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Immunity, life history and conservation in the Galapagos sea lion [PDF]

, 2012
Infectious disease threatens health and biodiversity across the globe, and disease emergence may become more common as humans further encroach on habitats and modify environments. To assess the risks of disease emergence in natural populations accurately,
Brock, Patrick Michael
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Temperature regulation and microhabitat choice by free-ranging Galapagos fur seal pups (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) [PDF]

, 1986
Limberger D, Trillmich F, Biebach H, Stevenson RD. Temperature regulation and microhabitat choice by free-ranging Galapagos fur seal pups (Arctocephalus galapagoensis). Oecologia.
Trillmich, Fritz ; https://orcid.org/, Biebach, Herbert, Stevenson, Robert D., Limberger, Dominique   +3 more
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Multicriteria Decision Analysis of Suitable Location for Wind and Photovoltaic Power Plants on the Galápagos Islands

Energies, 2022
The Galapagos Islands have been declared a World Heritage site due to their unique biodiversity, which makes them a living museum and a natural laboratory for humankind.
Geovanna Villacreses, Diego Jijón, Juan Francisco Nicolalde, Javier Martínez-Gómez, Franz Betancourt   +4 more
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Fog harvesting potential for domestic rural use and irrigation in San Cristobal Island, Galapagos, Ecuador

Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica, 2020
The Galapagos Archipelago is a semiarid zone scarce of superficial water resources. Due to its geographic location and the presence of oceanic currents, these islands are covered by fog during seven months along the year which could represent a potential
P. Echeverría, Ch. Domínguez, M. Villacís, S. Violette   +3 more
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Origin of color variations of thin, nano-sized layers of volcanic cinder from the Sierra Negra Volcano of the Galapagos Islands

Uniciencia, 2021
Volcanic cinder, also known as scoria, is an extrusive igneous rock that forms when gas-rich magmas of basaltic or andesitic composition cool quickly.
Alexis Debut, Theofilos Toulkeridis, Andrea V. Vaca, Carlos R. Arroyo   +3 more
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A revision of the genus Aciculopsora ( Ramalinaceae ), with the description of one new species and one new combination

Plant and Fungal Systematics, 2020
The tropical lichen genus Aciculopsora is still very poorly collected. Only eleven collections are known worldwide. We present a molecular phylogenetic tree based on mtSSU and nrITS sequence data from six Aciculopsora specimens.
Sonja Kistenich, Mika Bendiksby, Gothamie Weerakoon, Einar Timdal   +3 more
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Epidemiology, healthcare utilization, and related costs among patients with IPF: results from a German claims database analysis

Respiratory Research, 2022
Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive form of fibrosing interstitial pneumonia with poor survival. This study provides insight into the epidemiology, cost, and disease course of IPF in Germany.
Michael Kreuter, Nils Picker, Larissa Schwarzkopf, Severin Baumann, Agustin Cerani, Roelien Postema, Ulf Maywald, Axel Dittmar, Jonathan Langley, Haridarshan Patel   +9 more
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Rewilding giant tortoises engineers plant communities at local to landscape scales

Conservation Letters, 2023
Trophic rewilding is increasingly being used to promote megafauna reintroductions to island ecosystems, yet ecosystem response to population restoration once megafauna reintroduction occurs remains understudied. In this study of a population of Galapagos
Washington Tapia Aguilera, James P. Gibbs   +1 more
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Estimation of age and growth and mortality parameters of the sea cucumber Isostichopus fuscus (Ludwig, 1875) and implications for the management of its fishery in the Galapagos Marine Reserve

Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2020
The fishery of the sea cucumber Isostichopus fuscus was the most important one in the early 2000s in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Its overexploitation leads to its total closure from 2016 to 2021.
Jorge Ramírez-González, Nicolas Moity, Solange Andrade-Vera, Harry Reyes Mackliff   +3 more
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Maternal investment and sex-allocation in the Galapagos fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis [PDF]

, 1986
Trillmich F. Maternal investment and sex-allocation in the Galapagos fur seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 1986;19(3):157-164.Maternal investment and sex-allocation were measured in a large, sexually dimorphic mammal,
Trillmich, Fritz ; https://orcid.org/
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