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Whole‐genome data shed light on speciation and within‐species differentiation of the Papilio machaon complex around the Mediterranean Basin

open access: yesSystematic Entomology, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 692-712, October 2025.
Genomic data refine the species boundary of Papilio machaon and confirm the species status of Papilio saharae, with clarification of subspecies delineation of Mediterranean machaon and saharae. A heterogeneous level of genome‐wide heterozygosity between island and continental lineages warrants further taxonomic implications, and there is also evidence ...
Louis‐F. Cassar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.
Short Abstract 1940 saw the mass internment of so‐called ‘enemy aliens’ within Britain; this meant that innocent civilians were incarcerated in camps across the country, particularly within the tourist spaces of the Isle of Man. We interrogate how the holiday—as a geography of ideas, spaces, practices movements and sensibilities—became a frame of ...
Michael Holden, Peter Adey
wiley   +1 more source

An Island’s Lazy Eye. Interweaving Pedagogical Dimensions in Fire at Sea

open access: yesStudi sulla Formazione, 2020
In this study, the two authors focus on the analysis of Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary film Fire At Sea in which a child, just as a contemporary Virgil, becomes the narrator of an emblematic historical context and peculiar socio-cultural dynamics.
Paolo Bonafede, Gabriele Brancaleoni
doaj   +1 more source

Saving Lives At Sea: Security, Law and Adverse Effects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In the wake of recent shipwrecks at the Strait of Sicily, the European Union and its Member States have come under renewed pressure to address rescue at sea.
Basaran, Tugba
core   +1 more source

Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Along the Coast of Israel: Abundance and Social Structure

open access: yesAquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The dynamics of cetacean populations profoundly shape the survival and well‐being of their members, particularly in nutrient‐deficient and anthropogenically impacted regions like the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), one of the most extensively studied cetaceans, exhibits complex and diverse social ...
Yaly Mevorach   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combining bioengineering and plant conservation on a Mediterranean islet

open access: yesiForest - 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   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of Pinus halepensis mill. afforestation on mediterranean spontaneous vegetation: do soil treatment and canopy cover matter? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
We investigated central Mediterranean Pinus halepensis plantations under semi-arid climate in order to evaluate the combined effect of soil treatment and afforestation practices on spontaneous plant species composition, richness and evenness, and on the ...
LA MANTIA, Tommaso   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Cybister tripunctatus africanus (Castelnau, 1834) (Coleoptera Dytiscidae): first record for Lampedusa Island (Pelagie Islands, Sicily Channel)

open access: yesBiodiversity Journal, 2020
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Prazzi, Elena   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Littoral fish community of the Island Lampedusa (Italy): A visual census approach [PDF]

open access: yesItalian Journal of Zoology, 1998
Abstract Fish community structure of the Island Lampedusa, with a special focus on the fish assemblage inhabiting the infralittoral rocky substrate, was studied from July to October 1995. Visual census techniques (strip transects and random censuses) and the application of an anaesthetic (quinaldine), to sample cryptic and benthic species, were used. A
Carlotta Mazzoldi, Mirko De Girolamo
openaire   +1 more source

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