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The potential for mangrove and seagrass blue carbon in Small Island States
(2023)
Blue carbon is attracting substantial interest as a natural climate solution. Focus has been on countries with large blue carbon stocks, though the high carbon densities of blue carbon ecosystems make them suitable for ...
Preservation and recovery of mangrove ecosystem carbon stocks in abandoned shrimp ponds
(2019)
Mangrove forests capture and store exceptionally large amounts of carbon and are increasingly recognised as an important ecosystem for carbon sequestration. Yet land-use change in the tropics threatens this ecosystem and ...
Diversity and conservation status of mangrove communities in two areas of Mesocaribea biogeographic region
(2018)
The study of mangrove communities (Avicennia germinans, Conocarpus erectus, Laguncularia racemosa and Rhyzophora mangle) in Central America reveals a total diversity of 121 species included in 7 plant communities, of which ...
Phylogeographic structure within the fiddler crabs Leptuca thayeri and Uca maracoani (Brachyura, Ocypodidae) along the tropical West Atlantic
(2022)
Most fiddler crabs have an extended planktonic larval phase, potentially maintaining gene flow among widely separated populations, in the absence of marine barriers. Such marine barriers could be long coastal stretches ...
Studying common-pool resources over time : a longitudinal case study of the Buen Hombre fishery in the Dominican Republic
(2016)
Like many small-scale fishing communities around the world, the community of Buen Hombre in the Dominican Republic is dealing with a set of challenges to reconcile its fishing activities with the ecology on which it depends. ...
Site fidelity of a wintering Swainson’s Warbler in the Dominican Republic
(2000)
We document between-winter philopatry of a Swainson’s Warbler (Limnothylpis swainsonii) from the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park, southwestern Dominican Republic. An individual, previously captured on 10 November 1997, ...
How mangrove forests adjust to rising sea level
(2014)
Mangroves are among the most well described and widely studied wetland communities in the world. The greatest threats to mangrove persistence are deforestation and other anthropogenic disturbances that can compromise habitat ...
Hurricane impacts on a mangrove forest in the Dominican Republic : damage patterns and early recovery
(2006)
On 22 September 1998, Hurricane Georges passed over the Dominican Republic causing extensive damage to a 4700 ha mangrove forest that has been the site of a detailed study of vegetation and ecosystem dynamics since 1994. ...
Tropical montane vegetation dynamics near the upper cloud belt strongly associated with a shifting ITCZ and fire
(2022)
Tropical montane forests house unusual and diverse biota and are considered highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly near the trade wind inversion (TWI) – the upper end of the cloud belt that defines tropical ...
Spatial patterns of biomass and aboveground net primary productivity in a mangrove ecosystem in the Dominican Republic
(2003)
The objective of this study was to quantify spatial patterns in above and below ground biomass, primary productivity, and growth efficiency along a tidal gradient in a 4700-ha mangrove forest in the Dominican Republic. We ...