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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of fish biology 26 (1985), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1095-8649
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Plasma osmotic regulation was evaluated in Cyprinodon variegatus acclimated to salinities from fresh water to 120%. These fish showed roughly stable regulation in the range from 0.3% to 70%. Fish acclimated to fresh water showed an increased plasma concentration over those in 0.3%, thought to result from a higher Ca++ level in fresh water. Plasma concentrations rose abruptly at salinities above 70%. Osmotic regulatory characteristics of C. variegatus were compared with data for other extremely euryhaline species with expectation of a graded series of responses, species showing greatest fresh water tolerance demonstrating widest ranges of regulation and with lowest plasma concentrations. Results were not consistent with expectations. The range of ambient salinities over which good regulation of plasma concentration was shown was found to be directly correlated with the magnitude of the salinity tolerance range of all of the species compared. Forms with greater fresh water affinity generally, but not uniformly, showed the lowest plasma concentrations in the region of hyperosmotic regulation.
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  • 2
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    Springer
    Environmental biology of fishes 20 (1987), S. 229-232 
    ISSN: 1573-5133
    Keywords: Cyprinodontidae ; Euryhaline ; Gulf coast ; Brackish water
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Synopsis Salinity tolerances and plasma osmotic regulatory capacity were determined in individuals of Adinia xenica following laboratory acclimations. Survival of individuals was better than 90% of those entered into the acclimation sequence from an initial acclimation salinity of 17.0 ppt down to fresh-water, and up to 95.0 ppt. Survival of individuals transferred from 95.0 to 105.0 ppt was low. Adinia showed most consistent plasma osmotic regulation in the range of ambient salinities from 17.0 to 60.0 ppt, but responded well over the ambient salinity range from 0.5 ppt to 85.0 ppt. Plasma osmotic concentrations were higher at common ambient salinities, but in a generally similar overall pattern of response, compared with such euryhaline cyprinodontids as Cyprinodon variegatus and Fundulus kansae.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Keywords: hypoxia ; anoxic hypolimnion ; volcanic crater lake ; stratification ; productivity ; heat budget ; stability
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract This paper quantifies the temporal pattern of thermal stratification and deoxygenation in Lake Nkuruba, a small (3 ha), deep (maximum depth = 38 m) crater lake in western Uganda. Dissolved oxygen penetrated to an average depth of 9 m and a maximum depth of 15 m below which the lake was permanently anoxic over the 2 years of study. Although surface oxygen levels were correlated with both surface water temperature and rainfall, seasonal cycles of dissolved oxygen were not well-defined and may have been obscured by the high frequency of short-term fluctuations and by inter-annual variations caused by shifts in rainfall. Surface water temperature averaged 23.3±0.7 °C (S.D.) and varied directly with air temperature. Both diurnal changes and top-bottom temperature differentials were small averaging 1.7±0.7 °C and 1.6±0.8 °C, respectively. Thermal stability ranged from 101.3 to 499.9 g-cm cm-2 and was positively related to surface water temperature suggesting that this small protected lake responds rapidly to short-term meteorological changes. Because contribution to the annual heat exchange cycle was confined to upper waters, the lake's annual heat budget was low, 1,073.8 cal cm-2 yr-1. However, net primary productivity was relatively high averaging 1.3 g C m-2d-1. The region where Lake Nkuruba is situated experienced a very strong earthquake (6.2 on the Richter scale) on 4 February, 1994. Subsequently, water levels dropped markedly in the lake, falling 3.14 m over a 5-month period.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Keywords: hypoxia ; anoxic hypolimnion ; volcanic crater lake ; stratification ; productivity ; heat budget ; stability
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract This paper quantifies the temporal pattern of thermal stratification and deoxygenation in Lake Nkuruba, a small (3 ha), deep (maximum depth = 38 m) crater lake in western Uganda. Dissolved oxygen penetrated to an average depth of 9 m and a maximum depth of 15 m below which the lake was permanently anoxic over the 2 years of study. Although surface oxygen levels were correlated with both surface water temperature and rainfall, seasonal cycles of dissolved oxygen were not well-defined and may have been obscured by the high frequency of short-term fluctuations and by inter-annual variations caused by shifts in rainfall. Surface water temperature averaged 23.3±0.7 °C (S.D.) and varied directly with air temperature. Both diurnal changes and top-bottom temperature differentials were small averaging 1.7±0.7 °C and 1.6±0.8 °C, respectively. Thermal stability ranged from 101.3 to 499.9 g-cm cm-2 and was positively related to surface water temperature suggesting that this small protected lake responds rapidly to short-term meteorological changes. Because contribution to the annual heat exchange cycle was confined to upper waters, the lake's annual heat budget was low, 1,073.8 cal cm-2 yr-1. However, net primary productivity was relatively high averaging 1.3 g C m-2d-1. The region where Lake Nkuruba is situated experienced a very strong earthquake (6.2 on the Richter scale) on 4 February, 1994. Subsequently, water levels dropped markedly in the lake, falling 3.14 m over a 5-month period.
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  • 5
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    Springer
    Hydrobiologia 40 (1972), S. 183-200 
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary Aerial photographs of the Florida landscape, an area of Karst topography, show the country-side to be pockmarked by small lakes, many of which are nearly circular in surface outline. Lake Mize is quite typical of these sinkhole or doline lakes in its morphometric features, including its “morning glory” basin shape. The deeper portion of the basin occupies a relatively small fraction of the area and volume of the lake. Lake Mize becomes stably stratified at superficial depths in early spring and remains so until late fall or early winter. Even the violent winds of a hurricane are insufficiently strong to break up the stratification. Stratification disappears by December and the lake circulates through the winter months during which the water temperature drops to the winter low-generally near 11° C. The circulation pattern is typical of subtropical or warm monomictic lakes-a single, extended period of circulation with the minimum temperature always well above 4° C. Lake Mize has an extremely small annual heat budget. Based upon empirical evidence this is due to a number of factors including latitude (ca 30° N latitude), altitude (ca 30 m above sea level), protected location of the lake, small surface area and restricted solar heating. However, the regression equations of GORHAM relating annual heat budgets to various morphometric parameters of larger temperate zone lakes are not useful for predicting the annual heat budget of a lake such as Lake Mize. Year to year variations in the annual heat budget were rather large, ranging from a low of 3767 cal/cm2 to a high of 6003 calf cm2, so that the highest annual heat budget was roughly 1.6X that for the lowest of the three years. One expects a fair amount of year to year variation in annual heat budgets based upon Hutchinson's discussion (1957). Since we are dealing with an extremely small annual heat budget small changes are magnified when viewed on a percentage basis.
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  • 6
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    Hydrobiologia 434 (2000), S. 165-182 
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Keywords: salt marsh ; resident teleosts ; reproduction ; development ; salinity relationships
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A wide variety of teleost fishes occur in tidal marshes of Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida, few of which breed in these habitats or remain there for extended periods of time. A significant fraction of teleosts that do so are members of one of five families. Eleven representative species belonging to these families, whose reproduction and development are considered here, include: Adinia xenica, Fundulus confluentus, F. grandis and F. similis (Fundulidae); Cyprinodon variegatus, Floridichthys carpio and Jordanella floridae (Cyprinodontidae); Gambusia holbrooki and Poecilia latipinna (Poeciliidae); Mugil cephalus (Mugilidae); and Dormitator maculatus (Eleotridae). Spawning or birth locations, patterns of growth and development, times of use of the salt marsh as a nursery area, and development of salinity tolerances/osmotic regulatory capabilities were evaluated for each, considering these in the context of variability of environmental conditions, especially of salinity. Five different patterns of reproduction are shown by these 11 species, and only A. xenica appears to be limited to reproducing in the salt marsh environment. Some of these species are capable of reproducing throughout the year. Several of the species are annuals, most others live only 2 or 3 years. Eight species (those other than M. cephalus, A. xenica and G. holbrooki) were found to show no size relationship, large juvenile to adult sizes, in osmotic regulatory capabilities.
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  • 7
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Hydrobiologia 48 (1976), S. 65-78 
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Keywords: Plankton ; primary productivity ; zooplankton ; central Florida
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A study of planktonic primary productivity and community structure was carried out on three lakes of varying morphometric and chemical features, but which were within a single watershed in Central Florida. Primary productivity in these lakes was evaluated by means of in situ light and dark bottle determinations as well as by calculations based upon chlorophyll and light data. Lake Mize, a deep sinkhole lake containing highly colored waters of low pH, proved to be a very unproductive lake, while Biven's Arm, a shallow-basin lake with alkaline waters and Newnan's lake, a shallow-basin like with highly colored waters both showed relatively high productivities. Phytoplankton components of the two productive lakes were quite similar to one another in being composed of bloom-forming blue-green and green algae, while the predominant forms in Lake Mize were chrysophytes, dinoflagellates and a diatom. Zooplanktonic forms were more uniform among the lakes than were the phytoplankton, though population levels reflected relative productivities among the lakes. Rotifers predominated in the Lake Mize plankton while cladocerans were relatively inabundant. This was opposite to the condition in Biven's Arm and Newnan's Lake. It is suggested that the constant presence of larval Chaoborus in the water column in Lake Mize may be partially responsible for the paucity of cladocera.
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