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    Patterns in the structure of grassland butterfly communities along a gradient of human disturbance: further analysis based on the generalist/specialist concept (2000)
    Springer
    Population ecology 42 (2000), S. 135-144 
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    ISSN: 1437-5613
    Keywords: Key words Community patterns ; Lepidoptera ; Route order ; Species richness ; Species distribution ; Environmental disturbance
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Kitahara and Fujii, in 1994, analyzed the butterfly communities along a gradient of human disturbance by applying the generalist/specialist concept. Butterfly species were classified into generalist or specialist species based on their voltinism (seasonal time dimension) and potential larval resource breadth (food dimension). The community structure and species composition showed the systematic changes along the gradient. To verify the generality of those trends, we monitored five grassland butterfly communities with varying degrees of human disturbance twice a month during 1985 by the line transect method at the foot of Mt. Fuji, central Japan, and analyzed their structure in a manner similar to that employed by Kitahara and Fujii. Most results were consistent with the patterns recognized by Kitahara and Fujii. The route (community) order based on increasing human disturbance was strongly and negatively correlated with butterfly species richness but with neither butterfly species diversity (H′) nor evenness (J′). Also, the degree of human disturbance was significantly and negatively correlated with the number of specialist species, but not with that of generalists, in a community. Butterfly species richness was more strongly correlated with the number of specialist species than with that of generalists. Our analyses also showed that the generalist species were distributed more widely over the communities than were the specialists. However, in contrast to the trend revealed by Kitahara and Fujii, there was no significant difference in the population densities and in the spatial population variability between the two species groups. As a whole, our analyses confirmed the consistency of most community patterns detected by Kitahara and Fujii. The causes of the inconsistencies in some patterns were thought to be mainly the present habitat conditions with a relatively short growing season at high altitudes.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00011992
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    Ca overload and the action of calcium sensitive proteases, phospholipases and prostaglandin E2 in myocardial cell degradation (1985)
    Springer
    Basic research in cardiology 80 (1985), S. 303-315 
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    ISSN: 1435-1803
    Keywords: calcium entry ; myocardial cell injury ; membrane permeability ; calcium-activated neutral protease ; calcium-dependent phospholipases ; cyclooxygenase
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The mechanism of Ca overload-induced myocardial cell injury under hypoxia was examined for the involvement of calcium-activated neutral proteases (CANP), calcium-dependent phospholipases (CDP) or prostaglandins with measuring45Ca entry, intake of biologically inert dye, nigrosin, into the cultured myocytes, as was useful for the quantification of sarcolemma permeability, and the release of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) to the culture medium. A Ca channel blocker, verapamil (1 and 10 μg/ml) or a Ca ionophore, A 23187 (0.5 to 4 μg/ml) dose-dependently decreased or increased both the Ca entry and nigrosin intake in accordance with the CPK release. Furthermore, the inhibitors against CANP, NCO-700 (2 and 20 μg/ml) that was demonstrated to permeate sarcolemma using14C-labelled reagent, against CDP, mepacrine (1 and 10 μg/ml) or against cyclooxygenase, indomethacin (1 and 10 μg/ml) caused no effect on the Ca entry, nigrosin intake nor CPK release under hypoxia. These results suggest that the Ca overdose into the myocardial cells potentiates their injury and it is not primarily related to the activation of CANP, CDP nor cyclooxygenase.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01907906
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