An extension of the Truscott-Brindley model [Bull. Math. Biol. 56, 981 (1994)] is derived to account for the effect of demographic fluctuations. In the presence of seasonal forcing and sufficiently shallow water conditions, the fluctuations induced by the discreteness of the zooplankton component appear sufficient to cause switching between the bloom and no-bloom cycles predicted at the mean-fi...

The chola guitarfish, Rhinobatos percellens, is one of the most-captured batoids on the Brazilian coast, and an important predator of benthic community. Stomachs from R. percellens were sampled in the Paranaguá estuarine complex (March/2006 to March/2007 and October/2008 to September/2009). The stomachs obtained were used for describing the diet of R. percellens, and verifying if there are seas...

This paper presents a floristic survey of the wood component of cerrado s.s. (eastern face) and gallery forest (western face) areas carried out in the southern part of the Serra de Maracaju. The dispersal syndromes and floristic relations of this portion of the Serra were compared to those of other formations from different regions of Brazil. Between October 2007 and September 2008, monthly col...

The Pantanal biome is characterised by seasonal flooding which determines specific ecosystem processes, with the occurrence of adapted plants and animals to the annual shrinking and expansion of habitats due to the seasonal hydrological regime. Biodiversity abundance varies during the dry and wet seasons. The Pantanal's biodiversity is a fundamental component of ecosystem services for human soc...

This work represents a comparison study of total ozone data from the groundbased Dobson spectrophotometer and the overpass data from satellite instrument EPTOMS in Lagos-Nigeria (Lat.6.6 o N, Long 3.3 o E) for the year 1997-2002. The result indicated that EPTOMS ozone series overestimated those of the Dobson’s maximally between JulySeptember with an average difference of 11%, while the Dobson o...

Seasonal variation in the gonad weight and biochemical composition of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus from the Golf of Tunis (Tunisia) were studied between September 2003 and August 2004. The highest gonad indices occurred in March (16.71%). The spawning period occurred between April and July and resulted in a fall in gonad indices to low level (7.12 ± 0.12%). Protein constituted the main ...

Seasonal-to-decadal predictions are inevitably uncertain, depending on the size of the predictable signal relative to unpredictable chaos. Uncertainties can be accounted for using ensemble techniques, permitting quantitative probabilistic forecasts. In a perfect system, each ensemble member would represent a potential realization of the true evolution of the climate system, and the predictable ...

The ARIMA-model-based methodology of programs TRAMO and SEATS for seasonal adjustment and trend-cycle estimation was applied to the exports, imports, and balance of trade Japanese series in Maravall (2002). The programs were used in an automatic mode, and the results analyzed. The present paper contains an extension of the work. First, some improvements in the automatic modelling procedure are ...

Seasonal variations are rarely considered a contributing component to human tissue function or health, although many diseases and physiological process display annual periodicities. Here we find more than 4,000 protein-coding mRNAs in white blood cells and adipose tissue to have seasonal expression profiles, with inverted patterns observed between Europe and Oceania. We also find the cellular c...

The Gabor transform is used to investigate non-stationary wind profiler radar signals, which are frequently occurring during the seasonal bird migration. It is shown that the Gabor phase space representation contains a wealth of information and can be effectively used to separate the atmospheric signal component from the clutter. The crucial role of the dwell time as one of the primary sampling...