Eugenia Caballero Rodrı́guez,* M. Araceli Hidalgo Rodrı́guez, Jorge Herrero Collantes, Carlos Enrique Garcı́a Franco c a Servicio de Cirugı́a Gral. y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain b Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Servicio de Cirugı́a Torácica, ...

Alberto Dominguez-Rodriguez,* Pedro Abreu-Gonzalez, and Russel J. Reiter a Servicio de Cardiologı́a, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Cuesta, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain Departamento de Fisiologı́a, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias, Spain Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center a...

Faecal DNA isolation identifies two Columba species P. M rrero et al. Short communic Molecular identification of two threatened pigeon species (Columbidae) using faecal samples PATRICIA MARRERO, 1 * VICENTE M. CABRERA, 2 DAVID P. PADILLA 1 & MANUEL NOGALES 1 1 Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, IPNA-CSIC, La Laguna E-38206, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 2 Department of Genetics, Uni...

Departamento de Anatomía, Anatomía Patológica e Histología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain, Departamento de Biotecnología, Instituto de Investigación y Ciencias de Puerto del Rosario, Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias, Spain and Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Ten...

Antonio G. González, Elsa M. Rodrí guez Pérez, Consuelo E. Hernández Padrón*, and Jaime Bermejo Barrera Centro de Productos Naturales Orgänicos Antonio Gonzalez, I.P.N.A. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas Carretera La Esperanza 2, La Laguna, 38206 Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain * Departamento de Botanica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, S...

Abstract Tenerife Island, has a wide environmental diversity due to its altitude (3718m at its highest point) and to the climatic differences between its windward and leeward slopes. This work studies the changes in the natural soil quality along environmental gradients on the Tenerife Island and how this natural quality is modified by man’s effect on the ecosystem. For this purpose, a total of...

This case study is a human factors analysis of the aircraft collisionwhich occurred at the LosRodeos airport in Tenerife, on the Canary Islands. The collision between two 747 jumbo jets cost the lives of 583 people. This collision is an example of how large scale disasters result from errorsmade by people in crucial circumstances and illustrates the potentially devastating consequences of ineff...

The island of Tenerife covers 203,000 hectares and has a resident population of 685,582. Approximately 12,500 hunting licenses are issued each year. There are 158,351 hectares currently available for hunting once security zones and protected areas have been excluded, resulting in a theoretical density of nearly 13 hectares per hunter. This excessive pressure has an impact on the following speci...