scholarly journals Chaetognath assemblages along the Pacific Coast and adjacent inland waters of the Philippines: relative importance of oceanographic and biological factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Mar P. Noblezada ◽  
Wilfredo L. Campos
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Comprehensive Information ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Plankton Distribution

Abstract Noblezada, M. M. P., and Campos, W. L. 2012. Chaetognath assemblages along the Pacific Coast and adjacent inland waters of the Philippines: relative importance of oceanographic and biological factors. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 410–420. When studying plankton distribution, it is necessary to investigate the biology of the target organisms and the surrounding physical environment. Station and species groupings are only useful if they provide insight into the environmental associations of the species in the group. The study covers two geographic regions: the Pacific Coast (Bicol Shelf) and inland waters (San Bernardino Strait, Ticao Pass, Sibuyan, and Visayan Seas) of the Philippines. Comprehensive information is provided on chaetognath assemblages and distribution within the regions. The findings are integrated with oceanographic conditions and phenomena that define the characteristics of the subareas and consideration given to how these conditions affect chaetognath ecology. A comparison is also provided of the community structure of the two regions, and the possible use of chaetognaths as indicator species of water mass movement and oceanographic phenomena explored. In all, 28 284 specimens were examined, and 33 species from 17 genera were identified. Chaetognath distributions, abundance, and community structure were analysed using dissimilarity indices and multiple regression. The results show that the distribution of chaetognaths agrees well with the movement of oceanic water from the Pacific into the central part of the archipelago.

Mexico and the Pacific

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Slack
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The South ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Mexican American War ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific

Called “Mar del Sur” [South Sea] when first spotted by Balboa in 1513 and dubbed “Mar Pacifíco” [Peaceful Calm Sea] by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520, the historical relationship between the Pacific Ocean and the people of Mexico is multilayered and dynamic. During the Spanish colonial era (1521–1821), the viceroyalty of New Spain (Nueva España) supervised the Asian and Polynesian colonies of the Philippines and Guam (and briefly Taiwan and the Spice island of Ternate) across the Pacific. Acapulco became a mythical emporium of exotic luxury supplied by the galleons from Manila that for 250 years tied Asia to the Iberian New World. Beyond this famous port, littoral native communities dotting the Pacific coast, from Oaxaca in the south to the forty-second parallel of Alta California in the north, gradually fell under Spanish secular and religious control. The enormous coastline measured approximately 5,400 miles, more than double the length of seaside territory facing the Gulf of Mexico. Following the War of Mexican Independence (1810–1821), the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) emerged. For the next fifty years, Mexico experienced domestic political instability exacerbated by wars against the United States (Mexican-American War, 1846–1848) and France (1862–1867). When political order was finally established under the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876–1910), regionalism was confronted by the centrifugal power of a modernizing, technocratic state. Despite losing 840 miles of California coastline, and a lucrative trade route with Manila, in the Mexican-American War, Mexico’s Pacific littoral in the south grew to incorporate the formerly Guatemalan territory of Chiapas, and a new shipping network evolved. Traditional research on pueblos, cities, or states along the Pacific coast emphasizes purely local or regional contexts within the colonial or independent Mexican state; or it is grouped thematically into studies about the galleon trade or California mission settlements. Recent scholarship is encouraging a more balanced approach, accentuating the many threads that wove a rich tapestry of Mexico’s unique relationship with the “Pacific World” (as opposed to the more popular “Atlantic World”); not only in a nationalist framework, but with inter-American and trans-Pacific or global dimensions.

Awarded with Eternity: Specifics of the Burial Practices in the Ancient Cultures of the Pacific Region at the Turn of the Eras

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Андрей Табарев ◽  
Andrey Tabarev
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Tropical Zone ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Western Mexico ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Similar Formation

The paper deals with various aspects of the complex academic issue of studying the culture genesis in the Pacific Region based on the archeological data. Periods of strong cultural surges, milestones in the development of technologies and economy, crucial events in economy and social domain are of acute interest within the scope of the outlined problem. Such periods include the era turn (the 2nd century BC – 3–4th centuries AD), i. e. “The time of great leaders and stone tombs”. The research focuses on two regions – the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago (Kyushu, Ryukyu and Okinawa islands) and the tropical zone of the Pacific coast of America (from Western Mexico to the northern Chile) – and to individual parts of the South-Eastern Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia). The findings obtained in the course of the research confirm the hypothesis about similar formation scenarios of the tribal elite and accompanying components of architecture, arts and commerce in objects of “prestigious technologies” in the ancient cultures of the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific Region.

scholarly journals First report of Faunus ater (Pachychilidae: Gastropod) on the American Continent: A mature empty specimen from Masachapa, Nicaragua, Central America

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo López S.J. ◽  
Janina Urcuyo
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Central America ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
American Continent ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Del Rio

Faunus ater (Linné, 1758), es un gastrópodo pachiquílido monotípico deagua salobre, bien conocido en Filipinas y el sudeste asiático. Un únicoejemplar fue hallado en el estuario del río Masachapa, en la costa delPacífico nicaragüense a 60 km de Managua. Este hallazgo constituye unaextensión de ámbito trans-continental, la primera para este género enlas Américas.ABSTRACTFaunus ater (Linné, 1758), a Pachychilid monotypic gastropod, is a wellknown brackish water snail from the Philippines and East Asia. In theyear 1982 a single specimen was found in the estuary section of RiverMasachapa, Masachapa Town, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, 60km from Managua. This trans-continental range extension is the firstreported in the Americas.

scholarly journals Determination of the Fish Community Structure of an Intertidal Rocky Zone of the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Laura E. Cota-Ortega ◽  
Emelio Barjau-Gonzalez ◽  
Juan Manuel López-Vivas ◽  
José Ángel Armenta-Quintana ◽  
Javier Aguilar-Parra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Baja California Sur ◽  
Fish Community Structure ◽  
The Pacific

The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1374
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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