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    • Species+ 

      United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) (2023)
      Species+, developed by UNEP-WCMC and the CITES Secretariat, is a website designed to assist Parties with implementing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Convention ...

    • Stable isotopes reveal seasonal dietary responses to agroforestry in a venomous mammal, the Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) 

      Mychajliw, Alexis M.; Almonte, Juan N.; Martínez, Pedro A.; Hadly, Elizabeth A. (2022)
      While trends in tropical deforestation are alarming, conservation biologists are increasingly recognizing the potential for species survival in human-modified landscapes. Identifying the factors underlying such persistence, ...

    • State of biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribean (ROLAC) (2010)
      Of All the world’s regions, Latin America and the Caribbean has the greatest biological diversity. This informational leaflet provides a better understanding of the value asset that we are losing and offers suggestions on ...

    • State of climate action 2023 

      Boehm, Sophie; Jeffery, Louise; Hecke, Judit; Schumer, Clea; Jaeger, Joel; Fyson, Claire; Levin, Kelly (2023)
      The State of Climate Action 2023 provides the world’s most comprehensive roadmap of how to close the gap in climate action across sectors to limit global warming to 1.5°C. It finds that recent progress toward 1.5°C-aligned ...

    • State of the Cartagena Convention Area : an assessment of marine pollution from land-based sources and activities in the Wider Caribbean Region 

      United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) (2019)
      The State of the Convention Area (SOCAR)is the first such region-wide assessment undertaken by the Secretariat, and is a baseline assessment of the state of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) coastal and marine environment ...

    • State of the climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2021 

      World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (2022)
      The report on the state of the climate in Latin America and the Caribbean, the second of its kind, is a critical source of science-based information and data. Informed by science, this report serves to support climate-related ...

    • Status and trends of Caribbean coral reefs : 1970-2012 

      Jackson, Jeremy (ed.); Donovan, Mary (ed.); Cramer, Katie (ed.); Lam, Vivian (ed.) (2014)
      This work is the most comprehensive analysis and compilation of information on coral reef in the Caribbean over the past 40 years. Although the report clearly shows that there has been an ongoing decline in coral cover and ...

    • Status and trends of coral reefs of the Caribbean region 

      Souter, David (ed.); Planes, Serge (ed.); Wicquart, Jérémy (ed.); Logan, Murray (ed.); Obura, David (ed.); Staub, Francis (ed.); Allen, Mary E. (2021)
      Content: 1. Geographic information and context -- 2. Summary of data contributed to this report -- 3. Status of coral reefs in the Caribbean region -- 4. Subregional trends in the cover of live hard coral and algae within ...

    • Status of Caribbean coral reefs after bleaching and hurricanes in 2005 

      Wilkinson, Clive (ed.); Souter, David (ed.) (2008)
      The most extreme coral bleaching and mortality event to hit the Wider Caribbean (including Atlantic) coral reefs occurred in 2005. This was during the warmest year ever recorded, eclipsing the 9 warmest years that had ...

    • Status of Caribbean forest endemics special issue : editors' foreword 

      Nelson, Howard P.; Townsend, Jason M.; Weidemann, Douglas E.; Proctor, C. Justin (2017)
      The high degree of avian endemism in the Caribbean is arguably one of the most defining qualities of the region, and an irreplaceable part of its natural heritage. However, these Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face ...

    • Status of coral reefs of the world: 2020 

      Souter, David (ed.); Planes, Serge (ed.); Wicquart, Jérémy (ed.); Logan, Murray (ed.); Obura, David (ed.); Staub, Francis (ed.) (2021)
      This sixth GCRMN Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020 report is the result of more than three-years of effort, supported by an extensive network of partners, contributors and scientists whose commitment to the monitoring ...

    • Status of coral reefs of the world: 2020 : executive summary 

      Souter, David (ed.); Planes, Serge (ed.); Wicquart, Jérémy (ed.); Logan, Murray (ed.); Obura, David (ed.); Staub, Francis (ed.) (2021)
      Executive summary of the «Status of coral reefs of the world: 2020» report. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) is an operational network of the International Coral Reef Initiative that aims to provide the ...

    • Status of coral reefs of the world: 2020 : summary for policymakers 

      Souter, David (ed.); Planes, Serge (ed.); Wicquart, Jérémy (ed.); Logan, Murray (ed.); Obura, David (ed.); Staub, Francis (ed.) (2021)
      Summary for policymakers of the «Status of coral reefs of the world: 2020» report. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) is an operational network of the International Coral Reef Initiative that aims to provide ...

    • Status of the American Flamingo in the Dominican Republic and eastern Haiti 

      Wiley, James W.; Wiley, Beth Nethery (1979)
      Between December 1975 and July 1976 and on 4-5 October 1977 we visited several sites of historical occurrence of the American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus tuber) in the Dominican Republic. Here we report on the status of the ...

    • Status of the Cartagena Convention and protocols = Estado de la Convención de Cartagena y protocolos = État de la Convention de Carthagène et ses protocoles 

      The Regional Activity Centre for the Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife for the Wider Caribbean Region (2021)
      Contiene la lista de los países signatarios de la Convención de Cartagena y sus protocolos, y las fechas de su adhesión o ratificación a cada uno de de estos acuerdos: Protocolo Relativo a la Cooperación para Combatir los ...

    • Stenotarsus nigrivestis Shockley, a new epecies of Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from the Dominican Republic 

      Shockley, Floyd W. (2007)
      A new species of endomychid, Stenotarsus nigrivestis Shockley, is described from the Dominican Republic, representing the first description of a species of Stenotarsinae from the West Indies. A summary of the known West ...

    • Stony coral tissue loss disease and other diseases affect adults and recruits of major reef builders at different spatial scales in the Dominican Republic 

      Cróquer, Aldo; Zambrano, Someira; King Pérez, Samuel A.; Reyes, Aurelio; Sellares-Blasco, Rita I.; Valdez Trinidad, Andreína; Villalpando, María F.; Rodríguez-Jerez, Yira; Cortés-Useche, Camilo; Blanco, Macarena; Calle-Triviño, Johanna; García-Camps, Rebecca; Hernández-Oquet, Ana Carolina; Torres, Rubén E.; Irazabal, Iker; Díaz, Laura; Evangelista, Yassmin; Miyazawa, Emy (2022)
      Monitoring programs can help understand coral disease dynamics. Here, we present results from a national program in the Dominican Republic (DR) aimed at evaluating coral diseases 3 times a year following a nested spatial ...

    • Stop the invasion of alien species 

      Francis, Diana; Ramnanan, Naitram (2012)
      Invasive Alien Species (IAS) are a major threat to the unique and vulnerable biodiversity (the variety of species and their natural habitats) found in Caribbean seas, freshwater and land resources. They also threaten ...

    • Strategic Plan for Marine Litter Management in the Wider caribbean Region 

      Caribbean Node for Marine Litter (GPML-CARIBE); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2019)
      The Global Partnership of Marine Litter (GPML) is a multi-stakeholder partnership that provides a unique mechanism to bring together all actors working on marine litter to share knowledge and experience and to advance ...

    • Strategic Plan for the Biological Corridor in the Caribbean 2022-2030 : short version 

      Gerhartz-Muro, José L.; Viña-Dávila, Nicasio (2022)
      The Caribbean Biological Corridor initiative has developed a strengthening process in which its general foundations and conceptual model have been scientifically redefined and consolidated, new conservation priorities have ...