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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"western mediterranean"”.
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Seismic refraction measurements in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1963.
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Human mitochondrial DNA and population structure of the Western Mediterranean Islands
… the maternal genetic history of the major western Mediterranean islands, Sardinia, Sicily, and Corsica, through a comparative analysis of ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). By integrating high-resolution mitogenomic data, the study aims to explore how migration, colonization …
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Speleothem-based hydroclimate proxies and Late-Quaternary paleoclimate in the Western Mediterranean
Hydroclimate variability in the Western Mediterranean is a critical issue under ongoing climate change, as its fluctuations have significant impacts on ecosystems, water resources, and human societies. The regional climate system is highly complex and is strongly influenced by atmospheric and …
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Environmental change and human interaction in the western Mediterranean over the long term: a comparative study from Sardinia
Over the last 11,700 years of the Holocene, the Mediterranean climate has undergone long-term changes in rainfall and temperature patterns, punctuated by short-term excursions. These climatic shifts, combined with the expanding impact of agropastoral societies, have driven significant …
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Enviromental influences on the spatio-temporal distribution of Aristeus Antennatus (Risso, 1816) and Aristaeomorpha Foliacea (Risso, 1827) in the Central-Western Mediterranean
… or in a state of collapse. In general the Mediterranean Sea is characterized by the 33% of assessed stocks fully exploited, 50% overexploited and the remaining 17% non-fully exploited. Bottom trawling fleets predominate in many Mediterranean fisheries, being responsible for a high share of …
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Citizenship and social status in the western Mediterranean from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages : the case of Spain
My doctoral thesis concerns the evolution of citizenship and social distinction between the later Antiquity and early Middle Ages in the Iberian peninsula: broadly from the fifth to the early twelfth centuries. Its focus is broad, and it seeks to highlight how social and legal distinctions which …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… and slave trading have been endemic to the Mediterranean since antiquity. However, from the mid-sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth-century, these phenomena – known at the time as corso – grew exponentially, both in volume and impact. For more than a century, corso played a …
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An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism
… least understood imperial actor in the ancient western Mediterranean. The present lack of understanding is primarily a result of the paucity of evidence available for historical study. No continuous Carthaginian literary or historical narrative survives. Due to the thorough nature of Roman …
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The suburban villa (munya) and court culture in Umayyad Cordoba (756-976 CE)
… one of the most renowned urban centers of the western Mediterranean. The Great Mosque of Cordoba is the outstanding testament to the architectural activities of the dynasty, yet textual and material evidence indicates that the Great Mosque was but one facet of a broader program of Umayyad …
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Basalt Magmatism as a Key to Unlocking Cenozoic Dynamic Topography
… First, Neogene-Quaternary magmatism of the Western Mediterranean region is analysed within a mantle geodynamical framework. Secondly, a petrological and geochemical study of diachronous V-shaped ridges and troughs that flank the Reykjanes Ridge south of Iceland is carried out. Thirdly, the …
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Heat flow and tectonics of the Ligurian Sea basin and margins
… of volcanism and back arc rifting in the Western Mediterranean. Tectonic subsidence-crustal thickness trends indicate lithospheric stretching, with heat flow supporting asymmetric sub-crustal lithospheric thinning during the conjugate margin formation.
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BIO-ECOLOGICAL AND ANATOMICAL ASPECTS OF THE EUROPEAN EEL ANGUILLA ANGUILLA (L. 1758)
… temporal peak for the first time in the central-western Mediterranean in relation to the effects of main environmental factors. I also identified a spatio-temporal variability between four sites in the western Mediterranean in terms of the peak of recruitment and the biometric and pigmentation …
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West Nile virus in Italy: beyond the bird routes
… the African-Eurasian flyways; (ix) the WNV L1 Western-Mediterranean cluster probable spread from Senegal, where the virus was first reported in 1979, to Italy, where the lineage first appeared in Europe in 1998, and to France in 2000, and the presence of back re-introductory events from Italy, …
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Study on fisheries resources with particular reference to red coral, spiny lobster and other target demersal species in Sardinian Seas
… compensation for effort restrictions under the Western Mediterranean Multiannual Management Plan. The second part focuses on red coral, applying a suite of data-poor models (CMSY, SPiCT, and LBSPR) to two distinct populations in northern and north-western Sardinia. This novel application …
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Inertial oscillations in the Mediterranean
… of ocean currents were made by the author in the Western Mediterranean Sea at five depths for two months during early 1969. In terms of the dominant and persistent presence of inertial oscillations, circularly polarized currents having periods of a half pendulum day, the data are among the most …
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Effects of climate and land management changes on conservation of Mediterranean Cork oak woodlands and their bird communities
Cork oak woodlands are a keystone habitat for Mediterranean biodiversity but are currently undergoing a global decline and widespread management changes driven by social, economic and climatic factors. I examine the effects of both climate and land management changes on cork oak woodlands and their …
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