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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Firth of Clyde"”.
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The Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Firth of Clyde
This thesis is a study of the record of the monuments of the Firth of Clyde region in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Six type monuments which were the foci of ritual and/or burial practices during this period are considered: chambered cairns of the Neolithic, stone circles, standing stones, …
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Nutritional limitation in populations of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.) in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland
… thesis investigated the ecological energetics of N. norvegicus in order to construct an energy budget which could be used to estimate scope for growth. The diet of the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus in the Firth of Clyde was found to consist of crustaceans, molluscs, and to a lesser extent …
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The determination and environmental significance of planar aromatic compounds in the marine environment.
The objective of the thesis was to determine the importance of three groups of planar aromatic compounds to the marine environment. The groups comprised chlorobiphenyls (CBs), polychlorinated dioxins and -furans (PCDD/Fs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Previous studies on toxicity, …
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Modelling changes in the growth, maturity, and abundance of fish in Scottish waters
The quantity of fish that may be sustainably harvested from the oceans depends uponhow abundant they are and, less obviously, on their rate of growth, the sizes they can attain and the sizes at which they begin reproducing. This thesis investigates whether fish stocks in Scottish waters have …
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Norway lobster and Hematodinium sp. in the Clyde, modelling the population dynamics of a commercially important host-parasite system
… valuable in the UK, especially in Scotland. The Clyde Sea Area, on the west coast of Scotland, supports a particularly productive Nephrops fishery. In recent years, over 5000 tonnes of Nephrops have been landed annually in this region. However, Nephrops in the Clyde Sea Area carry a particularly …
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Bioavailability of organic contaminants in sediments.
The bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and chlorobiphenyls (CBs) in sediments is largely dependent on the freely dissolved concentration of these pollutants. However, measuring these is challenging, due to the low concentrations of lipophilic contaminants in the environment …