ASFA (AQUATIC SCIENCES AND FISHERIES ABSTRACTS) [44]

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ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts)

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File Description	Dialog File Data	DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories	Basic Index	Rank
Subject Coverage	Document Types Indexed	Contact	Additional Indexes	Predefined Format Options
Tips	Geographic Coverage	Terms and Conditions	Limit	Rates
Print Counterparts	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort

File Description [top]

Overwhelmingly cited by a majority of aquatic science librarians as their primary database, the ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) series is the premier reference in the field of aquatic resources. Input to ASFA is provided by a growing international network of information centers monitoring more than 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations, and limited distribution literature. ASFA is a component of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS), formed by four United Nations agency sponsors of ASFA and a network of international and national partners.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 44

to find information on marine, brackishwater, and freshwater environments and resources.

USE SH= or /SH

to find broad subject areas:

SELECT SH=ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY SELECT AQUARIA/SH

USE RANK

to find experts on marine topics:

SELECT FISH(W)FARM?/TI; RANK AU

Subject Coverage [top]

ASFA includes the following major areas of subject coverage:

Aquaculture
Aquatic organisms
Aquatic pollution
Brackish water environments
Conservation
Environmental quality
Fisheries
Fresh water environments
Limnology
Marine biotechnology
Marine environments
Meteorology
Oceanography
Policy and legislation
Wildlife management

Print Counterparts [top]

Part 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources;
Part 2: Ocean Technology, Policy, and Non-Living Resources;
Part 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality;
ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts;
ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	1971 to the present
File Size:	More than 1,004,328 records as of August 2005
Update Frequency:	Monthly (Approx. 3,700 records per update)

Document Types Indexed [top]

Reports
Bibliographies
Books and Monographs
Conferences, Symposia, Meetings
Journal Articles
Theses and Dissertations
Statistics

Geographic Coverage [top]

International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
DIALOG Alert Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
eLinks Enabled Database

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
AGRI	Agriculture
BIOSCI	Biosciences
ENVIRON	Environment
MARINE	Marine Science
WATER	Water and Aquatic Sciences

Contact [top]

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts is produced by CSA under contract to FAO. Questions concerning this file should be directed to:

CSA
7200 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 601
Bethesda, MD 20814

Telephone:	+1 301-961-6700
800 Line:	800-843-7751 (in N. America)
Fax:	+1 301-961-6720
E-Mail:	support@csa.com

Terms and Conditions [top]

Copyright 1978-present FAO (on behalf of the ASFA Advisory Board). All rights reserved. This database is made available by CSA under an agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Although this database was formulated with a reasonable standard of care, neither FAO, nor CSA makes any representation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for use of the database. Except as set forth under the Dialog's Electronic Redistribution and Archive Policy, the database may not be reproduced, stored in machine-readable form, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the publisher.
Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 44:Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstaracts`
	`(c) 2005 CSA. All rts. reserv.`

AA=	`0001014296 IP ACCESSION NO: 6395892`
/TI	`Herding limits water loss in the sand fiddler crab, Uca pugliator`
AU=	`Yoder, JA; Reinsel, KA; Welch, JM; Clifford, DM; Rellinger, EJ`
CS=	`Department of Biology, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio 45501 USA,`
	`[mailto:jyoder@wittenburg.edu]`
JN=,SO=,PD=	`Journal of crustacean biology, v 25, n 1, p 141-145, 2005`
PY=	`PUBLICATION DATE: 2005`
DT=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal Article`
RT=	`RECORD TYPE: Abstract`
LA=	`LANGUAGE: English`
SL=	`SUMMARY LANGUAGE: English`
SN=	`ISSN: 0278-0372`
NO=	`ASFA NO: MB0500965`
	`NOTES: Physical medium: Printed matter; Marine`
FS=	`FILE SEGMENT: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources`
/AB	`ABSTRACT:`
	`Adult sand fiddler crabs, Uca pugilator, forge in large herds on exposed`
	`sediment during low tide. These herds form as a response to optimal forging`
	`conditions but may have an additional benefit of water conservation. We`
	`determined water loss rates for crabs in groups of different sizes. Crabs`
	`in groups of 10 and 20, but not in a group of 5 or isolated individuals,`
	`showed a water-conserving group effect, yielding nearly a two-fold decrease`
	`in water loss rates. Other characteristics of U. pugilator (water content,`
	`dehydration tolerance, activation energies for water loss, critical`
	`transition temperature, and critical equilibrium humidity) are consistent`
	`with a hydrophilic water balance profile. Because crabs did not replenish`
	`water supplies from water vapour like some terrestrial arthropods, water`
	`conservation is vital to crab survival outside burrows. Enhanced water`
	`retention generated by herding likely permits more time for feeding outside`
	`the burrow, while also increasing feeding efficiency by minimizing`
	`frequency of water uptake. The fact that U. pugilator is semiterrestrial`
	`suggests that a reduction in water loss due to group effects may provide a`
	`mechanism for terrestrialization.`

/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: Schooling behaviour; Evaporation; Desiccation; Water vapour`
	`; Uca pugilator`
/ID	`IDENTIFIERS: Atlantic sand fiddler`
SC=,/SH,SH=	`SUBJ CATG: 01286, Physiology, biochemistry, biophysics`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S AQUACULTURE
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S FIDDLER(W)CRAB?/AB
/DE	DE	Descriptor¹	Word & Phrase	S SCHOOLING(W)BEHAVIOUR/DE S WATER VAPOUR/DE
/ID	ID	Identifier²	Word & Phrase	S FIDDLER/ID S ATLANTIC SAND FIDDLER/ID
/SH	SH	Section Category³	Word	S PHYSIOLOGY/SH
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S UCA(W)PUGLIATOR/TI

¹Also /DF.

²Also /IF.

³Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	ASFA Accession Number	Phrase	S AA=6395892
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=YODER, J?
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
BN=	BN	International Standard Book Number (ISBN)	Phrase	S BN=0-306-31103 S BN=030631103
CS=	CS	Corporate Source	Word & Phrase	S CS=(DEPARTMENT(1W)BIOLOGY) S CS=DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY?
CT=	CT	Conference Title	Word	S CT=(GLOBAL(W)CLIMATE)
DT=	DT	Document Type	Phrase	S DT=JOURNAL ARTICLE
FS=	FS	File Segment	Phrase	S FS="ASFA 1: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES"?
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=JOURNAL OF CRUSTACEAN?
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
NO=	NO	Document Number	Phrase	S NO=A-UR-81-3017
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=20041027
PU=	PU	Publisher	Word	S PU=(ELSEVIER(W)SCIENCE)
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=2005
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=ABSTRACT
SC=	SC	Section Category Code	Phrase	S SC=01286
SH=	SH	Section Category	Phrase	S SH=PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEM?
SL=	SL	Summary Language	Phrase	S SL=ENGLISH
SN=	SN	International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)	Phrase	S SN=0278-0372 S SN=02780372
SO=	SO	Source Information	Word	S SO=(CRUSTACEAN? AND 2005)
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
/ABS	Abstract Present	S S3/ABS
/NOABS	Record is a Citation Only Record	S S4/NOABS
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/2005

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AU, CS, JN, PY, TI	SORT S5/ALL/PY,D SORT S1/ALL/PY/D

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked.	RANK DE RANK CS S4

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to customize output.	TYPE S3/AU,TI,SO/1-5 PRINT S1/AU,TI,AB/ALL

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Bibliographic Citation and Indexing
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation
4	--	Full Record with Tagged Fields
5	--	Full Record
6	Short	Title and Publication Year
7	Long	Bibliographic Citation and Abstract
8	Free	Title, Indexing, and Publication Year
9	Full	Full Record
K	--	KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
If the accession number of a specific record is known, it can be used to display the record directly.	TYPE 0358014/8 DISPLAY 0309961/AU,TI PRINT 0351884/5

Rates [top]

Rates For File: ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts)[44]
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Rank Elements                      $0.00
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ALERT (Weekly)                 *   $7.75
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $7.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *   $7.75
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $7.75
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ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
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REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

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     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

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