Codamozza-Fluker: The Compelling Case of a Flukeless Fin Whale Traveling Throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the Need for Basin-Wide Conservation Efforts. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe authors report the first case of a live fin whale in the Mediterranean Sea with completely amputated flukes, a female which suffered two separated incidents with entanglement and collision both being hypothesized as causes. Sightings after the complete loss of her flukes enabled tracking her movements from September 2019 to July 2020, prior to her ...
Jahoda M +18 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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The humanitarian border as a violence-producing environment: revisiting aid and anti-migration protests on Lesvos, Greece. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract Violent clashes erupted on the Greek island of Lesvos in early 2020, during which aid groups, volunteers, and activists were threatened and attacked. Aid actors and media sources attributed these events to far‐right, nationalist, and xenophobic mobilisation; however, this risks ignoring more structural factors and local perspectives on asylum ...
Jansen BJ.
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Divided seas, parallel lives [PDF]
, 2017 This photo essay examines the sea as a divided space and as marked by the existence of parallel lives. Images taken during fieldwork on the small Mediterranean island of Lampedusa in 2015 are used to examine the ways in which these divisions are ...
Squire, Vicki
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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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Ten Years of Participatory Cinema as a Form of Political Solidarity with Refugees in Italy. From ZaLab and Archivio Memorie Migranti to 4CaniperStrada [PDF]
, 2018 This paper introduces the context of European mobilizations for and against refugees and how participatory cinema has become a way of expressing political solidarity with refugees in Italy.
Frisina, ANNALISA MARIA +1 more
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Small islands as ecotourism destinations : a Central Mediterranean perspective [PDF]
, 2019 A prerequisite for ecotourism development is the presence of natural environments, normally exhibited in protected areas, which serve as ecotourism venues. Little attention has been given to Mediterranean islands in terms of ecotourism.
Agius, Karl +3 more
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Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2019 For the first time, 13 species are reported for the Lepidoptera fauna of Lampedusa Island. Bifascioides leucomelanella and Ceutolopha isidis are new to Italy. The presence of Azanus ubaldus is confirmed.
M. Pinzari, M. Pinzari
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SHILAP, 2022 Research visits to the island of Lampedusa yielded a number of adult specimens belonging to the “machaoncomplex”, which, on closer examination of specific diagnostic features (including antennal segments, ocelli and number of teeth on the male harpe ...
L. F. Cassar, A. Catania
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Museums as disseminators of niche knowledge: Universality in accessibility for all [PDF]
, 2019 Accessibility has faced several challenges within audiovisual translation Studies and gained great opportunities for its establishment as a methodologically and theoretically well-founded discipline. Initially conceived as a set of services and practices
Rizzo A
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