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Journal articles on the topic "Pacific coastal desert"

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Marquet, PA. "Diversity of Small Mammals in the Pacific Coastal Desert of Peru and Chile and in the Adjacent Andean Area - Biogeography and Community Structure." Australian Journal of Zoology 42, no. 4 (1994): 527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo9940527.

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Species diversity patterns of small mammals (sigmodontine rodents) in the Chilean-Peruvian Pacific coastal desert and adjacent Andean area (Puna) were analysed by means of latitudinal and altitudinal transects. The statistical analyses of the patterns show: (1) a wide variation in latitudinal species diversity, with a peak in the region where the Puna reaches its greatest areal extent; (2) the differentiation of at least four groups of distinct faunal elements resulting from the interaction of large-scale biogeographic, geological and evolutionary processes; (3) a positive correlation between

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Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. "Neotermes costaseca: a new termite from the coastal desert of Peru and the redescription of N. chilensis (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)." ZooKeys 811 (December 31, 2018): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.811.30809.

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The imago and soldier castes of a new Neotermes species, N.costaseca, are described. It is only the third termite species known from the Pacific coastal desert of Peru. Neotermescostasecasp. n. is compared with the allopatric Neotermeschilensis from the arid central and southern coastal plain of Chile.

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Scheffrahn, Rudolf H. "Neotermes costaseca: a new termite from the coastal desert of Peru and the redescription of N. chilensis (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)." ZooKeys 811 (December 31, 2018): 81–90. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.811.30809.

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The imago and soldier castes of a new Neotermes species, N. costaseca, are described. It is only the third termite species known from the Pacific coastal desert of Peru. Neotermes costaseca sp. n. is compared with the allopatric Neotermes chilensis from the arid central and southern coastal plain of Chile.

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Mendoza, Alajandro, César Ramírez, Diego Barrera, and César Aguilar-Puntriano. "A new species of the genus Stenocercus (Iguania: Tropiduridae) from the Peruvian Pacific coast (Ica region)." Salamandra 57, no. 1 (2021): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4542780.

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A new species of the genus Stenocercus is described from the Peruvian coastal desert in the Ica region. The new species is similar in ecology and morphology to Stenocercus modestus, but differs from it in lacking an oblique neck fold, a distinct patch of small scales posterior to the lateral region of the neck, and bright yellow lateral dots on the head and body in males. The new species also has more subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe than S. modestus, and females exhibit a wide dark stripe between the subocular and antehumeral regions, as well as dark reticulations in the gular region. Di

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Marty, Richard, Robert Dunbar, Jonathan B. Martin, and Paul Baker. "Late Eocene diatomite from the Peruvian coastal desert, coastal upwelling in the eastern Pacific, and Pacific circulation before the terminal Eocene event." Geology 16, no. 9 (1988): 818. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0818:ledftp>2.3.co;2.

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Zulueta, Rommel C., Walter C. Oechel, Joseph G. Verfaillie, et al. "Aircraft Regional-Scale Flux Measurements over Complex Landscapes of Mangroves, Desert, and Marine Ecosystems of Magdalena Bay, Mexico." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 30, no. 7 (2013): 1266–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-12-00022.1.

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Abstract Natural ecosystems are rarely structurally simple or functionally homogeneous. This is true for the complex coastal region of Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico, where the spatial variability in ecosystem fluxes from the Pacific coastal ocean, eutrophic lagoon, mangroves, and desert were studied. The Sky Arrow 650TCN environmental research aircraft proved to be an effective tool in characterizing land–atmosphere fluxes of energy, CO2, and water vapor across a heterogeneous landscape at the scale of 1 km. The aircraft was capable of discriminating fluxes from all ecosystem type

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Dhillion, S. S., P. E. Vidiella, L. E. Aquilera, et al. "Mycorrhizal plants and fungi in the fog-free Pacific coastal desert of Chile." Mycorrhiza 5, no. 5 (1995): 381–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005720050085.

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Dhillion, S. S., P. E. Vidiella, L. E. Aquilera, et al. "Mycorrhizal plants and fungi in the fog-free Pacific coastal desert of Chile." Mycorrhiza 5, no. 5 (1995): 381–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00207410.

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Alania-Choque, José, Leander Gamiel Vásquez-Espinoza, Alberto Anculle-Arenas, et al. "Characterization and Agronomic Evaluation of 25 Accessions of Chenopodium quinoa in the Peruvian Coastal Desert." Agronomy 14, no. 9 (2024): 1908. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy14091908.

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Quinoa is a healthy food that possesses high levels of protein that is enriched for dietary essential amino acids. The crop is highly diverse and well-adapted to changing climatic conditions. In spite of being vulnerable to pests and diseases, the development of new resistant varieties is possible. Taking advantage of this genetic variability is crucial for breeding programs, especially to adapt quinoa to the shifting needs of producers. In this study, 25 Peruvian accessions and two commercial varieties were characterized and agronomically evaluated in the Peruvian Pacific desert. Specific met

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Olivares, Douglas, Pablo Ferrada, Jonathan Bijman, et al. "Determination of the Soiling Impact on Photovoltaic Modules at the Coastal Area of the Atacama Desert." Energies 13, no. 15 (2020): 3819. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13153819.

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With an elevation of 1000 m above sea level, once the coastal mountain range is crossed, the Atacama Desert receives the highest levels of solar radiation in the world. Global horizontal irradiations over 2500 kWh/(m2 year) and a cloudiness index below 3% were determined. However, this index rises to 45% in the coastal area, where the influence of the Pacific Ocean exists with a large presence of marine aerosols. It is on the coastal area that residential photovoltaic (PV) applications are concentrated. This work presents a study of the soiling impact on PV modules at the coastline of Atacama

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Books on the topic "Pacific coastal desert"

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W, Steeples Douglas, ed. Illustrated sketches of Death Valley and other borax deserts of the Pacific coast. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

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Spears, John R. Illustrated Sketches Of Death Valley And Other Borax Deserts Of The Pacific Coast. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Spears, John R. Illustrated Sketches Of Death Valley And Other Borax Deserts Of The Pacific Coast. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley: And Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast. Westphalia Press, 2017.

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Veblen, Thomas, Kenneth Young, and Antony Orme. The Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195313413.001.0001.

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The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components

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Blanchard, Peter. Spanish South American Mainland. Edited by Mark M. Smith and Robert L. Paquette. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0004.

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This article reviews scholarship on the history and historiography of slavery in the Spanish South American Mainland. The history of African slaves on the South American mainland began with the Spanish conquistadors in the early sixteenth century. Already present in the West Indies and Mexico following the Spanish conquest and settlement of those areas, slaves now became involved in the expansion of Spanish rule southward. Small numbers accompanied the conquistadors along the Pacific coast. While most of the African slaves and slaves of African descent who participated in the conquest were soo

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West, Martha Ullman. Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066776.001.0001.

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Martha Ullman West illustrates how American ballet developed over the course of the twentieth century from an aesthetic originating in the courts of Europe into a stylistically diverse expression of a democratic culture. West places at center stage two artists who were instrumental to this story: Todd Bolender and Janet Reed. Lifelong friends, Bolender (1914–2006) and Reed (1916–2000) were part of a generation of dancers who navigated the Great Depression, World War II, and the vibrant cultural scene of postwar New York City. They danced in the works of choreographers Lew and Willam Christense

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Book chapters on the topic "Pacific coastal desert"

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Troncoso Meléndez, Andrés. "Rock Art, Modes of Existence, and Cosmopolitics: A View from the Southern Andes." In Deep-Time Images in the Age of Globalization. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54638-9_4.

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AbstractThe ontological turn has opened multiples avenues of inquiry in archaeology and rock art research. Goals of this theoretical approach include unfolding and describing other worlds, understanding the differences between modern worldviews and past ontologies, and defining the ontologies materialized in rock images. This paper discusses the relationship(s) between rock art and ontology with reference to the idea of cosmopolitics and the political role of other-than-humans in social life. We suggest that rock art is grounded on historical modes of existence or, in other words, that rock im

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Rundel, P. W., and P. E. Villagra. "Arid and Semi-Arid Ecosystems." In The Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195313413.003.0018.

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Arid and semi-arid ecosystems in South America are best illustrated by two desert regions, the Peruvian and Atacama Deserts of the Pacific coast and the Monte Desert of central Argentina. The caatinga of northeast Brazil is often described as semi-arid, but mostly receives 500–750 mm of annual rainfall and is better regarded as dry savanna. Small areas of Venezuela and Colombia near the Caribbean coast, and nearby offshore islands, support desert-like vegetation with arborescent cacti, Prosopis, and Capparis, but generally receive up to 500 mm annual rainfall. Substrate conditions, as much or

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Alva, Aarón Alberto Abad, Estela Karem Samamé Zegarra, and Roberto Alonso González Lezcano. "Green Infrastructure as a Nature-Based Recovery Strategy for Natural Areas in Desert Developing Countries of the South Pacific Coastal Strip." In Urban Sustainability and Energy Management of Cities for Improved Health and Well-Being. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4030-8.ch005.

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The present research is part of a wider qualitative study that aims to assist cities in the South Pacific developing countries with the recovery of natural areas through a green infrastructure-based approach, following a case study method. The overarching purpose of this study is to pinpoint relevant contributing elements for the successful implementation of the green infrastructure approach aiming at providing Peruvian coastal cities with novel sustainable environmental policies. To foster the conservation of the natural or semi-natural ecosystems converging with the cities, the following spe

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Barker, Graeme. "Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas." In The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199281091.003.0012.

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The American continent extends over 12,000 kilometres from Alaska to Cape Horn, and encompasses an enormous variety of environments from arctic to tropical. For the purposes of this discussion, such a huge variety has to be simplified into a few major geographical units within the three regions of North, Central, and South America (Fig. 7.1). Large tracts of Alaska and modern Canada north of the 58th parallel consist of tundra, which extends further south down the eastern coast of Labrador. To the south, boreal coniferous forests stretch eastwards from Lake Winnipeg and the Red River past the

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Ortloff, Charles R. "Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management Strategies ofAncient Societies." In Water Engineering in the Ancient World. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199239092.003.0007.

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Societies of widely different social, economic, political, religious, and technical innovation characteristics in opposing world hemispheres developed urban and rural population centres with water and agricultural systems to maintain stable economies and expanding populations. Despite vast historical, cultural, and world view differences between these societies, one common thread united them: the necessity for mastery of engineering skills to provide water for cities and agricultural systems. Although it may be thought that the technical basis to support water engineering practice is accompani

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Goudie, Andrew S. "The Deserts of South America." In Great Warm Deserts of the World. Oxford University PressOxford, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199245154.003.0003.

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Abstract The deserts of South America lie in a diagonal swathe from southern Ecuador in the north-west to Patagonia in the south-east. They run from the subtropical Pacific Coast, across the high country of the Altiplano-Puna to the temperate latitudes of the Atlantic coast (Fig. 3.1). The west coast arid zone comprises the Peruvian and Atacama deserts. These lie to the west of the Andean cordillera between latitudes 5°S to 30°S and form the largest west coast desert in the world. The Monte and Patagonian deserts lie to the east of the Andes, though the former is effectively contiguous with th

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Fink, Robert. "On the Edge of the Desert." In The Possibility Machine. University of Illinois Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045417.003.0002.

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This chapter sets the stage for Las Vegas and Clark County, setting out from Los Angeles and Southern California as the first stop on a journey across the “resort archipelago” that stretches from the Pacific Coast to the Great Salt Lake. At the edge of the desert, on the road that runs from the Sunset Strip to the Vegas Strip, you can see the future of Las Vegas, which is also Los Angeles’s past. With Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo journalist Raoul Duke as our guide, the long, strange trip will include the lawless rise of the entertainment strip, the unnatural death(s) of the sixties, and the ever

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Goff, James. "Strand 9." In In Search of Ancient Tsunamis. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197675984.003.0010.

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Abstract This chapter introduces the human history of the Atacama Desert coast over the past 12,000 years, highlighting an odd anomaly between 3500 and 4500 years ago. This information coupled with evidence for some ancient earthquakes was the catalyst for my invitation to search for tsunami deposits. The geomorphology of the coastline is described and the difficulties of finding useful sites is discussed in detail. The ensuing research points to a massive (Magnitude 9.5) earthquake equivalent to the largest known historical event, the extent of which rewrites the earthquake history of norther

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Foster, Lynn V. "Geography of The Pre-Columbian Maya." In Handbook To Life In The Ancient Maya World. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195183634.003.0003.

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Abstract The ancient Maya region was larger than modern Italy, a little smaller than France. Extending from the Pacific coast across to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and covering the land from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec south into western El Salvador and Honduras, the region spanned 390,000 square kilometers (150,540 square miles). Even today, the region is inhabited by millions of Maya. The land is full of contrasting environments, from tropical low-lands to snow-covered mountain peaks, from near desert dryness to drenching wet, and from porous limestone to volcanic ash–enriched so

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Mitchell, Peter. "South America I: Caribbean Deserts and Tropical Savannahs." In Horse Nations. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198703839.003.0012.

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These two quotations, dating to within almost a decade of each other, refer to very different parts of South America, the first the La Guajira Peninsula at its northern tip, the second the savannahs of the Gran Chaco at its very heart. The Wayúu, dwelling in the first, had no direct connection with the Mbayá of whom Dobrizhoffer wrote here (though he is more famous for his work on their cousins, the Abipones). Nevertheless, both regions shared aspects of their respective experiences of colonial intrusion and settlement: the frequent adoption not just of horses but also of other exotic species

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Conference papers on the topic "Pacific coastal desert"

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Pettinger, Alfred M., and Robert Montgomery. "Project Management Considerations of Pipelines Crossing the Andes." In 2010 8th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2010-31303.

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Pipeline operators, contractors and governments face important challenges when planning, designing, constructing and operating pipelines which connect the hydrocarbon reserves in the Amazonian basin with population and shipping centers on the Pacific coast. These pipelines cross portions of the Amazonian rainforest, the mountain rainforest along the eastern flank of the Andes, the Andean plateau, and the rural and urban low lying desert areas along the Pacific coast. The need for these pipelines will continue and offers a tremendous opportunity to promote sustainable economic development. Howe

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Bian, Bo. "The application of micro-regeneration strategy in urban renewal in norther Lima, Perù." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/rwbv2921.

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Lima, the capital city of Peru, is situated within the country's desert region on the Pacific coast and bordered by the Andes Mountains to the East. It is one of the most fast developing city shifting from both formal and informal urban construction. While traditional renewal model and strategy cannot deal with new situation and complex urban problems of this mega city due to its inner and outer contradictions and complexity. This paper analyses the current situation of San Martin de Porres, a typical district in the northern part of the city, which grew towards the Chillon river corridor main

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