Western Mediterranean
Tracking climate variability in the western Mediterranean during the Late Holocene: a multiproxy approach
... the LIA, whereas essentially opposite paleoenvironmental conditions are recognized during the LBA-IA and the MWP. Likewise, the highest TOC values achieved during the late RHP and the LIA point to this time period as by ...
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Sedimentological imprint on subseafloor microbial communities in Western Mediterranean Sea Quaternary sediments
... of Mediterranean Sea ...The Mediterranean Sea is a small size basin, particu- larly sensitive to climatic variations (Rabineau et ...the Western Mediterranean Sea offer an exceptional preser- ...
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Living on the edge: demography of the slender-billed gull in the Western Mediterranean.
... Their Western Mediterranean populations are relatively small and represent the edge of their global geographical ...in Mediterranean areas whereas those from Don˜ana did so in Atlantic coasts, where ...
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Strategy to design the sea-level monitoring networks for small tsunamigenic oceanic basins: the Western Mediterranean case
... of Western Mediterranean, we demonstrate that a network of around 17 coastal tide gages and 13 tsunameters located at 50 km along the shore is re- quired to detect and measure nearly all tsunamis generated ...
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Aerosol properties over the western Mediterranean Basin: temporal and spatial variability
... the western Mediterranean region during this period come from the pol- luted areas of Italy which explains the observed large values of δ a (500 nm) and the predominance of fine mode particles (see for ...
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On the relationship among the Adriatic–Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS), the Eastern Mediterranean salinity variations and the Western Mediterranean thermohaline cell
... the Gulf of Lion do not have to be cooled as much during winter to reach a density high enough to allow the water to sink to great depths. This is also what happened during the event which has been called the ...
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Variability of mineral dust deposition in the western Mediterranean basin and South-East of France
... tions over more than one year. To investigate dust deposition dynamics at the regional scale, five automatic deposition collectors named CARAGA (“Collecteur Automatique de Retombées Atmosphériques insolubles à Grande ...
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First External Quality Assessment of Molecular and Serological Detection of Rift Valley Fever in the Western Mediterranean Region.
... Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis which affects humans and a wide range of domestic and wild ruminants. The large spread of RVF in Africa and its potential to emerge beyond its geographic range ...
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Response of rocky reef top predators (Serranidae: Epinephelinae) in and around marine protected areas in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
... decades, Mediterranean groupers experienced dramatic population ...the Western Mediterranean Sea to protect the populations of three species of grouper, Epinephelus marginatus, Epinephelus costae and ...
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Development of coccolithophore-based transfer functions in the Western Mediterranean Sea: a sea surface salinity reconstruction for the last 15.5 kyr
... tire dataset when calculating the species optima, only the most taxonomically similar analogs, being more sensitive to local conditions (Telford and Birks, 2009). Fossil sam- ples lack good analogs for the H2 and H1, ...
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Border Externalization in the Western Mediterranean: Mobilities, Violence and the Politics of Compassion
... Las políticas de la compasión (Uehling 2014) son otra más forma sobre control de la movilidad y un elemento más en los procesos de externalización fronteriza.. A tra- vés de políticas fi[r] ...
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Sensitivity analysis of runoff modeling to statistical downscaling models in the western Mediterranean
... Comparison of (a) the 5 % daily high flows and (b) the 80 % daily low flows simulated with REF data, RAW (NCEP or GCM) data, and the three downscaling methods (applied to NCEP, CNRM and [r] ...
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Biodiversity and conservation planning of the amphibians and reptiles in the Western Mediterranean Basin
... Webb et al. 2002; Wiens and Donoghue 2004). Most of these studies have not addressed the potential of comparative phylogeography to understand community structure, probably due to a lack of molecular data fo multiple ...
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Volatile organic compounds in the western Mediterranean basin: urban and rural winter measurements during the DAURE campaign
... Abstract. Atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have key environmental and biological roles, but little is known about the daily VOC mixing ratios in Mediterranean urban and natural environments. We ...
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Holocene climate variability in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions)
... The density of sub-surface waters also plays a role in the convection process. High heat and salt contents of the LIW underlying surface waters in the Gulf of Lions can act as a pre-conditioning factor to enhance ...
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Genetic and oceanographic tools reveal high population connectivity and diversity in the endangered pen shell Pinna nobilis
... Sampling. To investigate the genetic structure of P. nobilis, tissue samples from 6 localities (134 indi- viduals in total; sample sizes detailed in Table 1) in the Western Mediterranean Sea (Fig. 1). ...
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A comparative study of the feeding ecology of Nephrops norvegicus (L.), (Decapoda : Nephropidae) in the bathyal Mediterranean and the adjacent Atlantic
... East Mediterranean Sea (Zariquiey-Álvarez, ...the Mediterranean extends from the continental shelf to bathyal grounds, reaching depths of 871 m in the western Mediterranean (Abelló et ...
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The representation of dust transport and missing urban sources as major issues for the simulation of PM episodes in a Mediterranean area
... that Mediterranean air masses ar- riving at our domain on 21 June are associated with low val- ues of the 440–870 Angstrom coefficient, which clearly iden- tifies a dust event during the 15–19 June period, most ...
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A study of the 1 and 2 January 2010 sea-storm in the Ligurian Sea
... over Western Europe generated a very extended and strong southerly pressure gradient on the whole West- ern Mediterranean Sea with a resulting very rough to high sea ...(North Western ...
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Analysis of flash flood regimes in the North-Western and South-Eastern Mediterranean regions
... two Mediterranean areas: the North- Western Mediterranean region, which includes Catalonia, France and Northern Italy, and the South-Eastern Mediter- ranean region, which includes ...
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