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ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías, 2015 Renewable energy is an alternative to reduce the impacts from fossil fuel use. The control of atmospheric emissions is relevant in fragile ecosystems as the Galapagos Islands.
René Parra Narváez
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 18, 28 September 2026.Abstract The mechanisms underlying the patchy distribution of forearc megathrust earthquakes and arc volcanoes in subduction zones remain poorly understood. Here we present a high‐resolution seismic tomographic model of the Central American subduction zone, derived from a joint inversion of local body‐wave and teleseismic Rayleigh‐wave data.
Junhao Zhang +3 more
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Migration and the Environment in the Galapagos: An analysis of economic and policy incentives driving migration, potential impacts from migration control, and potential policies to reduce migration pressure [PDF]
From 1974 through 1997 the Galapagos experienced very rapid population growth, around six per cent per year. Sustained at this level, the population would continue to double every 12 years.
Joanna Hendy, Suzi Kerr, Susana Cardenas
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Water quality and antibiotic resistance at beaches of the Galápagos Islands
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2015 Tourism and residential population growth are increasing on the Galápagos Islands, yet the effects of this growth on environmental quality are not well understood.
Katie eOverbey +2 more
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Una visión de futuro para Galápagos: el plan de manejo para todos [PDF]
El Parque Nacional Galápagos, con su nuevo Plan de Manejo, responde a estos cambios proponiendo una visión compartida basada en la responsabilidad de una sociedad que aprecia su capital natural y lo custodia, porque de él depende.
Parque Nacional Galápagos
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Frontiers in Conservation ScienceThe Galápagos archipelago is a vast reservoir of terrestrial and marine biodiversity, owing in large part to its relatively recent volcanic genesis and colonization by humans.
Isabel A. Jimenez +3 more
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Recovery of a nearly extinct Galápagos tortoise despite minimal genetic variation
Evolutionary Applications, 2013 A species of Galápagos tortoise endemic to Española Island was reduced to just 12 females and three males that have been bred in captivity since 1971 and have produced over 1700 offspring now repatriated to the island.
Michel C. Milinkovitch +7 more
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Codium (Chlorophyta) species presented in the Galápagos Islands [PDF]
, 2016 Background. The Galápagos Islands have been the subject of numerous scientific expeditions. The chief source of information on their marine algae is the report published in 1945 by the late William Randolph Taylor on collections made by the Allan Hancock
Chacana, Max E. +3 more
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Estimación de la huella de carbono del transporte de carga marítimo hacia las islas Galápagos
, 2022 The demographic growth of the Galapagos Islands leads to an increase in the demand of goods and services for local consumption. Since most of the goods required in the islands´ industries and households come from mainland Ecuador and are transported ...
Olaya Ramon, Luis Jorge
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The Caroline Islands Script [PDF]
, 1993 This thesis maintains that the Caroline Islands script has been unjustly dismissed as a preferable orthography for the Woleaian language. The reason for this dismissal were twofold: (l) the researchers compared the script with an inaccurate tentative ...
De Voogt, Alexander J.
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