Two species of stick insects are currently known to be present in the Macaronesian archipelagos: Clonopsis gallica (Charpentier) (Phasmatodea: Bacillidae) on the Canary Islands and in the Azores and Carausius morosus (Sinéty) (Phasmatidae) in the Azores. Here, we provide the first reliable records of the presence and distribution of C. gallica and C. morosus on Madeira Island. Egg and adult sta...

The Azores Water Plan (AWP) came to force in year 2003 in order to provide a coherent set of measures to protect and enhance water resources in the archipelago. The AWP was developed according to EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and a close relationship can be found between goals on both documents. The evaluation of results associated to AWP implementation, made possible through a consultatio...

Urinary bladder tumours in cattle are caused by chronic ingestion of bracken fern and BPV-1/2 infection. The objective of the present study was to assess if BPV-2 was present in urinary bladder lesions from cattle with chronic enzootic haematuria (CEH) from the Azores archipelago (Portugal), in order to gain further information regarding the epidemiologic distribution of this virus. Samples wer...

Si, por un lado, el archipiélago de las Azores tiene una larga relación con América, incluso antes que se constituyeran algunos sus Estados, como los Estados Unidos y Canadá, otro impulso similar, ha establecido Europa, África otras islas del mismo océano Atlántico, destacándose más recientemente camino integración europea han emprendido Azores. A partir la revisión bibliográfica contribuciones...

One condition to perform seismic hazard analysis is knowledge about seismogenic zones that an invaluable source of information and play important role because it fundamental know the processes properties control zone. The aim this work distinguishing in Azores region applying different parameters such as earthquake density, b-values, focal mechanism, historical seismicity all these conjugated w...

National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Danish Technical University-Aqua, Charlottenlund, Denmark, 2 AZTI-Tecnalia, Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/gZ/G, Sukarrieta, Spain, MASTS Marine Population Modelling Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, MARE, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University o...