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Norse Animal Husbandry in Liminal Environments: Stable Isotope Evidence from the Scottish North Atlantic Islands

open access: yesEnvironmental Archaeology, 2018
This paper employs δ13C and δ15N analysis of bone collagen to explore animal management at large Norse settlement sites in the liminal environments of the Scottish North Atlantic Islands.
Jennifer Jones, Jacqueline Mulville
exaly   +2 more sources

Enrichment of trace elements in colonies of the yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) in the Atlantic Islands National Park (Galicia-NW Spain).

Science of the Total Environment, 2019
Marine-derived nutrients are known accumulate in seabird breeding colonies due to the deposition of nutrient-rich biological materials, thus greatly altering the functioning and dynamics of these terrestrial ecosystems.
S. De la Pena-Lastra   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Iceland and the North Atlantic Islands

Nordic Security and the Great Powers, 2019
John C. Ausland
openaire   +2 more sources

Geology of the Middle Atlantic Islands

American Journal of Science, 1978
L. A. Fernandez, R. C. Mitchell-Thome
openaire   +2 more sources

The African Atlantic islands in maritime history during the Ancien Régime

International Journal of Maritime History, 2018
This paper aims at describing and explaining certain common characteristics that have endured in the African Atlantic islands by virtue of the fact that these islands depend on centres of authority located at considerable distances away.
Juan Manuel Santana-Pérez
exaly   +2 more sources

Marine debris in Trindade Island, a remote island of the South Atlantic

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018
Marine debris is widespread in oceans worldwide, including the most remote locations. Here, for the first time, we report macro-debris accumulation on beaches of Trindade Island, a remote island 1160 km from mainland Brazil. High debris density was recorded on windward, east-coast beaches, which are exposed to wind-driven currents.
Andrades R.   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Microplastic ingestion by Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias) in the Canary Islands coast.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
In recent years, due to the increasing concerns about their negative impact on wildlife and possible toxicity to living organisms (including humans), microplastics have become the subject of intense investigations.
A. Herrera   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Inishbofin--An Atlantic Island

Economic Geography, 1958
I RELAND'S decline in population has been made possible by the availability of work elsewhere for her people. This article deals with one of the poorest and most isolated districts of the country, an island off the west coast which, for over 60 years, has received government help in various forms, as well as money from relations in America and in ...
openaire   +1 more source

Islands of the South Atlantic

1973
Since Darwin’s observations during the voyage of the Beagle (1831–1836), the islands of the South Atlantic have figured prominently in the geologic exploration of the ocean basins. The small number of widely scattered islands considered here extend from the Tropic of Cancer to the Southern Ocean (Fig.
openaire   +1 more source

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