African west coast

Hommersand MH, Fredericq S (2003) Biogeography of the marine red algae of the South African West Coast a molecular approach. In Chapman, RO, RJ Anderson, VJ, Vreeland and IR Davison (eds) Proceedings 28th International Seaweed Symposium. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 325-336... 

Furthermore, there is an overall negative correlation between these two series in between 15°N and about 30°N, just where the northeast trade wind dominates. This suggests that severe (mild) European winters were accompanied by increasing (decreasing) air temperatures in the subtropics due to relaxed (intensified) northeast trade winds along the African west coasts (Hagen, 2001). 

Stegenga, H., Bolton, J. J., and Anderson, R. J. (1997). Seaweeds of the South African west coast. Creda press. Cape Town Antarctic explorers, [online] 2000 [cited 2003 July 30] Available from http //tea.rice.edU/hubbard/4.27.2000.html. 

The approximately 3000km long southern African coastline, stretching from Namibia in the west to southern Mozambique in the east, is broadly subdivided into three bio-geographical zones the cool temperate west coast, the warm temperate south east coast, and the subtropical east coast, Fig. (1) [1], Each of the southern African bio-geographical zones sustains distinctive populations of marine flora and fauna and of the over 10 000 species of marine organisms recorded off the southern African coast, a large proportion are reported to be endemic [2-5]. 

Genetic control of D. melanogaster female components In 1989, Jallon and Pechine found a new type of quantitative hydrocarbon polymorphism specific to D. melanogaster females that affects the positions of double bonds in dienes. Although the double bonds remained at the same relative positions - separated by 2 carbons - they were more frequently located on carbons 5,9 in African flies and on carbons 7,11 in non-African flies. A study of 85 strains from around the world found the African type throughout the whole continent south of the Sahara Desert and in the West Indies and a small number of the Pacific islands. For example, the typical Tai females (Ivory Coast) has 30-40 percent 5,9-heptacosadiene (5,9-HD) and 2-6 percent 7,11-HD. Elsewhere... 

West African Cacao Research Institute (WACRI), Tafo, Gold Coast... 

Fig. 6.1 Major features of surface circulation in the NW Indian Ocean during (a) Northeast monsoon, and (b) Southwest monsoon (EACC - East African Coast Current SECC - South Equatorial Countercurrent SC - Somali Current WICC - West Indian Coast Current NMC - Northeast Monsoon Current LH - Lakshadweep High SG - Southern Gyre GW - Great Whirl SE - Socotra Eddy RHJ -Ras-al-Hadd Jet LL - Lakshadweep Low SMC - Southwest Monsoon Current). Redrawn from Schott and McCreary (2001) with permission from Elsevier Science.

The Canary Basin contains a varied geological setting along the continental shelf and slope off the Northwest African coast, the Canary Islands, and the Madeira Abyssal Plain (MAP) (Fig. 1). The MAP is situated in the deepest part (about 5400 m) of the Canary Basin about 700 km west of the Canary Islands (Jarvis and Higgs, 1987). 

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