Nicaragua’s Cosigüina Peninsula, located at the northwestern tip of the country, is one of the most poorly studied biotic regions in Central America. The peninsula has been occupied for millennia because the climate of the region supported human habitation and because of its strategic position along the rich Pacific coast. The combination of long-term occupancy by humans and the cataclysmic eru...

dyke swarms emplacement constitutes one of the conspicuous features of the neoproterozoic arabian-nubian shield (ans) (~950-540ma). based on field investigations, petrographic and geochemical characteristics the dyke swarms in nw sinai (egypt) comprise of mafic (dolerite-trachy-basalt-basalt), intermediate (basaltic-andesite trachy-andesite) and felsic (rhyodacite-rhyolite) varieties. geochemic...

The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed significantly since the 1950s. This pronounced and isolated warming trend is collectively simulated by 29 twentiethcentury climate hindcasts participating in the version 3 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project. To understand the factors driving warming trends in the hindcasts, we examine trends in Peninsula region’s atmospheric heat budget in every simulation....

Craniodental morphology of the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in the Korean Peninsula, Japanese islands and Kinmen Island (Taiwan) was studied using geometric morphometrics to identify the skull variations between the populations. Forty adult skulls were examined (29 specimens from the Korean Peninsula, six from Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido of Japan, and five from Kinmen Island). Images of the do...

The Banks Peninsula tree weta, Hemideina ricta Hutton, is the rarest of the seven species of tree weta. Prior to our study it was known from only two locations on Banks Peninsula: Okains Bay (R. Bigelow, formerly Canterbury University, pers. comm.) and in totara (Podocarpus totara (G. Benn ex D. Don.)) logs near Purple Peak (P. Johns, Canterbury University, pers. comm.). The only other publishe...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of type 1 diabetes among children aged 0-14 years in the Avalon Peninsula in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a prospective cohort study of the incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes in children aged 0-14 years who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes from 1987 to 2002 on the Avalon Penins...

We study the relative importance of sea-land and mountain-valley thermal contrasts in determining the development of thermally forced mesoscale circulations (TFMCs) over a mountainous peninsula. We ®rst analyse the energetics of the problem, and using this theory, we interprete the numerical simulations over Calabria, a mountainous peninsula in southern Italy. The CSU 3-D nonlinear numerical mo...

2009;22(4) S Afr J Clin Nutr a Louwrens H, BTech (Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition) b Rautenbach F, MSc (Biochemistry) a Venter I, MNutrion a Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa b Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa Correspondence to: Mr Fanie Rautenbach, e-mail: [email protected]...

Citation: Bento R, Feary DA, Hoey AS and Burt JA (2017) Settlement Patterns of Corals and other Benthos on Reefs with Divergent Environments and Disturbances Histories around the Northeastern Arabian Peninsula. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:305. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00305 Settlement Patterns of Corals and other Benthos on Reefs with Divergent Environments and Disturbances Histories around the Northeast...

A new species of the genus Capsus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Mirinae) from the Korean Peninsula is reported, and congeners in the Korean Peninsula are reviewed. Biological information such as host plants and distributions with a key to the Korean species are also provided.