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Modeling the Exposure of the Macaronesia Islands (NE Atlantic) to Marine Plastic Pollution
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The constant increase of marine plastic pollution poses an unprecedented risk to oceanic islands, which become increasingly exposed to a hazard of which they have very little control.
Claudio Cardoso +2 more
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Peralkaline Felsic Magmatism of the Atlantic Islands [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018 The oceanic-island magmatic systems of the Atlantic Ocean exhibit significant diversity in their respective sizes, ages, and the compositional ranges of their eruptive products.
Adam J. Jeffery, Ralf Gertisser
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A survey of Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ascension Island with description of a new species of Australoechemus Schmidt & Piepho, 1994 [PDF]
African Invertebrates, 2023 An updated checklist of the gnaphosid spiders of Ascension Island – comprising five species, in five genera – is presented, based on examination of historical and new specimens from across Ascension, including its islet Boatswain Bird Island.
Danniella Sherwood +3 more
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Deep-Sea Epibenthic Megafaunal Assemblages of the Falkland Islands, Southwest Atlantic
Diversity, 2022 Deep-sea environments face increasing pressure from anthropogenic exploitation and climate change, but remain poorly studied. Hence, there is an urgent need to compile quantitative baseline data on faunal assemblages, and improve our understanding of the
T. R. R. Pearman +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Ecosystem-based conservation that includes carbon sinks, alongside a linked carbon credit system, as part of a nature-based solution to combating climate change, could help reduce greenhouse gas levels and therefore the impact of their emissions.
Narissa Bax +21 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Interactions between seals and commercial fisheries can pose a significant threat to the conservation status of seal populations. In the Falkland Islands, home to over 50 % of the global South American fur seal (SAFS) population, there has been a ...
Javed Riaz +6 more
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New records of two teleost species from two insular areas of the western equatorial Atlantic [PDF]
Check List, 2021 We report the first record of two teleost species from two archipelagos in the western equatorial Atlantic. We recorded the occurrence of Cantherhines pullus (Ranzani, 1842) (Monacanthidae, Tetraodontiformes) from the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, a ...
Rodrigo Xavier Soares +4 more
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Decompressive Pathology in Cetaceans Based on an Experimental Pathological Model
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Decompression sickness (DCS) is a widely known clinical syndrome in human medicine, mainly in divers, related to the formation of intravascular and extravascular gas bubbles.
Alicia Velázquez-Wallraf +6 more
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Increase in Cape Verde hurricanes during Atlantic Niño
Nature Communications, 2023 At seasonal-to-interannual timescales, Atlantic hurricane activity is greatly modulated by El Niño–Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic Meridional Mode.
Dongmin Kim +6 more
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Animals, 2023 The nature, etiopathogenesis, and clinicopathologic relevance of the prevalent intracytoplasmic eosinophilic globules (IEGs) within hepatocytes of cetaceans are unknown.
Antonio Fernández +11 more
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