• The Vanishing and the Establishment of a New Ecosystem on an Oceanic Island: Anthropogenic Impacts With No Return Ticket 

  Ritter, Catarina; Gonçalves, Vítor; Pla-Rabes, Sergi; de Boer, Erik; Bao, Roberto; Sáez, Alberto; Hernández, Armand; Sixto, Marta; Richter, Nora; Benavente, Mario; Prego, Ricardo; Giralt, Santiago; Raposeiro, Pedro (Elsevier, 2022-03-31)

  [Abstract] A multiproxy approach was applied to a sediment core retrieved from the deep crater Lake Funda, located in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean on Flores Island, Azores archipelago (Portugal). The purpose of ...

• Paleotsunami Evidence in the Bahía Inglesa Coast (Atacama, Chile) Based on a Multi-Approach Analysis 

  Carballeira, Rafael; Peña Monne, J. L.; Otero, Xosé Luís; Sampietro-Vattuone, M. M.; Soto-Bauerle, M. V.; Pérez Alberti, Augusto (Springer Nature, 2022-02-24)

  [Abstract] The Atacama coast is located in an area with a current high risk of tsunami, and the sedimentary deposits found in the Bahía Inglesa area, in the Morro sector, clearly indicate that this was also the case in the ...

• The Rapid Effects of Yellow-Legged Gull (Larus michahellis) Colony on Dune Habitats and Plant Landscape in the Atlantic Islands National Park (NW Spain) 

  De la Peña Lastra, Saúl; Torre, Franck; Carballeira, Rafael; Santiso, María José; Pérez Alberti, Augusto; Otero, Xosé Luís (MDPI, 2022-02-09)

  [Abstract] The Atlantic Islands of Galicia Maritime/Terrestrial National Park hosts one of the largest breeding colonies of yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) in the world. In 2002, a new yellow-legged gull breeding ...

• Palaeohistology Reveals a Slow Pace of Life for the Dwarfed Sicilian Elephant 

  Köhler, Meike; Herridge, Victoria; Nacarino-Meneses, Carmen; Fortuny, Josep; Moncunill-Solé, Blanca; Rosso, Antonietta; Sanfilippo, Rossana; Palombo, Maria Rita; Moyà-Solà, Salvador (Springer Nature, 2021-11-24)

  [Abstract] The 1-m-tall dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon falconeri from the Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) is an extreme example of insular dwarfism and epitomizes the Island Rule. Based on scaling of life-history (LH) traits ...

• Tooth and Long Bone Scaling in Sardinian Ochotonids (Early Pleistocene-Holocene): Evidence for Megalodontia and Its Palaeoecological Implications 

  Moncunill-Solé, Blanca; Tuveri, Caterinella; Arca, Marisa; Angelone, Chiara (Elsevier, 2021-09-09)

  [Abstract] Body size is a useful character to unravel the biology of fossil taxa and, indirectly, the palaeoenvironment in which they lived. However, the reliability of size proxies is debated, particularly among insular ...

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