THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES ON PHYTOPLANKTON DISTRIBUTION IN CONTINENTAL SHELF WATERS OFF NORTH-WESTERN IRELAND

2007 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. O'Boyle ◽  
R. Raine
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Phytoplankton Distribution ◽  
Western Ireland ◽  
North Western

scholarly journals Occurrence of harmful algal species and shellfish toxicity in Sardinia (Italy)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Bazzoni ◽  
Alessandro Graziano Mudadu ◽  
Giuseppa Lorenzoni ◽  
Igor Arras ◽  
Antonella Lugliè ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Algal Species ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Bivalve Molluscs ◽  
Alexandrium Minutum ◽  
Entire Study ◽  
Phytoplankton Distribution ◽  
Legal Limits ◽  
Commercially Important ◽  
North Western ◽  
Dsp Toxins

Sardinia (Italy, north-western Mediterranean) is a commercially important producer of edible bivalve molluscs. Since the early 2000s, it was subjected to recurring cases of mussel farm closures due to toxic algal poison. Here, we present the studies on toxin concentrations and the associated potentially toxic phytoplankton distribution and abundances carried out by a regular monitoring programme in Sardinian shellfish areas, from January to May 2015. DSP toxins were detected in several bivalve molluscs samples, while PSP and ASP toxins were present just once, without exceeding the legal limits. Potentially toxic algal species have been constantly present. Pseudo-nitzschia species were often present during the entire study often with high abundances, while Dinophysis species reached high densities sporadically. Among PSP phytoplankton, only Alexandrium minutum Halim was found. The data obtained in this study showed an increase in the DSP toxicity in mussels in Sardinia. No clear relation between the occurrence of toxins in shellfish and the presence of toxic algal species was found, although a slight correlation between DSP toxins and Dinophysis species could be supported.

scholarly journals Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A Reinterpretation of the Chronological Evidence from Céide Fields in North-western Ireland

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Whitefield
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
County Mayo ◽  
Western Ireland ◽  
North Western ◽  
Age Disparity

It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Céide Fields, County Mayo, are a phenomenon of the Irish Early Neolithic — analogous to later prehistoric ‘Celtic’ fields in all but age. This study argues that the age disparity is an artefact of the research methods, and that the age of the main Céide Fields complex has been overestimated by as much as two-and-a-half millennia.

scholarly journals Bax and the ‘Celtic North’

2013 ◽  
pp. 51-87
Author(s):  
Aidan J. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The South ◽  
Musical Engagement ◽  
Literary Revival ◽  
Irish Literary Revival ◽  
Celtic Mythology ◽  
Western Ireland ◽  
Arnold Bax ◽  
North Western

Scholars of Arnold Bax have long acknowledged the influence of the Irish Literary Revival on the composer’s compositional output up to about 1920, of Sibelius from the late 1920s onwards, and of the continuity of styles between these two periods. In this article I argue that this continuity relies on what Bax draws from early Yeats, which is less Celtic mythology or folklore than a particular way of imagining nature; that Bax’s use as a compositional stimulus of what he called the ‘Celtic North’ (essentially the landscapes of western Ireland and north-western Scotland) had parallels in the literature and art of 1920s Ireland; and that the ‘Celtic North’ offers a means of critiquing inter-war English pastoralism, which has traditionally been associated with what Alun Howkins, after Hilaire Belloc, has called the ‘South Country’. Bax thus offers a musical engagement with nature that is essentially dystopian, sublime and (within the discourse of British pastoralism) non-Anglo Saxon.

scholarly journals Oscillating retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf offshore Galway Bay, western Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 420 ◽  
pp. 106087 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Louise Callard ◽  
Colm Ó Cofaigh ◽  
Sara Benetti ◽  
Richard C. Chiverrell ◽  
Katrien J.J. Van Landeghem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Western Ireland
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