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Week One in the Galapagos [PDF]
, 2016 Postcard from Michael McGrath, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the Galápagos Academic Institute of the Arts and Sciences in the Galápagos Islands ...
McGrath, Michael
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Alien species pathways to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Alien species, one of the biggest threats to natural ecosystems worldwide, are of particular concern for oceanic archipelagos such as Galápagos. To enable more effective management of alien species, we reviewed, collated and analysed all available ...
M Verónica Toral-Granda +9 more
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Darwin and the plants of the Galapagos-Islands [PDF]
, 2009 During his five year sea voyage with the “Beagle”, Darwin, at the suggestion of the botanist J.S. Henslow, collected more than 1400 vascular plants, and more than 200 of them alone during his short stay on the Galápagos Islands.
Stöcklin, Jürg
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110 years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands.
PLoS ONE, 2011 The role of disease in regulating populations is controversial, partly owing to the absence of good disease records in historic wildlife populations. We examined birds collected in the Galapagos Islands between 1891 and 1906 that are currently held at ...
Patricia G Parker +7 more
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, 1998 New Faces and New Projects in a New CDRS Department. International Workshop: Feral Goat Eradication Program. Geologists to Invade Galápagos. GIS in Galápagos. The Isabela Project: Off and Running. A Pig-Free Santiago: Is it a Dream or on the Horizon? The
Bensted-Smith, Robert +7 more
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Galápagos Birds and Diseases: Invasive Pathogens as Threats for Island Species
Ecology and Society, 2004 Exotic diseases and parasites have caused extinctions on islands and continents, particularly when they spread through assemblages of immunologically naïve species.
Martin Wikelski +3 more
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Frontiers in Conservation ScienceThe Galápagos archipelago is a vast reservoir of terrestrial and marine biodiversity and is particularly susceptible to human, animal, and environmental impacts. Climate change, globalization, and the blurring of human-domestic animal-wildlife interfaces
Patricio A. Vega-Mariño +3 more
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Nature’s Eden? The Production and Effects of ‘Pristine’ Nature in the Galápagos Islands [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2011 Best known for inspiring Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands are often referred to as an “evolutionary Eden” and celebrated as one of the world’s few remaining bastions of “pristine” nature. However, recent concerns of a crisis of
Hennessy Elizabeth, McCleary Amy L.
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PLoS ONE, 2015 The Galápagos giant tortoise is an icon of the unique, endemic biodiversity of Galápagos, but little is known of its parasitic fauna. We assessed the diversity of parasitic nematode communities and their spatial distributions within four wild tortoise ...
Guillaume Fournié +9 more
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Monogenetic Near‐Island Seamounts in the Galápagos Archipelago
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020 Rarely have small seamounts on the flanks of hotspot derived ocean‐island volcanoes been the targets of sampling, due to sparse high‐resolution mapping near ocean islands.
D. M. Schwartz +4 more
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