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Oregon State University
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About: Oregon State University is a education organization based out in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 28192 authors who have published 64044 publications receiving 2634108 citations. The organization is also known as: Oregon Agricultural College & OSU.
Topics: Population, Gene, Context (language use), Climate change, Soil water
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the role of biogeochemical sources and rates of nitrogen fixation in the world's oceans, the major controls on rates of oceanic nitrogen fixation, and the significance of this N2 fixation for the global carbon cycle.
Abstract: The surface water of the marine environment has traditionally been viewed as a nitrogen (N) limited habitat, and this has guided the development of conceptual biogeochemical models focusing largely on the reservoir of nitrate as the critical source of N to sustain primary productivity. However, selected groups of Bacteria, including cyanobacteria, and Archaea can utilize dinitrogen (N2) as an alternative N source. In the marine environment, these microorganisms can have profound effects on net community production processes and can impact the coupling of C-N-P cycles as well as the net oceanic sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. As one component of an integrated ‘Nitrogen Transport and Transformations’ project, we have begun to re-assess our understanding of (1) the biotic sources and rates of N2 fixation in the world’s oceans, (2) the major controls on rates of oceanic N2 fixation, (3) the significance of this N2 fixation for the global carbon cycle and (4) the role of human activities in the alteration of oceanic N2 fixation. Preliminary results indicate that rates of N2 fixation, especially in subtropical and tropical open ocean habitats, have a major role in the global marine N budget. Iron (Fe) bioavailability appears to be an important control and is, therefore, critical in extrapolation to global rates of N2 fixation. Anthropogenic perturbations may alter N2 fixation in coastal environments through habitat destruction and eutrophication, and open ocean N2 fixation may be enhanced by warming and increased stratification of the upper water column. Global anthropogenic and climatic changes may also affect N2 fixation rates, for example by altering dust inputs (i.e. Fe) or by expansion of subtropical boundaries. Some recent estimates of global ocean N2 fixation are in the range of 100−200 Tg N (1−2 × 1014 g N) yr −1, but have large uncertainties. These estimates are nearly an order of magnitude greater than historical, pre-1980 estimates, but approach modern estimates of oceanic denitrification.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the organic constituents present in fine particulate (d_p ≤ 2.0 µm) road dust, brake lining particles, and tire tread debris (not size segregated) were analyzed using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
Abstract: Particulate matter emitted to the atmosphere due to motor
vehicles arises from several sources in addition to tailpipe
exhaust. In this study, the organic constituents present
in fine particulate (d_p ≤ 2.0 µm) road dust, brake lining
wear particles, and tire tread debris (not size segregated)
are analyzed using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
The objective is to characterize such traffic-related
sources on an organic compound basis and to search for
molecular markers that will assist the identification of
traffic-associated dusts in the urban atmosphere. More
than 100 organic compounds are quantified in these
samples, including n-alkanes, n-alkanoic acids, n-alkenoic
acids, n-alkanals, n-alkanols, benzoic acids, benzaldehydes,
polyalkylene glycol ethers, PAH, oxy-PAH, steranes,
hopanes, natural resins and other compound classes.
Paved road dust acts as a repository for vehicle-related
particles, which can then be resuspended by the passing
traffic. To evaluate the contributions from major urban
sources to the road dust complex, source profiles representing different types of vehicle exhaust, brake dust, tire debris, and vegetative detritus are compared, and their fractional contributions are estimated using several groups of organic tracer compounds. Likewise, the close relationship between airborne fine particulate organic constituents and road dust organic matter is discussed.
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TL;DR: The ability of Microcystis assemblages to minimize their mortality losses by resisting grazing by zooplankton and bivalves, as well as viral lysis, and discuss factors facilitating assemblage resilience are highlighted.
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TL;DR: The Late Wisconsinan advance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet started from a Middle Wisconsinan interstadial minimum 27−30 14 C ka BP when the ice margin approximately followed the boundary of the Canadian Shield.
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TL;DR: In this article, a nonlinear model relating CO2 exchange to light and temperature is derived from experimental curves determined in other investigations, which are useful for comparing responses to light, population heterogeneity, or species variation.
Abstract: The CO2 exchange response of plants to multiple environmental variables is often difficult to frame for purposes of comparison. In this paper, a nonlinear model relating CO2 exchange to light and temperature is derived from experimental curves determined in other investigations. Parameter values, determined from a least-squares fit of the model to CO2 exchange data, are useful for comparing responses to light and temperature in terms of seasonal phenology, population heterogeneity, or species variation. The model was fitted to CO2 exchange data of a group of 40 Alnus rubra Bong. (red alder) seedlings for steady-state combinations of light and temperature. The average deviation of the data from the model was ±6.7%. This steady-state expression satisfactorily predicted CO2 exchange for dynamic conditions of light and temperature occurring in a diurnal cycle.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Robert Stone | 160 | 1756 | 167901 |
Menachem Elimelech | 157 | 547 | 95285 |
Thomas J. Smith | 140 | 1775 | 113919 |
Harold A. Mooney | 135 | 450 | 100404 |
Jerry M. Melillo | 134 | 383 | 68894 |
John F. Thompson | 132 | 1420 | 95894 |
Thomas N. Williams | 132 | 1145 | 95109 |
Peter M. Vitousek | 127 | 352 | 96184 |
Steven W. Running | 126 | 355 | 76265 |
Vincenzo Di Marzo | 126 | 659 | 60240 |
J. D. Hansen | 122 | 975 | 76198 |
Peter Molnar | 118 | 446 | 53480 |
Michael R. Hoffmann | 109 | 500 | 63474 |
David Pollard | 108 | 438 | 39550 |
David J. Hill | 107 | 1364 | 57746 |