[1] The Gibraltar Arc in the western Mediterranean consists of the Betic and Rif Alpine chains and the Alboran Sea Basin. Four types of stress indicators (wellbore breakouts, earthquake focal plane mechanisms, young geologic fault slip data, and hydraulic fracture orientations) indicate a regional NW–SE compressive stress field resulting from Africa-Eurasia plate convergence. In some particular...

The blue and red shrimp, Aristeus antennatus, is a commercially important crustacean, in the Mediterranean Sea, which has been listed as a priority species for fishery management. Hypervariable microsatellite markers could be a useful tool to identify genetic stocks among geographically close fishing grounds. Potential microsatellite markers (97) identified from next-generation sequencing of an...

In this study, African red-rains were collected at Montseny (NE Spain) on a weekly basis and analyzed for total particulate phosphorus (TPP), total dissolved P (TDP) and soluble reactive P (SRP) for the period 1996e2008. Wet and dry weekly deposition of TPP was analyzed for all provenances in 2002e2003. In this period, African sources were found to contribute 66% of the 576 mmol m 2 y 1 of tota...

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS or NOS3) is the main responsible for nitric oxide (NO) production in vascular system and different polymorphisms have been identified in epidemiological studies. Trying to test the eNOS genetic variation in general populations we studied the 27-bp VNTR in intron 4 and G894T substitution in exon 7 markers in 6 Western Mediterranean populations (3 from Iber...

Nutrient concentration in the Mediterranean Sea is controlled by water exchanges through the Strait of Gibraltar and by atmospheric and terrestrial inputs. Various peculiarities in the nitrogen and phosphorus geochemical cycles are pointed out, namely a low N : P atomic ratio (6.4) in terrestrial discharges, and a budget well balanced for phosphorus (where terrestrial discharges amount to about...

In January 2020, the storm Gloria hit Western Mediterranean Sea causing severe coastal damages, destruction of infrastructures, flooding and several casualties. This extreme event was characterized by strong Eastern winds, record-breaking waves heights periods, a surge that locally beat record along Valencia’s coastline. paper analyses dynamic evolution sea level during this storm. The study em...