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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Orkney Islands"”.
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Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands.
… needs of a local destination. Using the Orkney Islands as a case study, this research focuses on the sense of place of the members of Orkney communities as a foundation for their perceptions of tourism value and sustainability needs in the tourism context. Underpinned by pragmatism and …
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Pictish Mounds and Norse Assembly Sites: Norse Settlement and Landscapes in the Orkney Islands from the 9th to 11th century
This thesis explores the Norse settlement of the Orkney Islands between the 9th and 11th centuries, focusing on how the incoming Norse adapted and reshaped the existing Pictish landscape to suit their own cultural traditions and needs. Through the use of saga literature, archaeological material, …
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A biological study of Desmarestia firma (C.Ag.) Skottsb. (Phaeophyceae, Desmarestiales)
… outer cortical layer. Material from the South Orkney Islands shows sporangia interspersed with sterile paraphyses and arranged in an elevated sorus. The taxonomic implications of these results are discussed, and the name D. firma is provisionally retained for the Southern African entity.
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Phylogeographic and morphometric studies on the Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus: insights into its evolutionary history and postglacial colonisation in Europe
… Isles, particularly focusing on Ireland and the Orkney islands. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers were used for the phylogeographic analyses, and a geometric morphometrics approach was implemented on mandible and skull samples. There was an evident phylogeographic structure across Eurasia …
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Developing the visitor appeal of Orkney’s Norse heritage sites: A route to more sustainable tourism?
… level.<br/>It does so with reference to the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. This archipelago has experienced a dramatic growth in tourism in recent years, and the concentration of tourism impacts at particular attractions/areas is acutely felt. The thesis looks at whether …
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Iron biogeochemistry in (sub-) Polar waters
… the southern Scotia Sea in the vicinity of South Orkney Islands. The<br/>difference in the community composition between the two natural occurring blooms highlight<br/>that Southern Ocean island systems have individual characteristics and should be viewed<br/>independently.
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Ecophysiology, Morphology and Phylogeography of Insects in the Scotia Arc
… South America, South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, is home to a range of understudied insect species which are constantly exposed to extreme environmental conditions. To help reduce the amount of uncertainty surrounding insect taxa evolution in the region, …