Marine benthic algal flora of Ascension Island, South Atlantic

Inter- and Intra-beach Thermal Variation for Green Turtle Nests on Ascension Island, South Atlantic

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...

Investigation of the Benthic Marine Flora of Hood Canal, Washington

HOOD CANAL is a fjord (Kollmeyer, 1965) connected to Puget Sound (Fig. 1) . Water in the canal was reported as highly stratified owing to a large volume of freshwater runoff from the Olympic Mountains (Kollmeyer, 1965). The water mass is relatively isolated from that of Puget Sound proper by an entrance sill at Vinland, 44 meters deep, 22.36 km (12 nautical miles) south of Admiralty Inlet. Owin...

Some case histories from Ascension Island.

THE physician of today is aware of the numerous adverse effects and potential hazards of modern drug therapy, and it is both refreshing and instructive to look back to the days when the physician's 'armentarium' of therapeutic agents was of 'narrow spectrum', and when many of the 'drugs' available were basically only of 'nutritive' value. Such retrospective views, even though they are often bri...

South Atlantic island record reveals a South Atlantic response to the 8.2 kyr event

South Atlantic island record reveals a South Atlantic response to the 8.2 kyr event K. Ljung, S. Björck, H. Renssen, and D. Hammarlund Geobiosphere Science Centre, Department of Geology, Quaternary Sciences, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands Received: 24 April 20...