Sharks in Macaronesia and Cabo Verde: species richness, conservation status and anthropogenic pressures by Jaquelino Varela, Jaquelino Varela, Catarina Pereira Santos, Catarina Pereira Santos, Catarina Pereira Santos, Emanuel Nunes, Emanuel Nunes, Vasco Pissarra, Vasco Pissarra, Stiven Pires, Bárbara P. Ribeiro, Bárbara P. Ribeiro, Eduarda Vieira, Eduarda Vieira, Tiago Repolho, Tiago Repolho, Nuno Queiroz, Nuno Queiroz, Rui Freitas, Rui Rosa, Rui Rosa, Rui Rosa

“…We also found that: i) Azores share more species with the Canary Islands than Madeira (despite the greater geographical proximity with the latter), and ii) there are no oviparous species in the Cabo Verde archipelago, contrary to the Canary Islands (5), the Azores (4), and Madeira (3). …”
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East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years by Juncen Liu, Yichen Liu, Yongsheng Zhao, Chao Zhu, Tianyi Wang, Wen Zeng, Bo Sun, Fen Wang, Hui Han, Zhenguang Li, Xiaotian Feng, Peng Cao, Fengshi Luan, Feng Liu, Qingyan Dai, Junfeng Guo, Zimeng Wang, Chengmin Wei, Qiaowei Wei, Ruowei Yang, Weihong Hou, Wanjing Ping, Fan Bai, Bo Miao, Wenjun Wang, Melinda A. Yang, Qiaomei Fu

“…We found that ancestry related to ShanDong populations likely explains the mainland East Asian ancestry observed in post-Yayoi populations from the Japanese archipelago, particularly recent populations who lived in the Ryukyu Islands after ~2800 BP. …”
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The Maritime Cultural Ecology of the Biak People: A Historical Study of the Sowek Region, Supiori Regency, Papua by Endang Susilowati, Haryono Rinardi, Albert Rumbekwan, Ismail Ali, Rabith Jihan Amaruli

“…The Biak people in Sowek Village, who identify as the Sowek people, have lived in the Aruri Archipelago of Supiori Island for centuries. While their language and culture are part of the Biak-Numfor cultural family, their identity is rooted in their specific geographic location. …”
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Světec, kříž a zbožný krab. Divertimento z barokní hagiografie mezi Západem a Východem by Pavel Panoch

“…Francis Xavier brought the cross, lost in a previous voyage in rough seas in the archipelago of the Moluccas. The study analyzes the propaganda role of this miracle in the Jesuit hagiography and the motive of St. …”
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Ermenautica: A Way of Life for Another Kind of Republic? Some personal remarks by Tarek Elhaik

“…The author recounts a recent sailing trip with the collective across the Tuscan archipelago and presents their way of being together, their politics, as a floating republic – The Republic of Ermenautica – peopled by Ermenauts.…”
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Pollinator species richness and abundance across diverse habitat-types on Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) by Mário Boieiro, Raúl Oliveira, Ricardo Costa, Paulo Borges

“…These have set a comprehensive species checklist for the Archipelago, improved significantly the knowledge on species abundance, ecology and distribution and have contributed to define priorities for conservation management and scientific research. …”
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INDONESIA’S “MARITIME WORLD FULCRUM” AND CHINA’S “MARITIME SILK ROAD” by L. M. Efimova

“…Indonesian government plans to build 35 deepwater and ordinary ports across the archipelago during the next five years. The implementation of the project demands colossal money investments and gigantic volumes of work. …”
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Le mythe comme fondement des territoires et de l’ordre social dans les îles de l’ouest de Sumatra (Indonésie) by Dominique Guillaud

“…This demonstration is inspired by the works that Bonnemaison carried out on a privileged field, the archipelago of Vanuatu; the paper explores the same kind of correspondences between political and spatial order in two Indonesian island, Nias and Siberut, and tries to reveal the strategic dimension invested in myths and narratives of foundation.…”
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Une horticulture maritime  ? Pratiques et perceptions de la mer à Tongoa (Vanuatu) by Maëlle Calandra

“…On Tongoa Island, a small island located in the central Shepherd’s archipelago in Vanuatu, the sea is considered as an extension of the land. …”
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Mayotte s'ancre dans la république française by François Taglioni

“…This departmentalization outside the hexagon is the result of a long political process begun in 1975 to the date of the first referendum that would thereafter Mayotte separate from the rest of the Comoros archipelago. This departmentalization comes within a social and political instability particularly acute for several months in the French overseas departments. …”
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High vulnerability of the endemic Southern Ocean snail Neobuccinum eatoni (Buccinidae) to critical projected oceanographic changes by Rosvita González, Luis R. Pertierra, Pablo C. Guerrero, Angie Díaz

“…However, in both scenarios, a reduction in habitat suitability is expected in certain sectors around the Antarctic continent and the Kerguelen Archipelago. By 2100, under the moderate emissions scenario (SSP2-4.5), the species is projected to move to deeper areas and lower latitudes, with notable expansions in the Weddell Sea and in the Southern Ocean surrounding the Kerguelen Archipelago. …”
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Mortalité et cyclones en Guadeloupe (Antilles françaises) by Frédéric Leone, Samuel Battut, Victoria Bigot, Guilhem Cousin Thorez, Thomas Candela, Freddy Vinet

“…This paper lays the methodological basis for a historical catalogue of significant and deadly hydro-meteorological events that have occurred in the Guadeloupe archipelago and the northern islands since 1635. For the recent period, post 1950, it is supplemented by a Geographical Information System used to locate and inform each victim with his profile, his behavior, the circumstances and causes of death. …”
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Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe) à l’épreuve des sargasses : approches anthropologique et géographique d’un risque vécu by Florence Ménez, Colette Ranély Vergé-Dépré, Dimitri Béchacq

“…Since 2011, as in other parts of the Caribbean sea, the island of Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe archipelago), and in particular the commune of Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante, has been impacted by the massive and discontinuous Sargassum strandings. …”
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Cosmopolitanism of the Sultanate of Banten: An Overview of Settlement and Social Structure of the 15th Century by Tubagus Umar Syarif Hadi Wibowo

“…Using the historical method, this study reveals the findings that geographical and economic factors that trade through maritime have brought the Sultanate of Banten to become a cosmopolitan city with various cultures from and outside the archipelago that interact with each other. In this study, identification on economic background, occupation, status, and religion of the community in the Sultanate Banten. …”
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Fiddler Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) From Coastal Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands: Species Descriptions and DNA Barcodes by Carl L. Thurman, John C. McNamara, Hsi‐Te Shih, Mariana V. Capparelli

“…In western South America, the coasts of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, the Galápagos Archipelago, and northern Peru form the Tropical Eastern Pacific biome. …”
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Les signes de l’interaction esprit-humain by Fanny Tilmant

“…On the Zanzibar Archipelago, the terms masheitani (sing. sheitani) and majini (sing. jini) designate invisible beings that share the world with human beings. …”
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L'île d'Anjouan figure de la balkanisation de l'archipel des Comores by François Taglioni

“…It is embodied with the political affiliation of the fourth island of the Comoros archipelago, Mayotte, in the French Republic and with the separatist attempts of Anjouan and Moheli. …”
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Book Review by Muhammed Haron

“…During the decades of the 20th century, most scholars who studied these early ‘Cape’ figures that hailed from the Melayu archipelago, wrote short exploratory essays. Examples are Prof Adrianus van Selms’ bibliographical entry of Shaykh Yusuf Al-Makassari’s (1626-1699) and Prof Gerrie Lubbe’s journal article on Imam Abdullah ibn Qadi ‘Abdus Salam (aka Tuan Guru [1712-1807]). …”
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L’archipel des Antilles, terres d’Amérique ? : la nouvelle "New Frontier" et ses implications by Lionel Davidas

“…But is the West Indian archipelago a mere outpost of continental America or a distinct entity that circumscribes what Édouard Glissant has named "The hurricane basin"? …”
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Penjelajahan Orang Prancis dan Penelitian Sejarah Alam di Nusantara Pada Masa Kolonial by Gani Ahmad Jaelani

“…This article analyzes how the French naturalists made their research on natural history in the Archipelago. It examines as well the objects that interested them. …”
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