Microplanktonic community structure in a coastal system relative to a Phaeocystis bloom inferred from morphological and tag pyrosequencing methods.

BACKGROUND: Massive phytoplankton blooms, like the recurrent Phaeocystis proliferation observed every year in the Eastern English Channel (EEC), have a significant influence on the overall planktonic community structure and their food web dynamics.As well as being an important area for local fisheries, the EEC is an ideal ecosystem for work on micr

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Creep strains on reinforced concrete columns

A concrete element when kept under sustained load presents progressive strain over time, associated to the creep.In reinforced concrete columns, such deformations cause LIP BALM the stress increase in the steel bars of the reinforcement and may induce the material to undergo the yielding phenomenon.The pioneering formulations about the creep effect

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