Abstract In 2014 the Island of El Hierro (Canary Islands) was declared a Geopark Unesco network, thus becoming first UNESCO geopark Canary Islands. The geological history can be understood through visit 61 geosites, which are representative growth and destruction an oceanic in intraplate environment. heritage represented by these geosites has as foremost exponents those related to formation meg...

grinoides ranges from the Canary Islands eastwards across some areas of North Africa, the Middle East and some parts of central Asia (Fergusson-Lees and Christie, 2002). It has characteristic plumage patterns and morphometric differences with respect to the rest of peregrine subspecies, but genetic variation is quite low in the peregrinus/pelegrinoides group, and it could be treated as a subspe...

The modern cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) was fi rst recorded in Europe in the Canary Islands in 1567, but its origin has long been in dispute. Two competing hypotheses have proposed an “Andean” area (somewhere from the Andean uplands from Venezuela to northern Argentina) or a lowland south-central “Chilean” area, but the Andean origin hypothesis is today generally accepted. The ident...

Sperm whales are present in the Canary Islands year-round, suggesting that the archipelago is an important area for this species in the North Atlantic. However, the area experiences one of the highest reported rates of sperm whale ship-strike in the world. Here we investigate if the number of sperm whales found in the archipelago can sustain the current rate of ship-strike mortality. The result...

1Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of the Canary Islands, La Laguna University School of Medicine, 38320 Tenerife, Spain 2Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, 104-0045 Tokyo, Japan 3Department of Gastroenterology, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, 00153 Rome, Italy 4 SCDO Epidemiologia dei Tumori, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria San Giovanni ...