The echinoderm fauna of Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean

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

Subterranean Fauna of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

The subterranean environment of Christmas Island is diverse and includes freshwater, marine, anchialine, and terrestrial habitats. The cave fauna comprises swiftlets, and a diverse assemblage of invertebrates, both terrestrial and aquatic, which includes a number of rare and endemic species of high conservation significance. At least twelve species are probably restricted to subterranean habita...

A New Subfossil Night Heron and a New Genus for the Extinct Rail from Ascension Island, Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean

Ascension (Figs. 1, 2) is a recent volcanic island some 10 km in diameter lying at 07°57'S 14°22'W in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean 350 nautical miles south of the Equator. When discovered in 1501 it had a poor flora and terrestrial fauna, but many breeding seabirds presumably feeding along the equatorial current system (Bourne & Simmons 2001). The birds' destruction may have begun when B...

Description of Alpheus cedrici sp. n., a strikingly coloured snapping shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean

Alpheus cedricisp. n. is described based on two specimens collected under rocks while scuba diving off the coast of Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean. The new species belongs to the Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835) species complex and appears to be most closely related to the eastern-central Atlantic Alpheus macrocheles, the western Atlantic Alpheus amblyonyx Chace, 1972, and the ea...

South Atlantic Ocean deep circulation

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