Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Greek Aegean Islands: ecological approaches [PDF]
Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Blood-sucking phlebotomine sand flies are the vectors of the protozoan parasites Leishmania spp. Different Phlebotomus species transmit different Leishmania species causing leishmaniases which are neglected diseases emerging/reemerging in new ...
Nikolaos Tsirigotakis +6 more
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What Need for Speed? Lizards from Islands Missing Predators Sprint Slower [PDF]
AnimalsIsland taxa are frequently susceptible to introduced predators. This susceptibility is thought to be caused by the loss of key ancestral antipredator physiological adaptations during long periods of evolution under reduced predation pressures.
Sarah L. Semegen +3 more
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North Aegean Island Landscapes as Ecomuseums: The Case of Lesvos Island [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2017 The main advantage of the Aegean islands, in generating national, regional, or international competitiveness, compared to the areas on the continental mainland, is their natural and cultural assets, their cultural landscapes.
Evangelos Pavlis
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Diversity, 2020 The Aegean archipelago, characterized as a natural laboratory for research concerning plant species diversity and phytogeography has a complex geological and paleogeographical history that varies among its phytogeographical areas. A different combination
Maria Panitsa, Panitsa Maria
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Beyond Borders: Dirofilaria immitis Infection in Dogs Spreads to Previously Non-Enzootic Areas in Greece—A Serological Survey [PDF]
Veterinary SciencesAlthough Dirofilaria immitis in dogs is considered enzootic in northern Greece, the available data on the occurrence of infection in southern parts of the country demonstrate its scarcity.
Isaia Symeonidou +5 more
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A sea of islands, a sea of crime: island crime fiction in the Aegean Sea
Island Studies Journal, 2019 Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about ‘islandness ...
Ralph Crane
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Tobacco Networks in the Aegean Islands
Advances in Historical Studies, 2016 The Aegean Archipelagos could be seen as a networked cultural space covered by multilevel web frameworks. The lines (flows or trajectories) are routes of people, goods, ideas and the nodes are the islands and their communities. At the same time islands are also fields of production that makes them matrixes of social and cultural creation.
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Occurrence and tentative population status of the Balkan Terrapin (Mauremys rivulata, Valenciennes, 1833) on Greek islands [PDF]
Herpetozoa, 2023 The distribution of Mauremys rivulata on Aegean islands was summarized by Broggi in 2012. Here, the study area encompasses all Greek islands, including the Ionian Islands, and the two Turkish islands of Gökceada and Bozcaada.
Mario F. Broggi
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Eat or be eaten? An observation of Podarcis erhardii consuming Scolopendra cingulata from Andros Island, Cyclades, Greece [PDF]
Herpetozoa, 2022 Podarcis wall lizards mainly feed on coleopterans, orthopterans, arachnids, and other small invertebrates. However, Aegean wall lizards, Podarcis erhardii, are widely distributed across Aegean islands and are increasingly observed eating non-traditional ...
Tanmayi Patharkar +2 more
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Comparison of technical measures in the Aegean Sea to support harmonization of fisheries management policies [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2022 The Aegean Sea features an important archipelago in the Eastern Mediterranean, consisting of 60 inhabited islands, more than 1400 uninhabited islands, about 60–70 commercial marine taxa, along many vulnerable species. Fisheries are mainly coastal and are
Hakkı Dereli +7 more
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