Sustainable healthy settlement on a small island as a cultural heritage area by I. Martias, R. Rifardi, A. Agrina, I. Suprayogi

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Penyengat Island is a small island in the Riau Archipelago Province, Indonesia, with a coastal settlement that embodies traditional Malay values. …”
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From fear to food: predation risk shapes deer behaviour, their resources and forest vegetation by Martin, Jean-Louis, Chamaillé-Jammes, Simon, Salomon, Anne, Gomez Pourroy, Devana Veronica, Schlaeflin, Mathilde, Le Saout, Soizic, Lucas, Annick, Bentaleb, Ilham, Chollet, Simon, Pattison, Jake, Martin-Blangy, Soline, Gaston, Anthony James

“…To test some of these predictions we used the extensive empirical and experimental data on vegetation cover and composition, and on deer anti-predator behaviour, collected at study sites with different histories of hunting and natural predation in the Haida Gwaii archipelago and in nearby areas of coastal British Columbia (Canada). …”
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Pathogenic potential of ornithogenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> strains detected in the Earth's polar regions by Batyrbek I. Aslanov, Daniil V. Azarov, Maria A. Makarova, Elizaveta G. Marysheva, Lyudmila A. Kraeva, Aleksey S. Mokhov, Ekaterina A. Lebedeva, Nikita E. Goncharov, Natalya V. Lebedeva, Dmitry A. Starikov, Victoria V. Kolodzhieva, Dmitry E. Polev, Artemy E. Goncharov

“…The study used collections of E. coli isolated from ornithogenic biological material during expeditions to high latitude areas of the Arctic (archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, Svalbard) and Antarctic (Haswell Archipelago). 16 cultures associated with avian E. coli (12 polar and 4 temperate strains) were selected for genome-wide sequencing using BGI technology. …”
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Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos by Catarina J. Pinho, Bárbara Santos, Vanessa A. Mata, Ricardo J. Lopes, Maria M. Romeiras, Evandro P. Lopes, Paulo C. Alves, Brent C. Emerson, Raquel Vasconcelos

“…In this context, the Cabo Verde archipelago serves as a simplified natural laboratory, harbouring a group of endemic reptile species that are descended from a single common ancestor, with sympatric species exhibiting wide morphological variation, particularly for size, and competing for limited food resources. …”
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Les grandes pointes foliacées du type « Ponsonby » : un traceur culturel en Patagonie australe by Dominique Legoupil, Nicole Pigeot

“…and to track the evolution of a social group representative of the maritime nomads in the archipelagoes of Patagonia during the 5th millennium BP.…”
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Dipendenza e sovranità alimentare nelle isole d’Oceania: voci di contrasto al gastro-colonialismo by Gaia Cottino

“…The hereby contribution analyzes, through an island and ecotonal perspective, the persistent food dependency of the archipelagos of Oceania and the blooming of heterogeneous emancipation drives, proposing a model allowing its inhabitants to decide of their food, production systems and food supply. …”
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On Microclimatic Islands. The Garden as a Place of Intensified Thermal Experience by Sascha Roesler

“…Two pioneering projects, aiming at exploring the environmental “archipelagos” of cities, will be highlighted. The (garden) cities of Bath (UK) and San Francisco (USA) have been the urban territories for multi-sensorial walks of architect Peter Smithson and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, both of which took place in 1966. …”
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