One of three islands in the
Juan Fernandez archipelago, 700 kilometers (430 miles) off the Pacific coast of Chile, it was discovered in the sixteenth century.
The polychaete fauna of the
Juan Fernandez Archipelago (JFA) has been understudied with only few investigations.
Project details :The project expects to operate national frameworks and institutional capacities to control the introduction and spread of invasive alien species in Chile, through trade, travel and transportation, through the implementation of a pilot project monitoring and measures control in an environment of high biodiversity threatened by these species such as the
Juan Fernandez Archipelago.
A series of tethering experiments were performed in three coastal sites of Robinson Crusoe Island (
Juan Fernandez archipelago, Chile).
Comments: This species is restricted to the insular portion of Chile in
Juan Fernandez Archipelago.
The present study was carried out in Chilean Robinson Crusoe Island, which is part of
Juan Fernandez Archipelago, located 677 kilometers from central continental Chile (Fig.
The accident occurred Friday over the
Juan Fernandez archipelago, about 700 kilometres from the mainland.
The
Juan Fernandez archipelago is full of castaways--plants and animals that somehow ended up on these remote outcrops and evolved over millions of years into species that occur nowhere else on Earth.
President Michelle Bachelet said a huge wave also hit Chile's remote Robinson Crusoe Island - part of the
Juan Fernandez Archipelago - and that aid ships had been sent there.
Two ships carrying aid were dispatched to Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the
Juan Fernandez Archipelago, which has already been hit by huge waves.
One of these habitats is part of the
Juan Fernandez archipelago, and specifically the chain of seamounts stretching to the west of these islands on the Nazca tectonic plate.
Carex and Uncinia (Cyperaceae, Cariceae) from the
Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile.
