Santa Rosa Island community members derive their income and livelihoods from bioaquatic resources, principally bivalves of the genus Anadara, both for subsistence use and commercial purposes. Bivalve mollusks have a sedentary ...

Globally, a majority of people use plants as a primary source of healthcare and introduced plants are increasingly discussed as medicine. Protecting this resource for human health depends upon understanding which plants ...

Heavy metals such as cadmium (Cd) are a global concern; recent researches have concluded that they are related to health risks caused by contaminated food intake. Although Cd contents in cocoa beans and their derivatives ...

In this study, cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni), and lead (Pb) contents were analyzed in sixteen banana composite samples from different commercial establishments from eleven Ecuadorian production provinces using graphite furnace ...

Environmental pollution allows heavy metals to interact with ecosystems, bioaccumulating and passing through the food chain. Animals and human scan consume contaminated species and reach toxic and harmful concentrations ...

Factores relacionados a la cultura (etnia), género, edad y localidad de residencia de las personas pueden influir sobre el uso que den a las plantas nativas. Mediante el análisis de una encuesta con pruebas de Chi cuadrado, ...

Myrcia machinazana, a new species from southern Amazonia in Ecuador is described and illustrated; additionally a distribution map is presented and its conservation status and relationships with other species are discussed. ...

With ever-increasing demands for energy, oil and gascompanies are continually searching for new resources. Asa result, companies are looking in ever more remoteterrestrial and challenging marine areas. These also tendto ...

We provide a synopsis to the family Dennstaedtiaceae in Bolivia, including 30 species in 7 genera. Two endemic species of Hypolepis, H. periculosa and H. woodii, and a widespread subspecies of Pteridium esculentum, subsp. ...

The integration of ecology and evolutionary biology requires an understanding of the evolutionary lability in species’ ecological niches. For tropical trees, specialization for particular soil resource and topographic ...