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    ISSN: 1573-5052
    Keywords: Mesembryanthemaceae ; Nutrients ; Organic matter ; Soils
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Zones of nutrient enrichment beneath shrubs, the so called 'fertile islands', are the result of a range of interacting physical and biotic concentrating mechanisms. These concentrating mechanisms lead to specific spatial patterns of soil properties across a landscape and it has been suggested that disruption of the normal patterns into more aggregated 'fertile islands' might be a useful index of desertification in semi-arid regions. The objective of this paper was to determine whether 'fertile islands' are as characteristic a feature of succulent deserts as they are of shrub dominated deserts. Results indicate that, even in a community dominated by succulent species fertile islands develop under extremely arid conditions and that the degree of development is dependent on plant dynamics. Long-lived species showed greater concentration effects. However, the patterns of nutrient accretion in islands are very different to shrub invaded grasslands in North America. In particular nitrogen accretion dominated the 'fertile islands' in Namaqualand, and we suggest that these islands are more ephemeral than carbon and phosphorus dominated islands reported for other systems. These more dynamic islands are a consequence of rapid community dynamics since the Namaqualand region is characterised by many short-lived perennials which turnover generations very rapidly in response to environmental conditions. Using the development of 'fertile islands' to assess desertification as applied elsewhere might be inappropriate in Namaqualand because of the different patterns of community dynamics underlying the formation and characteristics of these islands.
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    Plant ecology 130 (1997), S. 143-153 
    ISSN: 1573-5052
    Keywords: Community boundaries ; Fynbos ; Nitrogen ; Phosphorus ; Soils
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The relationship between changes in soil nutrient characteristics and fynbos community boundaries was investigated near Cape Agulhas, South Africa. Soil characteristics relating to total nutrient content (pH, total N and total P, organic carbon, and various cations) were assessed at sites along three transects crossing the boundaries between five plant communities. Dynamics of available N and P in soils of three communities were studied in the field over one year, using ion-exchange resins. There was a wide range in the degree of change in soil nutrient content across different community boundaries. The characteristics that varied most were pH, total N, Ca and total P. Differences in available nutrients among soils indicated that the communities in this landscape were associated with a mosaic of N and P availability. It is proposed that spatial variation in soil nutrient availability rather than total soil nutrient contents may be important in explaining landscape-level species distributions and community composition in nutrient-poor mediterranean-climate ecosystems.
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    Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell
    Organic Magnetic Resonance 7 (1975), S. 249-255 
    ISSN: 0030-4921
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The Carr-Purcell experiment first used by Allerhand and Gutowsky for the determination of chemical exchange rates has been applied to the study of an enzyme inhibitor complex. Chemical shift and relaxation time data obtained by analysis of pulsed fluorine NMR data collected at 51 MHz are shown to be consistent with high resolution results assembled at 94° 1 MHz. The rate constants for dissociation of the N-trifluoroacetyl-D-tryptophan-α-chymotrypsin complex were determined to be 1 × 104 s-1 at 26°C and 2 × 103 s-1 at 6·5°C. The resonance position of the fluorine nuclei of the inhibitor is shifted downfield ∼1 ppm upon complexation to the enzyme, and the trifluoromethyl group suffers some restriction of molecular motion in the bound state as indicated by T1 and T2 data.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 0030-493X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Description / Table of Contents: Androstanes with a trans connected A/B ring system and hydroxy groups in positions 3, 7 and 17 show in their mass spectra key ions of mass 99 and 178. The ion of mass 99 contains the carbon atoms of ring D, and the ion of mass 178 those of the A/B ring system and C-11. If the rings A and B are cis connected, the ion of mass 178 is produced with much lower abundance and the ion of mass 99 is almost absent. The α or β position of a hydroxy group in position 7 can be deduced from the spectra of corresponding trimethylsilyl derivatives: a fragment of [M — 131] dominated by presence of a 7α-trimethylsilyl ether group and trans connection of the A/B ring system. Determination of the configuration of the hydroxy group in position 3 is very difficult. Analogous fragments are observed in the spectra of the corresponding 7, 17-dihydroxyandrostan-3-ones.
    Notes: Androstanes mit trans-verknüpftem A/B-Ringsystem und Hydroxylgruppen in den Stellungen 3, 7 und 17 zeigen in ihren Massenspektren Schlüsselionen der Massen 99 und 178. Das Ion der Masse 99 enthält die C-Atome des Ringes D, das der Masse 178 die der Ringe A und B sowie C-11. Bei cis-Verknüpfung des A/B-Ringsystems wird das Ion der Masse 178 mit bedeutend geringerer Intensität gebildet, das Ion der Masse 99 fehlt nahezu. Die Stellung der Hydroxylfunktion in der Position 7 läßt sich aus den Spektren entsprechender Trimethylsilyläther ableiten: Bei Gegenwart einer 7α-ständigen Trimethylsilyläthergruppe und trans-Verknüpfung der Ringe A und B dominieren [M  -  131] Spaltstücke. Eine Kontigurationszuordnung der Hydroxylgruppen in Stellung 3 ist nur sehr schwer möglich. Analoge Spaltstücke treten in den Spektren der entsprechenden 7,17-Dihydroxyandrostan-3-one auf.
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  • 5
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    Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell
    Organic Magnetic Resonance 17 (1981), S. 41-45 
    ISSN: 0030-4921
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: The rates of interconversion of the cis and trans rotational isomers of N-trifluoroacetyl-N-methylbenzylamine have been determined by a variety of NMR lineshape experiments and by several double resonance methods. Comparison of the results for the slow exchange region suggests that a Fourier transform version of the transfer of saturation method of Forsen and Hoffman, as well as transfer of magnetization after selective 180° inversion of the resonance of one rotamer, give rate constants nearly as reliable as lineshape methods. Use of the rate of signal recovery after saturation of the resonance of one rotamer gave results which were less accurate. The available data produced the following activation parameters for amide rotation in this compound: ΔG
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