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What can the Gulf of Mexico and Panama tell us about education and outreach?
Fredericq, Suzanne; Wysor, B.; Freshwater, D.W.; Krayesky-Self, S.; Collin, R.; Sauvage, Thomas; Richards, Joseph; Gabriel, Daniela; Arakaki, NataliaABSTRACT: A series of research grants funded by the National Science Foundation involved a major component about education and outreach as it pertained to marine algal diversity. These included comprehensive studies into 1) the diversity of the deep bank marine algae in the Gulf of Mexico (NSF Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories program) and the discovery of unsuspected eukaryotic life inhabiting rhodolith for...
O contributo do Parque Ecológico do Funchal para a literacia científica
Nunes, João; Camacho, Olga; Silva, CarlosEm 1994, a Câmara Municipal do Funchal, cria oficialmente o Parque Ecológico do Funchal, iniciando desde logo um conjunto de medidas e ações, tendo por objetivos primordiais a conservação da natureza, a promoção e divulgação da biodiversidade, a dinamização das ações de educação ambiental e a substituição das áreas ocupadas pelas espécies invasoras por espécies nativas. Nos anos de 2010 e 2016, dois incêndios f...
Kelps’ long-distance dispersal: role of ecological/oceanographic processes and ...
Batista, Manuela; Batista Anderson, Antônio; Franzan Sanches, Paola; Polito, Paulo; Lima Silveira, Thiago; Velez-Rubio, Gabriela; Scarabino, FabrizioLong-distance dispersal is one of the main drivers structuring the distribution of marine biodiversity. This study reports the first occurrence of Macrocystis pyrifera and Durvillaea antarctica rafts on the southwestern warm temperate coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Our results indicate that an extreme meteo-oceanographic event, characterized by a northward, displacement of cold sub-Antarctic oceanic waters driven...