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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"the Pyrenees"”.
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"No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
“No to the Bear”: Questions of Power and Truths behind the Reintroduction of Brown Bears into the French Pyrenees At this beginning of the twenty-first century, global climate and biodiversity, including human survival, are seriously threatened. Fuelled by culturally constructed anthropocentric …
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Celia's Ghosts: Liminality and Authenticity in De/extinction
… it mean if extinction doesn’t last forever? This thesis grapples with that question through the case of the bucardo, an endemic subspecies of ibex from the Pyrenees, Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica. The bucardo has long been an emblematic feature of the Pyrenean landscape. Hunting drove it to near …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
Although is it generally accepted that the romance genre of medieval Europe was influenced by the French troubadour poets, the poets were themselves influenced by the Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… as an important political and cultural force in the Middle Ages. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate specifically how her patronage of troubadour poetry extolling women brought civilizing changes to France and England, and merged chivalry and romantic love. The poetry was influenced by a …
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The Phonological Unity of Intervocalic Stop Weakening in Romance (Italian, Spanish, Historical Linguistics)
… is meant to offer a clearer understanding of the history of the intervocalic stops in Romance, specifically with reference to the differences between Eastern and Western Romance. In the West, original geminates have simplified, single surds have voiced, and voiced stops have been lost or have …
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The genetics and movement of ecologically important migratory Hoverflies
… and widespread phenomenon occurring throughout the animal kingdom on all continents of the earth. Insects are the most numerous terrestrial migrants, far surpassing vertebrates in terms of biomass and abundance, and have profound impacts on ecosystem processes, such as pollination, nutrient …
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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
Here, I investigate the phylogeography and morphology of the Eurasian pygmy shrew Sorex minutus, searching for significantly differentiated lineages, colonisation routes and demographic parameters that would explain the effects of the Quaternary glaciations on the current distribution of the …
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Exploring Diet and Society in Medieval Spain: New Approaches Using Stable Isotope Analysis
The multi-faith society of medieval Iberia, where Muslims, Christians and Jews co-existed under changing religious political rule, provides a novel setting for the study of diet. This thesis employs carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope analysis to explore variability in diet and resource …
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Thermo-tectonic record of hyperextension, structural inversion, and foreland basin evolution of the eastern and central Pyrenees
… mantle exhumation are necessary to understand the thermal and structural evolution of continental rift systems, and the role of pre-existing crustal architecture on orogenesis and foreland basin development. This work constrains the Early Cretaceous hyperextension history along the …
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Application of High Resolution Melting analysis for haplotype detection in phylogeographic research and case studies of Arenaria ciliata, A. norvegica and Minuartia recurva (Caryophyllaceae)
The present study includes two aspects in the field of phylogeography. First, the technology of High Resolution Melting (HRM) analysis based on real-time PCR is introduced as a tool for haplotype detection in phylogeographic research. Second, phylogeographic study of three arctic-alpine or alpine …