Respiration Rates, Energy Budgets, and Molting Frequencies of Three Species of Euphausiids Found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 2568-2576 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Sameoto
Keyword(s):  
Water Temperature ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Energy Budgets ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Intermolt Period ◽  
Respiration Rates ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Total Body ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary

Respiration rate experiments at different temperatures were conducted on three species of euphausiids, Meganyctiphanes norvegica, Thysanöessa raschii, and T. inermis, found in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The slopes of the respiration regression lines at different temperatures for the same species were not significantly different. Thysanöessa inermis acclimated to temperature changes with the result that its respiration rates remained relatively stable over most of the temperatures tested.Feeding rates were measured for M. norvegica and T. inermis at different temperatures using Artemia nauplii as food. The number of calories ingested, expressed as a percentage of the total body calories of the euphausiid, decreased with body size and water temperature. Thysanöessa inermis ingested fewer calories than M. norvegica in relation to total body calories at all temperatures. Both species showed a linear relationship between molting frequency and water temperature, T. inermis having a shorter intermolt period than M. norvegica.Results were used to estimate the energy consumption of the natural populations of euphausiids in the upper part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence estuary.

Observations on the effects of frost on beach sediments at Rimouski, lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1732-1739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Bourget
Keyword(s):  
Surface Sediment ◽  
Freezing Point ◽  
High Water ◽  
Beach Sediment ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Tide Level ◽  
Beach Sediments ◽  
Different Depths ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary

Freezing of beach sediment during exposure to cold air and subsequent thawing upon immersion have been analyzed in a strong tidal environment, near Rimouski in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Québec). Temperature data, recorded at different depths in the sediment over a 25-h period above the high water mark and following a sudden drop of air temperature to −6 °C, indicate that temperatures in the top 15 cm of the beach dropped below the freezing point of seawater (<−1.36 °C). At the mid-tide level station, which was alternately exposed to air and immersed, freezing temperatures were observed to a depth of approximately 5 cm. Observations show that the surface sediment became ice-cemented to a corresponding depth. Temperature changes on exposure to air and immersion were rapid in the surface sandy layer (about 5 cm) and slower in the underlying coarser sediment. Temperature changes were barely perceptible at low tide level and no ice-cemented sediment was observed. Observations on the frozen beach showed that waves undermined the ice-cemented surface sediment and eventually eroded away this frozen layer of beach material.

Rolling Resistance Calculation Procedure Using the Finite Element Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-248
Author(s):  
Pablo N. Zitelli ◽  
Gabriel N. Curtosi ◽  
Jorge Kuster
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Energy Dissipation ◽  
Rolling Resistance ◽  
Element Model ◽  
The Finite Element Method ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Rubber Compounds ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Account Temperature

ABSTRACT Tire engineers are interested in predicting rolling resistance using tools such as numerical simulation and tests. When a car is driven along, its tires are subjected to repeated deformation, leading to energy dissipation as heat. Each point of a loaded tire is deformed as the tire completes a revolution. Most energy dissipation comes from the cyclic loading of the tire, which causes the rolling resistance in addition to the friction force in the contact patch between the tire and road. Rolling resistance mainly depends on the dissipation of viscoelastic energy of the rubber materials used to manufacture the tires. To obtain a good rolling resistance, the calculation method of the tire finite element model must take into account temperature changes. It is mandatory to calibrate all of the rubber compounds of the tire at different temperatures and strain frequencies. Linear viscoelasticity is used to model the materials properties and is found to be a suitable approach to tackle energy dissipation due to hysteresis for rolling resistance calculation.

scholarly journals Comparison of Invasive Apple Snail (Pomacea canaliculata) Behaviors in Different Water Temperature Gradients

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1149
Author(s):  
Mi-Jung Bae ◽  
Eui-Jin Kim ◽  
Young-Seuk Park
Keyword(s):  
Water Temperature ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Freshwater Snail ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Pomacea Canaliculata ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Self Organizing Map ◽  
Apple Snail ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Organic Farming Systems

Pomacea canaliculata (known as invasive apple snail) is a freshwater snail native to South America that was introduced into many countries (including Asia and North America) as a food source or for organic farming systems. However, it has invaded freshwater ecosystems and become a serious agricultural pest in paddy fields. Water temperature is an important factor determining behavior and successful establishment in new areas. We examined the behavioral responses of P. canaliculata with water temperature changes from 25 °C to 30 °C, 20 °C, and 15 °C by quantifying changes in nine behaviors. At the acclimated temperature (25 °C), the mobility of P. canaliculata was low during the day, but high at night. Clinging behavior increased as the water temperature decreased from 25 °C to 20 °C or 15 °C. Conversely, ventilation and food consumption increased when the water temperature increased from 25 °C to 30 °C. A self-organizing map (an unsupervised artificial neural network) was used to classify the behavioral patterns into seven clusters at different water temperatures. These results suggest that the activity levels or certain behaviors of P. canaliculata vary with the water temperature conditions. Understanding the thermal biology of P. canaliculata may be crucial for managing this invasive snail.

scholarly journals Benthic fluxes of dissolved organic nitrogen in the lower St. Lawrence estuary and implications for selective organic matter degradation

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 7609-7622 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Alkhatib ◽  
P. A. del Giorgio ◽  
Y. Gelinas ◽  
M. F. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Dissolved Organic Nitrogen ◽  
Organic Nitrogen ◽  
Bottom Water ◽  
Estuarine Sediments ◽  
Internal Source ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Element Partitioning ◽  
Sediment Porewaters ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary

Abstract. The distribution of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and carbon (DOC) in sediment porewaters was determined at nine locations along the St. Lawrence estuary and in the gulf of St. Lawrence. In a previous manuscript (Alkhatib et al., 2012a), we have shown that this study area is characterized by gradients in the sedimentary particulate organic matter (POM) reactivity, bottom water oxygen concentrations, and benthic respiration rates. Based on the porewater profiles, we estimated the benthic diffusive fluxes of DON and DOC in the same area. Our results show that DON fluxed out of the sediments at significant rates (110 to 430 μmol m−2 d−1). DON fluxes were positively correlated with sedimentary POM reactivity and varied inversely with sediment oxygen exposure time (OET), suggesting direct links between POM quality, aerobic remineralization and the release of DON to the water column. DON fluxes were on the order of 30 to 64% of the total benthic inorganic fixed N loss due to denitrification, and often exceeded the diffusive nitrate fluxes into the sediments. Hence they represented a large fraction of the total benthic N exchange, a result that is particularly important in light of the fact that DON fluxes are usually not accounted for in estuarine and coastal zone nutrient budgets. In contrast to DON, DOC fluxes out of the sediments did not show any significant spatial variation along the Laurentian Channel (LC) between the estuary and the gulf (2100 ± 100 μmol m−2 d−1). The molar C / N ratio of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in porewater and the overlying bottom water varied significantly along the transect, with lowest C / N in the lower estuary (5–6) and highest C / N (> 10) in the gulf. Large differences between the C / N ratios of porewater DOM and POM are mainly attributed to a combination of selective POM hydrolysis and elemental fractionation during subsequent DOM mineralization, but selective adsorption of DOM to mineral phases could not be excluded as a potential C / N fractionating process. The extent of this C- versus N- element partitioning seems to be linked to POM reactivity and redox conditions in the sediment porewaters. Our results thus highlight the variable effects selective organic matter (OM) preservation can have on bulk sedimentary C / N ratios, decoupling the primary source C / N signatures from those in sedimentary paleoenvironmental archives. Our study further underscores that the role of estuarine sediments as efficient sinks of bioavailable nitrogen is strongly influenced by the release of DON during early diagenetic reactions, and that DON fluxes from continental margin sediments represent an important internal source of N to the ocean.

Pre-exposure to Cu2+ and CuO NPs leads to infection of caged blue mussels, Mytilus edulis L., by pathogenic microalga: Pilot study in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (Québec, Canada)

2021 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 112180
Author(s):  
Michael Zuykov ◽  
Galina Kolyuchkina ◽  
Graeme Spiers ◽  
Michel Gosselin ◽  
Philippe Archambault ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Mytilus Edulis ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Blue Mussels ◽  
Cuo Nps ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary

Movement of sturgeons ( Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus and A. fulvescens ) in the St. Lawrence Estuary: A 35‐year tagging study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Paradis ◽  
Marc Pépino ◽  
Simon Bernatchez ◽  
Denis Fournier ◽  
Léon L’Italien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Acipenser Oxyrinchus

Marine tube-dwelling diatoms of eastern Canada: descriptions, checklist, and illustrated key

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 778-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Lobban
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Common Species ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
The Common ◽  
Living Material ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary ◽  
A New Species

From a study of living materials and specimens in several regional herbaria, a list has been drawn up of all the common and several of the rarer tube-dwelling diatoms of eastern Canada. Descriptions, illustrations of living material and acid-cleaned valves, and a key to the species are provided. Most specimens were from the Atlantic Provinces and the St. Lawrence estuary, but a few were from the Northwest Territories. By far the most common species is Berkeleya rutilans. Other species occurring commonly in the Quoddy Region of the Bay of Fundy, and sporadically in space and time elsewhere, arc Navicula delognei (two forms), Nav. pseudocomoides, Nav. smithii, Haslea crucigera, and a new species, Nav.rusticensis. Navicula ramosissima and Nav. mollis in eastern Canada are usually found as scattered cohabitants in tubes of other species. Nitzschia tubicola and Nz. fontifuga also occur sporadically as cohabitants.

A biophysical model of the interaction between vertical migration of crustacean zooplankton and circulation in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 2420-2432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno A Zakardjian ◽  
Jeffrey A Runge ◽  
Stephane Plourde ◽  
Yves Gratton
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Vertical Migration ◽  
Horizontal Distribution ◽  
Calanus Finmarchicus ◽  
Biophysical Model ◽  
Crustacean Zooplankton ◽  
Simple Formulation ◽  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary

As an essential step in modeling the influence of circulation on the population dynamics of marine planktonic copepods, we define a simple formulation of swimming behavior that can be used in both Eulerian and Lagrangian models. This formulation forces aggregation of the population toward a preferential depth and can be stage specific and time varying, thus allowing description of either diurnal or seasonal vertical migration. We use the formulation to examine the interaction between the circulation and vertical distribution in controlling horizontal distribution of the common planktonic copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada. We first introduce diel migration into a simple one-dimensional model and then into a model of residual two-dimensional circulation patterns representative of conditions encountered in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary. Results from the latter indicate that interactions between circulation and stage-specific swimming behaviors are the main mechanisms for aggregation of planktonic crustaceans at the head of the Laurentian Channel and highlight the implications of flushing of the surface-dwelling young stages for the population dynamics of C. finmarchicus in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary.

Surface pulses in the lower St. Lawrence Estuary

1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F. Marsden ◽  
Y. Gratton
Keyword(s):  
Lawrence Estuary ◽  
St Lawrence Estuary
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