The chronology of the human colonization of the Canary Islands

J Santana, M Del Pino, J Morales, R Fregel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The human colonization of the Canary Islands represents the sole known expansion of
Berber communities into the Atlantic Ocean and is an example of marine dispersal carried …

Future-proofing environmental DNA and trait-based predictions of food webs

CL Pereira, Z Ersoy, MTP Gilbert, D Gravel… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Food webs represent trophic interactions within ecosystems. Matching traits of consumers
and resources helps infer trophic interactions and food-web properties. Environmental (e) …

Pan-European study of genotypes and phenotypes in the Arabidopsis relative Cardamine hirsuta reveals how adaptation, demography, and development shape …

L Baumgarten, B Pieper, B Song, S Mane, J Lempe… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
We study natural DNA polymorphisms and associated phenotypes in the Arabidopsis
relative Cardamine hirsuta. We observed strong genetic differentiation among several …

Long-term hydroclimate variability in the sub-tropical North Atlantic and anthropogenic impacts on lake ecosystems: A case study from Flores Island, the Azores

N Richter, JM Russell, L Amaral-Zettler… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human land use and climate change threaten ecosystems and natural resources,
particularly on remote islands such as the Azores Archipelago in the North Atlantic. Since …

[LLIBRE][B] Island biogeography: geo-environmental dynamics, ecology, evolution, human impact, and conservation

RJ Whittaker, JM Fernández-Palacios, TJ Matthews - 2023 - books.google.com
Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Archaeological research in the Canary Islands: Island archaeology off Africa's Atlantic coast

PJ Mitchell - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2024 - Springer
Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African
contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African …

Global warming triggers abrupt regime shifts in island lake ecosystems in the Azores Archipelago

S Pla-Rabes, MG Matias, V Gonçalves… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Global warming significantly alters lake ecosystems worldwide. However, the effects of
warming at a regional scale are often overlooked due to the scarcity of multidecadal to …

Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally

A Walentowitz, B Lenzner, F Essl, N Strandberg… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐mediated changes in island vegetation are, among others, largely caused by the
introduction and establishment of non‐native species. However, data on past changes in …

Late Holocene human population change revealed by fecal stanol records and its response to environmental evolution at **ada Co on the western Tibetan Plateau

X Li, S Liu, K Ji, X Hou, K Yuan, J Hou, J Niu… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
An in-depth understanding of the relationship between anthropogenic activity and climate
change under extreme climate conditions could provide a scientific basis and historical …

[HTML][HTML] The vanishing and the establishment of a new ecosystem on an oceanic island–Anthropogenic impacts with no return ticket

C Ritter, V Gonçalves, S Pla-Rabes, EJ de Boer… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A multiproxy approach was applied to a sediment core retrieved from the deep crater Lake
Funda, located in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean on Flores Island, Azores …