The assignment of credit through bills of exchange and transmission documents in Andalusi Law

The exchange traffic was a practice that suited the modus vivendi of caravanners and traders in the Islamic world. The inclusion of the Iberian.Peninsula into the most important commercial routes of Muslims – such as the silk route through the North Africa – provides a very solid reason to deepen in the study of the sources that have been preserved about the role that certain credit instruments, which represented an alternative to the coin, might have played in trade centres.

Aportaciones al estudio de las vías de época islámica en la Meseta Norte

Justificación de la importancia histórica del estudio de las vías islámicas de Al-Andalus. Se hacen diversas aportaciones al mapa de los caminos de época andalusí en la Meseta Norte de la Península Ibérica utilizándose esta metodología estructuralista de estudio de los espacios. Al final se enumeran los itinerarios principales de la región, según son descritos por las fuentes árabes.

Genetic signature of a recent invasion: The ragged sea hare Bursatella leachii in Mar Menor (SE Spain)

This study received partial financial support from the Séneca Foundation, Agencia Regional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia, Spain (11881/PI/09). The first author (MGW) was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) postdoctoral grant (SFRH/BPD/70689/2010). JD was supported through an Erasmus grant (2011–2013) of the European MSc in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC).