Helminth infracommunities of Podarcis pityusensis and Podarcis lilfordi (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean basin)

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 658-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Roca ◽  
M. J. Hornero
Keyword(s):  
Host Species ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Helminth Communities ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Podarcis Lilfordi

A survey of the helminth communities of Podarcis pityusensis (Boscá, 1883) and Podarcis lilfordi (Günther, 1874) (Sauria: Lacertidae) from the Pityusic and Gimnesic islands, respectively, in the Balearic Islands, Spain, was conducted. Both host species harbour similar though not identical helminth infracommunities. An analysis of the patterns of diversity for all helminths revealed that both lizards have depauperate isolationist infracommunities, possibly as a result of factors such as host ectothermy, the simplicity of their digestive canal, low vagility, and generalist feeding.

Genetic races associated with the genera and sections of host species in the holoparasitic plant Cytinus (Cytinaceae) in the Western Mediterranean basin

2008 ◽  
Vol 178 (4) ◽  
pp. 875-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara de Vega ◽  
Regina Berjano ◽  
Montserrat Arista ◽  
Pedro L. Ortiz ◽  
Salvador Talavera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Host Species ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Holoparasitic Plant

scholarly journals Synoptic Causes of Torrential Rainfall in the Balearic Islands (1941–2010)

Atmosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1035
Author(s):  
Miquel Grimalt-Gelabert ◽  
Gabriel Alomar-Garau ◽  
Javier Martin-Vide
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Common Occurrence ◽  
Torrential Rain ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Torrential Rainfall

This article determines the atmospheric situation for the 53 days where any weather station in the Balearic Islands detected torrential rain (equal to or above 200 mm in a single day) during the period 1941–2010. To do this, the synoptic charts for each day were analysed, classifying them in accordance with the types established by Martín Vide (1984) and, in addition, through the automatic synoptic classifications from Jenkinson and Collison (1977). The analysis results demonstrate the importance of cyclonic situations over the Western Mediterranean Basin linked to favourable altitude configurations (earlier presence of cut-off lows—DANA—or troughs). These atmospheric conditions contrast with those that predominate in nearby Mediterranean areas, such as the south-eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Days with torrential rain on the Iberian coastline tend to coincide with easterly advections—a less common occurrence in the Balearics.

scholarly journals Gm and Km alleles in two Spanish Pyrenean populations (Andorra and Pallars Sobira): a review of Gm variation in the Western Mediterranean basin

2001 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. GIRALDO ◽  
E. ESTEBAN ◽  
M. P. ALUJA ◽  
R. M. NOGUES ◽  
CH. BACKES-DURO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin

scholarly journals Algerian Olive Germplasm and Its Relationships with the Central-Western Mediterranean Varieties Contributes to Clarify Cultivated Olive Diversification

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 678
Author(s):  
Kamel Atrouz ◽  
Ratiba Bousba ◽  
Francesco Paolo Marra ◽  
Annalisa Marchese ◽  
Francesca Luisa Conforti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Genetic Relationships ◽  
Olive Tree ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Central Mediterranean ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
New Information ◽  
Mediterranean History ◽  
New Synonymy

Olive tree with its main final product, olive oil, is an important element of Mediterranean history, considered the emblematic fruit of a civilization. Despite its wide diffusion and economic and cultural importance, its evolutionary and phylogenetic history is still difficult to clarify. As part of the Mediterranean basin, Algeria was indicated as a secondary diversification center. However, genetic characterization studies from Maghreb area, are currently underrepresented. In this context, we characterized 119 endemic Algerian accessions by using 12 microsatellite markers with the main goal to evaluate the genetic diversity and population structure. In order to provide new insights about the history of olive diversification events in the Central-Western Mediterranean basin, we included and analyzed a sample of 103 Italian accessions from Sicily and, a set of molecular profiles of cultivars from the Central-Western Mediterranean area. The phylogenetic investigation let us to evaluate genetic relationships among Central-Mediterranean basin olive germplasm, highlight new synonymy cases to support the importance of vegetative propagation in the cultivated olive diffusion and consolidate the hypothesis of more recent admixture events occurrence. This work provided new information about Algerian germplasm biodiversity and contributed to clarify olive diversification process.

Variability of Mediterranean aerosols properties at three regional background sites in the western Mediterranean Basin

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaël Sicard ◽  
Julien Totems ◽  
Rubén Barragan ◽  
François Dulac ◽  
Marc Mallet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Regional Background ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin

IV.—Titaniferous Volcanic Rocks

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Crook
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin

In a paper read recently at a meeting of the Geological Society, Dr. Washington proposes to treat certain basalts of the Western Mediterranean basin as constituting “a hitherto unrecognised petro-graphic province, or comagmatic region, one of the most salient characters of which is the presence of salfemanes (basalts) that contain remarkably high amounts of titanium.”

The valid nomen for the tree frog (genus Hyla) of Tunisia and Eastern Algeria

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4759 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHE DUFRESNES ◽  
PIERRE-ANDRÉ CROCHET
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Tree Frog ◽  
Rad Sequencing ◽  
Western Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Genome Wide Data ◽  
Tree Frogs ◽  
Eastern Algeria

Mediterranean tree frogs, Hyla gr. meridionalis Boettger, 1874 (Anura: Hylidae) are widespread around the Western Mediterranean Basin, where they naturally occur across the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). Individuals of diverse Moroccan origins have been introduced and have expanded throughout the Iberian Peninsula, southern France and northern Italy (Liguria), but also on the Canary and Balearic archipelagos (Recuero et al. 2007; Dufresnes et al. 2019). Early molecular studies uncovered several mitochondrial lineages and suggested a major cryptic diversification within this taxon, with Tunisian and eastern Algerian (Numidia) populations carrying deeply divergent haplotypes compared with the rest of the range (Recuero et al. 2007; Stöck et al. 2008; Stöck et al. 2012). While intron markers showed little differentiation (Stöck et al. 2008; Stöck et al. 2012), genome-wide data obtained from RAD-sequencing have supported the deep split suspected from mtDNA (Dufresnes et al. 2018). 

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