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Implications of reef ecosystem change for the stability and maintenance of coral reef islands [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2011 This is the author's post-print version of an article published in Global Change Biology, Vol. 17, pp. 3679 – 3696. Copyright © Wiley-Blackwell 2011. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comCoral reef islands are among the most ...
Alvarez-Filip +85 more
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Nonperiodic echoes from mushroom billiard hats [PDF]
, 2006 Mushroom billiards have the remarkable property to show one or more clear cut integrable islands in one or several chaotic seas, without any fractal boundaries. The islands correspond to orbits confined to the hats of the mushrooms, which they share with
A. Richter +12 more
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Périphéricité et ultrapériphéricité insulaires dans l’Union européenne
L'Espace Politique, 2007 The EU’s peripheral and ultraperipheral islands issue appeared with the successive membership of maritime states and with the official EEZ implementation in 1994. From now on, EU has a territorial projection which is located beyond the continental Europe
André-Louis Sanguin
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A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography [PDF]
Journal of Biogeography, 2017 AbstractAimsThe 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review and identify key research foci that could advance island biology. Here, we take a collaborative horizon‐scanning approach to identify 50 fundamental questions for the ...
Jairo Patiño +28 more
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Spanish embedded question island effects revisited: an experimental study
Linguistics, 2021 AbstractIt is often reported that embedded questions (EQs) are not syntactic islands in Spanish. However, some authors have observed that the acceptability of filler-gap dependencies (FGDs) into Spanish EQs varies with the EQ-embedding verb: FGDs into EQs underresponsiveverbs (e.g.,know) do not result in island effects, but FGDs into EQs ...
Claudia Pañeda, Dave Kush
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‘ISLANDS OF EMPOWERMENT’: ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW AND THE QUESTION OF RACIAL EMANCIPATION
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2013 In her evocative masterpiece, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, published in 1991, Patricia Williams captured a moment in American legal thought that marked a turning point in expressions about race and power, and the implications for social equality.
Faisal Bhabha
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Impact of Tourist and One-Day Visitor Arrivals on Economic Growth. Case Study of the Cayman Islands
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2014 The Cayman Islands are one of the SISODs, located in the Caribbean Sea, with a high number of foreign visitor arrivals and a GDP based to a large extent on tourism. They are also considered to be SITE islands and may even be characteristic of the subtype,
Podhorodecka Katarzyna
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Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands: to the question about cultural and linguistic separatism
Ибероамериканские тетради, 2017 The article analyzes the phenomenon of linguo-cultural separatism in the Catalan language area in Spain which rejects the idea of language unity and cultural community of peoples that populate it.
Galina Denisenko
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Introduction: Layered Landscapes [PDF]
, 2020 This Special Issue of Arts investigates a series of creative projects focused upon and sited within certain peripheral landscapes of northern Britain ..
Ashmore, Rupert, Holt, Ysanne
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 The question of whether a balance exists between vegetation recovery and long-term human development remains unclear worldwide, especially in the midst of climate change. To answer this question, two groups of spatially isolated islands in Hongfeng Lake,
Hezhen Lou +7 more
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