As such is defined the sustainable future development of the tourist sector in the small peripheral island of Lefkada, demarcated as an environmentally-responsible, socially-cohesive, economically-competitive and spatially-balanced sector, smoothly integrating into the local economic structure.
The late Italian author Luigi Barzini asked of Britain: "How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?" The story of Japan's rise from a backward country in the mid-nineteenth century to one of today's leading economic powers has been at least equally as dramatic.
The nation comprises the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
The nation comprises the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), as well as numerous smaller peripheral islands.
The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.
These isolates are likely to go extinct eventually (e.g., birds on small peripheral islands unfortunately have been shown to have very high extinction rates), but occasionally, a small isolated population will evolve significant adaptations that allow them to persist under those extreme conditions.
In particular, the populations of A. speciosus on peripheral islands will provide useful information.
The sea-level drops during these periods were more than 100 m, and thus, the peripheral islands (Hokkaido, Sado, Satsunan, and Tsushima Islands) and the main islands were most likely connected or very close to each other.
The neutrality tests (Table 2) and mismatch distribution analysis (Fig. 5) suggested a historical population expansion of A. speciosus in Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and some peripheral islands, such as the Tsushima Islands (cluster I, τ = 9.19 in Cytb).
For example, the divergence time between the Hokkaido and Honshu populations of A. speciosus is similar to those of other island populations isolated by deep sea straits, suggesting that colonization events into the peripheral islands occurred simultaneously when the sea level dropped in the Quaternary glacial periods [ 16, 17, 20].
We also evaluated the validity of the estimated evolutionary rates by comparing the sequence divergence time calculated using the evolutionary rates and the temporal aspects of the divergence events between the four main islands and peripheral islands, which are associated with periodic changes in sea level in the straits.
