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New insights into submarine tailing disposal for a reduced environmental footprint: Lessons learnt from Norwegian fjords

2021

Submarine tailing disposal (STD) in fjords from land-based mines is common practice in Norway and takes place in other regions worldwide. We synthesize the results of a multidisciplinary programme on environmental impacts of STDs in Norwegian fjords, providing new knowledge that can be applied to assess and mitigate impact of tailing disposal globally, both for submarine and deep-sea activities. Detailed geological seafloor mapping provided data on natural sedimentation to monitor depositional processes on the seafloor. Modelling and analytical techniques were used to assess the behaviour of tailing particles and process-chemicals in the environment, providing novel tools for monitoring. To…

geographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryEcological footprintNorwayEarth scienceSubmarine tailing disposalSubmarineFjordAquatic ScienceSedimentationEnvironmentOceanographyPollutionTailingsNatural (archaeology)MesocosmBest available techniquesBenthosMetalsEnvironmental scienceEstuariesEnvironmental Monitoring
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Do native white-clawed crayfish impact macroinvertebrate assemblages in Mediterranean limestone headwaters?

2019

Crayfish are among the largest aquatic macroinvertebrates in rivers and streams. Their trophic ecology is important for the understanding of the functioning of benthic communities. This is relevant in key areas, such as headwaters, as they partly condition the processes occurring downstream. To shed light on the effects of native white-clawed crayfish,Austropotamobius pallipes, on local macroinvertebrate assemblages from running headwaters, a three-month mesocosm-based field study was designed. Collection and subsequent analysis of benthic samples under different crayfish density levels yielded a set of metrics indicative of short-term impacts at general and taxonomic scales. Neither signif…

lcsh:SH1-691EcologyEcologyManagement Monitoring Policy and LawAquatic ScienceBiologyCrayfishbiology.organism_classificationmesocosmAustropotamobius pallipeslcsh:Aquaculture. Fisheries. AnglingMesocosmAustropotamobius pallipesBenthic zonefreshwater crayfishbenthic macroinvertebrateDominance (ecology)Species richnessheadwaterNature and Landscape ConservationWater Science and TechnologyTrophic levelInvertebrateKnowledge & Management of Aquatic Ecosystems
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Dark matters : contrasting responses of stream biofilm to browning and loss of riparian shading

2022

Concentrations of terrestrial-derived dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in freshwater ecosystems have increased consistently, causing freshwater browning. The mechanisms behind browning are complex, but in forestry-intensive regions browning is accelerated by land drainage. Forestry actions in streamside riparian forests alter canopy shading, which together with browning is expected to exert a complex and largely unpredictable control over key ecosystem functions. We conducted a stream mesocosm experiment with three levels of browning (ambient vs. moderate vs. high, with 2.7 and 5.5-fold increase, respectively, in absorbance) crossed with two levels of riparian shading (70% light reduction vs.…

liuennut orgaaninen hiiliGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcologyperiphytonmetsänkäsittelyforestryrasvahapotForestsDOCvedenlaatufatty acidsperifytonmultiple stressorsSterolsmesocosm experimentRiversbiofilmitBiofilmsvirtavedetEnvironmental ChemistryEcosystemGeneral Environmental Science
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Carbon biomass planktonic-periphytic organisms of a mesocosm experiment [Dataset]

2020

Este documento presenta los datos de biomasa en carbono (mgC m-2) de taxones planctónicos y perifíticos de un experimento a escala de mesocosmos. La comunidad planctónica-perifítica fue sometida a tres escenarios de cambio global, con la temperatura y la radiación ultravioleta como factores experimentales testados independientemente. Cada elemento de la comunidad fue identificado a la máxima resolución taxonómica posible. Las abreviaciones y explicaciones sobre los escenarios experimentales, las replicas de cada escenario y los detalles de los compartimentos considerados en cada mesocosmos se muestran en la primera página de este documento. This document presents the data about carbon bioma…

periphytonplanktoncharophytescarbon biomassmesocosm
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KOSMOS 2017 Peru Side Experiment: nutrients, phytoplankton abundances, enzyme rates, photophysiology

2022

This data was collected during an short-term incubation experiment in March 2017 that investigated the response of a surface plankton community to upwelling. This experiment was carried in the framework of the SFB754-funded KOSMOS mesocosm study that took place in La Punta, Callao, Peru between February-April 2017. A total of six different treatments were used to disentangle chemical and biological characteristics of deep water that influence surface plankton blooms: 2 different deep water sources with different nutrient concentrations; 3 treatments to distinguish the effects of inorganic nutrients, organic nutrients and deep water microbial populations. Measured variables include inorganic…

ratioDay of experimentSFB754colored dissolved organic matter at 325 nmNitriteChlorophyll aAbsorption coefficient colored dissolved organic matter at 254 nmClimate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean (SFB754)colorimetric determinationFluorometerFluorometricNitrateNanoplanktonPhytoplankton cells phycocyanin-containing (FL-4)PicoeukaryotesFluorometer fast repetition rateCalculatedFlow cytometryNutrient consumption ratioforward scatterSynechococcusupwelling systemsMesocosm experimentSpectrophotometricClimate Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean SFB754SilicateBiogeochemistryBiospheric SciencesMaximum photochemical quantum yield of photosystem IIenzyme activitycell sizeDissolved inorganic nitrogen/dissolved inorganic phosphorus ratioKOSMOS_2017chainsAbsorption coefficient colored dissolved organic matter 250 nm/365 nm ratioeastern tropical South Pacific OceanKOSMOSExcess phosphateAbsorption coefficient colored dissolved organic matter at 325 nmNatural SciencesGeosciencescolored dissolved organic matter at 254 nmphycocyanin containing FL 4Absorption coefficientPhosphateTank numberPhytoplankton cells chainsNetwork of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the ArctReplicatenutrientsfast repetition rateDATE TIMECryptophytesMicrophytoplanktonPhytoplankton cellsLeucine aminopeptidase activityDissolved inorganic nitrogen dissolved inorganic phosphorus ratiofungiEnzymatic assayContinuous flow analyserTreatmentDATE/TIMEcolored dissolved organic matter 250 nm 365 nmPhytoplanktonPhytoplankton cell size forward scatterNetwork of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean (AQUACOSM)CDOMContinuous flow analyser colorimetric determinationNitrate and Nitrite
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La eutrofización en los lagos someros mediterráneos: aplicabilidad de la DMA y un caso de estudio experimental en mesocosmos

2013

Este trabajo se centra en su mayor parte en el estudio de los efectos más directos de la eutrofización en los lagos someros mediterráneos y en el funcionamiento ecológico de este tipo de lagos cuando son sometidos a un incremento en la carga de nutrientes y a la presencia de peces. El trabajo también aborda el estudio de las metodologías más apropiadas para la evaluación de estos lagos mediante la aplicación de la Directiva Marco Europea del Agua (DMA). Este trabajo tiene dos secciones principales, siendo cada una parte de dos proyectos europeos que incluían lagos someros de distintas localidades europeas:(1) El proyecto SWALE que pretendía establecer las diferencias en el funcionamiento ec…

top-down / bottom-up:CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL ESPACIO [UNESCO]salinidadíndices de calidad de aguasred tróficaDMAmacrófitosgambusia holbrookilimitación de nutrientesciclo diariolagos someros mediterráneosmesocosmosUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA Y DEL ESPACIOeutrofización
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Submerged macrophytes as key players in aquatic ecosystems under global change: a multiscale experimental approach

2020

El actual cambio global está causando alteraciones en los ecosistemas de todo el mundo a través de cambios interactivos en los principales factores ambientales (e.g. la temperatura, la concentración de nutrientes y la radiación ultravioleta). Los ecosistemas acuáticos continentales son altamente vulnerables ante estos cambios y, específicamente, en la región mediterránea, la situación es peor ya que la mayoría de estos sistemas son someros y están expuestos a las perturbaciones ambientales y antrópicas. Las praderas de macrófitos sumergidos y, particularmente, los carófitos, son un elemento conspicuo de estos sistemas con un papel fundamental en su funcionamiento. Estos organismos proveen d…

ultraviolet radiationmicrocosm experimentsclimate changemesocosm experimentsnitrateUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LA VIDAcharophytestemperatureMediterranean:CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA [UNESCO]
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