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What is the influence on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish? A systematic review protocol
Background: In lakes that have become eutrophic due to sewage discharges or nutrient runoff from land, problems such as algal blooms and oxygen deficiency often persist even when nutrient supplies have been reduced. One reason is that phosphorus stored in the sediments can exchange with the water. There are indications that the high abundance of phytoplankton, turbid water and lack of submerged vegetation seen in many eutrophic lakes may represent a semi-stable state. For that reason, a shift back to more natural clear-water conditions could be difficult to achieve. In some cases, though, temporary mitigation of eutrophication-related problems has been accomplished through biomanipulation: stocks of zooplanktivorous fish have been reduced by intensive fishing, leading to increased populations of phytoplankton-feeding zooplankton. Moreover, reduction of benthivorous fish may result in lower phosphorus fluxes from the sediments. An alternative to reducing the dominance of planktivores and benthivores by fishing is to stock lakes with piscivorous fish. These two approaches have often been used in combination. The implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive has recently led to more stringent demands for measures against eutrophication, and a systematic review could clarify whether biomanipulation is efficient as a measure of that kind. Methods: The review will examine primary field studies of how large-scale biomanipulation has affected water quality and community structure in eutrophic lakes or reservoirs in temperate regions. Such studies can be based on comparison between conditions before and after manipulation, on comparison between treated and non-treated water bodies, or both. Relevant outcomes include Secchi depth, concentrations of oxygen, nutrients, suspended solids and chlorophyll, abundance and composition of phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish, and coverage of submerged macrophytes.A Systematic review to this article was published on 22 May 2015: ernes, C., Carpenter, S.R., Gårdmark, A. et al. What is the influence of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes? A systematic review. Environ Evid 4, 7 (2015). DOI: 10.1186/s13750-015-0032-9Mistr
Representations of hom-Lie algebras
In this paper, we study representations of hom-Lie algebras. In particular,
the adjoint representation and the trivial representation of hom-Lie algebras
are studied in detail. Derivations, deformations, central extensions and
derivation extensions of hom-Lie algebras are also studied as an application.Comment: 16 pages, multiplicative and regular hom-Lie algebras are used,
Algebra and Representation Theory, 15 (6) (2012), 1081-109
Visualization, Exploration and Data Analysis of Complex Astrophysical Data
In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the
researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is
on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high
performance multidimensional visualization techniques and up-to-date
technologies to cooperate with other applications and to access remote,
distributed data archives. VisIVO supports the standards defined by the
International Virtual Observatory Alliance in order to make it interoperable
with VO data repositories. The paper describes the basic technical details and
features of the software and it dedicates a large section to show how VisIVO
can be used in several scientific cases.Comment: 32 pages, 15 figures, accepted by PAS
An M-theory solution generating technique and SL(2,R)
In this paper we generalize the O(p+1,p+1) solution generating technique
(this is a method used to deform Dp-branes by turning on a NS-NS B-field) to
M-theory, in order to be able to deform M5-brane supergravity solutions
directly in eleven dimensions, by turning on a non zero three form A. We find
that deforming the M5-brane, in some cases, corresponds to performing certain
SL(2,R) transformations of the Kahler structure parameter for the three-torus,
on which the M5-brane has been compactified. We show that this new M-theory
solution generating technique can be reduced to the O(p+1,p+1) solution
generating technique with p=4. Further, we find that it implies that the open
membrane metric and generalized noncommutativity parameter are manifestly
deformation independent for electric and light-like deformations. We also
generalize the O(p+1,p+1) method to the type IIA/B NS5-brane in order to be
able to deform NS5-branes with RR three and two forms, respectively. In the
type IIA case we use the newly obtained solution generating technique and
deformation independence to derive a covariant expression for an open D2-brane
coupling, relevant for OD2-theory.Comment: 24 pages, Latex. v2:Sections 3.2 and 3.3 improved. v3:Some
clarifications added. Version published in JHE
Extremely narrow spectrum of GRB110920A: further evidence for localised, subphotospheric dissipation
Much evidence points towards that the photosphere in the relativistic outflow
in GRBs plays an important role in shaping the observed MeV spectrum. However,
it is unclear whether the spectrum is fully produced by the photosphere or
whether a substantial part of the spectrum is added by processes far above the
photosphere. Here we make a detailed study of the ray emission from
single pulse GRB110920A which has a spectrum that becomes extremely narrow
towards the end of the burst. We show that the emission can be interpreted as
Comptonisation of thermal photons by cold electrons in an unmagnetised outflow
at an optical depth of . The electrons receive their energy by a
local dissipation occurring close to the saturation radius. The main spectral
component of GRB110920A and its evolution is thus, in this interpretation,
fully explained by the emission from the photosphere including localised
dissipation at high optical depths.Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, accepted to MNRA
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