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Paulo Torres, Ander Larrea Llopis, Carlos Sousa Melo and Armindo Rodrigues
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal particularly susceptible to mobilization by anthropogenic and natural processes. The volcanic nature of oceanic islands in the Macaronesia geographical region such as the Azores archipelago, located near the Mid...
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Cristiana Maduro Dias, Helder Nunes and Alfredo Borba
Nutrition has a very significant impact on animal performance. Given the limited agricultural area of the Azores, the optimization of forage quality, quantity, and availability is key for the local livestock industry?s ability to respond to the challenge...
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Sérgio M. Jesus, Cristiano Soares, Miriam Romagosa, Irma Cascão, Ricardo Duarte, Friedrich Zabel and Mónica A. Silva
Economic globalization and the continuous search for food, energy and raw materials led to an estimated 3 dB/decade increase of ocean noise intensity. Determining the level of anthropogenic noise, the so-called excess noise, and building identifiable mea...
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Pedro Pimentel, Ana Vulevic, Gualter Couto, Arian Behradfar, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez and Rui Alexandre Castanho
The geography over which maritime transportation operates is unique, combining physical, strategic, and commercial imperatives. Physical issues are stable across time, but strategic, especially commercial, considerations continually shift with the ebb an...
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Diana C. G. A. Pinto, Marie L. Lesenfants, Gonçalo P. Rosa, Maria Carmo Barreto, Artur M. S. Silva and Ana M. L. Seca
Asparagopsis armata Harvey is a red alga native from the southern hemisphere and then introduced in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Azores Archipelago, where it is considered an invasive alga. Some studies show that the extrac...
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Filipe Arruda, José S. Rosa, Ana Rodrigues, Luísa Oliveira, Ana Lima, José G. Barroso and Elisabete Lima
This study mainly deals with the effect of hydrodistillation (HD) and water-steam distillation (WSD) methods on the color, yield, and chemical profile of the essential oil (EO) from Cryptomeria japonica fresh leaves from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipe...
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Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Ana Vulevic, Arian Behradfar and Gualter Couto
It is well-known that the ultra-peripheral territories as Islands present several limitations such as the lack of resources, restricted land, mass tourism, and barriers to movement, and connectivity between urban centers. These obstacles make ultra-perip...
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Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gomez, Ana Vulevic and Gualter Couto
Islands as peripheral and ultra-peripheral are typically highlighted as ecologically sensitive areas to human activities due to the tremendous biological diversity of beings and the future possibility of habitat loss. In this regard, the comprehension of...
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Nicolas Vidal, Susanne L. Amsinck, Vítor Gonçalves, José M. Neto Azevedo, Liselotte S. Johansson, Kirsten S. Christoffersen, Torben L. Lauridsen, Martin Søndergaard, Rikke Bjerring, Frank Landkildehus, Klaus P. Brodersen, Mariana Meerhoff and Erik Jeppesen
Disentangling the effects of climate change on nature is one of the main challenges facing ecologists nowadays. Warmer climates forces strong effects on lake biota for fish, leading to a reduction in size, changes in diet, more frequent reproduction, and...
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Andreia Pereira, Miriam Romagosa, Carlos Corela, Mónica A. Silva and Luis Matias
Source level is one factor that determines the effectiveness of animal signal transmissions and their acoustic communication active space. Ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS) are platforms of opportunity to monitor marine species because they record data as ...
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