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Paulo Torres, Ander Larrea Llopis, Carlos Sousa Melo and Armindo Rodrigues
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic heavy metal particularly susceptible to mobilization by anthropogenic and natural processes. The volcanic nature of oceanic islands in the Macaronesia geographical region such as the Azores archipelago, located near the Mid...
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Sérgio M. Jesus, Cristiano Soares, Miriam Romagosa, Irma Cascão, Ricardo Duarte, Friedrich Zabel and Mónica A. Silva
Economic globalization and the continuous search for food, energy and raw materials led to an estimated 3 dB/decade increase of ocean noise intensity. Determining the level of anthropogenic noise, the so-called excess noise, and building identifiable mea...
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Pedro Pimentel, Ana Vulevic, Gualter Couto, Arian Behradfar, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez and Rui Alexandre Castanho
The geography over which maritime transportation operates is unique, combining physical, strategic, and commercial imperatives. Physical issues are stable across time, but strategic, especially commercial, considerations continually shift with the ebb an...
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Diana C. G. A. Pinto, Marie L. Lesenfants, Gonçalo P. Rosa, Maria Carmo Barreto, Artur M. S. Silva and Ana M. L. Seca
Asparagopsis armata Harvey is a red alga native from the southern hemisphere and then introduced in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Azores Archipelago, where it is considered an invasive alga. Some studies show that the extrac...
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Filipe Arruda, José S. Rosa, Ana Rodrigues, Luísa Oliveira, Ana Lima, José G. Barroso and Elisabete Lima
This study mainly deals with the effect of hydrodistillation (HD) and water-steam distillation (WSD) methods on the color, yield, and chemical profile of the essential oil (EO) from Cryptomeria japonica fresh leaves from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipe...
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Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gómez, Ana Vulevic, Arian Behradfar and Gualter Couto
It is well-known that the ultra-peripheral territories as Islands present several limitations such as the lack of resources, restricted land, mass tourism, and barriers to movement, and connectivity between urban centers. These obstacles make ultra-perip...
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Rui Alexandre Castanho, José Manuel Naranjo Gomez, Ana Vulevic and Gualter Couto
Islands as peripheral and ultra-peripheral are typically highlighted as ecologically sensitive areas to human activities due to the tremendous biological diversity of beings and the future possibility of habitat loss. In this regard, the comprehension of...
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Sérgio P. Ávila, Markes E. Johnson, Ana Cristina Rebelo, Lara Baptista and Carlos S. Melo
Modern and palaeo-shores from Pleistocene Marine Isotope Substage 5e (MIS 5e) featuring prominent cobble/boulder deposits from three locations, on the southern and eastern coast of Santa Maria Island in the Azores Archipelago, were compared, in order to ...
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César Andrade, J. Virgílio Cruz, Fátima Viveiros and Rui Coutinho
Here, we present the first detailed study on diffuse CO2 degassing in the lakes in the Western Group (Corvo and Flores islands) of the Azores archipelago. This research is of interest in order to determine (1) the overall CO2 emission from such lakes, as...
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J. Virgílio Cruz, César Andrade, Dina Pacheco, Sandra Mendes and Raquel Cymbron
Groundwater discharge is an important vector of chemical fluxes to the ocean environment, and as the concentration of nutrients is often higher in discharging groundwater, the deterioration of water quality in the receiving environment can be the result....
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