Field trip in Canarias, La Palma island in October 2012

A trip to La Palma Island took place this month to work along the elevational gradient that is located in the eastern slope of the island. The team was composed by Pr. Dr. Juana María González Mancebo, Raquel Hernández Hernández and Julio Leal Pérez that is the collaborator of La Laguna Bryologists group. Pix: La Palma's team during the field work of october 2012, from left to right, Raquel Hernández-Hernández, Julio Leal and Juana María González-Mancebo ...

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On the use of "elevation" and "altitude"

In a recent paper Vicar & Körner (2012) in  Oecologia (doi:10.1007/s00442-012-2416-7)  clarified the use of elevation, altitude and height that have been used with confusion in literature. Here, I report from their note the definition of these terms, which sometimes have been misused from translations between Romanic languages. Elevation is the vertical distance between  a point on the land surface and a reference point, usually taken to be the mean sea level. Altitude is the vertical distance between an object (e.g., a bird, aircraft, or parcel of...

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Field trip in Azores, Terceira island: 25-28th september 2012

An expedition in Terceira island (Azores)  along an elevational gradient took place between the 25th and 28th of September 2012. The team was composed by Pr. Dr. Rosalina Gabriel, Márcia Coelho, Raquel Hernández, Débora Henriques and by Fernando Pereira. This study of this gradient in the Azores is carried out in the framework of Débora’s PhD (University of Azores). Raquel (PhD student in Canaries) joined the Azorean team to be trained on the collecting...

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