Rubrique ‘English materials’

New data on Nasutitermes from French Guiana (Isoptera: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae)

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Extrait: Nasutitermes octopilis, N. ephratae, N. similis, N. guayanae, N. guayanae form columbicus, and N. surinamensis are cited for the first time from French Guiana on the basis of the soldier and worker castes. The mandible of major worker of N. surinamensis, of small soldier of N. costalis, small wor ...

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The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 2, Nonvolant species

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Extrait: This report describes the results of nonvolant mammal inventory fieldwork at Paracou, a lowland rainforest locality in northern French Guiana, and concludes the faunal analysis introduced by our previous monograph on the bats of Paracou (Simmons and Voss, 1998). Working within a 3-km radius over ...

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The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats

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Extrait: This report describes the results of bat inventory fieldwork at Paracou, a lowland rainforest locality in northern French Guiana. Working within a 3-km radius over the course of 168 sampling days from 1991 to 1994, we captured 3126 bats, of which about 78% were taken in ground-level mistnets, 10% i ...

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Heavy metals distribution in mangrove sediments along the mobile coastline of French Guiana

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Extrait: The accumulation of nine heavy metals in fine-grained sediments from the mangrove fringed coast of French Guiana is evaluated. The dynamic features of the South American tropical coastline, from the Amazon to the Orinoco Rivers, result in mangrove sediments being alternately submitted to phases of ...

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Campanian Through Eocene Magnetostratigraphy of Sites 1257-1261, ODP Leg 207, Demerara Rise (Western Equatorial Atlantic)

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Extrait: Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 1257–1261 recovered thick sections of Upper Cretaceous–Eocene oceanic sediments on Demerara Rise off the east coast of Surinam and French Guiana, South America. Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic measurements of ~800 minicores established a high-resolution comp ...

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