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Vegetation and checklist of Inaccessible Island, central South Atlantic Ocean, with notes on Nightingale Island

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 1992
The physiography and climate of Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands are briefly discussed. The vegetation and the major plant associations are described. Notes are given on the ecology and distribution of each taxon. Taxa newly recorded for Inaccessible
J. P. Roux, P. G. Ryan, S. J. Milton, C. L. Moloney   +3 more
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Uncovering genetic population structure in the Endangered northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) across islands in the Southern Atlantic and Indian oceans [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Background The northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) is a threatened species, listed as Endangered globally by the IUCN owing to rapid population decreases in the past, combined with a limited distributional range. Their breeding is confined to
Heather Ritchie-Parker, Alex Ball, Trevor Glass, Jean-Marc Costanzi, Thierry Boulinier, Amandine Gamble, Muhammad Ghazali, Karen Keegan, Christophe Barbraud, Charly Bost, Caroline Bost, Jaimie Cleeland, Augustin Clessin, Maelle Connan, Karine Delord, Ben Dilley, Tristan Glass, Christopher W. Jones, Peta Moore, Kate Lawrence, Fabrice LeBouard, Alexis Osborne, Richard A. Phillips, Norman Ratcliffe, Julian Repetto, Michelle Risi, Peter G. Ryan, Brandon Spolander, Shannon Swain, Wayne Swain, Jérémy Tornos, Alex Whittle, Helen Senn, Antje Steinfurth   +33 more
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Integrating palliative care into primary care for older people with multimorbid serious illness: a multinational qualitative cross-sectional study in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Background The WHO primary palliative care strategy states that palliative care is ‘an ethical responsibility of health systems’ and calls for integration of palliative care into public healthcare systems to achieve universal health coverage. We aimed to
Richard Harding, Maya Jane Bates, Lovemore Mupaza, Catherine J Evans, Kennedy Bashan Nkhoma, Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah, Dorothee van Breevoort, Dickson Dick Chifamba, Duncan Kwaitana, Modai Clement Mnenula, Edwina Beryl Addo Opare-Lokko   +10 more
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Improving bereavement outcomes in Zimbabwe: results of a feasibility cluster trial of the 9-cell bereavement tool

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2023
Context Despite high mortality rates from both communicable and non-communicable diseases, bereavement is under-researched in African countries. The 9-cell bereavement tool was designed to assist individuals to reflect on their feelings about bereavement
Barbara Mutedzi, Kennedy Nkhoma, Lisa Langhaug, Jennifer Hunt, Richard Harding   +4 more
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A South Atlantic island record uncovers shifts in westerlies and hydroclimate during the last glacial [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2019
Changes in the latitudinal position and strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies (SHW) are thought to be tightly coupled to important climate processes, such as cross-equatorial heat fluxes, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the ...
S. Björck, S. Björck, J. Sjolte, K. Ljung, F. Adolphi, F. Adolphi, F. Adolphi, R. Flower, R. H. Smittenberg, M. E. Kylander, T. F. Stocker, T. F. Stocker, S. Holmgren, H. Jiang, R. Muscheler, Y. K. K. Afrifa, J. E. Rattray, N. Van der Putten   +17 more
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Breeding biology of two sympatric Nesospiza finches at Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha

Afrotropical Bird Biology: Journal of the Natural History of African Birds, 2021
Nesospiza finches are a classic example of a simple adaptive radiation, with two ecologically distinct forms confined to the Tristan da Cunha Archipelago, South Atlantic Ocean: an abundant, small-billed dietary generalist, and a scarce, large-billed specialist.
Ben J. Dilley, Delia Davies, Heinz E. Ortmann, Trevor Glass, Peter G. Ryan   +4 more
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Test fishing analyses for Nightingale Island

, 2023
Because there was no pre-OLIVA fishing in the month of January 2011, the simpler earlier approach of Johnston (2011) to analyse test fishing data by month to assess the OLIVA impact needs to be refined to be able to include data from January 2012. General Linear Models are used for this purpose; these have the additional advantage that they can take ...
Holloway, Susan, Butterworth, Doug, Brandao, Anabela, Ross-Gillespie, Andrea   +3 more
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Updated 2014 Nightingale island rock lobster assessment

, 2022
This paper provides an updated assessment of the rock lobster resource at Nightingale island. This assessment includes updated data from both the commercial fishery and biomass surveys. The 2014 assessment updates take into account both adult and juvenile mortality due to the OLIVA incident in 2011.
Holloway, Susan, Butterworth, Doug
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Improving bereavement outcomes in Zimbabwe: protocol for a feasibility cluster trial of the 9-cell bereavement tool

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2019
Background The high burden of bereavement in sub-Saharan Africa is largely attributable to HIV, cancer, and other non-communicable diseases. However, interventions to improve grief and bereavement are rare. Given high rates of mortality in the context of
Barbara Mutedzi, Lisa Langhaug, Jennifer Hunt, Kennedy Nkhoma, Richard Harding   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Updated 2015 Nightingale island rock lobster assessment

, 2022
This paper provides an updated assessment of the rock lobster resource at Nightingale island. This assessment includes updated data from both the commercial fishery and biomass surveys. The 2015 assessment updates take into account both possible additional adult and possible juvenile mortality due to the OLIVA incident in 2011.
Holloway, Susan, Butterworth, Doug
openaire   +2 more sources