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Search and rescue (SAR) refers to every operation aiming to find someone presumed lost, sick, or injured in remote or hard-to-access areas. This study presents the design of an operational system that supports maritime SAR emergencies by combining ...
Pablo Córdova, Raúl P. Flores
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Excavation at Aguas Buenas, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, of a gunpowder magazine and the supposed campsite of Alexander Selkirk, together with an account of early navigational dividers [PDF]
Excavations were undertaken of a ruined building at Aguas Buenas, identified as an 18th-century Spanish gunpowder magazine. Evidence was also found for the campsite of an early European occupant of the island.
Anderson R.G.W. +17 more
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Variabilidad climática y bioclimas de la Región de Valparaíso, Chile [PDF]
The Valparaíso Region in its continental area is located under the influence of a Mediterraneanclimate. Analyses of data from meteorological stations and climatic surfaces suggest that elevationand topographical position respect to Andes and Coastal ...
Luebert, Federico, Pliscoff, Patricio
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Oceanic islands lacking connections to other land are extremely isolated from sources of potential colonists and have acquired their biota mainly through dispersal from geographically distant areas.
Claudio A González-Wevar +3 more
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Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation [PDF]
Aim: Higher-elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to test the generality of the predicted pattern.
Ah-Peng, Claudine +34 more
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Differential temporal beta‐diversity patterns of native and non‐native arthropod species in a fragmented native forest landscape [PDF]
An important factor that hinders the management of non‐native species is a general lack of information regarding the biogeography of non‐natives, and, in particular, their rates of turnover.
Borges, Paulo A. V. +4 more
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Transcriptome Sequencing and Simple Sequence Repeat Marker Development for Three Macaronesian Endemic Plant Species [PDF]
© 2016 White et al. Published by the Botanical Society of America. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC-SA).
Carine, MA +3 more
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A new taxonomic status is proposed for the fern Hymenophyllum ferrugineum, for which two subspecies are recognized based on morphological and biogeography data.
Roberto Rodríguez +2 more
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Citogenética de angiospermas chilenas: Avances y proyecciones [PDF]
Cytogenetic data on Chilean angiosperms have been reported since at least eight decades ago; however, much of this information is disperse in diverse sources and is not readily available as a comprehensive document that allows having a general vision on ...
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A new endemic species, Centaurodendron schilleri, is described from the Juan Fernández Archipelago, Chile. This is the third species of the endemic genus, Centaurodendron, which is closely related to Plectocephalus of the Chilean mainland.
Diego N. Penneckamp +9 more
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