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Calamus vitiensis, previously known to occur only in Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland), the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji is now also found in the mountainous area of Batudulang, West Sumbawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. This paper presents a complete report of the description, notes, and illustrations of the species.

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This paper is aimed towards analyzing and modeling earthquake interoccurence times in the Lesser Sunda Islands region using Weibull distribution. The data were classified into three categories, based on their magnitude; i.e. weak, medium, and strong earthquakes. Cumulative distribution functions and hazard rates are also explored in order to obtain the characteristics of earthquake inter-occurrences time data. Empirical results indicate the probability and rate of an earthquake recurrence time with a certain magnitude and in a certain time. Medium and weaker earthquakes have a higher chance of occurrence, reaching up to a 100% probability for the following 60 months. Meanwhile, the stronger earthquake has a 75.80% probability of occurrence. It can be seen that the earthquake occurrence probability increases together with the time increment factor.

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Flora of Mt Kelimutu and Mt kelibara, kelimutu national park ,flores lesser sunda islands had been studied been studied in July-August 2007, about 70 species belongs to 67 families of plants were collected....

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Periodical swarming of the polychaete species, named palolo in English, has been known as socially, culturally, and spiritually important event in Islands Southeast Asia and South Pacific. This study aims at exploring (1) taxonomy and ecology of the palolo and (2) mechanisms of traditional calendars in Indonesia, based on crosscultural and transdisciplinary analyses of previous studies which have been published since the early 18th Century and the authors fieldwork data. As the results, cultural events relevant to the palolo swarming geographically existed only in Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, and New Guinea Island in Indonesia. It was also found that the swarming mostly occurred in February or March in these regions, but in October or November in South Pacific (e.g, Samoa). Local people predicted the time of the palolo swarming by observing celestial and lunar movements. Indigenous calendars were also based on these movements, especially heliacal rising of Pleiades or Antares. In case of Lombok Island, the palolo swarming corresponded to 20th day of 10th month in the indigenous system and people stopped counting next month after this month in waiting for the next heliacal rising. In the authors analyses, this is a sophisticated intercalation system under low astronomical technology. It is concluded that the non conscious intercalation is the key technology and the palolo swarming is the best fitted natural phenomenon for traditional lunisolar calendrical systems in Eastern Indonesia