Diversity of Volcanic Geoheritage in the Canary Islands, Spain
, 2020 Volcanic areas create spectacular landscapes that contain a great diversity of geoheritage. The study of this geoheritage enables us to inventory, characterise, protect and manage its geodiversity.
J. Dóniz-Páez +5 more
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Rickettsia massiliaein the Canary Islands
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 To the Editor: Rickettsia massiliae was recently recognized as a human tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsia (1). We report the finding of R. massiliae in Rhipicephalus pusillus ticks from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Introduction of this pathogen into the Canary Islands is thought to have resulted from translocation of the European wild ...
Carlos Gutierrez +6 more
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Wave energy potential along the Atlantic coast of Morocco [PDF]
, 2016 This study analyses the wave energy resource along the Atlantic coast of Morocco using a 44-year series of data obtained from numerical modeling (hindcasting). The spatial distribution of wave power is analyzed using data from 23 points along that coast.
Jebbad, Raghda +4 more
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, 2020 The Balearic and the Canary Islands are two well-known tourism-led economies. They both experienced a tourism boom during the same decades, and, hence, they developed a similar productive-mix.
Federico Inchausti-Sintes +2 more
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Genetic and phenotypic divergence in an island bird: isolation by distance, by colonization or by adaptation? [PDF]
, 2014 Discerning the relative roles of adaptive and nonadaptive processes in generating differences among populations and species, as well as how these processes interact, is a fundamental aim in biology.
Dawson, Deborah A. +4 more
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Kinematic studies of transport across an island wake, with application to the Canary islands [PDF]
, 2006 Transport from nutrient-rich coastal upwellings is a key factor influencing biological activity in surrounding waters and even in the open ocean. The rich upwelling in the North-Western African coast is known to interact strongly with the wake of the ...
Aref H. +13 more
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Forest Hydrology, Soil Conservation and Green Barriers in Canary Islands [PDF]
, 2012 In volcanic islands, the rainfall regime and its torrential nature, together with the steep slopes and the soil types present are considered to be some of the main factors affecting forest hydrology and soil conservation.
Arraiza Bermudez-Cañete, Maria Paz +4 more
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The role played by exotic plants in urban ecosystems: comments on Spennemann, 2019 [PDF]
, 2020 The article written by Dirk HR Spennemann, and published in the European Journal of Ecology, addresses the role played by a palm tree species native to the Canary Islands as food source for several frugivore species found in Australian cities.
Angeoletto, Fabio +4 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 117-131., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Benjamin Black +4 more
wiley +2 more sources
Hybridization, polyploidy, and evolutionary transitions between monoecy and dioecy in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
, 2008 Correns’s 1903 (Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 21: 133 – 147) crosses between a monoecious and a dioecious species of Bryonia revealed the simple Mendelian inheritance of dioecy and provided the first instance of an XY sex determination ...
Renner, Susanne S., Volz, Stefanie M.
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