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Quantifying the effect of trend, fluctuation, and extreme event of climate change on ecosystem productivity.

Liu Y1, Yu D, Su Y, Hao R.
Environmental monitoring and assessment.Environ Monit Assess.2014 Dec;186(12):8473-86. doi: 10.1007/s10661-014-4031-z. Epub 2014 Sep 11.
Climate change comprises three fractions of trend, fluctuation, and extreme event. Assessing the effect of climate change on terrestrial ecosystem requires an understanding of the action mechanism of these fractions, respectively. This study examined 11 years of remotely sensed-derived net primary
PMID 25208518

Optimization of culturing conditions for toxicity testing with the alga Oophila sp. (Chlorophyceae), an amphibian endosymbiont.

Rodríguez-Gil JL1, Brain R, Baxter L, Ruffell S, McConkey B, Solomon K, Hanson M.
Environmental toxicology and chemistry / SETAC.Environ Toxicol Chem.2014 Nov;33(11):2566-75. doi: 10.1002/etc.2711. Epub 2014 Sep 26.
Eggs of the yellow-spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) have a symbiotic relationship with green algae. It has been suggested that contaminants that are preferentially toxic to algae, such as herbicides, may impair the symbiont and, hence, indirectly affect the development of the salamander embr
PMID 25113146

Spatial distribution of diatom and cyanobacterial mats in the Dead Sea is determined by response to rapid salinity fluctuations.

Häusler S1, Weber M, de Beer D, Ionescu D.
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions.Extremophiles.2014 Nov;18(6):1085-94. doi: 10.1007/s00792-014-0686-1. Epub 2014 Aug 20.
Cyanobacteria and diatom mats are ubiquitous in hypersaline environments but have never been observed in the Dead Sea, one of the most hypersaline lakes on Earth. Here we report the discovery of phototrophic microbial mats at underwater freshwater seeps in the Dead Sea. These mats are either dominat
PMID 25138278