The Twangiza mine is located in the Mitumba mountain range, in the western part of the Albertine Rift Valley, just 20 km East of Itombwe Nature Reserve. A biological inventory was carried out within the mine’s decade...
Volcanism is a primary process of land formation.It provides a model for understanding soil-forming processes and the role of pioneer bacteria and/or archaea as early colonizers in those new environments.The objective...
The regime of disturbance with natural or anthropogenic origin can lead to the destabilization or even to a mass mortality of benthic communities. Due to the heterogeneity of the disturbance there is a formation of pa...
funded by the European Union (EUMAR project,grant number EVK3-CT-2001-00048);the Minesterio de Cienciay Tecnología (VEM2003-20047).
The dogwhelk Nucella lapillus is a predatory marine gastropod living on rocky shores in the North Atlantic.As with many other gastropod species,Nucella was affected by tributyltin(TBT)pollution during the 1970s and 19...