Crustal structure of the Cocos Ridge northeast of Cocos Island, Panamá Basin [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2002 The submarine Cocos ridge in the northwestern Panamá basin, Pacific ocean, is generally interpreted as the trace of the Galápagos hotspot. A 278 km long seismic wide‐angle transect was carried out across a comparatively narrow ridge segment, 150 km northeast of Cocos Island.
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Genetic Insights Into the Introduction History of Black Rats Into the Eastern Indian Ocean
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Islands can be powerful demonstrations of how destructive invasive species can be on endemic faunas and insular ecologies. Oceanic islands in the eastern Indian Ocean have suffered dramatically from the impact of one of the world’s most destructive ...
Vicki A. Thomson +17 more
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Phylogeography of the crown-of-thorns starfish in the Indian Ocean [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Understanding the limits and population dynamics of closely related sibling species in the marine realm is particularly relevant in organisms that require management.
Ambariyanto, +8 more
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Microplastics found in the World Heritage Site Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica
Marine and Fishery Sciences, 2022 Microplastics (MPs) defined as ‘small’ pieces of plastic < 5 mm have been found in almost every marine habitat around the world, and studies have shown that we can find them in the ocean surface, the water column, the seafloor, the shoreline, in biota ...
Angelica Astorga +7 more
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Geometry and seismic properties of the subducting Cocos plate in central Mexico [PDF]
, 2010 The geometry and properties of the interface of the Cocos plate beneath central Mexico are determined from the receiver functions (RFs) utilizing data from the Meso America Subduction Experiment (MASE).
Clayton, R. W., Jackson, J. M., Kim, Y.
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Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2021 The Labridae is a species-rich family of colorful fishes distributed globally in different habitats. Polylepion cruentum was described based on type material collected from the Gulf of California, and Quepos, Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Ricardo Britzke +2 more
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Sailing the Archipelago in a Boat of Rhymes Pantun in the Malay World [PDF]
, 2011 The extremely popular poetic form from Insular Southeast Asia, the pantun, travelled from its unknown source throughout the Malay Archipelago, first in Malay, then in the languages of Southeast Asia.
Salleh, M. H. (Muhammad)
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Report of new invasive scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh (Monophlebidae) and Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Pseudococcidae), on the islands of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, with an updated taxonomic key to iceryine scale insects of South America [PDF]
, 2012 The multicicatrices fluted scale, Crypticerya multicicatrices Kondo and Unruh (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae) is reported from the islands of San Andres and Providencia, Colombia, as a recent invasive species.
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Biogeography, Systematics, and Ecomorphology of Pacific Island Anoles
Diversity, 2019 Anoles are regarded as important models for understanding dynamic processes in ecology and evolution. Most work on this group has focused on species in the Caribbean Sea, and recently in mainland South and Central America.
John G. Phillips +4 more
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Some Introductory Notes on the Development and Characteristics of Sabah Malay [PDF]
, 2011 This is a preliminary description of the Malay variety used as a lingua franca in the Malaysian state of Sabah at the northernmost top of Borneo. The paper discusses a number of common linguistic features that distinguish Sabah Malay from other Malay ...
Jing Cheng (41407) +1 more
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