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Procurement of a biomass boiler to operate a green industrial laundry site in Dominican Republic
(2019)
Grupo Puntacana created the first green industrial laundry site, based on Cleaner Production, whose main energy source is steam generated by a biomass boiler.
Case 4: Wastewater treatment and reuse for golf course irrigation in a large beach resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
(2022)
Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) is the main tourist destination in the Caribbean with over 40 resorts and hotels located on the seashore. Their size varies from 300 to 2000 rooms and the water consumption of one complex ...
Diversidad de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) en el refugio de vida silvestre Laguna Cabral o Rincón, República Dominicana
(2023)
[Español] Se realizó un inventario mirmecológico en el Refugio de Vida Silvestre Laguna Cabral o Rincón, un área protegida ubicada en la región suroeste de la República Dominicana. Se establecieron veinte estaciones de ...
Primer registro de Orius flaviceps (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) en República Dominicana, depredador de thrips en aguacate
(2023)
[Español] La especie Orius flaviceps (Poppius, 1909) es un antocórido poco conocido que ha sido registrado de México, Islas Caimán y la isla Guadalupe. Los aspectos de su biología, ecología e historia natural son prácticamente ...
Golden tides: Management best practices for influxes of sargassum in the Caribbean with a focus on clean-up
(2016)
The purpose of this management brief is to enable government officials, coastal managers, beach caretakers and coastal residents to get ahead of the “golden tides” by providing up-to-date information on the recent ‘sargassum ...
Applying hazard risk assessment and spatial planning tools to sargassum inundations in the Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States as a basis for improving response
(2022)
This technical report is an output of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) project 'Adapting to a new reality: managing responses to influxes of sargassum seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean' (SargAdapt), cofinanced by the ...
Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island
(2021)
[English] The annotated checklist on the extant terrestrial mollusks from Hispaniola Island based on literature from 1758 to 2020 is here presented. We report 612 taxa distributed in three subclasses, 129 genera and 39 ...
La Reserva de la Biosfera Jaragua- Bahoruco-Enriquillo, República Dominicana : percepción del paisaje y propuesta para un uso sostenido basado en la disponibilidad de recursos naturales
(2014)
Se presenta el estudio de la percepción indirecta del paisaje, una propuesta para un uso sostenido basado en la disponibilidad de sus recursos naturales en la reserva de la Biosfera Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo y los ...
Coral disease hotspots in the Caribbean
(2017)
Recent outbreaks of coral diseases in the Caribbean have been linked to increasingly stressful sea-surface temperatures (SSTs). Yet, ocean warming is spatially heterogeneous and therefore has the potential to lead to ...
Notes on activity patterns of five species of Sphaerodactylus (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the Dominican Republic
(2011)
Sphaerodactylus leucaster and S. thompsoni are poorly known xerophilic geckos from Hispaniola...