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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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Review of One Health in the Galápagos Islands (Part 2): climate change, anthropogenic activities, and socioeconomic sustainability

Frontiers in Conservation Science
The 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, Isabel A. Jimenez, Tamia Villacres, Emma L. Houck   +3 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, V. D. Wanless, S. A. Soule, M. D. Schmitz, M. D. Kurz   +4 more
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Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Galapagos birds: Inference of risk factors associated with diet.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic intracellular parasite of particular concern in the conservation of wildlife due to its ability to infect all homeotherms and potentially cause acute fatal disease in naive species.
Juan D Mosquera, Carlos A Valle, Ainoa Nieto-Claudin, Birgit Fessl, Gregory A Lewbart, Diane Deresienski, Leïla Bouazzi, Sonia Zapata, Isabelle Villena, Marie-Lazarine Poulle   +9 more
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Penguins of the Galapagos Islands

, 2023
Puerto Ayora: Charles Darwin Foundation.
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In the pink [PDF]

, 2015
The article describes three years work carried out by the author and Elizabeth Tindle, on the Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) in the Galapagos Islands Ecuador.
Tindle, Robert William
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A Repertoire of Major Genes From Crop Wild Relatives for Breeding Disease‐Resistant Wheat, Rice, Maize, Soybean and Cotton Crops

Plant Breeding, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global food demand is predicted to rise anywhere from 59% to 98% by 2050 because of increasing population. However, the continued depletion of natural resources and increasing biotic and abiotic stresses will continue to pose significant threats to global food security in coming years.
Memoona Khalid, Hafiz Mamoon Rehman, Tsz‐Yan Cheung, Shakeel Ahmed, Ting Fung Chan, Hon‐Ming Lam   +5 more
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Biogeography of Parasitic Nematode Communities in the Galápagos Giant Tortoise: Implications for Conservation Management.

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, Simon J Goodman, Marilyn Cruz, Virna Cedeño, Alberto Vélez, Leandro Patiño, Caroline Millins, Lynda M Gibbons, Mark T Fox, Andrew A Cunningham   +9 more
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Field notes of Galapagos Vegetation Studies in 1970 and 1978 [PDF]

, 2009
Syuzo ITOW conducted field studies of plants and vegetation from February to June, 1970, and from February to April, 1978, in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.
Itow, Syuzo
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The Global South's OCBIL Theory Helps Elucidate Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation in Biological and Cultural Diversity

New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2026.
Ecological theory has been shaped disproportionately by studies conducted in young, disturbance‐prone, relatively fertile landscapes (YODFELs), mostly in the Global North. Yet, many megadiverse regions in the Global South are dominated by old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (OCBILs), resulting in fundamentally different patterns that ...
Stephen D. Hopper, Fernando A. O. Silveira   +1 more
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