The global demand for materials and energy grows apace since the middleof last century and no stopping seems feasible in the next decades. Despiteincreasingly strict controls of emissions from anthropogenic sources, thedemand ...

Microplastics are a relevant environmental concern in marine ecosystems due to their ubiquity. However, knowledge on their dispersion patterns within the ocean basin and the interaction with biota are scarce and mostly ...

The Early Paleozoic geodynamic evolution in SW Iberia is believed to have been dominated by the opening of the Rheic Ocean. The Rheic Ocean is generally accepted to have resulted from the drift of peri-Gondwanan terranes ...

El presente suplemento resume los principales conocimientos que el hombre ha alcanzado sobre los mares y los océanos, teniendo en cuenta la responsabilidad del hombre ante el uso y conservación del medio marino en un país ...

Albatrosses and petrels (Procellariiformes) are migratory oceanic birds of considerable conservational interest. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were assessed in the subcutaneous fat, ...

Thirty-seven surface sediment samples were taken in the Pontevedra Ria (NW Iberian Peninsula), and metal concentrations (Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, and Zn) and organic/inorganic parameters were determined in order to ...

Tuna, like most large pelagic fish, are highly exploited by man, and it is, therefore, important to determine mercury (Hg) levels in these species in order to estbaliz allowable limits for their consumption and/or contamination ...