Baleares Station (Site 57)

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Imagining thre future in a difficult present: storylines from spanish youth

This book investigates and explores the complex dynamics of youth in contemporary society, especially in troubled and crisis-ridden contexts. On the one hand, teenagers and young adults experience social suffering, marginalisation, gender and ethnic bias, and an increased risk to be radicalised and involved in extremism and related violence. On the other hand, it is shown that young people are resilient, and they have a remarkable ability to adapt and cope with extremely difficult situations.2017-1

11 Year zooplankton time-series related to North Atlantic climate changes in waters of the Balearic Sea (western Mediterranean)

Workshop I: Climate impact on ecosystem dynamics of marginal and semi-enclosed sea

Zooplankton vertical distribution in waters of the Mallorca shelf: autumn and summer

The zooplankton vertical distribution (VD) has been studied in two areas of the Mallorca shelf during December 2009 and July 2010. Five and eight, depth levels were sampled at day/night by using BIONESS an MOCNESS multinet. 17 zooplankton groups were found, where copepods were the most abundant (70%), being responsible of the whole zooplankton VD pattern. Copepod high diversity was found in both months (4.3 bits and 3.3bits) and more than 88 species identified. The highest diversity was found in deeper waters (90-120 m) in the afternoon than during day time (0-90m) in December but in July, always found at deeper layer (100-150 m), suggesting that epipelagic and mesopelagic copepods co-occurred, and diel changes induced the increased diversity. Clausocalanus arcuicornis (13%), Nannocalanus minor (10%) and Pleuromamma (P. gracilis and P. abdominalis, 8% and 6%) were the most abundant. However others such as Acartia clausi and Clausocalanus furcatus appeared in December and Centropages typicus, Euchaeta acuta and Lucicutia flavicornis in July. In relation to water conditions the VD exhibited different patterns with a higher difference in autumn between the two sites than in summer when the zooplankton was concentrated around the FMD. Species like N. minor, A. clausi, as well as all Clausocalanus and Oithona did not show clear vertical movements; but others showed weak, intermediate or strong migration, such as Lucicutia, Euchaeta and Pleuromamma which exhibited clear nocturnal VD. The importance of these species in the active carbon transfer is discussed in this oligotrophic area of the central western Mediterranean

North Atlantic climate control on plankton variability in the Balearic Sea, western Mediterranean

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Contenido polínico anual de la atmósfera de Pamplona y su relación con las variables climatológicas diarias

Este trabaJo es un estudio del polen prosente en l a atmósfera de Pamplona, recogido di ar1amente durante un año comprend1do c nt.re e l 1 de abril de 1901 y el JO de marzo de 1982. Se estudia también la :-elac16n en tre el cont enido polinice y las vanables climatológicasThe at~ospherical pollcn of Pamplona is studied in l h1s work. The pollen was collected everyday durbg onc year , from l Apr il 1981 un'til 30 March 1962 . The r e l ation bet••een pollen amount and the climaUc va!'iabl es is al so s tudie

Application of genomic technologies to the breeding of trees

The recent introduction of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies represents a major revolution in providing new tools for identifying the genes and/or genomic intervals controlling important traits for selection in breeding programs. In perennial fruit trees with long generation times and large sizes of adult plants, the impact of these techniques is even more important. High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies have provided complete annotated sequences in many important tree species. Most of the high-throughput genotyping platforms described are being used for studies of genetic diversity and population structure. Dissection of complex traits became possible through the availability of genome sequences along with phenotypic variation data, which allow to elucidate the causative genetic differences that give rise to observed phenotypic variation. Association mapping facilitates the association between genetic markers and phenotype in unstructured and complex populations, identifying molecular markers for assisted selection and breeding. Also, genomic data provide in silico identification and characterization of genes and gene families related to important traits, enabling new tools for molecular marker assisted selection in tree breeding. Deep sequencing of transcriptomes is also a powerful tool for the analysis of precise expression levels of each gene in a sample. It consists in quantifying short cDNA reads, obtained by NGS technologies, in order to compare the entire transcriptomes between genotypes and environmental conditions. The miRNAs are non-coding short RNAs involved in the regulation of different physiological processes, which can be identified by high-throughput sequencing of RNA libraries obtained by reverse transcription of purified short RNAs, and by in silico comparison with known miRNAs from other species. All together, NGS techniques and their applications have increased the resources for plant breeding in tree species, closing the former gap of genetic tools between trees and annual species

Amplitude and phase representation of quantum invariants for the time dependent harmonic oscillator

The correspondence between classical and quantum invariants is established. The Ermakov Lewis quantum invariant of the time dependent harmonic oscillator is translated from the coordinate and momentum operators into amplitude and phase operators. In doing so, Turski's phase operator as well as Susskind-Glogower operators are generalized to the time dependent harmonic oscillator case. A quantum derivation of the Manley-Rowe relations is shown as an example