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Changing ecosystems and their services
(2020)
[English] Changing Ecosystems and their Services provides a very interesting account of the frontiers of biodiversity and ecological research. It consists of seven chapters covering mass extinctions: the "Big Five" and ...
Forest loss and fire in the Dominican Republic during the 21st Century
(2019)
[English] [Preprint] We used Landsat-based estimates of tree cover change to document the loss and gain of forest in the Dominican Republic between 2000 and 2016. Overall, 2,795 km 2 of forest were lost, with forest gain ...
Fire history along environmental gradients in the subtropical pine forests of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic
(2006)
[English] Fire history was reconstructed from fire-scarred individuals of the endemic pine (Pinus occidentalis) along climatic gradients in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic.
Patterns of growth, recruitment, mortality and biomass across an altitudinal gradient in a neotropical montane forest, Dominican Republic
(2012)
[English] We examined stand dynamics and biomass along an altitudinal gradient in a tropical montane forest (TMF) in the disturbance-prone Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. We tested the general hypothesis that chronic ...
Natural regeneration of subtropical montane forest after clearing fern thickets in the Dominican Republic
(2004)
[English] Tropical forests can recover after anthropogenic disturbances of light to moderate intensity; however, severe disturbances (e.g. compaction or loss of soil) often result in conditions that prevent forest recovery. ...
Aspectos ecológicos de Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, 1908, en el cultivo de cítricos en Villa Altagracia y El Seibo, República Dominicana
(2016)
[Español] Se determinó la distribución espacial y dinámica de la plaga Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, 1908 (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) en plantaciones de cítricos en los municipios de Villa Altagracia, provincia San Cristóbal y en ...
Depredación de Gymnophthalmus underwoodi (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) por Turdus plumbeus (Passeriformes: Turdidae) en República Dominicana
(2021)
[Español] Se registra el primer caso de depredación de la lagartija introducida Gymnophthalmus underwoodi por el zorzal de patas rojas, Turdus plumbeus en República Dominicana.
Lizards in an evolutionary tree: ecology and adaptive radiation of anoles
(2009)
[English] Adaptive radiation, which results when a single ancestral species gives rise to many descendants, each adapted to a different part of the environment, is possibly the single most important source of biological ...
Dominican Republic
(2009)
Capítulo de la República Dominicana en el directorio de áreas de conservación de aves de la región de Las Américas publicado por el programa BirdLife International’s Important Bird Area (IBA), una iniciativa internacional ...
Especies de equinodermos recientes (Echinodermata : crinoidea: asteroidea: ophiuroidea: echinoidea y holothuroidea) conocidas para la Hispaniola
(2004)
El presente trabajo resume y actualiza el conocimiento de la biodiversidad de los equinodermos recientes de la Isla Hispaniola, ofreciendo una lista con 154 especies, divididas en 23 especies de crinoidea, 33 de asteroidea, ...