The purpose of this paper was to synthesize observations of 21 cold temperate lakes from Patagonia, Argentina. To do this, objective limnological variables and the phytoplankton summer structure were analysed using multivariate statistical tools. The results suggest that the most important variables defined a trophic gradient based on nutrients, conductivity and phytoplanktonic attributes. Cluster analysis pointed to three groups of lakes. Steppe lakes (group III) were distinguished from mountain-Andean lakes (groups I and II) through their higher conductivity and ammonia concentration values, higher net phytoplankton density and lower species diversity. The two groups of Andean lakes differed with regard to the biomass of Bacillariophyceae and Prymnesiophyceae, water temperature and dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration. The influence of the biomass (as biovolume) of each taxonomic group in lakes of different trophic status was examined. Although all Andean lakes appear to be similar, as shown by their similar salt and nutrient concentration values, the phytoplankton biomass split into different taxa and clearly distinguished subgroups. The work presents original information about the phytoplanktonic community structure from all the lakes and the first limnological data on 10 of them, from a region that is poorly known.
Para investigar las ideas de los niños sobre el aprendizaje, entrevistamos a 26 niños de 4, 5 y 6 años individualmente. Se les presentaron tareas verbales y gráficas relativas a los siguientes componentes del aprendizaje del dibujo: condiciones, procesos y resultados. Se describen las categorías de respuesta más relevantes, que aluden a factores que intervienen en los diferentes componentes del aprendizaje del dibujo y se analizan las relaciones entre las respuestas dadas para las diferentes preguntas.
Los resultados muestran diferentes formas de priorizar y vincular ideas en los niños, que pueden entenderse en términos de tres teorías implícitas sobre el aprendizaje: la teoría directa, teoría de la agencia del entorno y teoría de la agencia del aprendiz. Estas teorías muestran una progresión en una doble dimensión: complejidad e internalización. Por otra parte, los niños entrevistados expresaron de varias maneras que para ellos aprender a dibujar es adquirir un conocimiento convencional.
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