FA , Darren A.

Los moluscos constituyen el segundo filo animal más diverso y se encuentran en muchos tipos de hábitat, por lo que son idóneos para establecer comparaciones entre distintos ecosistemas. Se han analizado los datos de los moluscos obtenidos en una serie de emplazamientos que cubrían el sur de la península Ibérica para determinar, empleando...

El molusco marino Patella ferruginea está considerado como una de las especies en mayor peligro de extinción del Mediterráneo. En 2004 se ha llevado a cabo un estudio para establecer la distribución, abundancia y talla de la especie en la bahía de Algeciras. Un total de 140 individuos fueron censados sobre una línea de costa de unos 20 km,...

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Studies conducted along the southern Iberian coastline validate macrobenthic community analyses at taxonomic levels higher than that of species. Twelve studies on littoral benthic communities, carried out by the same research team, were selected spanning both a variety of sampling strategies (spatial, temporal, spatiotemporal) and...

The Bay of Gibraltar contains a high biological diversity which is conditioned by a suite of both biotic and abiotic factors of natural origin.However, the Bay is also subjected toa variety of anthropic impacts which have a considerable effect on the marine biota. The rocky littoral is particular!y useful in environmental monitoring programmes...

EC Directive 2000/60 of the European Parliament and of the Council of Europe provides for the need to establish ecological regions along European coasts. The present article outlines research carried out in various coastal marine ecosystems as a contribution to the characterization of these ecoregions of the coast of Andalusia (southern Spain)....

Patella ferruginea es el invertebrado marino endémico del Mediterráneo occidental más amenazado según la Directiva 92/43 / CEE del Consejo Europeo y está considerado en "peligro de extinción" en el Catálogo Español de Especies Amenazadas. En el presente estudio se recoge la información actualmente disponible sobre los estudios de distribución...

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During the period represented by the sandy infills of the eastern flank caves and the Catalan Sand formation, it was likely that Gibraltar was part of the mainland, including a broad coastal plain covered with transgressive wind-blown dunes. All aeolian formations originated on marine beaches, from 6 m a.s.l. to 100 m b.s.l., before being blown...

This study utilizes geomorphology, marine sediment data, environmental reconstructions and the Gorham's Cave occupational record during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition to illustrate the impacts of climate changes on human population dynamics in the Western Mediterranean. Geomorphologic evolution has been dated and appears to be...

Numerous studies along the northern Mediterranean borderland have documented the use of shellfish by Neanderthals but none of these finds are prior to Marine Isotopic Stage 3 (MIS 3). In this paper we present evidence that gathering and consumption of mollusks can now be traced back to the lowest level of the archaeological sequence at...