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Flora of the Island of Gorgona (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy)

Webbia, 2011
Summary After centuries of trubled history, in 1869 the Island of Gorgona (Tuscan Archipelago, Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) became a rural penal colony and, as a consequence, of difficult access. At present, with its prison, the island is part of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, created in 1996, the largest marine park in Europe.
openaire   +3 more sources

Emergence, spread, and impact of high-pathogenicity avian influenza H5 in wild birds and mammals of South America and Antarctica. [PDF]

Conserv Biol
Abstract The currently circulating high‐pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the subtype H5 causes variable illness and death in wild and domestic birds and mammals, as well as in humans. This virus evolved from the Goose/Guangdong lineage of the HPAI H5 virus, which emerged in commercial poultry in China in 1996, spilled over into wild birds,
Kuiken T, Vanstreels RET, Banyard A, Begeman L, Breed AC, Dewar M, Fijn R, Serafini PP, Uhart M, Wille M.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Avian influenza overview June-September 2023. [PDF]

EFSA J, 2023
Abstract Between 24 June and 1 September 2023, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) outbreaks were reported in domestic (25) and wild (482) birds across 21 countries in Europe. Most of these outbreaks appeared to be clustered along coastlines with only few HPAI virus detections inland.
European Food Safety Authority, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Union Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza, Adlhoch C, Fusaro A, Gonzales JL, Kuiken T, Mirinavičiūtė G, Niqueux É, Staubach C, Terregino C, Baldinelli F, Rusinà A, Kohnle L.   +13 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Historical Use of Lime in Some Islands of the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy) Where Stone for Lime Is Almost Absent

Geosciences, 2023
The Tuscan Archipelago lies between the Ligurian Sea to the north and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south and between Corsica to the west and the Tuscan coast to the east.
Silvia Rescic, Fabio Fratini, Daniela Pittaluga   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psocoptera (Insecta: Psocodea) from the National Natural Park Gorgona, Cauca, Colombia [PDF]

, 2014
The Psocoptera fauna of Gorgona National Natural Park, Colombian pacific, consists of 75 species in 42 genera and 21 families. 1 730 specimens were collected in the period November 2007-June 2011.
García Aldrete, Alfonso N., González O., Ranulfo, Sarria, Fabio   +2 more
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The Italian wall lizard, Podarcis siculus campestris, unexpected presence on Gorgona Island (Tuscan Archipelago)

Acta Herpetologica, 2022
We here report the unexpected presence of the Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus campestris) on Gorgona Island, in the Parco Nazionale Arcipelago Toscano (Tuscan Archipelago, Tyrrhenian Sea, Tuscany, Central Italy). Field observations were carried out
Marco Alberto Luca Zuffi, Alan J. Coladonato, Gianluca Lombardo, Antonio Torroni, Matilde Boschetti, Stefano Scali, Marco Mangiacotti, Roberto Sacchi   +7 more
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Heterophrynus armiger Pocock, 1902 (Amblypygi: Phrynidae): First record from Colombia, with notes on its historic distribution records and natural history [PDF]

Check List, 2014
The phrynid whip spider Heterophrynus armiger is herein cited for the first time from a precise locality in Colombia. Additional data on its natural history are provided. This species has been found in disturbed and preserved forest areas of Isla Gorgona,
Carlos Víquez, Daniel Chirivi, Jairo Moreno-González, James Christensen   +3 more
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Gardening Pocillopora spp. fragments and their potential for rebuilding reef systems in the southern Mexican Pacific

Restoration Ecology, Volume 31, Issue 8, November 2023., 2023
The degradation of coral reefs during the last decades has turned attention toward management and restoration interventions. This study seeks to operationalize coral gardening of Pocillopora spp. fragments in low profile bottom‐anchored nurseries and to compare survival and growth patterns between sites, time, and fragment size in the southern Mexican ...
Diego García‐Medrano, Andrés López‐Pérez, Sergio Guendulain‐García, Omar Valencia‐Méndez, Rebeca Granja‐Fernández, Tania González‐Mendoza, Pablo Torres‐Hernández   +6 more
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Filling the gaps: first record of the Crown-of-thorns Starfish, Acanthaster planci (Linnaeus, 1758) (Spinulosida: Acanthasteridae), at Gorgona Island, Colombia, Tropical Eastern Pacific [PDF]

Check List, 2017
We report the occurrence of a major corallivore, the Crown-of-thorns Starfish Acanthaster planci, on the coral reefs of Gorgona Island, Tropical Eastern Pacific.
Fernando Zapata, María Palacios, Valentina Zambrano, Melina Rodríguez-Moreno   +3 more
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Kinematics and Convergent Tectonics of the Northwestern South American Plate During the Cenozoic

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 24, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023
Abstract The interaction of the northern Nazca and southwestern Caribbean oceanic plates with northwestern South America (NWSA) and the collision of the Panama‐Choco arc (PCA) have significant implications on the evolution of the northern Andes. Based on a quantitative kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean and Farallon/Farallon‐derived plates, we ...
R. González, O. Oncken, C. Faccenna, E. Le Breton, M. Bezada, A. Mora   +5 more
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