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Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The costs and benefits of European Imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the Treaty of Lusaka, 1974.Twelfth International Economic History Congress. Madrid, 1998.Patrick K.
O'Brien, Patrick K.   +1 more
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China and the Spanish Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEn este artículo argumentamos que Ming China desempeñó un papel fundamental en el auge y decadencia del Imperio español. La demanda china de plata permitió elevados beneficios hasta 1640.
Atwell   +50 more
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Nineteenth-Century Bahia\u27s Passion for British Salted Cod: From the Seas of Newfoundland to the Portuguese Shops of Salvador\u27s Cidade Baixa, 1822-1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dried cod has played a similar role to sugar in the international chain of commerce. It became a major traded commodity between British North America (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Gaspe) in the nineteenth century.
Herold, Marc W.
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The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

El arbitrismo sobre la América portuguesa y la herencia de los Austrias (1620-1655)

open access: yesMélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2018
This article examines the approach of arbitristas to Portuguese America, underlining the ties between the Iberian empires. Following on the Dutch invasions of Bahía (1624/25) and Pernambuco (1630), the arbitristas who wrote about Brazil produced various ...
Vinícius Dantas
doaj   +1 more source

User's Profile of a Portuguese Thermal Establishment: Empirical Study

open access: yesInternational Conference on Tourism Research, 2022
The thermal tradition plays an important role for society by naturally promoting and improving individuals' well-being. Thermal treatments help cure diseases and prevent pathologies, including mental and social ones, providing users with a better quality of life.
Márcia Vaz   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pursuing Empire: Brazilians, the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620-1660

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Review of Cátia A.P. Antunes, ed., Pursuing Empire: Brazilians, the Dutch and the Portuguese in Brazil and the South Atlantic, c.1620-1660, Leiden: Brill, 2022, reviewed by Stuart B ...
Stuart B. Schwartz
doaj   +1 more source

Colonialism, christians and sport : the catholic church and football in Goa, 1883-1951 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The chapter uses the development of football in Goa, the Portuguese colony in India until 1961, as a case study with which to critique existing histories of sport and colonialism.
Mills, James
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