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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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Albornoz, Francisco, Camilo del Río, Virginia Carter, Rodrigo Escobar, and Lucas Vásquez. "Fog Water Collection for Local Greenhouse Vegetable Production in the Atacama Desert." Sustainability 15, no. 22 (2023): 15720. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152215720.

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Agricultural production in the Atacama Desert is restricted by extreme aridity and poor soil quality. Between 18° S and 30° S, low stratocumulus clouds regularly cover the southeastern Pacific Ocean reaching the Coastal Cordillera. Thus, marine fog is constantly present in the coastal areas of the desert. Fog can be harvested using fog collectors. However, limited information is available with regards to the variability of fog presence throughout the year and along the coast of the desert. Combining fog water harvest with hydroponic production under greenhouse facilities presents an alternativ

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Schween, Jan H., Camilo del Rio, Juan-Luis García, Pablo Osses, Sarah Westbrook, and Ulrich Löhnert. "Life cycle of stratocumulus clouds over 1 year at the coast of the Atacama Desert." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22, no. 18 (2022): 12241–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12241-2022.

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Abstract. Marine stratocumulus clouds of the eastern Pacific play an essential role in the earth's energy and radiation budget. Parts of these clouds off the western coast of South America form the major source of water to the hyperarid Atacama Desert coastal region at the northern coast of Chile. For the first time, a full year of vertical structure observations of the coastal stratocumulus and their environment is presented and analyzed. Installed at Iquique Airport in northern Chile in 2018/2019, three state-of-the-art remote sensing instruments provide vertical profiles of cloud macro- and

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McGowran, Brian, Richard Marty, Robert B. Dunbar, Jon B. Martin, and Paul A. Baker. "Comment and Reply on "Late Eocene diatomite from the Peruvian coastal desert, coastal upwelling in the eastern Pacific, and Pacific circulation before the terminal Eocene event"." Geology 17, no. 10 (1989): 957. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1989)017<0957:carole>2.3.co;2.

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Galán de Mera, Antonio, Eliana Linares Perea, José Campos de la Cruz, and José A. Vicente Orellana. "Nuevas observaciones sobre la vegetación del sur del Perú. Del Desierto Pacífico al Altiplano." Acta Botanica Malacitana 34 (November 12, 2019): 107–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/abm.v34i0.6904.

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RESUMEN. Nuevas observaciones sobre la vegetación del Sur del Perú. Del Desierto Pacífico al Altiplano. En este trabajo, aportamos novedades sobre la vegetación del S del Perú desde el Desierto Pacífico a las cumbres del Altiplano. Como resultado se describen 19 asociaciones distribuidas entre diferentes formaciones vegetales: arbustedas y bosques climácicos de la costa [Echinopsio chalaensis-Randietum armatae (arbustedas espinosas termotropicales semiáridas), Caesalpinio spinosae-Myrcianthetum ferreyrae (bosques termotropicales secos)], vegetación herbácea de las lomas costaneras [Nolano spat

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Ezcurra, Paula, Exequiel Ezcurra, Pedro P. Garcillán, Matthew T. Costa, and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza. "Coastal landforms and accumulation of mangrove peat increase carbon sequestration and storage." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 16 (2016): 4404–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519774113.

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Given their relatively small area, mangroves and their organic sediments are of disproportionate importance to global carbon sequestration and carbon storage. Peat deposition and preservation allows some mangroves to accrete vertically and keep pace with sea-level rise by growing on their own root remains. In this study we show that mangroves in desert inlets in the coasts of the Baja California have been accumulating root peat for nearly 2,000 y and harbor a belowground carbon content of 900–34,00 Mg C/ha, with an average value of 1,130 (± 128) Mg C/ha, and a belowground carbon accumulation s

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SCHEFFRAHN, RUDOLF H., and JEAN-BERNARD HUCHET. "A new termite species (Isoptera: Termitidae: Termitinae: Amitermes) and first record of a Subterranean Termite from the Coastal Desert of South America." Zootaxa 2328, no. 1 (2010): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2328.1.3.

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At about one hundred species (Scheffrahn & Su 1987), Amitermes, is the second largest genus after Microcerotermes in the subfamily Termitinae. This cosmopolitan genus is found in a wide variety of habitats from rainforests e.g., Amitermes excellens (Silvestri) from Guyana (Emerson 1925) and Amitermes dentatus (Haviland) from Sumatra (Gathorne-Hardy et al. 2001) to deserts, e.g. Amitermes emersoni Light from Coachella, California (Light 1930) and Amitermes desertorum Desneux from Egypt (Sands 1992). Only eight species of Amitermes are known from the Neotropics and only five occur across mai

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Zelada Estraver, William, Cesar Medina Tafur, César Chávez Villavicencio, Cesia Rodríguez Ruiz, and María Seminario Rebolledo. "FLORAL VISIT BY HUMMINGBIRDS ON A COASTAL HILL IN THE NORTH OF THE PACIFIC DESERT, DURING 2021." REBIOL 42, no. 2 (2023): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17268/rebiol.2022.42.02.16.

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The Hill of Cerro Campana located in the north of the desert of the Pacific, is a unique ecosystem to host a high and specialbiological diversity, within which we find the "hummingbird ", very active and colorful bird species that feed on nectar and flower pollen. The objective of this work was to determine the number of interactions or visits of the hummingbirds to the species of flowering plants in the ACP Lomas del Cerro Campana, during 2021. For which were made 24 fixed points of counting, randomly distributed between the windward and leeward sides of this ridge and where interactions or v

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Armesto, J. J., and P. E. Vidiella. "Plant Life-Forms and Biogeographic Relations of the Flora of Lagunillas (30 | circS) in the Fog-Free Pacific Coastal Desert." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80, no. 2 (1993): 499. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2399796.

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Finstad, Kari M., Marco Pfeiffer, Gavin McNicol, Michael Tuite, Kenneth Williford, and Ronald Amundson. "A late Quaternary paleoenvironmental record in sand dunes of the northern Atacama Desert, Chile." Quaternary Research 90, no. 1 (2018): 127–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.20.

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AbstractThis paper reports a previously unidentified paleoenvironmental record found in sand dunes of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Long-term aeolian deflation by prevailing onshore winds has resulted in the deposition of sand on the irregular surface of a Miocene-aged anhydrite outcrop. Two deposits ~25 km apart, along the prevailing wind trajectory, were hand excavated then analyzed for vertical (and temporal) changes in physical and chemical composition. Radiocarbon ages of organic matter embedded within the deposits show that rapid accumulation of sediment began at the last glacial maximum an

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Wolf, N., A. Siegmund, C. del Río, P. Osses, and J. L. García. "REMOTE SENSING-BASED DETECTION AND SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS FOR GEO-ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING OF TILLANDSIA SPP. IN THE ATACAMA, CHILE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B2 (June 7, 2016): 251–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b2-251-2016.

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In the coastal Atacama Desert in Northern Chile plant growth is constrained to so-called ‘fog oases’ dominated by monospecific stands of the genus Tillandsia. Adapted to the hyperarid environmental conditions, these plants specialize on the foliar uptake of fog as main water and nutrient source. It is this characteristic that leads to distinctive macro- and micro-scale distribution patterns, reflecting complex geo-ecological gradients, mainly affected by the spatiotemporal occurrence of coastal fog respectively the South Pacific Stratocumulus clouds reaching inlands. The current work employs r

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Araya, Juan Francisco, and Ricardo Catalán. "A review of the non-bulimulid terrestrial Mollusca from the Region of Atacama, northern Chile." ZooKeys 398 (April 4, 2014): 33–51. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.398.4282.

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Terrestrial mollusca are sparsely studied in Chile and, for the first time, a formal record of the diversity of land snails in northern Chile is reported. Coastal and desertic areas in the Region of Atacama, in the border of the Atacama desert and the Pacific Ocean, were surveyed with the aim to describe the presence and distribution of this poorly known fauna. Of the fourteen species recorded, the geographic distribution records for nine species are extended, and some taxa are recorded for the first time since their original descriptions. All, except one, of the fourteen terrestrial molluscan

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Wolf, N., A. Siegmund, C. del Río, P. Osses, and J. L. García. "REMOTE SENSING-BASED DETECTION AND SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS FOR GEO-ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING OF TILLANDSIA SPP. IN THE ATACAMA, CHILE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B2 (June 7, 2016): 251–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b2-251-2016.

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In the coastal Atacama Desert in Northern Chile plant growth is constrained to so-called ‘fog oases’ dominated by monospecific stands of the genus Tillandsia. Adapted to the hyperarid environmental conditions, these plants specialize on the foliar uptake of fog as main water and nutrient source. It is this characteristic that leads to distinctive macro- and micro-scale distribution patterns, reflecting complex geo-ecological gradients, mainly affected by the spatiotemporal occurrence of coastal fog respectively the South Pacific Stratocumulus clouds reaching inlands. The current work employs r

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Portugal-Zegarra, Gandhy, Giüseppy Calizaya-Mamani, Pamela Sánchez-Vendizú, Marisel Flores-Quispe, and Joaquín Ugarte-Núñez. "Distribution extension of Lasiurus arequipae Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020 (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and contributions to its natural history." Check List 18, no. (4) (2022): 907–18. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.4.907.

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The recently described bat <em>Lasiurus arequipae</em> Málaga, Díaz, Arias & Medina, 2020 is endemic to Peru. Lasiurus arequipae is currently known to occur at two localities in the department of Arequipa and one locality in the department of Tacna in southwestern Peru. Here, based on morphological and molecular data, we present a fourth locality that represents the southernmost record of this species and extends its known range 62 km south from the nearest locality in Tacna. Additionally, we provide information some aspects on the natural history and acoustic profile of

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Sun, Xiaoguang, Xuehua Fan, Tianle Zhang, et al. "Tempo-Spatial Distributions and Transport Characteristics of Two Dust Events over Northern China in March 2021." Remote Sensing 14, no. 23 (2022): 5967. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14235967.

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The Taklamakan Desert and the Gobi Desert in East Asia constitute the second-largest sources of dust in the world. In particular, dust originating from the Gobi Desert is more susceptible to long-range transport, with consequent impacts in downwind Asian countries and the Northwest Pacific region. Two intensive dust events (the 3·15 dust event and the 3·28 dust event) were experienced in North China in March 2021. The 3·15 dust process was rated as the most intensive dust process in China in the past 10 years. In this study, by using a combination of spaceborne remote sensing datasets from geo

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Fay, HA C. "Evolutionary and taxonomic relationships between fruit-piercing moths and the Menispermaceae." Australian Systematic Botany 9, no. 2 (1996): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb9960227.

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Twining vines of the family Menispermaceae provide the food for larvae of the principal fruit-piercing moths in Australia, and in most of the Old World tropics and near tropics. These large noctuid moths are adult pests of a range of commercial fruits, and can cause crop losses of more than 50%. In Australia, the Menispermaceae are represented by 13 genera and 24 species, which predominantly occur through coastal and subcoastal regions in the east and north of the continent. Their density and diversity is greatest in the wet tropical forest areas of north-east Queensland. Around 60% of the Aus

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Yseki, Marco, Bruno Turcq, Sandrine Caquineau, et al. "Millennial variability of terrigenous transport to the central–southern Peruvian margin during the last deglaciation (18–13 kyr BP)." Climate of the Past 18, no. 10 (2022): 2255–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2255-2022.

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Abstract. Reconstructing precipitation and wind from the geological record could help researchers understand the potential changes in precipitation and wind dynamics in response to climate change in Peru. The last deglaciation offers natural experimental conditions to test the response of precipitation and wind dynamics to high-latitude forcing. While considerable research has been done to reconstruct precipitation variability during the last deglaciation in the Atlantic sector of South America, the Pacific sector of South America has received little attention. This work aims to fill this gap

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Ruiz, Soledad, Pablo Galdames, Cecilia Baumberger, et al. "Remote Sensing and Ecological Variables Related to Influenza A Prevalence and Subtype Diversity in Wild Birds in the Lluta Wetland of Northern Chile." Viruses 15, no. 6 (2023): 1241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v15061241.

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The Lluta River is the northernmost coastal wetland in Chile, representing a unique ecosystem and an important source of water in the extremely arid Atacama Desert. During peak season, the wetland is home to more than 150 species of wild birds and is the first stopover point for many migratory species that arrive in the country along the Pacific migratory route, thereby representing a priority site for avian influenza virus (AIV) surveillance in Chile. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of influenza A virus (IAV) in the Lluta River wetland, identify subtype diversity, and ev

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Méndez-Abarca, Felipe, Renzo Pepe-Victoriano, and Enrique A. Mundaca. "Notes on the southernmost record of Pacific Beakfish, Oplegnathus insignis (Kner, 1867) (Perciformes, Oplegnathidae)." Check List 20, no. (6) (2024): 1316–19. https://doi.org/10.15560/20.6.1316.

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A unique specimen of Beakfish, <em>Oplegnathus insignis</em> (Kner, 1867), was captured off the coast of Chañaral as a bycatch in a fishing net in northern Chile, extending its known range in Chilean territory by 370 km to the south. This study discusses the significance of this geographical extension for the establish‑ ment of local populations of the species associated to an inshore zone in the desert coast of northern Chile and for conducting further research to promote conservation of this species.

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Lepage, Hugo V., Eustace Barnes, Eleanor Kor, Morag Hunter, and Crispin H. W. Barnes. "Greening and Browning Trends on the Pacific Slope of Peru and Northern Chile." Remote Sensing 15, no. 14 (2023): 3628. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15143628.

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Accurate detection and quantification of regional vegetation trends are essential for understanding the dynamics of landscape ecology and vegetation distribution. We applied a comprehensive trend analysis to satellite data to describe geospatial changes in vegetation along the Pacific slope of Peru and northern Chile, from sea level to the continental divide, a region characterised by biologically unique and highly sensitive arid and semi-arid environments. Our statistical analyses show broad regional patterns of positive trends in EVI, called “greening”, alongside patterns of “browning”, wher

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Chen, Quanliang, Luyang Xu, and Hongke Cai. "Impact of Stratospheric Sudden Warming on East Asian Winter Monsoons." Advances in Meteorology 2015 (2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/640912.

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Fifty-two Stratospheric sudden warming (SSW) events that occurred from 1957 to 2002 were analyzed based on the 40-year European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis dataset. Those that could descent to the troposphere were composited to investigate their impacts on the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM). It reveals that when the SSW occurs, the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and the North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) are both in the negative phase and that the tropospheric circulation is quite wave-like. The Siberian high and the Aleutian low are both strengthened, leading to an increased

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Stuut, Jan-Berend W., and Frank Lamy. "Climate variability at the southern boundaries of the Namib (southwestern Africa) and Atacama (northern Chile) coastal deserts during the last 120,000 yr." Quaternary Research 62, no. 3 (2004): 301–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2004.08.001.

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In this study, we present grain-size distributions of the terrigenous fraction of two deep-sea sediment cores from the SE Atlantic (offshore Namibia) and from the SE Pacific (offshore northern Chile), which we "unmix" into subpopulations and which are interpreted as coarse eolian dust, fine eolian dust, and fluvial mud. The downcore ratios of the proportions of eolian dust and fluvial mud subsequently represent paleocontinental aridity records of southwestern Africa and northern Chile for the last 120,000 yr. The two records show a relatively wet Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) compared to a relati

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Chen, Baohua, and Chuntao Liu. "Warm Organized Rain Systems over the Tropical Eastern Pacific." Journal of Climate 29, no. 9 (2016): 3403–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-15-0177.1.

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Abstract This study uses 16-yr Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) radar precipitation feature (RPF) data to characterize warm rain systems in the tropics with large horizontal extensions, referred to as warm organized rain systems. The systems are selected by specifying the RPFs with minimum infrared brightness temperature warmer than 0°C and rain area greater than 500 km2. ERA-Interim atmospheric fields and SST from NOAA are analyzed to highlight the environmental characteristics of warm organized rain systems. Warm organized systems occur over specific oceanic regions, including the

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Hu, Wenting, Renguang Wu, and Yong Liu. "Relation of the South China Sea Precipitation Variability to Tropical Indo-Pacific SST Anomalies during Spring-to-Summer Transition." Journal of Climate 27, no. 14 (2014): 5451–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-14-00089.1.

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Abstract The present study investigates the relationship of South China Sea (SCS) precipitation to tropical Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) during April–June (AMJ), which is the transition season from spring to summer. It is revealed that SCS rainfall anomalies in AMJ are influenced by SST anomalies in the equatorial Pacific (EP), tropical Indian Ocean (TIO), and western North Pacific (WNP). Three types of SST-influenced cases are obtained based on different combinations of SST anomalies in the above three regions. When same-sign EP and TIO SST anomalies are accompanied by opposite

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Tanaka, Hideji, Yasuaki Takagi, and Yasuhiko Naito. "Swimming speeds and buoyancy compensation of migrating adult chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta revealed by speed/depth/acceleration data logger." Journal of Experimental Biology 204, no. 22 (2001): 3895–904. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.204.22.3895.

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SUMMARY Although the homing migration of Pacific salmon is well documented, the swimming behaviour of the returning salmon has been poorly described, principally as a result of the difficulties encountered in monitoring salmon behaviour in the sea. The present study describes the use of a recently developed electronic data logger to obtain simultaneous recordings of the swimming speed, depth, fin-beating activity and body angle of free-ranging chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta during their homing migration in coastal waters. Chum salmon migrated horizontally at speeds of 1.5–3.0 km h–1. The gross

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De la Mora-Curiel, Marisol, Daniel Piñero, Ken Oyama, and Juan Núñez-Farfán. "A single genealogical lineage from the Sonoran Desert and the Mexican Pacific Coast explains the haplotype distribution of Trichobaris compacta." Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 92 (April 5, 2021): 923370. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ib.20078706e.2021.92.3370.

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Taylor, Aimee R., Diego F. Echeverry, Timothy J. C. Anderson, Daniel E. Neafsey, and Caroline O. Buckee. "Identity-by-descent with uncertainty characterises connectivity of Plasmodium falciparum populations on the Colombian-Pacific coast." PLOS Genetics 16, no. 11 (2020): e1009101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009101.

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Characterising connectivity between geographically separated biological populations is a common goal in many fields. Recent approaches to understanding connectivity between malaria parasite populations, with implications for disease control efforts, have used estimates of relatedness based on identity-by-descent (IBD). However, uncertainty around estimated relatedness has not been accounted for. IBD-based relatedness estimates with uncertainty were computed for pairs of monoclonal Plasmodium falciparum samples collected from five cities on the Colombian-Pacific coast where long-term clonal pro

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Liu, Hongbin, Michael J. Dagg, Jeffrey M. Napp, and Riki Sato. "Mesozooplankton grazing in the coastal Gulf of Alaska: Neocalanus spp. vs. other mesozooplankton." ICES Journal of Marine Science 65, no. 3 (2007): 351–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsm175.

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Abstract Liu, H., Dagg, J. M., Napp, J. M., and Sato, R. 2008. Mesozooplankton grazing in the coastal Gulf of Alaska: Neocalanus spp. vs. other mesozooplankton. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 351–360. Three species of large calanoid copepod, Neocalanus flemingeri, Neocalanus plumchrus, and Neocalanus cristatus, dominate the spring biomass of mesozooplankton in the Subarctic Pacific. We compared the grazing impact of Neocalanus species on phytoplankton with grazing by the remainder of the mesozooplankton community in the coastal and shelf waters of the Gulf of Alaska during spring and su

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García-Cegarra, Ana M. "Evidence of Type A-Like Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) Predating on Marine Mammals Along the Atacama Desert Coast, Chile." Aquatic Mammals 48, no. 5 (2022): 436–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1578/am.48.5.2022.436.

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Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are marine apex predators distributed across the world’s oceans. In the last 40 years, researchers have increasingly differentiated killer whales into ecotypes based on genetics, morphology, behaviour, acoustic repertoire, habitat, and trophic ecology. While killer whale ecotypes in the Northern Hemisphere are well studied, the recognition of distinct killer whale forms in the Southern Hemisphere is mainly limited to Antarctic waters. Although present in less studied regions, such as along the Atacama Desert coast in the Southeast Pacific Ocean, limited information

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Murakami, Hiroyuki, Bin Wang, and Akio Kitoh. "Future Change of Western North Pacific Typhoons: Projections by a 20-km-Mesh Global Atmospheric Model*." Journal of Climate 24, no. 4 (2011): 1154–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010jcli3723.1.

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Abstract Projected future changes in tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the western North Pacific (WNP) under the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A1B emission scenario were investigated using a 20-km-mesh, very-high-resolution Meteorological Research Institute (MRI)–Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) atmospheric general circulation model. The present-day (1979–2003) simulation yielded reasonably realistic climatology and interannual variability for TC genesis frequency and tracks. The future (2075–99) projection indicates (i) a significant reduction (by about 23%) in both TC genes

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Jia, Ma, Olga Vasilievna Ivlieva, Сhen Liu, and Sayora Uralovna Tadjieva. "SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATE OF CHINESE REGIONS AS A KEY FACTOR OF THE DYNAMICS OF INCOMING INTERNATIONAL TOURISM (periods of formation and development of the tourism market in China)." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 5, no. 5 (2021): 182–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2021/5/5/16.

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Introduction. China is located in Central and East Asia. The vast territory of the state, covering the highest mountainous regions, vast deserts and coastal plains, determines the variety of natural conditions for tourism, as well as the border neighborhood with a large number of countries. China's seaside location is extremely advantageous in terms of tourism. At present, through the seas, China provides access to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region and the whole world. The sea and coastal areas are used to organize coastal tourism. Increasingly, China's maritime waters and ports are use

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Fick, Virginia, Reeves Hamilton, Kristen Harmon, et al. "St. Burl's Obituary, and: Generations of Winter, and: Morning in the Burned House, and: Rule of the Bone, and: Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera, and: Painted Desert, and: Name Dropping: Tales from My Barbary Coast Saloon, and: Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends, and: Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, and: Practical Magic." Missouri Review 19, no. 1 (1996): 176–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.1996.0010.

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Bhattacharya, Tripti, Ran Feng, Chris R. Maupin, Sloan Coats, Peter R. Brennan, and Elizabeth K. Carter. "California Margin temperatures modulate regional circulation and extreme summer precipitation in the desert Southwest." Environmental Research Letters, September 26, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acfd43.

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Abstract In August 2022, Death Valley, the driest place in North America, experienced record flooding from summertime rainfall associated with the North American Monsoon (NAM). Given the socioeconomic cost of these type of events, there is a dire need to understand their drivers and future statistics. Existing theory predicts that increases in the intensity of precipitation is a robust response to anthropogenic warming. Paleoclimatic evidence suggests that northeast Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability could further intensify summertime NAM rainfall over the desert southwest. Draw

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Yu, Xiaocan, Chunlian Wang, Gabriel Bertolini, Nigel P. Mountney, and Chao You. "Late Cretaceous glaciations in a hyper-arid plateau desert of the South China Coastal Mountains." Geological Society of America Bulletin, November 19, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b37683.1.

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Increasing evidence indicates the existence of a cryosphere during the Cretaceous supergreenhouse. However, current understanding of a potential link between lithosphere dynamics and cryospheric processes in the Cretaceous plateau desert successions of China remains limited. We report the occurrence of ice-rafted dropstones and diamictites from the Upper Cretaceous Chishan Formation of the Subei Basin at the East Asian continental margin. Our provenance results indicate that fluvial deposits of the Lower Chishan Formation were mainly derived from the Sulu Orogen to the north and the Zhangbalin

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Morales Vergara, Luis P., Ricardo Cunha Lima, Estefanía Bonnail, and Carlos González Allende. "Fog water traps as a low-cost alternative source of wáter in coastal desert areas of the Pacific." LATAM Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 4, no. 2 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.56712/latam.v4i2.1023.

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Water scarcity is the most common concept associated with the desert. The Atacama Desert is worldly known as the aridest desert on Earth. However, some populations are established in this area, requiring water for living that promotes the search of alternative water sources, as fog catchers taking in advance the regional fog event known as Camanchaca. During 2015, the construction of fog trap units was carried out on a hill in the Falda Verde sector in Chañaral (North Chile). In the design of these new fog trap units it was considered to improve the anchoring system and the distribution and an

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Morales Vergara, Luis Patricio, Ricardo Cunha Lima, Estefanía Bonnail, and Carlos González Allende. "Fog water traps as a low-cost alternative source of water in coastal desert areas of the Pacific." Revista Geográfica de Chile Terra Australis 59 (December 31, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.23854/07199562.2023591.morales.

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Water scarcity is the most common concept associated with the desert. The Atacama Desert is worldly known as the aridest desert on Earth. However, some populations are established in this area, requiring water for living that promotes the search of alternative water sources, as fog catchers taking in advance the regional fog event known as Camanchaca. During 2015, the construction of fog trap units was carried out on a hill in the Falda Verde sector in Chañaral (North Chile). In the design of these new fog trap units it was considered to improve the anchoring system and the distribution and an

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León de la Luz, José Luis, Jon P. Rebman, and Alfonso Medel Narváez. "A new species of <em>Nama</em> (Namaceae) from the Vizcaino Desert, Mexico." Botanical Sciences 100 (April 11, 2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.17129/botsci.3271.

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Background: Although most of the Nama taxa grow on sandy substrates, none of them is restricted to the coastal dune environment. A small population of a unique looking taxon was found on the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula, which is here presented as a new species. Question and/or Hypothesis: In the morphological analysis in the individuals of a putative new taxon, some peculiarities stand out, such as a suffruticose herbaceous perennial growth form with erect and compact branching, featuring a small cushion, unlike the rest of the known species, which are rather procumben

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Morales-Acuña, Enrique, Eduardo Santamaría-del-Ángel, and Jean Linero-Cueto. "Atmospheric dust intrusions from the peninsular region into the Northern Gulf of California: case study." Earth Science Informatics, March 31, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12145-023-00978-w.

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AbstractThrough atmospheric transport, coming from the mainland, an important amount of dust arrives to surface waters of open-ocean regions and many coastal zones. Semi-arid and desert areas tend to act as important sources of dust. The Gulf of California (GC) is one of the most productive marginal seas of the world, and it is surrounded by the semi-arid deserts located in Baja California Peninsula, United States, and Sonora (Mexico). Dust fluxes coming from the BCP during the summer are relevant due to biological impact on the California Gulf. In the northern region of the BCP, meteorologica

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Wood, Dustin A., Jonathan Q. Richmond, Merly Escalona, et al. "Reference Genome of the California Glossy Snake, Arizona elegans occidentalis, a Declining California Species of Special Concern." Journal of Heredity, August 8, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esac040.

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Abstract The glossy snake (Arizona elegans) is a polytypic species broadly distributed across southwestern North America. The species occupies habitats ranging from California’s coastal chaparral to the shortgrass prairies of Texas and southeastern Nebraska, to the extensive arid scrublands of central México. Three subspecies are currently recognized in California, one of which is afforded state-level protection based on the extensive loss and modification of its preferred alluvial coastal scrub and inland desert habitat. We report the first genome assembly of A. elegans occidentalis as part o

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Sun, Xiaolei, Wulf Amelung, Erwin Klumpp, et al. "Fog controls biological cycling of soil phosphorus in the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert." Global Change Biology 30, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17068.

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AbstractSoils in hyper‐arid climates, such as the Chilean Atacama Desert, show indications of past and present forms of life despite extreme water limitations. We hypothesize that fog plays a key role in sustaining life. In particular, we assume that fog water is incorporated into soil nutrient cycles, with the inland limit of fog penetration corresponding to the threshold for biological cycling of soil phosphorus (P). We collected topsoil samples (0–10 cm) from each of 54 subsites, including sites in direct adjacency (<10 cm) and in 1 m distance to plants, along an aridity gradient across

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Caro-Consuegra, Rocio, Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Erin Rawls, et al. "Uncovering signals of positive selection in Peruvian populations from three ecological regions." Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 21, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac158.

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Abstract Perú hosts extremely diverse ecosystems which can be broadly classified into three major ecoregions: the Pacific desert coast, the Andean highlands, and the Amazon rainforest. Since its initial peopling approximately 12,000 years ago, the populations inhabiting such ecoregions might have differentially adapted to their contrasting environmental pressures. Previous studies have described several candidate genes underlying adaptation to hypobaric hypoxia among Andean highlanders. However, the adaptive genetic diversity of coastal and rainforest populations has been less studied. Here, w

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