Depopulation of rural areas is a widespread phenomenon that has occurred in most industrialized countries, and has contributed significantly to a reduction in the productivity of agro-ecological resources. In this study, we identified the main trends in the dynamics of rural populations in the Central Pyrenees in the 20th C and early 21st C, and used density independent and density dependent mo...

Long ridiculed for their racial hybridity, India’s Anglo-Indians—a mixed race people—were called ‘Dingos’ and instructed rudely to “Go to Australia” after India won her Independence from the British in 1947. Although their first port of escape from India was Great Britain, thousands of Anglo-Indians left the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) in the second wave of migration, i....

Among populations living in close connection with the sea, rivers and lakes for subsistence, diet varies according to local monthly wildlife species availability food preferences. This may lead variations methylmercury (MeHg) exposure over a year, although no biomonitoring studies have documented this issue Circumpolar populations, most exposed international Hg emissions. Our aim was characteri...

Chronic metal toxicity is a concern in the Canadian Arctic because of the findings of high metal levels in wildlife animals and the fact that traditional food constitutes a major component of the diet of indigenous peoples. We examined exposure to trace metals through traditional food resources for Inuit living in the community of Qikiqtarjuaq on Baffin Island in the eastern Arctic. Mercury, ca...

Due to the opening of the Northwest Passage and interest in Arctic resources, naval activities (amongst others) and ocean noise are increasing in northerly beluga waters. Through data acquired in a capturerelease project, this work examines the frequencies and sound levels to which wild belugas are sensitive. A standard audiogram is being determined from the wild samples, noting the variation b...