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    Geological and Climatic Features, Processes and Interplay Determining the Human Occupation and Habitation of Easter Island

    Research on Easter Island’s (or Rapa Nui’s) prehistory has mainly been approached from archeological and paleoecological perspectives. The reconstruction of changes in island society has been based largely on ...

    Alberto Sáez, Olga Margalef, Laura Becerril in The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (2022)

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    The chert from the Castelltallat Formation (south-central Pyrenees): archaeometric characterisation and archaeological implications

    Chert from the limestones and marly limestones of Castelltallat Formation (Ebro Basin) was widely used throughout prehistoric times in north-eastern Iberia to produce stone tools due to its properties and acce...

    David Ortega, Carles Roqué, Jordi Ibáñez in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2018)

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    A transcriptomic approach to study the effect of long-term starvation and diet composition on the expression of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation genes in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)

    The impact of nutritional status and diet composition on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) in fish remains largely unknown. To identify biomarkers of interest in nutritional studies, herein we o...

    Jonás I. Silva-Marrero, Alberto Sáez, Albert Caballero-Solares, Ivan Viegas in BMC Genomics (2017)

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    First records and potential palaeoecological significance of Dianella (Xanthorrhoeaceae), an extinct representative of the native flora of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

    Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, is currently primarily covered by grasslands, but palaeoecological studies have shown the former presence of different vegetation. Much of its original biot...

    Núria Cañellas-Boltà, Valentí Rull, Alberto Sáez in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2014)

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    ENSO and solar activity signals from oxygen isotopes in diatom silica during late glacial-Holocene transition in Central Andes (18°S)

    The late glacial-Holocene transition from the Lago Chungará sedimentary record in northern Chilean Altiplano (18°S) is made up of laminated sediments composed of light-white and dark-green pluriannual couplets...

    Armand Hernández, Santiago Giralt, Roberto Bao, Alberto Sáez in Journal of Paleolimnology (2010)

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    A statistical approach to disentangle environmental forcings in a lacustrine record: the Lago Chungará case (Chilean Altiplano)

    A high resolution multiproxy study (magnetic susceptibility, X-ray diffraction, XRF scanner, gray-colour values, Total Organic Carbon, Total Inorganic Carbon, Total Carbon and Total Biogenic Silica) of the sed...

    Santiago Giralt, Ana Moreno, Roberto Bao, Alberto Sáez in Journal of Paleolimnology (2008)