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Dog overpopulation on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos 2018

Conservation Science and Practice, 2020
In addition to El Niño events, which can alter the pelagic food chain that supports growth and survival of sea lions, dog overpopulation, and diseases can cause further population declines in sea lions on the Galapagos.
Jorge A. Hernandez, Andrew J. Yoak, Heather S. Walden, Nina Thompson, Daniela Zuniga, Rita Criollo, Viviana Duque, Marilyn Cruz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factores agronómicos y socioeconómicos que inciden en el rendimiento productivo del cultivo de cacao. Un estudio de cacao en Colombia

Fave: Sección Ciencias Agrarias, 2021
El cultivo de cacao es de gran importancia para la económica agrícola del Departamento de Santander y para Colombia, ya que en los últimos años se ha promovido su implementación como una solución a los cultivos ilícitos.
F. Montealegre Bustos, J. Rojas Molina, Y. Jaimes Suárez   +2 more
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Even ferals: First predation record of the Galápagos Hawk Buteo galapagoensis (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae), on a feral cat Felis catus (Carnivora: Felidae).

ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías
The Galápagos hawk Buteo galapagoensis is the top predator of the archipelago, feeding on a wide variety of species from different taxonomic groups, ranging from insects to carrion.
Elias Viteri Basso, Johannes Ramirez Kastdalen, Jorge Carrión Tacuri   +2 more
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Diminution of real power loss by novel Galápagos Penguin Algorithm

Heliyon, 2019
In this work Galápagos Penguin Algorithm (GPA) has been applied to solve optimal reactive power problem. Galápagos penguins’ foraging activities are modeled to solve the problem.
Lenin Kanagasabai
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Diversity of compounds in femoral secretions of Galápagos iguanas (genera: Amblyrhynchus and Conolophus), and their potential role in sexual communication in lek-mating marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2017
Background Chemical signals are widely used in the animal kingdom, enabling communication in various social contexts, including mate selection and the establishment of dominance.
Alejandro Ibáñez, Markus Menke, Galo Quezada, Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Stefan Schulz, Sebastian Steinfartz   +5 more
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Priorities for ecological research on cetaceans in the Galápagos Islands

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Located in the eastern tropical Pacific, the Galápagos Islands are an oceanic insular ecosystem subject to strong environmental variability driven by local and regional processes.
Daniel M. Palacios, Daniel M. Palacios, Mauricio Cantor, Mauricio Cantor   +3 more
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Tracing early stages of species differentiation: Ecological, morphological and genetic divergence of Galapagos sea lion populations

, 2008
Background: Oceans are high gene flow environments that are traditionally believed to hamper the build-up of genetic divergence. Despite this, divergence appears to occur occasionally at surprisingly small scales.
Brunner Sylvia, Sandie Salazar, Tautz, D. ; https://orcid.org/, Harrod, C., Tautz, D., Salazar, S., Sylvia Brunner, Wolf, Jochen B. W., Wolf, J.B.W., Harrod Chris, Wolf, J., Trillmich, Fritz ; https://orcid.org/, Trillmich Fritz, Trillmich, F., Tautz Diethard, Salazar, Sandie, Fritz Trillmich, Diethard Tautz, Wolf Jochen BW, Harrod, Chris, Brunner, Sylvia, Trillmich, Fritz, Chris Harrod, Brunner, S., Salazar Sandie, Jochen BW Wolf, Tautz, Diethard   +26 more
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A critical analysis of the discourses of conservation and science on the Galápagos Islands [PDF]

, 2011
Conservation of the world’s biodiversity is a paradigmatic example of a ‘wicked problem’, a problem that resists resolution because it is defined, experienced and measured differently by different people, in ways that are inseparable from a range of ...
Cairns, Rose
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First Recorded Evidence of Invasive Rodent Predation on a Critically Endangered Galápagos Petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia) Nestling in the Galápagos Islands

Birds
The Galápagos Petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia) is a long-lived Critically Endangered seabird endemic to the Galápagos Islands and faces severe threats from invasive species, particularly rodents.
Isabela Tapia-Jaramillo, Joel Arica, Alejandra Espín, Víctor Carrión, Juan Pablo Mayorga, Christian Sevilla, Eliécer Cruz, Paola Sangolquí   +7 more
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What was the Galapagos ke-tai?

Annals of Business Administrative Science, 2018
The word “Galapagos” has garnered attention in Japan as an explanation for the loss of global competitiveness by the Japanese economy and Japanese companies, even while the Japanese companies are competitive domestically.
Atsushi Akiike, Sotaro Katsumata
doaj   +1 more source