The islands' story: Genomics and adaptive radiation on remote islands

Radiation effects in the Marshall Islands

On March 1, 1954, the detonation of a thermonuclear device on Bikini in the Marshall Islands resulted in the accidental deposition of fallout on several inhabited atolls and on a Japanese fishing vessel. The accident was unusual in that the explosion, occurring near ground level, resulted in a heavy, particulate fallout on Rongelap and Ailingnae, about 160km away. Utirik, further to the east, e...

Remote sensing for urban heat and cool islands evaluation in semi-arid areas

Cities are experiencing rapid population growth and consequently extensive urbanization. Land-use/land-cover change is one of the important elements worldwide, which significantly affect the environment. This study aims to describe the emergence of urban heat and cool islands as a result of changes in land-use/land-cover. Land surface temperature over a 32-year period in Isfahan city, Iran was ...

Generation of the Ahlfors Five Islands Theorem

On the origin of islands

On the origin of islands Masaya Yoshida a , Nina Kazanina b , Leticia Pablos c & Patrick Sturt d a Department of Linguistics , Northwestern University , IL , USA b School of Experimental Psychology , University of Bristol , Bristol , UK c Department of Latin American Studies (LAS) , Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University , The Netherlands d Department of Psychology , School of Philoso...

On the Evolution of Islands

Suppose we have n cells arranged in a ring, or alternatively, in a row. We pick a cell at random and mark it; we pick one of the remaining unmarked cells at random and mark it; and so on until after n steps each cell is marked. After the k'th cell has been marked, the con guration of the marked cells de nes some number of islands separated by seas (See Figure 1). An island is a maximal set of a...