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Characterization of phytoplankton exudates and carbohydrates in relation to their complexation of copper, cadmium and iron
No full textThe goal of this study was to investigate if transparent exopolymer particles (TEP), carbohydrates, surface-active substances (SAS), reduced sulfur species (RSS), or thio/amino groups contribute significantly to the complexing capacity of phytoplankton exudates for Cu (LTOTCu), Cd (LTOTCd), or Fe (LTOTFe). Complexing capacities and apparent stability constants (Kapp) were determined electrochemically for Cu and Cd in cultures of the marine diatoms Thalassiosira weissflogii and Skeletonema costatum, and in a culture of the coccolithophore Emiliana huxleyi. Furthermore,the complexing capacity with Fe, Cu and Cd of 4 marine polysaccharides (PS) (phytagel, carrageenan, laminarin and alginic acid) was investigated. As expected, more Cu than Cd was complexed in the 3 phytoplankton cultures and in the phytagel solution. Size fractionation of the phytagelsolution suggests that the binding capacity for Cu was more significant in the particulate fraction (>0.7 ?m), indicating that Cu was preferably trapped within pores and channels of large hydrogels. In contrast, Cd binding sites were predominantly found in the fraction <0.7 ?m, suggesting binding to the outer surfaces of gel particles to be of greater importance for larger ions. The Kapp of the Cd complexes were higher than those of Cu, indicating stronger binding of Cd ions than of Cu ions. Solutionsof carrageenan, laminarin and alginic acid did not form complexes with either Cu or Cd, and Febinding properties could not be detected for any of the 4 polysaccharide solutions. Thio/amino groups of sulfur-rich ‘glutathione’ type ligands were found in all phytoplankton cultures and were presumably responsible for the complexation of Cu. No consistent relationship was observed between TEP, carbohydrate concentration, SAS or sulfur content, or with the complexing capacity, emphasizing the high degree of heterogeneity of substance classes responsible for metal binding
Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho-pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron
No full textA compilation of more than 30 studies shows that adult Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) may frequent benthic habitats year-round, in shelf as well as oceanic waters and throughout their circumpolar range. Net and acoustic data from the Scotia Sea show that in summer 2-20% of the population reside at depths between 200 and 2000 m, and that large aggregations can form above the seabed. Local differences in the vertical distribution of krill indicate that reduced feeding success in surface waters, either due to predator encounter or food shortage, might initiate such deep migrations and results in benthic feeding. Fatty acid and microscopic analyses of stomach content confirm two different foraging habitats for Antarctic krill: the upper ocean, where fresh phytoplankton is the main food source, and deeper water or the seabed, where detritus and copepods are consumed. Krill caught in upper waters retain signals of benthic feeding, suggesting frequent and dynamic exchange between surface and seabed. Krill contained up to 260 nmol iron per stomach when returning from seabed feeding. About 5% of this iron is labile, i.e., potentially available to phytoplankton. Due to their large biomass, frequent benthic feeding, and acidic digestion of particulate iron, krill might facilitate an input of new iron to Southern Ocean surface waters. Deep migrations and foraging at the seabed are significant parts of krill ecology, and the vertical fluxes involved in this behavior are important for the coupling of benthic and pelagic food webs and their elemental repositories
Intense ultraviolet photoluminescence at 314 nm in Gd3+-doped Silica
Full text linkPhotoluminescence (PL) of Gd-doped silica in the ultraviolet (UV) is investigated. The efficient emission detected at 314 nm is due to the 6P7/2 to 8S7/2 transition of a 4f electron of the Gd3+ ion
Dataset for Ultraviolet Photoluminescence in Gd-doped Silica and Phosphosilicate Fibers
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Wang, Y. et al. (2017). Ultraviolet photoluminescence in Gd-doped silica and phosphosilicate fibers. APL Photonics, 2(4), 1-8. </span
UV luminescence in Gd-doped silica and phosphosilicate optical fibres
No full textGd3+-doped silica and phosphosilicate fibers were pulled from preforms fabricated using the rod-in-tube technique and the solution doping technique, respectively. Ultraviolet (UV)-B luminescence from Gd3+ at around 312 nm given by Gd3+ 6P7/2→8S7/2 transition were observed under deep UV excitations pumping to the Gd3+ 6DJ, 6IJ, and 6PJ=5/2, 3/2 energy levels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dissolved iron(III) speciation in the high latitude North Atlantic Ocean
No full textOn voyages in the Iceland Basin in 2007 and 2009, we observed low (ca. 0.1 nM) total dissolved iron concentrations [dFe] in surface waters (<150 m), which increased with depth to ca. 0.2–0.9 nM. The surface water [dFe] was low due to low atmospheric Fe inputs combined with biological uptake, with Fe regeneration from microbial degradation of settling biogenic particles supplying dFe at depth. The organic ligand concentrations [LT] in the surface waters ranged between 0.4 and 0.5 nM, with conditional stability constants (log K?FeL) between 22.6 and 22.7. Furthermore, [LT] was in excess of [dFe] throughout the water column, and dFe was therefore largely complexed by organic ligands (>99%). The ratio of [LT]/[dFe] was used to analyse trends in Fe speciation. Enhanced and variable [LT]/[dFe] ratios ranging between 1.6 and 5.8 were observed in surface waters; the ratio decreased with depth to a more constant [LT]/[dFe] ratio in deep waters. In the Iceland Basin and Rockall Trough, enhanced [LT]/[dFe] ratios in surface waters resulted from decreases in [dFe], likely reflecting the conditions of Fe limitation of the phytoplankton community in the surface waters of the Iceland Basin and the high productivity in the Rockall Trough.Below the surface mixed layer, the observed increase in [dFe] resulted in a decrease of the [LT]/[dFe] ratios (1.2–2.6) with depth. This indicated that the Fe binding ligand sites became occupied and even almost saturated at enhanced [dFe] in the deeper waters. Furthermore, our results showed a quasi-steady state in deep waters between dissolved organic Fe ligands and dFe, reflecting a balance between Fe removal by scavenging and Fe supply by remineralisation of biogenic particles with stabilisation through ligands
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