Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus, Acipenseridae) populations are currently at severely depleted levels due to historic overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. The importance of biologically correct stock structure for effective conservation and management efforts is well known. Recent improvements in our understanding of Atlantic sturgeon migrations, movement, and the occurr...

The effects of wave action and horseshoe crab spawning on the topography and grain-size characteristics on the foreshore of an estuarine sand beach in Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA were evaluated using data collected over six consecutive high tides. Data were gathered inside and outside a 25 m long exclosure constructed to create a control area free of disturbance by crabs. The density of crabs...

Physico-chemical and microbial characteristics of culture water were examined during the induced breeding of Cyprinus carpio in a controlled environmental system. Water temperature, dissolved oxygen, nitrate, phosphate, pH, ammonia nitrogen, total bacterial count, hardness, salinity, carbonate and bicarbonate were estimated before and after spawning and hatching. Average alteration in water pH ...

Parametric relationships between recruitment and an index of parental stock size assume the latter is proportionally related to spawning potential (usually indexed by spawning biomass), irrespective of the demographic composition of adults. Recent empirical information, however, suggests that spawning by older, more experienced females is more successful than that by the young, small or inexper...

16 he ability to rapidly create, deploy, and manage new network services in response to user demands presents a significant challenge to the research community and is a key factor driving the development of programmable networks. Results from this field of research are likely to have a broad impact on customers, service providers, and equipment vendors across a range of telecommunication sector...

the sexual maturation and spawning period of blood cockle in matang mangrove estuary was studied by naked eye and histological observations of the gonads from july 2010 to april 2011. the high spawning period was from november to february. however, at one station where bottom sediment exhibited a severe reduction in potential of −100 mv lower, immature individuals were common. these results sug...

Knowledge about the timing and synchrony of coral spawning has important implications for both the ecology and management of coral reef ecosystems. Data on the timing of spawning and extent of synchrony, however, are still lacking for many coral reefs, particularly from equatorial regions and from locations within the coral triangle. Here we present the first documentation of a multi-species co...