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Protected areas and species: the Mediterranean Basin [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Éste es un estudio de Derecho internacional sobre la protección de zonas y especies en el Mar Mediterráneo. En este trabajo examino los tratados internacionales relativos a zonas especialmente protegidas y a la diversidad biológica que son aplicables en ...
Bou Franch, Valentín
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Trophic level-based indicators to track fishing impacts across marine ecosystems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Trophic level (TL)-based indicators have been widely used to examine fishing impacts in aquatic ecosystems and the induced biodiversity changes. However, much debate has ensued regarding discrepancies and challenges arising from the use of landings data ...
BUNDY Alida   +10 more
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Insights from 180 years of mitochondrial variability in the endangered Mediterranean monk seal ( Monachus monachus )

open access: yesMarine mammal science, 2019
Mediterranean monk seals (MMS) are among the most endangered marine mammals on Earth. We screened mitochondrial variability (control region [CR1] and mitogenomes) of the species through a 180-yr timeframe and extended by 20% (n = 205) the number of ...
P. Gaubert   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

News and social media in mapping the endangered Mediterranean monk seal: exceptional data gains but persistent bias

open access: yesEndangered Species Research
News and social media are increasingly recognised as valuable sources of species observation data, particularly for rare and endangered species. However, these data sources are prone to biases arising from uneven observation efforts, which poses ...
A Castro, C Capinha
doaj   +1 more source

The mating system of the Mediterranean monk seal in the Western Sahara

open access: yesMarine Mammal Science, 2011
AbstractThe mating system of the Mediterranean monk seal was studied combining the use of diverse technologies. Sexual dimorphism in size was limited. Sexual activity was only observed to occur in the water. The different segments of the population segregated spatially: females, pups, and juveniles aggregated inside two main caves, whose entrances were
Pastor, T.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Individual signatures in the vocal repertoire of the endangered Mediterranean monk seal: new perspectives for population monitoring

open access: yes, 2017
The Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus is considered Endangered by the IUCN, and is the most endangered pinniped in the world. Increasing our knowledge of this species is crucial in order to further our understanding of its social behaviour, but ...
I. Charrier   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Promotion of Eco-Tourism Using the Practice of Wikipedia: The Case-Study of Environmental and Cultural Paths in Zakynthos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The development of sustainable eco tourism and cultural tourism could have positive effects in many socioeconomic factors of a country. A way of promoting eco-tourism is by using the knowledge and the experiences of different people for presenting the ...
Halvatzaras, Dimitrios   +2 more
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Byzantium in question in 13th-century Seljuk Anatolia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceÉtude des rapports entre l’Empire byzantin, le sultanat seldjoukide et les communautés chrétiennes et hellénophones d’Anatolie centrale au xiiie ...
Métivier, Sophie
core   +2 more sources

Identifying Sources and Sinks in the Presence of Multiple Agents with Gaussian Process Vector Calculus

open access: yes, 2018
In systems of multiple agents, identifying the cause of observed agent dynamics is challenging. Often, these agents operate in diverse, non-stationary environments, where models rely on hand-crafted environment-specific features to infer influential ...
Cobb, Adam D.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The first experience of specific species of wild fauna protection in the Antarctic Treaty System

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Law, 2010
The article analyzes the provisions of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Seals of 1972, chronologically the first international treaty adopted with respect to the Antarctic region after the conclusion of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959.
S M Kopylov
doaj  

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