Marine algal flora of Flores and Corvo Islands, Azores

The marine algal (seaweed) flora of the Azores: additions and amendments

Thirteen species of benthic marine algae are reported new for the isolated mid-Atlantic Azores archipelago and five older records are confirmed. Seven (Bangia atropurpurea, Codium fragile spp. tomentosoides, Ectocarpus fasciculatus, E. siliculosus, Porphyrostromium ciliare, Ulothrix flacca and Ulvaria oxysperma) are widespread amphi-Atlantic species some of which extend in distributional range ...

Birds from the Azores: An updated list with some comments on species distribution

BACKGROUND An updated checklist of the Birds of the Azores is presented based on information compiled from Rodrigues et al. (2010) and from the websites, Azores Bird Club. (2014), Aves dos Açores (2014) Azores Bird Sightings (2014) and Vittery (2014), since 2010. NEW INFORMATION The checklist has a total of 414 species, including 38 new species. Almost half of the species and subspecies that ...

Contribution to the Marine Algal Flora of San Felix Island, Desventuradas Archipelago, Chile!

Only 12 species of marine algae were known until now from the Desventuradas Archipelago. A recent collection added 10 species yielding a total of six Chlorophyta, nine Phaeophyta, and seven Rhodophyta. Only one species, Padina tristromatica Levring, is endemic. More than half of the representatives are in common with the flora of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, but only five species are also fo...

The Flora of the Aran Islands

The floristic results are presented of a number of expeditions to the Aran Islands made during the years 1969-1976 by the author and by Professor Moore, Mr. White and other members of the Botany Department of University College, Dublin, and a few other helpers. They are critically compared with the results obtained by nineteenth-century explorers of the islands; the numerous discrepancies are a...

Relating Crustal Structure and Stress Indicators in the Azores Islands