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Antibacterial Metabolites Produced by Limonium lopadusanum, an Endemic Plant of Lampedusa Island [PDF]
BiomoleculesLampedusa, the largest island of the Pelagie archipelago, Sicily, Italy, has proven to be a rich source of plants and shrubs used in folk medicine. These plants, often native to the island, have been very poorly investigated for their phytochemical ...
Ernesto Gargiulo +6 more
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Assessment of Run-Up Height and Arrival Time of 365 AD Tsunami at Lampedusa Island, Italy [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The eastern Mediterranean Sea is a subduction zone between the African plate and the Eurasian plate that has high seismicity. The tsunami of July 21, 365 AD was one of the most severe in the region, and its impact was estimated to have extended to the ...
Laksono FX Anjar Tri +2 more
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Conservation, 2021 Natural history observations were made, during August–September 2021, on a population of the ecologically poorly known Vesperus luridus (Cerambycidae) at a hilly locality of Latium, Central Italy.
Luca Luiselli +4 more
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A Comparative Analysis of the Diets of a Genus of Freshwater Turtles across Africa
Diversity, 2021 Pelusios (Testudines: Pleurodira) is an Afrotropical endemic genus of freshwater turtles that have adapted to a variety of habitats, with savannahs and forests being their two main habitat types.
Luca Luiselli +9 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 The assessment of the vulnerability of a site to tsunami events should take into consideration the geomorphological setting, which is strongly determined by the stratigraphic framework of the area.
Salvatore Distefano +6 more
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The Lampedusa Disaster: How to Prevent Further Loss of Life at Sea? [PDF]
TransNav, 2013 Lampedusa - an Italian island barely 70 miles from northern Africa and 100 miles from Malta - has become a gateway to Europe for migrants. In some seasons, boats filled with asylum seekers arrive almost daily.
Jasmine Coppens
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Signature of Tidal Sea Level in Geomagnetic Field Variations at Island Lampedusa (Italy) Observatory
Remote Sensing, 2022 In this work, we analyze the geomagnetic field measurements collected from 2017 to 2020 at the Italian observatories of Lampedusa and Duronia (an island and inland site, respectively) for investigating a possible signature of the tidal sea water level ...
Mauro Regi +3 more
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Oltre la frontiera: rappresentazioni e immaginari geografici di volontariə a Lampedusa
Geography Notebooks, 2021 Lampedusa is an emblematic place of migration in the Mediterranean basin. This is due to the process of borderscaping constructed by the passage of migrants, the narratives on their arrivals, the national and international policies and the interventions ...
Giovanna Di Matteo
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Diversity, 2021 Resource partitioning, the division of limited resources by species to help avoid competition, has been observed in freshwater turtle assemblages in several natural systems but has rarely been studied in tropical African ecosystems.
Fabio Petrozzi +6 more
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La « frontiérisation » de Lampedusa, comment se construit une frontière
L'Espace Politique, 2015 Why did Lampedusa become the quintessential embodiment of the Euro-African border? This paper starts from the assumption that the border is always a social product, and that turning a place into a border, or transforming the symbolic and practical role ...
Paolo Cuttitta
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