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In defence of the entity of Macaronesia as a biogeographical region
Fernández‐Palacios, José María; Otto, Rüdiger; Capelo, Jorge; Caujapé‐Castells, Juli; de Nascimento, Lea; Duarte, Maria Cristina; Elias, Rui B.Since its coinage ca. 1850 AD by Philip Barker Webb, the biogeographical region of Macaronesia, consisting of theNorth Atlantic volcanic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira with the tiny Selvagens, the Canaries and Cabo Verde, andfor some authors different continental coastal strips, has been under dispute. Herein, after a brief introduction on the termi-nology and purpose of regionalism, we recover the origins...
14,000 years of climatic and anthropogenic change in the Afromontane forest of ...
Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro; F. De Lima, Ricardo; Benitez Bosco, Laura; Castillo Armas, Rosa Delia; Strandberg, Nichola; Stévart, Tariq; de Nascimento, LeaSão Tomé (Gulf of Guinea, Central Africa) is a 854 km2 tropical island that had a pivotal role in early European colonial expansion through the Atlantic between the 15th and 16th centuries. Historical sources suggest that native vegetation has been heavily impacted since human arrival (1470 CE) due to monoculture economies and the introduction of mammals and plants, some of which now have established wild popul...
Oceanic Island forests buried by Holocene (Meghalayan) explosive eruptions: pal...
Góis-Marques, Carlos A.; Rubiales, Jose M.; de Nascimento, Lea; Menezes de Sequeira, Miguel; Fernández-Palacios, Jose Maria; Madeira, JoséIn Faial Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean), charcoalified and mummified wood fossils have been reported within late Holocene (Meghalayan) pyroclastic deposits from the Caldeira Formation. Due to their recent age, a detailed study conveys a snapshot into Azorean palaeophytodiversity and palaeovegetation, ca. 7–5 centuries before the arrival of Portuguese settlers to the Azores Islands. Here we pr...
Global change in microcosms: Environmental and societal predictors of land cove...
Norder, Sietze J.; F. De Lima, Ricardo; de Nascimento, Lea; Lim, Jun Y.; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Romeiras, Maria M.; Elias, Rui B.Islands contribute enormously to global biodiversity, but their species and ecosystems are highly threatened and often confined to small patches of remaining native vegetation. Islands are thus ideal microcosms to study the local dimensions of global change. While human activities have drastically transformed most islands, the extent to which societal and environmental conditions shape differences in land cover...
A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Th...
Patiño, Jairo; Whittaker, Robert J.; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Fernández-Palacios, José María; Ah-Peng, Claudine; Araújo, Miguel B.; Ávila, Sergio P.