a School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK b Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W/PO Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA c Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera I.P., Rua C do Aeroporto, 1749-077 Lisboa, Portugal d In...

K. A. Triantis ([email protected]) and R. J. Whittaker, Biodiversity Research Group, Oxford Univ. Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK. D. Nogués-Bravo and M. B. Araújo, Dept of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biol., National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, C/Gutiérrez Abascal 2, ES 28006, Madrid, Spain. J. Hortal, NERC Centre for Population Biolog...

Oceanic islands host a high proportion of the world’s endemic species. Many such species are at risk of extinction owing to habitat degradation and loss, biological invasions and other threats, but little is known about the effects of climate change on island native biodiversity. The Azorean archipelago provides a unique opportunity to study species-climatechange relationships. We used ensemble...

J.C RANDO, H. PIEPER, STORRS L. OLSON, F. PEREIRA & J.A. ALCOVER 1Finca Tenerosa. Camino El Rincón S/N. E-34480 Buenavista del Norte. Tenerife. Canary Islands. E-mail: [email protected] 2Ulmenstr. 21, D–24223 Schwentinental (Germany). E-mail: [email protected] 3Division of Birds, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washi...

Department of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK, Universidade dos Açores, Dep. de Ciências Agrárias – CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Terra-Chã, 9700-851 Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal, Biodiversity Research Group, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK, NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial C...

Azorean Biodiversity Group, CITA-A, Universidade dos Açores, Rua Capitão João d¢Ávila, 9700-042 Angra do Heroı́smo, Terceira, Azores, Portugal, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK, Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, IPNA-CSIC, C/ Astrofı́sico Francisco Sánchez 3, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary I...

Major and minor (K, P, Ca, Mg, Na, Fe, Mn, Zn, and Sr) and trace (Ba, Ni, Pb, V, Co, Cd, and Sb) elements from wine samples from the Denomination of Origin (DO) Empordà-Costa Brava (Catalonia, Spain) were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) and mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) respectively. Previously, a comparison of different calibration methodologies and s...

Luís Borda-de-Água ([email protected]) and H. M. Pereira, Centro de Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências, Univ. de Lisboa, PT-1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal, HMP also at: Depto de Engenharia Civil e Arquitectura, Inst. Superior Técnico, PT-1049 001 Lisboa, Portugal. – P. A. V. Borges, Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A), Univ. dos Açores, Angra do Heroísmo, PT-9700 Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Por...

BACKGROUND An updated checklist of the Birds of the Azores is presented based on information compiled from Rodrigues et al. (2010) and from the websites, Azores Bird Club. (2014), Aves dos Açores (2014) Azores Bird Sightings (2014) and Vittery (2014), since 2010. NEW INFORMATION The checklist has a total of 414 species, including 38 new species. Almost half of the species and subspecies that ...