The privileged location of Santa Maria Island (Azores archipelago) in the middle of the North
Atlantic makes the fossiliferous outcrops on this island of utmost importance to gain a better …

The growth and decay of ocean-island volcanoes are intrinsically linked to vertical
movements. While the causes for subsidence are better understood, uplift mechanisms …

Species richness of six pasture arthropod assemblages (total arthropod species, total
herbivore species, sucking and chewing herbivores, total predatory species and spiders) …

Aim RJ Whittaker et al. recently proposed a 'general dynamic model of oceanic island
biogeography'(GDM), providing a general explanation of island biodiversity patterns by …

Shelves from volcanic ocean islands result from the competition between two main
processes, wave erosion that forms and enlarges them and volcanic progradation that …

Em face das suas peculiares características geológicas, em sentido lato, o arquipélago dos
Açores constitui um autêntico laboratório natural para uma diversidade de estudos na área …

The extents of volcanic island shelves result from surf erosion, which enlarges them, and
volcanic progradation, which reduces them. However, mass‐wasting, tectonics and …

Massive fossil shell accumulations require particular conditions to be formed and may
provide valuable insights into the sedimentary environments favouring such concentrations …

The Azores Archipelago is a group of isolated islands located in the North Atlantic Ocean.
One of these oceanic islands–Santa Maria–exhibits marine fossiliferous sediments of late …

The Azores are well-renowned for their rich fauna of living cetaceans. Less known, however,
is the occurrence of Late Neogene fossils of whales in Santa Maria, the only island in this …