Empirical relationships between predator and prey size among terrestrial vertebrate predators

Oecologia ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain F. Vézina
Keyword(s):  
Prey Size ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrate ◽  
Vertebrate Predators

Terrestrial vertebrate predators drive the structure and functioning of aquatic food webs

Ecology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (8) ◽  
pp. 2069-2080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crasso Paulo Bosco Breviglieri ◽  
Gustavo Quevedo Romero
Keyword(s):  
Food Webs ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrate ◽  
Aquatic Food Webs ◽  
Vertebrate Predators ◽  
Aquatic Food

Simulation Model of the Dynamic Behavior of a Tire Running Over an Obstacle

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Bandel ◽  
C. Monguzzi
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Dynamic Behavior ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Box Model ◽  
Vehicle Suspension ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Static Tests ◽  
High Speeds ◽  
Dynamic Forces ◽  
Vehicle Suspension System

Abstract A “black box” model is described for simulating the dynamic forces transmitted to the vehicle hub by a tire running over an obstacle at high speeds. The tire is reduced to a damped one-degree-of-freedom oscillating system. The five parameters required can be obtained from a test at a given speed. The model input is composed of a series of empirical relationships between the obstacle dimensions and the displacement of the oscillating system. These relationships can be derived from a small number of static tests or by means of static models of the tire itself. The model can constitute the first part of a broader model for description of the tire and vehicle suspension system, as well as indicating the influence of tire parameters on dynamic behavior at low and medium frequencies (0–150 Hz).

Regression analysis of indicators of a numerical experiment to determine the cooling time of oil

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
A. U. Yakupov ◽  
D. A. Cherentsov ◽  
K. S. Voronin ◽  
Yu. D. Zemenkov
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Computer Experiment ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
Cooling Time ◽  
Regression Coefficients ◽  
Fisher Criterion ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Oil Pipeline ◽  
Significant Regression

The article performed the processing of the results of a computer experiment to determine the cooling time of oil in a stopped oil pipeline. We proposed a calculation model in previous works that allows you to simulate the process of cooling oil.There was a need to verify the previously obtained results when conducting a laboratory experiment on a stand with soil. To conduct the experiment, it was necessary to conduct the planning of the experiment. The factors affecting the cooling time of oil in the oil pipeline, which will vary in the proposed experiment, are determined, empirical relationships are established. A regression analysis was carried out, and the dispersion homogeneity was checked using the Cochren criterion. The estimates of reproducibility variances are calculated. The adequacy hypothesis was tested using the Fisher criterion. Significant regression coefficients are established.

Late Cretaceous stratigraphy and vertebrate faunas of the Markagunt, Paunsaugunt, and Kaiparowits plateaus, southern Utah

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 229-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Titus ◽  
Jeffrey G. Eaton ◽  
Joseph Sertich
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Alluvial Plain ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrate ◽  
The North ◽  
Single Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Kaiparowits Plateau ◽  
Fossil Preservation ◽  
Fossil Records

The Late Cretaceous succession of southern Utah was deposited in an active foreland basin circa 100 to 70 million years ago. Thick siliciclastic units represent a variety of marine, coastal, and alluvial plain environments, but are dominantly terrestrial, and also highly fossiliferous. Conditions for vertebrate fossil preservation appear to have optimized in alluvial plain settings more distant from the coast, and so in general the locus of good preservation of diverse assemblages shifts eastward through the Late Cretaceous. The Middle and Late Campanian record of the Paunsaugunt and Kaiparowits Plateau regions is especially good, exhibiting common soft tissue preservation, and comparable with that of the contemporaneous Judith River and Belly River Groups to the north. Collectively the Cenomanian through Campanian strata of southern Utah hold one of the most complete single region terrestrial vertebrate fossil records in the world.

Can Vertebrate Predators Regulate Their Prey? A Reply

1987 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. C. Kidd ◽  
G. B. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Vertebrate Predators

Understanding gas bubble trauma in an era of hydropower expansion: how do fish compensate at depth?

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi K. Pleizier ◽  
Charlotte Nelson ◽  
Steven J. Cooke ◽  
Colin J. Brauner
Keyword(s):  
Bubble Growth ◽  
Gas Bubble ◽  
Hydroelectric Dams ◽  
Dissolved Gas ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Lethal Effects ◽  
Exposed Fish ◽  
Total Dissolved Gas ◽  
Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss ◽  
The Relationship

Hydrostatic pressure is known to protect fish from damage by total dissolved gas (TDG) supersaturation, but empirical relationships are lacking. In this study we demonstrate the relationship between depth, TDG, and gas bubble trauma (GBT). Hydroelectric dams generate TDG supersaturation that causes bubble growth in the tissues of aquatic animals, resulting in sublethal and lethal effects. We exposed fish to 100%, 115%, 120%, and 130% TDG at 16 and 63 cm of depth and recorded time to 50% loss of equilibrium and sublethal symptoms. Our linear model of the log-transformed time to 50% LOE (R2 = 0.94) was improved by including depth. Based on our model, a depth of 47 cm compensated for the effects of 4.1% (±1.3% SE) TDG supersaturation. Our experiment reveals that once the surface threshold for GBT from TDG supersaturation is known, depth protects rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) from GBT by 9.7% TDG supersaturation per metre depth. Our results can be used to estimate the impacts of TDG on fish downstream of dams and to develop improved guidelines for TDG.

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