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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Falkland islands"”.
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'Walk the Perimeter': Stories of Place in the Falkland Islands
… prion colony I describe is situated on the Falkland Islands. These Islands are the focus of this research. It was conducted using archival methods and participant-observation across two seasons of ethnographic fieldwork. The settler colonial, ecological transformations that have occurred …
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Understanding transmission and control of Cystic Echinococcosis and other taeniid infections in the Falkland Islands
… as an important public health risk in the Falkland Islands since the early 1940s. This prompted the instigation of an intensive control scheme in the mid-1960s, comprised of regular dosing of domestic dogs with the anthelmintic praziquantel and education of local people about safe disposal …
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Sheep farmers and turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) in the Falkland Islands: from conflict to coexistence
… vultures Cathartes aura by sheep farmers in the Falkland Islands. The conflict escalated after the passage of a government policy limiting the traditional method of vulture management (i.e., shooting). I interviewed half of the sheep farmers on the islands, gathered questionnaires from half of …
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Holocene sea-level changes in the Falkland Islands: new insights into accelerated sea-level rise in the 20th Century
… reconstructions were established for the Falkland Islands, a location where models suggest sea-level rise from Northern Hemisphere ice melt produces the largest signal. The Falklands reconstruction indicated sea levels in the early 20th century accelerated compared to the long-term rate, …
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Analysis of seabird observation and satellite tracking data in the Falkland Islands to assess suitability for proposing Marine Important Bird Areas
… and act as bio-monitors of ecosystem change. The Falkland Islands seabird population has been extensively examined both at sea by observers on fishing and research vessels, and on land in telemetry projects. This project collated multiple at-sea observer and satellite tracking dataset sets to …
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Testing the late-Holocene climate signal from ombrotrophic bogs in southernmost Chile and the Falkland Islands: a multi-proxy, multi-profile and multi-site approach
… a Sphagnum dominated bog, discovered in the Falkland Islands, to form a regional comparison. A multi-proxy approach was used, combining both palaeoecological and stable isotopic methods. At one site, Karukinka, intra-site replicability was tested across three profiles located along a …
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In Support of a Rationally Managed Fishery: Age and Growth in Patagonian Toothfish (<i>Dissostichus eleginoides</i>)
… to obtain age data from toothfish taken from the Falkland Islands and South Georgia in the South Atlantic, and the Kerguelen Islands and Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. I estimated von Bertalanffy growth parameters for each area, constructed models to describe rival hypotheses of stock …
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Disease in Spheniscus penguins: Feather-loss disorder and Avian Pox
… Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) from the Falkland Islands in 1987. This phylogentic proximity suggests a long-term circulation of seabird Avipoxviruses in the southwest Atlantic. The feather-loss disorder in captive African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) chicks and wild Magellanic Penguin …
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La France au bord de l’Amérique (France on the edge of America): Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Twentieth Century
… ones include the British territories of the Falkland Islands or St Helena. Through a thorough investigation of historical currents and their impact on the people Saint Pierre et Miquelon, this study examines on how a transplanted group of people can develop a sense of national identity …
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Planning for a changing environment: administration and management of South Georgia
… approach to conservation came in 1975, when the Falkland Islands Dependencies Conservation Ordinance was established to protect the island's fauna and flora. This ordinance used as its basis the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora but additionally provided for Areas …
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Taphonomy, palaeoecology and taxonomy of an ophiuroid-stylophoran obrution deposit from the Lower Devonian Bokkeveld Group, South Africa
… forms part of a much wider fossil biota from the Falkland Islands and Precordillera of Argentina, which formed part of SW Gondwana.
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The Falkland fritillary: biological and ecological factors in the conservation of Yramea cytheris cytheris (Drury 1773).
… aims to address gaps in the knowledge of the Falkland Islands' only resident butterfly, Yramea cytheris cytheris (Drury 1773), and thereby to contribute to an evidence-based approach to its conservation. Sightings had been infrequent, and its distribution, life cycle, habitat requirements and …
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Implementation of a method to determine sub-nanomolar concentrations of iron in seawater and its application to the study of marine iron biogeochemistry at the ocean-shelf interface
… samples collected on a survey between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia were analysed for total dissolvable iron. Results suggested a source of benthic iron near South Georgia. A shift in photo-physiology of phytoplankton towards South Georgia was probably influenced by the transition …
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The law of the sea: the United States, Canada and the deep seabed
The Falkland Islands War of 1982 was fought over competing claims to sovereignty over a group of islands off the east coast of South America. The dispute was between Argentina and the United Kingdom. Argentina claims the islands under rights to Spanish succession, the fact that they lie off the …
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Photography and the Falklands Conflict : Homeric Heroism in Modern Warfare
The Falklands Conflict has always loomed large throughout my adult life. As a young man of 19 years old, I watched the television and read the newspapers with the same degree of excitement and fascination as most of the British population. In the following year, as a direct result of the passion …