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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Volcanic islands"”.
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The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island
… declared a nature reserve. Isolated oceanic islands have always presented interesting opportunities for biological research on both the marine mammals and birds which use them for breeding purposes and the resident, often specially adapted, fauna and flora which colonise them. The ice-capped, …
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Turbidity current processes and deposits on the northwest African Margin
… slope apron, although the presence of numerous volcanic islands and seamounts leads to a more complex distribution of sedimentary processes than is accounted for by existing slope apron models.<br/><br/>The Moroccan Turbidite System (MTS) is the largest turbidite system on the margin, with a …
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Seismic imaging of the mantle transition zone
… far away from known down- and up-wellings, the volcanic islands of Hawaii, and the northwest Pacific subduction system. We account for smooth 3D mantle heterogeneity using first-order perturbation theory and independently derived global tomography models. Through integration with mineral physics …
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Dormant Images: Documentary Film, Volcanoes, and the Archive
… and materiality of archival images permits a volcanic reorientation towards the concept and materiality of the archive more broadly, moving beyond a passive, archaeological conceptualisation and towards an understanding of the archive’s dormancy, activity, and eruptive returns. In turn, the …
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Avian population responses to Anthropogenic landscape changes in Pohnpei, Federated Sates of Micronesia
Islands exhibit the planet�s most unique flora and fauna, but the diversity on islands is also vulnerable to impending forces of global change. Scattered across the Pacific Ocean >20,000 islands range from sandspits to large islands and support some of the most unique biotic assemblages. Shaped by …
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Patterns of temporal changes in species composition and diversity in island ecosystems
… of communities’ development. Young oceanic islands offer the unique opportunity of a natural laboratory for the investigation of such processes. The interest in using different facets of biodiversity, in order to understand ecological processes rose over the past years, since there is an …