In order to better understand the budget of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere it is necessary to develop a global high precision understanding of the carbon dioxide column. In order to uncover the 'missing s ink that is responsible for the large discrepancies in the budget as we presently understand it calculation has indicated that measurement accuracy on the order of 1 ppm is necessary...

Photon flux density (PFD) and water availability, the daily and seasonal factors that vary most in tropical environments, were examined to see how they influenced expression of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in 3year-old Clusia shrubs native to Panama. Instead of the commonly used single-leaf approach, diel C02 exchange was measured for whole individual canopies of plants in large soil cont...

Effects of acute systemic hypoxia on the cardiovascular system (CYS) and respiration of spontaneously breathing cats were studied in two conditions. 1): Hypoxic air (6-8% 02 in N2) was given to the animal to induce systemic hypoxia for 20 minutes. Hyperventilation at this condition lowered arterial C02 tension (PaC02 hypocapnia). 2): In the second run, induction of hypocapnia was prevented ...

Article history: Received 11 June 2009 Available online 16 September 2010 JEL classification: C02 C73

Z. Naturforsch. 43c, 709-716 (1988); received M a y 24, 1988 Chlorella, Oxygen Gas Exchange, Carbonic Anhydrase, Mass Spectrometry Oxygen gas exchange was monitored in the unicellular green alga Chlorella vulgaris 211 — 11 h by means of a mass spectrometer equipped with a special membrane gas-inlet-system and a photosynthetic reaction vessel. C02-dependent I802-uptake as well as ,602-evolution ...

Glucose fermentation by Leuconostoc me8enteroides has been shown to proceed via a mechanism which differs from the classical Embden-Meyerhof glycolytic scheme. DeMoss, Bard, and Gunsalus (1951) found no evidence in cell-free extracts of this organism for the key enzyme aldolae but showed that cellular suspensions ferment glucose to equimolar quantities of ethanol, C02, and lactate as obligatory...

Thc sterilizing effect of supercritical carben dioxide (SC-CO,) is described as compared with gaseous C02(G-CO,) and liquid CO,(L-CO,). Baker's yeast, ltscherichia eoli, Staphylococcus aure us and eonidia'ofAspergiilus niger were sterilized by treating with SC-CO, at 200 atm and 350C when the water contcnt of each microorganism was 70 .90%, However, dry cells with a water content of 2 .1O% coul...