Greater Linkage Research Articles

Technology and Opportunity: People with Serious Mental Illness and Social Connection

AbstractObjective: Little information exists regarding how individuals with serious mental illness use technology and whether this usage facilitates social connections. This study contributes to filling this knowledge gap by examining ways in which a sample of persons with serious mental illness use cell phones and the Internet. Methods: Interviews with 50 consumers living in supported housing were asked about their use of cell phones and computers and their perceptions of social connections. Results: Cell phones and computers allowed greater linkage with social, medical, mental health, and employment resources. Nearly all obtained phones through publicly funded programs. “Running out of minutes” was common and associated with disrupted communication and safety concerns. Few people owned computers, resulting in restricted access. Conclusion: Policy makers should consider providing free or discounted hardware, subsidizing unlimited plans, and promoting computer literacy.

Проблематика «устойчивого туризма» в науке и образовании в России и за рубежом: сравнительный анализ

This article analyzes the current state and prospects of mainstreaming sustainable tourism in the basic educational programs of Russian universities, as well as identifying obstacles to the expansion of research topics in the field of sustainable tourism in Russia. The overview of Russian works in the field of sustainable tourism demonstrates that the most studied are natural, environmental aspects of sustainable tourism development in terms of long-term interests of society, while the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development of tourism are presented by a limited number of fragmented works. This situation in the domestic tourism science greatly contrasts with the ways of international tourism research in this area, where can be found a more balanced mix of studies, as the share of socio-economic research in the total volume of works on sustainable tourism is much higher.
 A significant lack of research on the socio-economic aspects of sustainable tourism development is established by content analysis of domestic and foreign publications, and by their comparative analysis. Thematic focus of international projects on sustainable tourism in Russia is also analyzed to arrive to some indicative conclusions. The only comprehensive project in the field of sustainable tourism is currently under way between the Russian State University of Tourism and Service and Telemark University College (Norway), and in many ways it is still the first and only one. The main reason for the observed bias in domestic research, according to the author, is a strong starting position of natural sciences in comparison to social onesl. Another reason may be the rigidity of domestic tourism researchers of the humanitarian and economic profile in relation to the issues of sustainability, when Russian economists and specialists in humanities are under the influence of more successful researches in natural science and they underestimate the whole palette of concepts and approaches of socio-economic nature, relevant to the issues of sustainable tourism, and that is the reason why they are mentally limited to just the recognition and enumeration of the most obvious and basic socio-economic aspects of sustainable tourism (such as local employment, infrastructure development, replenishment of local budgets, integration into the world economy), and do no not go further, do not proceed with conducting specific studies within broader and more concrete settings of sustainability issues.
 The issues of sustainable tourism in domestic tourist education are even less represented than in science. Over the past few years, only six Russian universities as part of their basic educational programs offered individual subjects to study sustainable tourism. To this can indirectly be added another dozen or so universities that offer disciplines in eco-tourism, and about two dozen universities offering courses on sustainable development, including some problems of tourism development. And only one university in Russia offers modules in sustainable tourism at the Master level, and that institution delivers three subjrects on sustainable tourism. It seems that the main problem in the Russian tourist education in the context of sustainable tourism is in some sense too "respectful" attitude to the subject of sustainable tourism, when it is believed that students should "grow" up to some level to get acquainted with this concept at a Master degree course of studies. In Europe, the concept of susyainable tourism is more culturaland widespread, and it is brought to bachelors just in more simple words and then at the Master level it is just taught with a higher academic rigor. This approach is in general culturally and professionally more productive. The second advantage of the European way of teaching sustainable tourism is that there is a much greater linkage between the concept and the context of small businesses, in other words sustainable developed not necessarily linked to the context of destination development and planning. Therefore, sustainable tourism is quite often studied in business schools.
 In his publication the author tries to draw the attention of the national scientific community to the problem of conceptual and epistemological backwardness of the Russian tourism science in comparison to the international tourism science when it comes to sustainable tourism issues. Present deficiencies in socio-economic research and educational programs can be eliminated within a few years if the national scientific and educational communities duly appreciate the whole range of issues of sustainable tourism and the promising outlook for research and educational programs in this field.

SEASONALITY OF DEMAND FOR SOME EGYPTIAN VEGETABLES IN Cairo El- Abour MARKET

The study showed the the importance of the effect of seasonality in determining the amounts received for the transit market of vegetable crops in Egypt. As it turned out great linkage between the quantities and prices of vegetables in the transit market, which reflects the importance of reconsidering the random cropping and where there is no minimum or organizing thread. Where it should be to regulate the use of agricultural resources limited to Egypt and so achieve the maximum return for producers and consumers and the marketer and reduces wastage of resources in making a glitch between supply and demand, resulting in higher prices hurt consumer Login or drop in prices hurt farmers' incomes. It is worth noting that the changes in the agricultural sector, which is the main activity in the Egyptian countryside, especially in the light of economic liberalization policies such as the abolition of support for agricultural inputs, and the liberalization of prices of agricultural and left are determined by market forces, with the demolition of Tzawar marketing system for Khaddrady to irregular or balance of supply with the demand after the policy of economic liberalization in the agriculture sector, which increased from large fluctuations in prices as a result of increasing the gap between supply and demand for agricultural commodities, and all of these reasons have led to an increase in poverty in the countryside and in Egypt in particular. This reflects the importance of Tzawar marketing system and return to the installation Almsola Central, which balances the needs of the consumer growing and limited agricultural resources by reducing the size of the gap between supply and demand, which reduces the price differences during the months of the year and which is reflected in the increase in income and welfare of the consumer and the producer together. The return of the agricultural cycle of the most important requirements for achieving balance in the prices of vegetables in Egypt and reduces loss in the limited agricultural resources and achieve the protection of soil fertility and reduces the need for fertilizers and pesticides. This regulation of the market productive agricultural reduce the imbalance between supply and demand, which increases the efficiency of the distribution of the use of agricultural resources among the wider use of alternative optimal resource allocation and reduce the waste of limited agricultural resources. Decreases as well as huge losses for producers and consumers at the micro level as well to reduce the negative effects on the macro level by reducing imports and increasing exports, where there is improved efficiency performance in the Egyptian agricultural sector at the micro level and kidneys.

Chrysophyte stomatocyst production in laboratory culture and descriptions of seven cyst morphotypes

:There is an extensive literature on chrysophyte stomatocysts from diverse habitats and their use as paleolimnetic indicators of past environmental conditions in lakes. The majority of these cysts are unidentified, and more laboratory studies are needed to link stomatocyst morphotypes to vegetative stages. A laboratory procedure that resulted in stomatocyst production in the chrysophyte alga Ochromonas pinguis (Chrysophyceae) was tested to determine if the protocol would also stimulate the production of stomatocysts in six other chrysophytes. Chrysolepidomonas dendrolepidota, Chrysosaccus cf. sphaericus, Dermatochrysis sp., Synura cf. americana, Synura cf. macropora and a second species of Ochromonas all produced stomatocysts within two to three weeks. Morphology of the stomatocyst was described using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This was the first report of stomatocysts from Chrysosaccus and the first SEM description of O. pinguis cysts. These autecological studies provide a greater linkage between sediment stomatocysts and their biological origin, strengthening the interpretive value of these microfossils and broadening our understanding of chrysophyte biogeography.

Walking the Wall

Walking the Wall

Critical role of boreal summer North Pacific subtropical highs in ENSO transition

The quasi-biennial (QB)-type El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), showing a fast phase transition from El Nino to La Nina, is closely related to the variability of the North Pacific subtropical high (NPSH) and western North Pacific subtropical high (WNPSH) during summer. Here, we show that the NPSH plays a key role in the fast ENSO transition. The QB-type ENSO is associated with both strengthened WNPSH and NPSH during the boreal summer. By contrast, the low-frequency-type ENSO, which occurs in a typical period of 3–7 years, displays an enhanced WNPSH but weakened NPSH. The stronger El Nino tends to generate a more intensified WNPSH from spring to summer, leading to the initial decay of El Nino via the modulation of easterly wind in the western Pacific. On the contrary, the NPSH has greater linkage with the decaying El Nino process after the boreal summer. Therefore, the coupled pattern of WNPSH–NPSH is important in changing ENSO phase from El Nino to La Nina. The NPSH causes sea surface temperature cooling over the subtropical Northeastern Pacific. The resultant subtropical cooling induces anomalous anticyclone west of the reduced heating, which generates the strengthening of trade winds south of the anticyclone. Consequently, this process contributes to tropical central Pacific cooling and the rapid transition of El Nino to La Nina. This study hints that the QB-type ENSO could be significantly linked to a tropics-midlatitudes coupled system such as an in-phase pattern between WNPSH and NPSH. The results are useful for improvement of ENSO prediction.

ENTRE EL LENGUAJE DE MICROSOFT Y EL DE BORGES

En el año 2008, el sindicato de trabajadores de la educación de la República Mexicana, sometió a consideración la siguiente pregunta: “¿Considera usted que la educación debe tener una mayor vinculación con el empleo y el aparato productivo?”. Esta encuesta presentó los siguientes resultados: Un contundente 92% respondió de manera afirmativa, el 1% dijo no saber, y tan sólo el 7% ha dicho que no debe existir mayor vinculación. ¿Cuál es la opinión de usted? Para responder esta pregunta, si se reflexiona un poco, primero debemos tener claro el nivel educativo al que se hace referencia con el término “educación” en dicho cuestionamiento. Si la encuesta se refiere a la educación superior o capacitación para el trabajo, la respuesta, en principio, considero que debería ser afirmativa. En términos generales es fácil percibir la conveniencia de vincular a los estudiantes de estos niveles educativos con el mercado laboral para contribuir a enriquecer su naciente experiencia profesional, desarrollar ciertas habilidades profesionales y, de esta forma, aproximarlos a la posibilidad de obtener un anhelado empleo al término de sus estudios. Y más aún, bajo una estrategia visionaria dirigida a los estratos superiores del conocimiento, sería deseable que algunos institutos de investigación de nuestras universidades se conviertan en el motor de desarrollo de diversas actividades productivas, tomando como ejemplo a la Universidad de Stanford que ha sido en buena parte responsable del impresionante desarrollo tecnológico y económico de la región del Silicon Valley. Sin embargo, es preciso comprender que quien formula la pregunta es el sindicato que tiene bajo su responsabilidad la educación básica en México. Por esta razón, podríamos asumir que el término “educación”, en la encuesta, hace referencia a la enseñanza que se imparte en el nivel de estudios correspondientes al nivel primario. Bajo esta suposición y con el fin de precisar el nivel educativo al que se hace referencia, la pregunta inicial podría adoptar la siguiente forma: “¿Considera usted que la educación básica y media superior deben tener una mayor vinculación con el empleo y el aparato productivo?”. De esta forma el cuestionamiento resulta extraño, ¿cómo vincular a estudiantes menores de edad con el sector laboral? Obviamente no es lógica la idea de una vinculación directa a través de prácticas laborales. Si no es así, ¿a qué obedece la encuesta que hace el sindicato más numeroso de América Latina?

EPA-0612 – Comprehensive treatment children and youth. Unit of child and adolescent inpatient

This paper will focus on the treatment in a formed by psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, nurses, nursing assistants, occupational therapist, teacher and social worker, responsible for conducting the therapeutic process. We talk about of a 17 years old male patient who starts psychological and psychiatric monitoring in 2004. Required a first admission in 2006 and was diagnosed of Tourette's disorder. In 2006 was readmitted, oriented as not specified mood disorder. In 2011, he enters in another unit by psychotic symptoms and was diagnosed of Not Specified Psychotic Disorder. In Day Hospital and CSMIJ was monitored. These diagnostics changes and the differents treatments tested, without getting a clear answer, precipitated a new admission for study and treatment of the case. It was here when he was diagnosed of Disorganized Schizophrenia. We works the adequate psychopharmacological treatment control, requiring the administration of high-dose Paliperidone (IM, to ensure management, supplemented by oral during admission) accompanied by anxiolitics. We work a stable socio-family situation. We have tried to get awareness of disease and greater linkage Day Hospital as objectives of the treatment plan. Today, the psychotic clinic has been attenuated. Shows a certain period of clinical stability, monthly to attend to the IM treatment administration and do more regularly the oral treatment. It has adapted better to the dynamics of the center, and was able to contact the family of origin. This improvement has been achieved thanks to clarify diagnosis and multidisciplinary approach made.

Diverging Pathways: The Peculiar and Problematic Gap between Comparative Politics and American Political Development

This paper examines the diverging pathways of the fields of comparative politics and American Political development and explores areas of potential dialogue between them. Since the 1980s, the two subfields have become increasingly isolated from each other, reflecting the specialization trend in political science, growing emphasis in comparative politics on large-N cross-national research, a gap between the two fields over the merits of studying of political development, and the larger divide between the study of comparative and American politics. I argue that two areas in which comparative politics and APD have had extensive dialogue – qualitative methodology and the study of the welfare state – show there is much to be gained from greater linkages between the two sub-fields. There is no reason why fruitful dialogue cannot take place in other areas, particularly in the study of state-building, democratization, and identity.

A força de trabalho no complexo da saúde: vantagens e desafios

This essay discusses the importance and the dimension of the workforce in the healthcare grid in the Brazilian labor market. It examines the growing occupation trend in relation to restrictions to the rise in productivity, especially in the activities in the center of the healthcare complex. In a context of recurrent governmental budget constraints, the development of the Unified Health System ultimately results in increased coverage, but with deteriorating conditions and wages. This trend has also been accompanied by tensions in resource sharing with other pillars of social policies. The essay concludes that, in order to achieve high quality treatment and adequate working conditions, public health policy requires a better solution for its funding and greater linkages with the institutional matrix of general social policies. Even with the need for greater efficiency in spending, current resources are insufficient. Furthermore, it is important to highlight the need for institutional interaction of health policy with other social policies, seeking to ensure a more comprehensive and quality service for the population.

Tracking a northern fulmar from a Scottish nesting site to the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone: Evidence of linkage between coastal breeding seabirds and Mid-Atlantic Ridge feeding sites

The seas above mid-ocean ridges are biodiversity hotspots in an otherwise largely oligotrophic environment, but the nature and extent of linkage between these offshore regimes and coastal ecosystems remains uncertain. Using a combination of GPS and geolocation tracking data, we show that a male fulmar, breeding on the Scottish coast, foraged over areas of persistent thermal fronts along the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (CGFZ) of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the incubation period. The bird travelled over 6200km in 14.9 days. First-passage time analysis identified seven areas of restricted search, four on the shelf and three in the vicinity of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Previous studies of incubation foraging trip durations at this site suggest that a trip of this duration is unusual, and further work is required to assess the extent to which different individuals use these offshore resources. Nevertheless, these data highlight the potential importance of high sea areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction when considering the management and conservation of seabirds breeding in NW Europe, and raises the potential for even greater linkage between the CGFZ and seabirds breeding colonies in other regions.

산업연관분석을 이용한 U-City 산업의 특성 고찰

본 연구에서는 U-City 전문가들에 대한 설문조사를 통해 U-City산업을 선정하고 이를 바탕으로 산업연관분석을 수행하였다. 그 결과로 U-City산업의 생산유발계수, 부가가치유발계수, 고용 및 취업유발계수, 영향력계수, 감응력 계수를 도출하였다. 이러한 계수들을 통해 U-City 산업의 전반적 특성과 파급효과를 확인하였다. U-City 산업은 전 산업 평균에 비해 부가가치유발효과, 고용유발효과가 큰 것으로 나타났으며 전방연쇄효과가 큰 산업이라는 특징을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 U-City산업에 대한 합리적 정의와 다양한 파급효과를 도출하여 정책 판단의 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다는 점에서 의미가 있다. This study sets the boundary of U-City industry based on expert surveys. Based on this U-City industry boundary, an appropriate inter-industry analysis is performed. The result shows production inducement coefficients, value added inducement coefficients, employment & enter employment inducement coefficients, influence coefficients and induction coefficients. Based on these coefficients, overall characteristics and spillover effects of U-City industry are examined. The result of this study shows that U-City industry has bigger value added-induced effects and employee-induced effects than other industry. The result also shows that U-City industry also has a great forward linkage effect. This study has a meaning that could be used to make political decisions as a basic data.

Intersection of HIV and Reproductive Health

The HIV epidemic is integrally linked to reproductive health. Indeed HIV itself, which is predominantly a sexually transmitted infection, is a key reproductive health issue. In women, HIV can have adverse impact on pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. HIV status also affects conception and parenting choices. Both HIV and poor reproductive health share common drivers, including poverty, gender inequality, and social marginalization of vulnerable populations [1]. Responses to both health issues should therefore be closely linked and mutually reinforcing. The 2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS that called for greater linkage between HIV/AIDS and reproductive health as an additional approach to curb the epidemic [2]. Furthermore, new approaches are needed to ensure that long-term, high-quality health services can meet both the HIV and broader reproductive health needs of women and men [3]. These innovative approaches include integrated services or a “one-stop shop,” where both services are provided in a single clinic with the same health provider during a single visit. As we approach the deadline for meeting the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 [4] and as the global health community debates the new Sustainable Development Goals for the post-2015 era [5], it is clear that greater integration of HIV and reproductive health research and service provision will be critical to achieve these goals. The intersection between family planning and HIV services for women living with HIV is a central theme of this special issue. An estimated 13 million HIV-infected women live in sub-Saharan Africa [6]. Improved access to family planning among HIV-infected women will decrease maternal morbidity and mortality and improve neonatal outcomes [7]. Yet among HIV-infected women in this region, unintended pregnancy has been reported to range from 62% to 93%, including women on antiretroviral therapy [7, 8]. Despite current guidelines and best practice, contraceptive provision is not routinely offered as part of HIV services [9]. Even when it is offered, women and men frequently do not have information about or access to the full range of effective methods, and long-acting methods like intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants are often unavailable in high-HIV prevalence settings [10]. In addition, more attention is needed for drug interactions between antiretroviral drugs and hormonal contraceptives and for promotion of dual-method use. HIV-positive and -negative women need better information about and greater access to proven contraceptive methods. For HIV negative women, there is a need to integrate HIV counselling and testing with contraceptive services, so that access to both services is increased. While pregnancy is known to increase the risk of HIV acquisition, antenatal services often fail to offer male or female condoms and safer sex counselling to pregnant women. In countries where there are high rates of teenage pregnancy and of HIV among adolescent girls, there are very few examples of effective integrated services for young women. We hope that the papers in this special issue will bring additional attention to the intersection of HIV and reproductive health. A renewed focus on this intersection by populations, public and private health systems, country ministries of health and finance, and international donors, as well as attention by the larger global health research community, remains essential to continue to advance women's health. Such attention can also help promote gender equality, especially for those affected by and at risk of HIV. Readers will find a number of papers on providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, including abortion care, to HIV-infected women from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, prevention of gender-based and intimate partner violence, and the need to develop female-controlled multipurpose technologies designed to prevent pregnancy, HIV, and STI transmission.

산업연관분석을 통한 공간정보산업의 특징 및 정책방향성에 대한 연구

In this study, we derived the characteristics of the geo-spatial information industry by using input-output analysis. For this analysis, we classified the geo-spatial information industry and reorganized the input-output table. And we derived the production inducement coefficient, index of the power of dispersion and index of the sensitivity of dispersion in the geo-spatial information industry. We confirmed that geo-spatial information industry has a small production inducement coefficient and a great forward linkage effect. Based on these facts, we suggested the strategy direction as follows: 1) building the industrial eco-system, 2) managing both advance and applicability enhancement, 3) Establishing from a long-term point of view.

‘It hurts, but I don't have a choice, I'm not working and I'm sick’: decisions and experiences regarding abortion of women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

Research was conducted with 36 women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa, regarding their decision-making about, and experiences with, abortion of unwanted pregnancies in the public health sector. Abortion intentions and decisions were explored by investigating influencing factors; knowledge of abortion policy and public health sector services; and abortion perceptions and experiences. Findings reveal that many women face censure both for becoming pregnant and terminating a pregnancy, including by family, partners, community members and healthcare providers. Data suggest that abortion may be more stigmatised than HIV despite South Africa's liberal abortion law. Generally, however, study participants were satisfied with the abortion care received. Most would advise women living with HIV to think carefully about abortion, but to make a decision in their own best interests, including only seeking care early in pregnancy from an accredited clinic. Study implications include a need to integrate information and counselling on safe legal abortion within sexual and reproductive health services, especially in efforts to integrate sexual and reproductive health into HIV care, and to forge greater linkages between HIV and abortion services more generally to ensure continuity in follow-up of care for women.

Experiences and perspectives of African American, Latina/o, Asian American, and European American psychology graduate students: A national study.

A national, Web-based survey of 1,219 African American, Latina/o, Asian American, and European American psychology graduate students revealed both similarities and differences in experiences and perspectives. Mentoring was found to be the strongest predictor of satisfaction across groups. Academic supports and barriers, along with perceptions of diversity within the academic environment, were also important predictors of satisfaction. Students of color perceived less fairness of representation of their ethnic group within psychology than European American students, and a greater linkage between aspects of the graduate school experience and their ethnicity. Limitations of the study and implications for future research and action are discussed.

Parental Cognitive Disabilities and Child Protection Services: The Need for Human Capacity Building

Theories regarding the social cognitive origins of parenting risk have recently emerged. This work not only has implications for the nature of interventions with parents, but also for the approaches taken by the social service systems that work with them. This paper reviews the evidence that there is a significant number of parents with cognitive disabilities within child protection caseloads and outlines the types of human capacity building and organizational development that are needed to support the parents' needs. Such capacity building will not only increase the effectiveness of child protection interventions with parents with cognitive disabilities (PCD), but will also attend to the support and training needs of the professionals who work with them. Capacity building for work with PCD goes beyond the typical training provided in social work programs by including developmentally sensitive intervention techniques and greater linkages with systems outside of child protective services.

Formal and informal support for older adults with severe mental illness

Objectives: This study sought to examine the combination of formal and informal services supplied to older adults with severe mental illness, to assess the adequacy of services received, and to determine factors predictive of formal and informal service provision. Methods: A cross-sectional research design was employed. Seventy-five older adults diagnosed with a SMI were recruited through local community mental health center. Data was collected through face-to-face interviews using the Camberwell Assessment of Needs for the Elderly. Results: Clients most frequently received services from formal sources for psychiatric distress, physical health, information, and dangerous behavior needs while informal sources provided the greatest amount of assistance for self-care, psychiatric distress, and money management needs. Appropriate assistance was most often not provided for benefits, sight/hearing, and incontinence. Formal services were predicted by group residence and dangerous behavior, physical illness, medication, and daily activity needs. Assistance from informal sources was predicted by private residence, self-care, mobility, and money management needs. Discussion: While formal and informal sources provided adequate services for certain client needs, over 70% of the clients did not receive the correct type of help for some of their needs. Greater communication between mental health care staff and informal caregivers, and the integration of aging network services, is essential for the adequate provision of care to older severely mentally ill (SMI) adults. Education and greater linkages among care providers are necessary so that all service providers are aware of and are able to appropriately respond to the complex multi-level needs experienced by older SMI adults.

Defining the role of the MHC in autoimmunity: a review and pooled analysis.

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is one of the most extensively studied regions in the human genome because of the association of variants at this locus with autoimmune, infectious, and inflammatory diseases. However, identification of causal variants within the MHC for the majority of these diseases has remained difficult due to the great variability and extensive linkage disequilibrium (LD) that exists among alleles throughout this locus, coupled with inadequate study design whereby only a limited subset of about 20 from a total of approximately 250 genes have been studied in small cohorts of predominantly European origin. We have performed a review and pooled analysis of the past 30 years of research on the role of the MHC in six genetically complex disease traits – multiple sclerosis (MS), type 1 diabetes (T1D), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn's disease (CD), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) – in order to consolidate and evaluate the current literature regarding MHC genetics in these common autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. We corroborate established MHC disease associations and identify predisposing variants that previously have not been appreciated. Furthermore, we find a number of interesting commonalities and differences across diseases that implicate both general and disease-specific pathogenetic mechanisms in autoimmunity.

A preliminar overview of species composition and geographical distribution of Malvinian weevils (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

The objective of this paper is to provide an integrative approach to species composition and distributional information on the weevil fauna of Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands). A total of 22 species belonging to 11 Curculionidae genera are recorded for the archipelago. Four of these genera belong to Entiminae (i.e., Caneorhinus, Cylydrorhinus, Malvinius, and Morronia) and the remaining seven belong to Cyclominae (i.e., Antarctobius, Falklandiellus, Falklandius, Germainiellus; Haversiella, Lanteriella, and Puranius). The Malvinian weevil fauna could be considered as an impoverished version of that from Tierra del Fuego at the generic level, but with a very high degree of species level endemism. The Malvinian weevil fauna exhibits a great linkage to that from southernmost South America. It has been postulated that the evolution of Malvinian weevil fauna responded to several geodispersal and subsequent vicariant events which determined the archipelago´s alternative connections and disconnections from southern South America. These events were due to sea-level variations induced by glacial-eustatic agents during Tertiary and Quaternary times. Finally, synonymic lists are provided for each species known to occur on the islands. Also, distributional data for each species are mapped and keys and illustrations are presented to identify weevil taxa recorded for the Islas Malvinas.