Estudio del pleuston y bafon de las lagunas de Chascomus y Yalca

Se estudia la mesofauna asociada a la vegetación flotante y sumergida en las lagunas del epígrafe, realizándose un análisis cuali y cuantitativo de la misma y del sustrato, así como también su variación estacional. Se describe el método utilizado en la obtención de las muestras y extracción de la mesofauna, así como también se pone de manifiesto el criterio seguido para la selección de las “asociaciones vegetales” que sirven de sustrato a la fauna en cuestión. Tres asociaciones flotantes fueron seleccionadas y se individualizaron con el nombre de la especie dominante: Ricciocarpus natans; Azolla filiculoides y Salvinia rotundi- folia; siendo dos las sumergidas: Ceratophyllum demersum y Potamogetón striatus. Se describe cada asociación respecto de su extensión, permanencia y fluctuaciones a lo largo de un año calendario, así como también se da a conocer la lista de presencias de las distintas taxias discriminadas por asociación. Se analizan los pleustontes y bafontes de cada asociación, y sus posibles relaciones interespecíficas y con el sustrato, demostrándose la existencia de especies caracterizantes en cada uno de los mismos, siendo algunas exclusivas; se analizan, además, mediante correlaciones, las relaciones predator-presa y animal sustrato en cada asociación. La aplicación del índice de diversidad específica pone de manifiesto la madurez de las distintas asociaciones flotantes consideradas y la mayor o menor influencia del sustrato como elemento morigerador de los agentes externos en relación con el ciclo anual de los componentes de su mesofauna, evidenciándose en dos de ellos un comportamiento estacional similar al del plancton. De las consideraciones de estas poblaciones y sus relaciones con el ambiente acuático se propone dividir al pleuoton en: eupleuston y hemipleuston y un extrapleuston: pseudopleuston.In the Chascomús and Yalca lagoons, the mesofauna associated with floating and submerged vegetation was studied through a cualitative- quantitative analysis which also included the substratum and the seasonal variations. After a description of the sampling technique employed and the method of extraction of mesofauna, there follow-s an explanation of the criterium adopted in selecting the “vegetable associations’’ which act as a subtratum for the analysed fauna. Three floating associations each named after the dominant species, were selected: Ricciocarpus natans, Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia rotundifolia; two submerged associations were also studied: Ceratophillum demersum and Potamogetón stria- tus. Each association is described in relation to extensión, permanency and fluctuation through a whole calender year, and a list of presences of different taxias discriminated by association is presented. In each association an analysis of the “pleustontes” and ‘ bafontes” and of their interespecific relations as well as those related to the substratum, which have shown the existence of species characteristic of each substratum, some of them exclusive. Furthermore, through correlations, each association was determined the relationships predator-prey and animal-substratum. The application of the “Índex of specific diversity” has shown the maturity of the different floating associations and the greater or lesser influence of the substratum as a moderating element of external agents related to annual cycle of the constituents in the meso- fauna. In two of them a seasonal behavior, similar to that of plankton, has been evinced. From a consideration of these populations and their relation-ships to the acqueos environmets, it is proposed to divide pleuston into: eupleuston, hemipleuston and a extrapleuston: pseudopleuston

Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger

On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated GW170817) with merger time 12:41:04 UTC was observed through gravitational waves by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor independently detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) with a time delay of ~1.7 s with respect to the merger time. From the gravitational-wave signal, the source was initially localized to a sky region of 31 deg2 at a luminosity distance of 40+8-8 Mpc and with component masses consistent with neutron stars. The component masses were later measured to be in the range 0.86 to 2.26 Mo. An extensive observing campaign was launched across the electromagnetic spectrum leading to the discovery of a bright optical transient (SSS17a, now with the IAU identification of AT 2017gfo) in NGC 4993 (at ~40 Mpc) less than 11 hours after the merger by the One- Meter, Two Hemisphere (1M2H) team using the 1 m Swope Telescope. The optical transient was independently detected by multiple teams within an hour. Subsequent observations targeted the object and its environment. Early ultraviolet observations revealed a blue transient that faded within 48 hours. Optical and infrared observations showed a redward evolution over ~10 days. Following early non-detections, X-ray and radio emission were discovered at the transient’s position ~9 and ~16 days, respectively, after the merger. Both the X-ray and radio emission likely arise from a physical process that is distinct from the one that generates the UV/optical/near-infrared emission. No ultra-high-energy gamma-rays and no neutrino candidates consistent with the source were found in follow-up searches. These observations support the hypothesis that GW170817 was produced by the merger of two neutron stars in NGC4993 followed by a short gamma-ray burst (GRB 170817A) and a kilonova/macronova powered by the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei synthesized in the ejecta

Estudio comparativo del pleuston en cuatro lagunas de la provincia de Buenos Aires

En esta contribución se pretende intentar un análisis comparativo de la composición cuali y cuantitativa de la "comunidad" denominada Pleuston tal como se presenta en un conjunto de lagunas de la provincia de Buenos Aires a nivel de su mesofauna.De acuerdo con Ringuelet (1962) el pleuston queda definido como el conjunto de organismos vinculados a la vegetación flotante. No es nuestra intención, en esta ocasión, abrir juicio sobre si este posee propiedadessuficientes para ser considerado una comunidad real, optando por lo tanto para futuros trabajos la consideración de este tema

Dietary similarities among eight granivorous birds at "La Iguana" experimental station, Guárico State, Venezuela.

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Decomposition and dinamic model of organic matter in a flooding tropical grassland. Venezuela.

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Effect of a forest on the herpetofauna in Uverito, Venezuela

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Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology

Gould E, Fraser H, Parker T, et al. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. 2023.Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explanation for variation among results is differences among researchers in the decisions they make regarding statistical analyses. A growing array of studies has explored this analytical variability in different (mostly social science) fields, and has found substantial variability among results, despite analysts having the same data and research question. We implemented an analogous study in ecology and evolutionary biology, fields in which there have been no empirical exploration of the variation in effect sizes or model predictions generated by the analytical decisions of different researchers. We used two unpublished datasets, one from evolutionary ecology (blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, to compare sibling number and nestling growth) and one from conservation ecology (Eucalyptus, to compare grass cover and tree seedling recruitment), and the project leaders recruited 174 analyst teams, comprising 246 analysts, to investigate the answers to prespecified research questions. Analyses conducted by these teams yielded 141 usable effects for the blue tit dataset, and 85 usable effects for the Eucalyptus dataset. We found substantial heterogeneity among results for both datasets, although the patterns of variation differed between them. For the blue tit analyses, the average effect was convincingly negative, with less growth for nestlings living with more siblings, but there was near continuous variation in effect size from large negative effects to effects near zero, and even effects crossing the traditional threshold of statistical significance in the opposite direction. In contrast, the average relationship between grass cover and Eucalyptus seedling number was only slightly negative and not convincingly different from zero, and most effects ranged from weakly negative to weakly positive, with about a third of effects crossing the traditional threshold of significance in one direction or the other. However, there were also several striking outliers in the Eucalyptus dataset, with effects far from zero. For both datasets, we found substantial variation in the variable selection and random effects structures among analyses, as well as in the ratings of the analytical methods by peer reviewers, but we found no strong relationship between any of these and deviation from the meta-analytic mean. In other words, analyses with results that were far from the mean were no more or less likely to have dissimilar variable sets, use random effects in their models, or receive poor peer reviews than those analyses that found results that were close to the mean. The existence of substantial variability among analysis outcomes raises important questions about how ecologists and evolutionary biologists should interpret published results, and how they should conduct analyses in the future

Outcomes in Newly Diagnosed Atrial Fibrillation and History of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Insights from GARFIELD-AF

BACKGROUND: Many patients with atrial fibrillation have concomitant coronary artery disease with or without acute coronary syndromes and are in need of additional antithrombotic therapy. There are few data on the long-term clinical outcome of atrial fibrillation patients with a history of acute coronary syndrome. This is a 2-year study of atrial fibrillation patients with or without a history of acute coronary syndromes