|
|
|
|
|
Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón, Juan Ramón Fernández-Vera, Jose Manuel Hernández-Moreno and María del Pino Palacios-Díaz
In the Canary Islands, there is a hydrological imbalance between water consumption and renewable water availability. To provide more water resources, reverse osmosis (RO) from seawater is used. As boron (B) contents in irrigation water higher than 0.7 mg...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Carlos Matos, Pedro Cabrera, José A. Carta and Noemi Melián-Martel
Water scarcity is a global problem that particularly affects islands located in arid regions or regions with limited water resources. This issue has prompted the development of non-conventional water sources such as fossil fuel-powered desalination syste...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
J. Feo-García, A. Pulido-Alonso, A. Florido-Betancor and N. R. Florido-Suárez
The analysis of energy consumption in reverse osmosis desalination plants is the most important and relevant factor to study, because this parameter indicates the level of efficiency and competitiveness of the plant. The direct consequence of the high sp...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Alberto Gutiérrez, Enrique Lozano-Bilbao, Ángel J. Gutiérrez-Fernández, Soraya Paz-Montelongo, Dailos González-Weller, Carmen Rubio-Armendáriz, Daniel Niebla-Canelo, Samuel Alejandro-Vega and Arturo Hardisson
The objective of this study was to study whether the metal concentrations in Sparisoma cretense and Serranus atricauda differ between different coastal areas around the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands and to study whether these species are good bioind...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Manuel Vargas-Yáñez, Elena Tel, Marta Marcos, Francina Moya, Enrique Ballesteros, Cristina Alonso and M. Carmen García-Martínez
We present an attempt to estimate the long-term changes in Relative Sea Level (RSL), in addition to the different factors contributing to such trends on a local and regional scale, using a statistical linear model. The time series analysis corresponded t...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Silvana Neves, Yann Doh, Simona Sacchini, Eric Delory, Antonio Fernández and Ayoze Castro-Alonso
The MARCET project (MAC/1.1b/149) aims to monitor the health status of resident cetaceans in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of particular interest for whale-watching in Macaronesia. This study, performed in the Canary Islands, Spain, used an autono...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ángel Rivero-Falcón, Baltasar Peñate Suárez and Noemi Melián-Martel
The most recent years of research have shifted the perception of desalination brine from being waste to a high-value resource, in consonance with a circular economy perspective. The Canary Islands, containing the largest number of desalination plants per...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sergio Leyva, Noelia Cruz-Pérez, Jesica Rodríguez-Martín and Juan C. Santamarta
Due to their genesis, volcanic rocks present some singularities that make their geotechnical characteristics significantly different from other more common types of massifs, such as sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The formation mechanisms of volcanic ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ángel Rivero-Falcón, Baltasar Peñate Suárez and Noemi Melián-Martel
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
David Castro, Pablo Estévez, José Manuel Leao-Martins, Robert W. Dickey, Natalia García-Álvarez, Fernando Real, Pedro Reis Costa and Ana Gago-Martínez
Ciguatoxins (CTXs) are naturally occurring neurotoxins that can accumulate in fish and cause Ciguatera Poisoning (CP) in seafood consumers. Ciguatoxic fish have been detected in tropical and subtropical regions of the world including the Pacific and Indi...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|