scholarly journals New insights into the historical translocation of Algerian hedgehog and pine marten throughout the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean): refining the radiocarbon‐based chronology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Valenzuela ◽  
R. M. Martínez‐Sánchez ◽  
J. García ◽  
J. A. Alcover
Keyword(s):  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Pine Marten

scholarly journals A captorhinid-dominated assemblage from the palaeoequatorial Permian of Menorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Rafel MATAMALES-ANDREU ◽  
Francesc X. ROIG-MUNAR ◽  
Oriol OMS ◽  
Àngel GALOBART ◽  
Josep FORTUNY
Keyword(s):  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Distribution Area ◽  
Lower Permian ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
The North ◽  
Low Latitudes ◽  
High Fibre ◽  
Successful Group ◽  
Neighbouring Island

ABSTRACT Moradisaurine captorhinid eureptiles were a successful group of high-fibre herbivores that lived in the arid low latitudes of Pangaea during the Permian. Here we describe a palaeoassemblage from the Permian of Menorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean), consisting of ichnites of small captorhinomorph eureptiles, probably moradisaurines (Hyloidichnus), and parareptiles (cf. Erpetopus), and bones of two different taxa of moradisaurines. The smallest of the two is not diagnostic beyond Moradisaurinae incertae sedis. The largest one, on the other hand, shows characters that are not present in any other known species of moradisaurine (densely ornamented maxillar teeth), and it is therefore described as Balearosaurus bombardensis gen. et sp. nov. Other remains found in the same outcrop are identified as cf. Balearosaurus bombardensis gen. et sp. nov., as they could also belong to the newly described taxon. This species is sister to the moradisaurine from the lower Permian of the neighbouring island of Mallorca, and is also closely related to the North American genus Rothianiscus. This makes it possible to suggest the hypothesis that the Variscan mountains, which separated North America from southern Europe during the Permian, were not a very important palaeobiogeographical barrier to the dispersion of moradisaurines. In fact, mapping all moradisaurine occurrences known so far, it is shown that their distribution area encompassed both sides of the Variscan mountains, essentially being restricted to the arid belt of palaeoequatorial Pangaea, where they probably outcompeted other herbivorous clades until they died out in the late Permian.

scholarly journals Deep-water macroalgal-dominated coastal detritic assemblages on the continental shelf off Mallorca and Menorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergi Joher ◽  
Enric Ballesteros ◽  
Emma Cebrian ◽  
Noemí Sánchez ◽  
Conxi Rodríguez-Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands

Assessment of the deep water trawl fishery off the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean): from single to multi-species approach

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 670 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Guijarro ◽  
George Tserpes ◽  
Joan Moranta ◽  
Enric Massutí
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Trawl Fishery

scholarly journals Ichtyofauna associated with drifting floating objects in the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)

1999 ◽  
Vol 63 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Riera ◽  
Amalia Grau ◽  
Antonio M. Grau ◽  
Elena Pastor ◽  
Antoni Quetglas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Floating Objects

scholarly journals Alien Plant Diversity in Mediterranean Wetlands: A Comparative Study within Valencian, Balearic and Sardinian Floras

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga MAYORAL ◽  
Francesco MASCIA ◽  
Lina PODDA ◽  
Emilio LAGUNA ◽  
Pere FRAGA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Ricinus Communis ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
Alien Plant ◽  
Mediterranean Wetlands ◽  
Alien Flora

Although wetlands provide an important range of environmental, social and economic services, they are increasingly subjected to anthropogenic perturbations, amongst which invasion by alien plants is particularly alarming. This paper focuses on the alien flora of wetlands from three territories belonging to the western Mediterranean area: one continental (Valencian Community) and two insular (Balearic Islands and Sardinia), providing a complete checklist for the three territories and a general comparison. In total, 380 alien taxa from 89 families have been reported, being the Valencian Community the area richer in taxa (312), followed by the Balearic Islands (151) and Sardinia (134). The invasive component includes 77 taxa, of which nine are common to the three territories - and have been recognised as the most invasive ones in Mediterranean islands - and six are considered invasive worldwide (Ailanthus altissima, Arundo donax, Cortaderia selloana, Oxalis pes-caprae, Ricinus communis and Eichhornia crassipes). Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) revealed that the three territories do not show statistically relevant differences in relation to the alien species present in wetlands and their characteristics. The information on the characteristics of plants in similar habitats of the same biogeographic region provides a portrait of the current dimensions of the phenomenon in Western Mediterranean wetlands and is especially useful from the management perspective: its predictive value can be applied in establishing a prioritization of control measures of those most invasive species and will help screening new introductions with invasive potential.

Origin, extinction and ancient DNA of a new fossil insular viper: molecular clues of overseas immigration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enric Torres-Roig ◽  
Kieren J Mitchell ◽  
Josep Antoni Alcover ◽  
Fernando Martínez-Freiría ◽  
Salvador Bailón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complete Mitochondrial Genome ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
North East ◽  
Iberian Population ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Insular Population

Abstract Viperinae is a subfamily of viperid snakes whose fossil record in the Mediterranean islands is, until now, restricted to 12 palaeontological deposits on seven islands. Revision of the material excavated 30 years ago from the Middle/Late Pleistocene–Holocene deposit of Es Pouàs [Eivissa (= Ibiza), Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean] revealed about 6000 bones of a small-sized viper across different stratigraphic levels. Its morphological characteristics are different enough to known species of Vipera to warrant the description of a new species, but the nearly complete mitochondrial genome obtained from this snake based on a sample dated to 16 130 ± 45 bp, suggested it belonged to a new insular population of Lataste’s viper (Vipera latastei), Vipera latastei ebusitana subsp. nov. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the dispersal of the ancestors of V. l. ebusitana to Eivissa, most probably from a north-east Iberian population, occurred via overwater colonization < 1.5 Mya, well after the Messinian Salinity Crisis (5.97–5.32 Mya) when land bridges allowed terrestrial colonization of the Balearic Islands by mainland faunas. The morphological differences between V. l. ebusitana and the Iberian populations suggest that it is a new dwarf taxon resulting from insular evolutionary processes, becoming extinct shortly after the first human arrival to this island about 4000 years ago.

The by-catch of sharks in the western Mediterranean (Balearic Islands) trawl fishery

2003 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Carbonell ◽  
F Alemany ◽  
P Merella ◽  
A Quetglas ◽  
E Román
Keyword(s):  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Trawl Fishery ◽  
By Catch

The Deep-Water Peyssonnelia Beds from the Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 233-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enric Ballesteros
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands

Bryozoa from detritic bottoms in the Menorca Channel (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean), with notes on the genus Cribellopora

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2536 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAVIER SOUTO ◽  
OSCAR REVERTER-GIL ◽  
EUGENIO FERNÁNDEZ-PULPEIRO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Epibenthic Sledge ◽  
A New Species

Samples of Bryozoa were collected during an epibenthic sledge survey (Canal0209) of the Menorca Channel between Menorca and Mallorca in the Balearic Islands in 2009. Twenty-nine species were identified, including a new genus of Calloporidae (Barrosia) and a new species of Fenestrulina, described herein. A lectotype is designated for Coronellina fagei (Calescharidae). Cribellopora simplex, a species of Lacernidae generally considered to be a junior synonym of Cribellopora trichotoma, is redescribed on the basis of the holotype and newly collected material.

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