Climate and parent material type are important soil forming factors. On Santa Cruz Island,
Galápagos, the climate shows a pronounced altitudinal zonation from arid lowlands to …

The Galápagos archipelago is a well‐suited model ecosystem for investigating soil
evolution. Here, we study mineral transformations and pedogenesis of the volcanic soils of …

Glyphosate is an important and widely used herbicide, its environmental behaviour being of
scientific and public interest. Computational models of clay minerals and their interactions …

The islands of the Galápagos archipelago are of different ages due to the combination of a
geostationary volcanic hotspot and the eastward movement of the Nazca tectonic plate …

The Galápagos archipelago consists of a chain of volcanic islands of different ages. We
used a chronosequence and altitudinal sequence approach to investigate the influence of …

Uninhabited islands serve as a natural and unique laboratory for the study of soil fertility
under varying natural conditions and potential anthropogenic influences, and how the soil …

The Galápagos archipelago, a chain of islands formed by hotspot-induced volcanism on the
Nazca tectonic plate, exhibits pronounced gradients of rock age and climate. Here, we …

Abstract The generation of Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) is a topic of vigorous debate with
competing models variably invoking hot mantle plumes, insulative heating by …

The retention of nutrients and contaminants may vary strongly in the course of soil
development. For volcanic soils, little is known about changes of retention characteristics …

The flora and fauna of the Galápagos Islands have long been subject to scientific inquiry, but
the soils have remained largely ignored until recently. The objective of this study was to …