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Ascoseirales Petrov
Choristocarpales
Cutleriales Oltmanns
Desmarestiales Setchell & Gardner
Dictyotales Kjellman
Ectocarpales Setchell & Gardner
Fucales Kylin
Laminariales Migula
Ralfsiales Nakamura
Scytothamnales A.F. Peters & M.N. Clayton
Sphacelariales Oltmanns
Sporochnales Sauvageau
Syringodermatales E.C. Henry
Tilopteridales Bessey
- Ectocarpales
- Some families in the Ectocarpales:
- Ectocarpaceae
- Ralfsiaceae
- Corynophlaeceae
- Chordariaceae
- Scytosiphonaceae
- Splachnidiaceae
- Some families in the Ectocarpales:
- Desmarestiales
- Cutleriales
- Laminariales
- Divided into four families:
- Chordaceae
- Laminariaceae
- Lessoniaceae
- Alariaceae
- Divided into four families:
- Sphacelariales
- Dictyotales
- Fucales
- Some major Fucales families:
- Cystoseiraceae
- Sargassaceae
- Himanthaliaceae
- Fucaceae
- Some major Fucales families:
Area Studies Interests:
Ancient Persian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan, Russian Revolution, Siberia, Asian Rivers,
WWI,
Cartography,
Culture:
20th century American Literature between the wars,
Bollywood, 70s Punk Rock,
Dressmaking, Costume-making, Recreation Costumes: Renaissance and Folk and American
Languages:
I'm a native speaker of American English, read some Polish, speak a little, plus some Russian, read Latin, a little Greek, speak some Dari.
Natural History:
I'm interested in paleontology, evolution, paleobotany, geology, and botany. I'm a naturalist and a backpacker.
[edit] Botany
California Plants
Acer negundo, Black Sage, California buttercup, California poppy, California Walnut, Calochortus tiburonensis, Ceanothus, Elderberry, Eriogonum, Eschscholzia Franciscan wallflower, Garry Oak, Golden carpet, Juglans californica, List of Acer species, Poison ivy, Populus tremuloides, Tanoak, Toxicodendron, Umbellularia, Western Poison-oak
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Angiosperms
Annamocarya, Atlantic Poison-oak, Broussaisia, Ceratophyllum, Ginger, Maize, Persian Walnut, Spathodea, Teosinte, Wolfberry
Angiosperm Families
Amborellaceae, Austrobaileyaceae, Cabombaceae, Chloranthaceae, Dasypogonaceae, Illiciaceae, Nymphaeaceae, Petrosaviaceae, Polygonaceae, Ranunculaceae, Schisandraceae, Trimeniaceae, Winteraceae
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Acorales, Alismatales, Arecales, Asparagales, Austrobaileyales, Canellales, Commelinales, Dioscoreales, Laurales, Liliales, Magnoliales, Nymphaeales, Palaeodicots, Pandanales, Piperales, Poales, Zingiberales
Commelinids, Magnoliids, Monocots
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Araucaria araucana, Sciadopitys, Douglas-fir
Araucariaceae, Cephalotaxaceae, Cupressaceae, Pinaceae, Podocarpaceae, Taxaceae, Pinophyta
Non-seed bearing Vascular Plants
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Embryophyte, Flowering plant, Gymnosperm, Vascular plant, Terrestrial plant
Photosynthetic Eukaryotes
Brown algae, Green algae, Red algae, Red tide, Seaweed
General Botany
Cladistics, Floral formula, List of botanists by author abbreviation, Paleobotany, Serpentine soil
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Canary Islands, Macaronesia, Mediterranean climate
Music
Scientists, People, Other Members of the Animal Kingdom
Zoonotic Diseases
of SubSaharan Africa
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[edit] Thermal optimum
A thermal optimum is either a portion of a specified geological time span in which the average temperature was above that of the average temperature for the entire specified time or the optimum range within which a biological process may take place or the ambient optimal range for a species' niche.
In geology, scientists speak of a Holocene thermal optimum or maximum, for example, when referring to the warm period from 5000 to 9000 years before the present, in which an overall rise in average temperature is seen in evidence from ice cores and from stable isotope data. Scientists are interested in these periods because they may be clues to evolutionary pressures experienced by species during large spans of time.
In biology a thermal optimum describes the ideal boundaries for biological processes such as growth and development, and is usually characteristic of a species or population. Most biological processes are dependent upon enzymatic activity that can be impacted by the organism's body temperature, which in term is a function of the organism's metabolism and environment as each enzyme has a finite window in which it can function properly. An organism's niche in the environment may then be dependent upon the thermal optima for all of its necessary biological processes.[citation needed]
In animals that inhabit the wave-tossed tidal pools of rocky shores thermal optima vary for each species and dictate the species' tolerance of environmental conditions that lead to increased heating or loss of mechanisms for cooling. For example, exposure to sunlight when the tide is out, and lack of thermal insulation from the buffering effects of water due to its specific heat capacity may contribute to increased temperature leading to increased desiccation. An organism that has a high thermal optimum may still be able to function in this environment, while one with a lower thermal optimum may have its metabolic processes shut down during the drying period of exposure. An organism may be confined to a limited range of habitats due to the population's thermal optima, while another population may have a different range of habitats open to it due to a different thermal optima for its biological processes. Ultimately the ability to adapt to greater extremes in such a harsh environment as the rocky shores where tide pools are formed may then be discussed in terms of varying environmental thermal optima for different species. [citation needed]
[edit] Thermal optimum
This is an unsourced one sentence stub (since August 2005)related to sea level and global temperature. Very few Google hits which are not ambiguous or mirrors of this Wikipedia article. In relation to current controversies of climate change, the article should be fleshed out or deleted. It seems POV to say the "Thermal optimum" would have the sea levels 5 to 6 meters higher than now. Edison 17:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Comment This stub seems to cover the same thing as Holocene climatic optimum which is a longer sourced article but gives different dates and does not make the same statements about sea levels. Thermal optimum seems to have originated in Middle Jomon, an unsourced article about the early years of what is now Japan. Edison 17:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
delete (HCO is far better) is possibly redirect to said HCO, though I'm not sure thats useful William M. Connolley 18:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC) or make into sensible article as per KP Botany William M. Connolley 23:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)Keep now its been re-written William M. Connolley 09:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Delete and redirect to HCO per above - it doesn't seem to have any widespread use. Trebor 21:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)(in response to below) Hmm, okay. Can anyone write a correct article on the topic for consideration? Trebor 23:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)- Comment I will write two short articles, one for geology, and one for biology, although I'll probably change the name for the geology one to Thermal maximum. I ordered the main source for Quaternary climate change use, have a couple of articles that discuss the Late Jurassic/Cretaceous thermal maximum without using the word, and can write that one in the next day or two, and have retrieved a couple of biological articles, and will get that up. Wouldn't hurt for folks to drop in on them and copyedit, although I generally spell check. KP Botany 15:22, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- Comment Uh, thermal optima are well-studied phenomena of the biological and geological/climatic sciences. Obviously the article is a piece of crap, and maybe it's not on the web, but here are some articles, abstracts and pages about it that are not google mirrors--did anyone search a scientific database or scholar? The definition is completely wrong. In biology the term is used in introductory textbooks, it's not even particularly technical, it just refers to the maximum temperatures for biological processes that an organism can withstand. Redirecting it to Holocene climatic optimum is akin to redirecting battleship to USS Wisconsin (BB-64). [1], [2], [3] (biology), [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]. Is "really really crappy" article a valid reason for deleting an encyclopediac topic? Shouldn't it just be refered for emergency work? KP Botany 22:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- CommentYou are welcome to fix the article. Sounds like Thermal Optimum could be a good article if fully rewritten. Out of curiosity, do your sources support the claims of temp and sea level for the specific period cited ? I could not get all your cites to open , but the biology ones belong in a separate article. The first few do not appear to give the sealevel claims now in the article. Edison 00:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- Response Oh, the article's totally wrong so I couldn't even figure out what they were talking about. I can disambiguate it later, but I just changed it. I'm slow at research and only wrote a bit, as I am not the least bit fond of writing articles without sources. I will read what I can today and change it again tomorrow. I included some abstracts, but if you're interested in any of the pdfs that you couldn't get to open I can e-mail you saved copies, they're just stuff I got off a friend's computer on Quaternary climate change. Although my background is in geology, all I've really read about it are studies on those organisms that live in tidepools that Darwin wrote about, lizards that lose their tails, and amphibians. It is, however, a well known topic in the sciences, and Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on less important topics. It must be made usable, and probably disambiguated into two articles, but it shouldn't be deleted. I will fix as much as I can in the next few days and add sources, then research it a bit more carefully. KP Botany 00:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete It is so poorly written it is hard to tell, but it appears to be nonsense. TimVickers 00:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- Ahem My version or the original version? Still, mine is crap, but it's not the same level of crap as the earlier version. And, yes, my prose is turgid, and needs editing. However, "poorly written" is a criteria for WP:CLEAN not AfD, so let's stick with the relevant criteria only. KP Botany 04:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
- This discussion has been added as a test case to the proposed guideline Wikipedia:Notability (science). trialsanderrors 11:01, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
- Keep This is useful as it as , and will be the gateway to the more detailed articles expected. The terminology and the concept have been common for decades. There will certainly be sources, and notability is undoubted. It may have justified ad deletion for what I can best term as excessive stubbiness, but not now. DGG 02:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
- Comment I think I would rather just delete it right now, then I can put up the biology and the geology/climatology articles and make this page a redirect. I'm a bit uncomfortable putting anything on Wikipedia without research, and I just haven't done any. DGG is correct, though, there is no way this topic can fail notability. I would feel better deleting for now, posting the contents to my talk page, then I'll get a new article up as soon as I get my resources. The library sent me the wrong IPCC text today, so it will be a bit longer. But, do not delete for failure of notability and its lack of direct connection to Holocene climatic optimum and its Japanese resources--Japanese and Arab researchers do a lot of research in this area, as well as American and European (predominantly French in the latter). KP Botany 03:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I defer to the author/DGG 07:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Keep Per re-write and amssive emergency work that's been done on it. That list of sources, as well as a number of comments here show that it's a notable subject with a wide research base and wide appeal in its field. ThuranX 19:26, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Clara Copley (b. 1902 d. 1949) was an Irish woman who was born into a family of circus performers.[citation needed] Copley was the propietor of organized boxing matches at Belfast Chapel Fields Arena in Belfast, Ireland during the 1930s. A number of men fought in her earlier boxing booth and her later arena matches for the prize moneys offered. One of the boxers was Rinty Monaghan who became World Boxing Association World Champion in the Flyweight division by knocking out reigning champion Jackie Paterson on 23 March 1948 at King's Hall, Belfast. Other Irish boxers who took to prize-money matches in Copley's ring include Bantamweight Ed Bunty Doran, who was often pitted against Monaghan in the professioinal ring and later became an Irish champion; Welterweight Tommy Armour who later knocked out British Welterweight Champion Eric Boon; and Flyweight Jimmy Warnock, one of the first from Copley's rings to make money professionally.
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