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Mutual mother-pup recognition in Galápagos fur seals and sea lions: cues used and functional significance

open access: yes, 1981
Trillmich F. Mutual mother-pup recognition in Galápagos fur seals and sea lions: cues used and functional significance. Behaviour. 1981;78(1):21-42.Field observations on Galápagos fur seals and sea lions indicate mutual recognition between mother and pup.
Trillmich, Fritz ; https://orcid.org/
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Spatial Variation in Coral Diversity and Reef Complexity in the Galápagos: Insights from Underwater Photogrammetry and New Data Extraction Methods

open access: yesRemote Sensing
Corals in the Galápagos present diverse reef configurations from biogenic coral reefs to coral communities growing on rocks and sand. These corals have experienced decades of disturbances including recurring El Niño and mass bleaching events.
Matan Yuval   +4 more
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Impactos generados por el Covid-19 en los guías turísticos de las Islas Galápagos

open access: yes, 2022
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo identificar los impactos y cambios ocasionados por el Covid-19 en la actividad turística y de manera particular en el ámbito profesional de los guías turísticos en las islas Galápagos.
Pinos Jarrín, Carla Nicole
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Restoring the threatened Scalesia forest: insights from a decade of invasive plant management in Galapagos

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change
Island forests are becoming increasingly fragmented and colonized by invasive species, which can eventually lead to local species extinctions. In the Galapagos Islands, invasive species pose a serious extinction threat to the endemic daisy tree Scalesia ...
Heinke Jäger   +4 more
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Progressive colonization and restricted gene flow shape island-dependent population structure in Galapagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)

open access: yes, 2009
Steinfartz S, Glaberman S, Lanterbecq D, et al. Progressive colonization and restricted gene flow shape island-dependent population structure in Galapagos marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus cristatus). BMC Evolutionary biology.
Marquez, C   +52 more
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Evaluating steady-state volcanism in Iceland, La Réunion, Hawaiʻi and western Galápagos: connections with volcanic hazards and future perspectives

open access: yesVolcanica
Steady-state volcanoes and magmatic provinces erupt magmas at nearly constant rates over the course of decades. Here, we analyzed the reliability of steady-state volcanism and its relationship with volcanic hazard evaluation in terms of forecasting the ...
Federico Galetto   +2 more
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Insights Into the Origins and Compositions of Mantle Plumes: A Comparison of Galápagos and Hawai'i

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020
The Galápagos and Hawai'i archipelagos are formed by mantle plumes originating at the large low shear velocity province (LLSVP) boundary. We report new high‐precision Pb, Sr, Nd, and Hf isotopic analyses on 83 Galápagos samples and compare them with ...
Karen S. Harpp, Dominique Weis
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Basin-scale sources and pathways of microplastic that ends up in the Galápagos Archipelago [PDF]

open access: yesOcean Science, 2019
The Galápagos Archipelago and Galápagos Marine Reserve lie 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador and are among the world's most iconic wildlife refuges. However, plastic litter is now found even in this remote island archipelago.
E. van Sebille   +6 more
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'One health' inspired SARS-CoV-2 surveillance: The Galapagos Islands experience

open access: yesOne Health, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide since the outbreak in Wuhan (China) in December 2019, currently infecting over 25 million people and causing more than 800.000 deaths.
Byron Freire-Paspuel   +8 more
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Craters of habit: Patterns of deformation in the western Galápagos

open access: yesVolcanica
The western Galápagos islands of Fernandina and Isabela comprise six active volcanoes that have deformed since first observed by satellite radar in the early 1990s.
Eoin Reddin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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