Archipelagic Environments

Archipelagic ASW - a Difficult Enterprise in Need of Holistic Approaches

The paper discusses architectural options for providing Dominant Battlespace Awareness (DBA) for Archipelagic Anti-Submarine Warfare (AASW) in the Baltic Sea, against experience from submarine intelligence data analysis and fusion research during the recent historical episode which involved recurrent submarine intrusions into Swedish

Target tracking in archipelagic ASW : a not - so - impossible proposition ?

This paper deals with the problem of tracking the motion of a submarine in shallow waters using adaptive planning for the positioning of passive sonobuoys. A computational model and an interactive simulation system were developed and validated. The system is capable of simulating a submarine hunt using multi-sensor data fusion of signals from passive sonobuoys and of computing a near-optimal pl...

Drivers of Cape Verde archipelagic endemism in keyhole limpets

Oceanic archipelagos are the ideal setting for investigating processes that shape species assemblages. Focusing on keyhole limpets, genera Fissurella and Diodora from Cape Verde Islands, we used an integrative approach combining molecular phylogenetics with ocean transport simulations to infer species distribution patterns and analyse connectivity. Dispersal simulations, using pelagic larval du...

Colonizing the High Arctic: Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Common Origin of Eurasian Archipelagic Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

In light of current debates on global climate change it has become important to know more on how large, roaming species have responded to environmental change in the past. Using the highly variable mitochondrial control region, we revisit theories of Rangifer colonization and propose that the High Arctic archipelagos of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, and Novaia Zemlia were colonized by reindeer fr...

Ethics in Educational Environments