SUNSHINE IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.

Sunshine and the cardiovascular benefits – a dose of sunshine!

Population structure of loggerhead shrikes in the California Channel Islands.

The loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), a songbird that hunts like a small raptor, maintains breeding populations on seven of the eight California Channel Islands. One of the two subspecies, L. l. anthonyi, was described as having breeding populations on six of the islands while a second subspecies, L. l. mearnsi, was described as being endemic to San Clemente Island. Previous genetic stud...

Plumbian tennantite from Sark, Channel Islands

TI~E island of Sark comprises two unequal parts; the larger northern portion (Great Sark) is composed dominantly of Precambrian metamorphic rocks. I t is joined by the narrow ridge of La Coup6e to Little Sark in the south. Little Sark is composed of foliated granitic rocks of Late Precambrian age (Sutton and Watson, I957), which, like all the rocks of the island, are cut by numerous dykes and f...

Sunshine on MS

tion, and thought that visual solar radiation might provide protection from developing MS. In 1970, a study from Switzerland (which is on a similar latitude in the northern hemisphere as Tasmania is in the southern hemisphere) [5] showed a higher clinical RR in winter and spring months, and a later study (also from the northern hemisphere) [6] of seasonal fluctuations in Gd-enhancing lesions on...

An Ecosystem Management Approach for the Santa Barbara Channel Islands

Scientists have documented the general decline in the health of marine ecosystems. The human impacts on marine ecosystems are forcing resource agencies and scientists to rethink how society manages ocean and coastal systems. Since the 1960s, the scientific and intellectual basis of an ecosystem-based approach to manage and restore landscapes has been developing with state and federal resource a...