely used when studying phytoplankton. Grouping phytoplankton species into ecologically coherent groups allow to reduce redundancy and in this way, to handle a minor number of biological variables when investigating the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems. Three ecological classifications are mostly used when freshwater phytoplankton is studied: functional groups or coda, morpho-functional groups (MFGs) and morphology-based functional groups (MBFGs). In this study, these three ecological classifications were comparatively used along with two taxonomic classifications based on species and genera to analyse phytoplan…

South chinaEcologyCanonical correspondence analysisAquatic ecosystemEcology (disciplines)Settore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataPhytoplanktonFunctional groups Morpho-functional groups Morphology-based functional groups Taxonomic groups Physical constraints ReservoirsTaxonomic rankAquatic ScienceBiologyExplained variationCodaHydrobiologia
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