National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, 735 State St., 300, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, USA, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Lab. de Biogeografia e Macroecologia Marinha, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88010-970, Brazil, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI, 96744, USA, Smithsonian Tropical R...

Geographical variations in biological diversity are known to be driven by a number of biotic and abiotic factors. These include environmental gradients (climate and habitat) and the physical characteristics of each site or region (e.g. area, isolation, habitat diversity and topographic and landscape heterogeneity), in addition to regional processes and historical events, which determine the cha...

O objetivo deste trabalho é realizar uma análise temática e comparativa, à luz dos conceitos de paisagem, espaço, lugar memória, seis textos Vitorino Nemésio Cecília Meireles nos quais se representam as ilhas atlânticas do arquipélago Açores. Nestes textos, a paisagem revela como manifestação da topografia ontológica cada autor resulta num processo subjetivo construção ressignificação lugares d...

SUMMARY A 17-year-old healthy woman treated for unilateral hypoplastic breast anomaly with Brava-assisted fat grafting experienced persistent reduced pigmentation of the areola on the treated breast. The reduced pigmentation was confirmed at 6-month postoperative follow-up and verified by histological examination of comparable biopsies from both areolas.

A fossil remain of porcupine, a large-sized rodent hitherto unknown in Portugal, was identified during the 2010-13 excavation Last Interglacial deposit Figueira Brava cave. The specimen is left hemimandible retaining PM/4 to M/2 series but lacking incisor and M/3. Based on analysis its morphological odontometric features, we assign Hystrix cristata (Linnaeus, 1758). Nowadays, H. found Africa as...