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Soilless Production of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) in the Atacama Desert Using Fog Water: Water Quality and Produce Mineral Composition

open access: yesHorticulturae
Soilless vegetable production in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile is spreading since it is perceived as an alternative that requires much less water than open field soil production.
Francisco Albornoz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

On some land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Los Molles, central Chile

open access: yesRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2016
Among the terrestrial invertebrates, the molluscan species of central and northern Chile have been scarcely studied and here, for the first time, a record of the diversity of land snail species of Los Molles (32◦14' S, 71◦31' W), in the Valparaíso ...
Juan Francisco Araya
doaj   +1 more source

Camelid husbandry in the Atacama Desert? A stable isotope study of camelid bone collagen and textiles from the Lluta and Camarones Valleys, northern Chile.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Management of camelids in the coastal valleys of the Andes has generated much debate in recent years. Zooarchaeological and isotopic studies have demonstrated that in the coastal valleys of northern and southern Peru there were locally maintained camelid
Paul Szpak, Daniela Valenzuela
doaj   +1 more source

A cost‐effective DNA extraction protocol for long‐read sequencing in non‐model plants

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Third‐generation sequencing has revolutionized genomics, enabling in‐depth analysis of genome sequence, structure, and epigenetic features. Yet, extracting high‐quality DNA for long‐read sequencing remains a bottleneck—particularly in non‐model plants, such as mature trees growing in natural environments, which often contain abundant ...
Sofia Gaischuk   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The large carpenter bee Xylocopa augusti (Hymenoptera: Apidae): new record for Chile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The large carpenter bee Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) augusti Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1841, is here recorded for the first time in Chile. This new record increases to four the number of carpenter bees known for the country.
Allendes, Juan L.   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

New records of odontocete and mysticete predation by orcas in the Humboldt current system, South Pacific Ocean

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
Orcas (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predators of the ocean, targeting multiple taxa including teleost fishes, elasmobranchs, seabirds, sea turtles, pinnipeds, odontocetes and other large cetaceans.
Ana M. García-Cegarra   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

First record of Leopardus colocola (Molina, 1782) in Northern Patagonia, Aysén Region, Chile, and behavioral scent-marking observations

open access: yesGayana, 2021
Scarce records of Pampas cats exist in the extreme south of Chile (Patagonia). Through camera traps, we captured the first confirmed record of L. colocola in northern Patagonia of Chile.
Carlos Castro-Pastene, Daniel Cross
doaj  

Relationships between off-bottom bivalve aquaculture and the Magellanic steamer duck Tachyeres pteneres in southern Chile

open access: yesAquaculture Environment Interactions, 2019
The interactions between aquaculture farms and endemic marine birds in the Northern Hemisphere have been a recurrent topic in the past decades. In the Northern Hemisphere, shellfish aquaculture farms have diverse effects on wildlife populations, and the ...
Medina-Vogel, G, Pons, DJ, Schlatter, RP
doaj   +1 more source

Cranial anatomy of a Late Cretaceous aspidorhynchid fish (Neopterygii: Aspidorhynchiformes) from Alberta, Canada

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Belonostomus longirostrisis was named for an isolated jaw fragment from freshwater Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) sediments of the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Following the description of the Albertan species, numerous isolated cranial and postcranial elements have been collected from the Dinosaur Park Formation and assigned to B.
Mondo Miyazato   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

New communities of large filamentous sulfur bacteria in the eastern South Pacific [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
New complex communities of morphologically diverse and sometimes abundant large, multicellular, filamentous bacteria were discovered in the oxygen-deficient, organically laden, shelf sediments under the oxygen minimum zone off the coast of the eastern ...
Carola Espinoza, Víctor A. Gallardo
core   +1 more source

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