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Figure 1. Study location. Map of Lipsi Island, Greece. The red square indicates the location of Lipsi Island in the Aegean Sea. Yellow dots indicate the nine urban sites and red dots indicate the nine rural sites (created in QGIS, satellite imagery from ESRI, 2011).