Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained
by two types of legacies – information and material. Species life‐history traits represent an …

… (a) lightning-ignited wildfire in the boreal forest, Alaska, USA, photo credit: Philip Higuera
(b) prescribed fire in tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of Kanas, USA, photo credit: Kendra …

Continental lithosphere is modified over eons in response to large-scale tectonic processes,
such as rifting and collisions. The lithospheric mantle beneath central Iberia was affected by …

… García-Noguero, Pablo Higueras. Factors influencing mercury uptake by leaves of stone
pine (Pinus pinea L.) in Almadén (Central Spain). Environmental Science and Pollution …

Almost no environmental data on mercury distribution and speciation in soils have been
published so far for the Almadén mining district (central Spain), despite its huge size and historic …

We present data from an early reconnaissance survey (stream sediments, soil, and water
Hg chemistry; plants and water crustaceans Hg intake) of the Almadén district (central Spain), …

Each soil–plant system has specific parameters on the uptake of different minerals in the soil,
depending on several factors. One of these factors, perhaps the most important, is the pH. …

Metallurgic calcines with very high mercury and methylmercury content from the Almadén
mining district were analyzed by synchrotron-based microprobe techniques. Information about …

… 1) has produced one third of the total world production of Hg (Higueras et al., 2003, 2006).
The district encompasses a series of Hg mineral deposits having in common a simple …

Sediments from the Elqui watershed river system (9800 km 2 ; northern Chile) are highly
enriched in arsenic. The river system initiates in the high altitude domain of the Andes (3500–…