Anchonus Duryi in Southeastern Polynesia (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Hylobiinae: Anchonini) by Elwood C. Zimmerman

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Tourist brownfields in French Polynesia - Revealing a destination crisis and a form of resistance to international tourism by Philippe Bachimon

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Une appellation transnationale pour l’Océan Pacifique: Te moana nui a Kiwa (Nouvelle-Zélande) - Te moana nui a Hiva (Tahiti) by Bruno Saura

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Shifting Musical Imaginaries at the Polynesian Cultural Center by Cynthia L. Van Gilder, Dana R. Herrera

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Sur les traces de Tupaia entre Tahiti, Ra’iātea et Nouvelle-Zélande. L’héritage de la navigation ‘traditionnelle’ by Francesco Lattanzi

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Tahiti and its islands: a downturn in nuptial tourism? by Caroline Blondy

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Optimization of the Extraction Protocol for Pacific Ciguatoxins from Marine Products Prior to Analysis Using the Neuroblastoma Cell-Based Assay by Thomas Yon, Philippe Cruchet, Jérôme Viallon, J. Sam Murray, Emillie Passfield, Mireille Chinain, Hélène Taiana Darius, Mélanie Roué

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La France en Polynésie française : quelle volonté de rester présente ? by Jean-Marc Regnault

“…Does France have a long-term plan for it’s Overseas Territories, and for French Polynesia in particular ? Or is such a plan emerging gradually under the pressure of reality ? …”
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Re-connecting ecosystems: Integrating coral reefs into monitoring of island restoration by Cassandra E. Benkwitt, Kalia S.I. Bistolas, Jayna L. DeVore, Simon Ducatez, Jazmín Prado Gómez, Rosalie Wright, Mayalen Zubia, Pierrick Harnay, Teva Beguet, Lisa M. Wedding, Deron E. Burkepile, Frank Murphy, Nicholas A.J. Graham, Rebecca Vega Thurber, Hannah E. Epstein

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L’instabilité politique en Polynésie française by Sémir Al Wardi

“…Electoral system, weakness of ideology et party-switching may account for such an instability in French Polynesia. Party-Switching is an element of the Polynesian political culture: the Polynesian representatives have often thought that they were free to dispose of their mandate as they wished and so, that they could form a partnership with any political party once they had been elected.…”
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Les pratiques collaboratives inclusives en territoire insulaire dispersé. Exemple de la Polynésie française by Philippe Kerfourn

“…After describing the geographical and regulatory contexts of French Polynesia and their impact on inclusive policy and collaborative practices, the qualitative methodology will be described. …”
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Bora Bora, the “pearl of the Pacific”: heritage processes, tourist image and power relationships by Frédérique Jossinet

“…This work is based on three years of research in Polynesia and uses qualitative and participatory methods.…”
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Reception at very large distances of monochromatic Rayleigh wave of the 2018–2019 Mayotte crisis: attenuation factor of Ms magnitude by Talandier, Jacques

“…Similar perfectly monochromatic signals but with much lower intensities were previously observed in 2011, 2013 and 2017 from the Rocard submarine volcano (Society hot spot, French Polynesia). The VLPs of Mayotte and Rocard are the only signals of this type observed so far. …”
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Geographical patterns of intraspecific genetic diversity reflect the adaptive potential of the coral Pocillopora damicornis species complex. by M Carr, C Kratochwill, T Daly-Engel, T Crombie, R van Woesik

“…The highest estimate of intraspecific variation was recorded in French Polynesia and Southeast Asia. The corals on these reefs are more likely than corals elsewhere to harbor alleles with adaptive potential to survive climate change, so managers should prioritize high-diversity regions when forming conservation goals.…”
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Biodiversity through Domestication by Wulf Schiefenhövel

“…P. brosimos and P. conoideus); breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis); the so-called Tahitian chestnut (Inocarpus fagifer); nut bearing trees like the Okari nut (Terminalia kaernbachii) and nuts of the genera Canarium and Spondias; coconut (Cocos nucifera) which was probably cultivated in island Melanesia or Polynesia. A number of these domesticated species, e.g. taro, sugar cane, Rungia klossii, other vegetables and nut-bearing trees were domesticated in isolated Highland New Guinea. …”
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Compaction and pore-collapse of chalky limestones from Mururoa atoll by Aubry, Jérôme, Bollinger, Laurent, Schubnel, Alexandre, Deldicque, Damien, Fortin, Jérôme

“…Between 1975 and 1996, the Centre d’Expérimentation du Pacifique (CEP) carried out French underground nuclear tests under the atoll of Mururoa (French Polynesia). The deformation of its coral rim was extensively monitored in order to assess the stability of the outer slopes, in particular since a flank collapsed in 1979, triggering a landslide-generated tsunami. …”
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Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus by L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Jorge R. Rey

“…In 2015, however, Zika became a larger concern when a strain of the virus traced to outbreaks in French Polynesia emerged in northeastern Brazil. This strain provoked alarm because of increased incidence of microcephaly in babies born to Zika-infected mothers. …”
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Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus by L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Jorge R. Rey

“…In 2015, however, Zika became a larger concern when a strain of the virus traced to outbreaks in French Polynesia emerged in northeastern Brazil. This strain provoked alarm because of increased incidence of microcephaly in babies born to Zika-infected mothers. …”
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Upsilococconeis dapalistriata gen. nov. & comb. nov. (Bacillariophyta) – a pantropical marine member of Cocconeidaceae by Riaux-Gobin Catherine, Witkowski Andrzej, Risjani Yenny, Yunianta Yunianta, Berteaux-Lecellier Véronique, Kryk Adrian, Peszek Łukasz, Daniszewska-Kowalczyk Genowefa

“…First described from the Western Indian Ocean (Mascarenes), it was subsequently listed from the Western Pacific Ocean (Guam), the South Pacific Ocean (French Polynesia and New Caledonia) and from the Eastern Indian Ocean (Indonesia), and thus may qualify as pantropical.…”
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Molecular study of the status of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in rats in Haiti by Fedna Jimmy, Borne Romain, Rieffel Dominique, Bornette Gudrun, Henrys Jean-Hugues, Grenouillet Frédéric, Raoul Francis

“…Only one COX1 haplotype was identified, belonging to genotype II-G, widely distributed in Brazil, the French Antilles (Guadeloupe), French Polynesia, Hawaii, and Japan. These results confirm that A. cantonensis is an endemic parasite in Haiti not only in the capital Port-au-Prince, but also in several rural areas. …”
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