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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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Immagini dal confine. Migranti, spazi simbolici e ordine politico contemporaneo

Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary, 2016
The article is about three major themes: the political imaginary, the border as a space from which it spreads, the images, that convey and reproducing it, cause social reality. This last part was developed by the analysis of a specific case study.
Milena Meo
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Spatial Niche Expansion at Multiple Habitat Scales of a Tropical Freshwater Turtle in the Absence of a Potential Competitor

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, Stephanie N. Ajong, Nic Pacini, Daniele Dendi, Sery Gonedele Bi, Julia E. Fa, Luca Luiselli   +6 more
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Record-breaking persistence of the 2022/23 marine heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
Since May 2022, the Mediterranean Sea has been experiencing an exceptionally long marine heatwave event. Warm anomalies, mainly occurring in the Western basin, have persisted until boreal spring 2023, making this event the longest Mediterranean marine ...
Salvatore Marullo, Federico Serva, Roberto Iacono, Ernesto Napolitano, Alcide di Sarra, Daniela Meloni, Francesco Monteleone, Damiano Sferlazzo, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Vincenzo de Toma, Andrea Pisano, Marco Bellacicco, Angela Landolfi, Emanuele Organelli, Chunxue Yang, Rosalia Santoleri   +15 more
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Lampedusa jako „Brama do Europy” – kształtowanie wizerunku wyspy we włoskim reportażu przez pryzmat zjawiska imigracji afrykańskiej

Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica, 2023
This article is an attempt to familiarize the readers with Italian reportages that deal with the subject of African migrations to the Apennine Peninsula.
Sylwia Szarejko
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Combining bioengineering and plant conservation on a Mediterranean islet

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2012
This paper reports the results of a bioengineering intervention within the Mediterranean Basin carried out at Lampedusa Island (Strait of Sicily) on the “Spiaggia dei Conigli”, the only sand shore of all Sicilian territory where the sea turtle Caretta ...
La Mantia T, Messana G, Billeci V, Dimarca A, Del Signore M, Leanza M, Livreri Console S, Maraventano G, Nicolini G, Prazzi E, Quatrini P, Sanguedolce F, Sorrentino G, Pasta S   +13 more
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Long-Term Changes in Four Populations of the Spiny Toad, Bufo spinosus, in Western France; Data from Road Mortalities

Conservation, 2022
Habitat fragmentation is widely recognized as a contributor to the decline of biodiversity, with amphibians one of the key groups impacted. To understand the effects of habitat fragmentation on amphibian populations requires long-term data sets showing ...
Roger Meek
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Vidal, Pau (ed.) (2009). Tomasi Di Lampedusa «El Gattopardo»

Quaderns d'Italià, 2010
Vidal, Pau (ed.) (2009).
Miquel Edo Julià
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Combining UAVs and multi-sensor dataloggers to estimate fine-scale sea turtle density at foraging areas: a case study in the central Mediterranean

Endangered Species Research
Knowledge of the distribution and density of marine species is key to understanding habitat use and interactions with human activities. Yet such information for sea turtles remains scarce, especially at foraging areas, where low turtle density represents
C Agabiti, L Tolve, G Baldi, M Zucchini, S Tuccio, F Restelli, D Freggi, P Luschi, P Casale   +8 more
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Sociopoétique de l’arrivée. Lampedusa comme variation autour d’un nom

Sociopoétiques
The name Lampedusa resonates with shame, liberation or failure, depending on whether you’re a migrant or a host. Based on a corpus of four works, two novels for adults: Maylis de Kerangal, À ce stade de la nuit (2014) and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ...
Anne SCHNEIDER
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