Azores Archipelago (Portugal)
Multidrug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serovar Rissen Clusters Detected in Azores Archipelago, Portugal
... from Azores strongly suggests the spread of the circulating clones throughout the Portuguese territory, with a putative origin in Azores, particularly from pig holding ...the Azores ...
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First record of Alosa fallax (Lacépède, 1803) (Teleostei: Clupeiformes:Clupeidae) in the Azores Archipelago, Portugal (NE Atlantic)
... This note reports the first record of Alosa fallax (Lacépède, 1803) in the Azores Archipelago (NE Atlantic, Portugal). Being an anadromous species, this occurrence is quite unexpected since there are no ...
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Understanding and mapping local conflicts related to protected areas in small islands: a case study of the Azores archipelago
... the Azores Archipelago (Portugal), part of the Outermost European region, was considered a good case to study conservation-development conflicts due to the amount of designated protected land (> 35% of ...
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Developing a Planning and Management System for Protected Areas on Small Islands (The Azores Archipelago, Portugal): the SMARTPARKS Project
... Small islands are ipso facto largely coastal entities (Saffache & Angelelli, 2010). Island ecosystems are inherently vulnerable systems, and anthropogenic pressures, such as land use changes, are one of the main ...
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Hypercysteinemia as a potencial risk factor for coronary artery disease in Azores archipelago, Portugal
... Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the largest cause of morbidity and premature death worldwide and are estimated to cost the EU economy almost €196 billion a year, of which €60 billion with coronary ...
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Phylogenetic analysis of the family Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Azores Archipelago (NE Atlantic)
... – Azores and Madeira – making them ideal to test the theoretical hypothesis (Ávila, 2013, ...the Azores Archipelago and later reached Madeira ...the Azores Archipelago as a source in ...
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Occurrence of Grammicolepis brachiusculus Poey, 1873 (Pisces: Grammicolepididae) in the Azores Archipelago
... 2002). However, the pathways used by these species to reach remote oceanic areas, such as the seamounts south of the Azores (Shcherbachev et al. 1985; Ublein et al. 1999; Fock et al. 2002) and the Azores ...
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Fish larvae and zooplankton biomass around Faial Island (Azores archipelago). A preliminary study of species occurrence and relative abundance.
... (Azores archipelago, NE Atlantic), to a depth of 100 m, between February and June 1998, covering the spawning period of a number of commercially important fish ...the Azores may be similar to the one ...
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Marine palaeo-ecological and depositional processes on the shallow-waters of the Azores archipelago: the mobile Ostracoda (Crustacea) and the sessile Bryozoa as case-studies
... the Azores), as we believe, then the top of the deposit is penecontemporaneous with its base and the palaeo-water depth inferred through the overlying volcanic structure (~45 m) could be extended to the underlying ...
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Biogeographic origin of the common green lacewings (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae) of the Azores archipelago, through morphology analysis
... the Azores (Portugal) since it has been regarded as a complex of sibling species in Europe and North ...the Azores through courtship song analysis, is morphologically similar to the two other Palaearctic ...
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Description of some new syntaxa from the Azores archipelago
... The Azores is probably the last European territory to require a high ranking formal ...of Azores, following the methods and concepts of the Zurich-Montpellier school, and the rules of the Interna- tional ...
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Differences in spatial distribution of two small delphinids (Delphinus delphis and Stenella frontalis) in two islands of the Azores Archipelago
... The archipelago of the Azores represents a special area of cetacean ocurrence, mostly due to its oceanic nature. In this area two small delphinids, the common dolphin and the Atlantic spotted dolphin, the ...
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First record of the Mediterranean asteroid Sclerasterias richardi (Perrier in Milne-Edwards 1882) in the Azores Archipelago (NE Atlantic Ocean)
... the Azores, ...the Azores (Martins 2009; Martins & Xavier 2014), clearly indicates that further sampling is needed to answer the open questions on dispersion and colonization herein ...
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Morphometry of the epidermis of an invasive megascoelecid earthworm (Amynthas gracilis, Kinberg 1867) inhabiting actively volcanic soils in the Azores archipelago
... The earthworm epidermis consists of supporting and basal cells, plus at least two types of mucus-secreting goblet cells with overlying cuticle (Jamieson, 1981). The integument is highly permeable, and not only serves as ...
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Historical and contemporaneous human-mediated processes left a strong genetic signature on honey bee populations from the Macaronesian archipelago of the Azores
... Historical and anecdotal reports describe two important honey bee introduction events in the Azores archipelago. The first one dates back to the fifteenth century when the Portuguese colonized the islands, ...
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Fossil Whales from the Azores
... Atlantic Azores Archipelago is well-renowned for its rich fauna of living cetaceans (Reiner et ...volcanic archipelago with a signifi- cant sedimentary ...the Azores and mainland Portugal (see ...
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Diversity and distribution of arthropods in native forests of the Azores archipelago
... the archipelago or new species to science and waiting to be described by taxonomists), precautions were taken to ensure that they corresponded to unique species, distinct from others unnamed or described in the ...
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In vitro germination of four herbaceous species endemic to the Azores archipelago
... Silva, L., M. Moura, H. Schaefer, F. Rumsey & E. Dias 2010. Lista das plantas vasculares (Tracheobionta). Pp. 117-146 in: Borges, P.A.V., Costa, A., Cunha, R., Gabriel, R., Gonçalves, V., Martins, A.F., Melo, I., ...
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Designing a shipboard line transect survey to estimate cetacean abundance off the Azores archipelago
... Three options for double platform survey effort were presented to guide project managers in the implementation of a shipboard survey design in the Azores. All these excluded sperm whales (P. macrocephalus) from ...
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Selection of priority areas for arthropod conservation in the Azores archipelago
... the Azores archi- pelago was used to determine the minimum optimal set of native forest fragments needed to accomplish four different targets of species occurrence (presence-absence) and abundance (20, 50 and 80%) ...
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