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Is whale watching a win-win for people and nature? An analysis of the economic, environmental, and social impacts of whale watching in the Caribbean
(2017)
Whale watching has been hailed by environmental non-governmental organizations like Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare as a responsible form of tourism that has the potential to enhance conservation ...
BirdSleuth explorer’s guidebook
(2016)
Become an expert observer! Follow this step-by-step BirdSleuth Explorer’s Guidebook
and use your senses to discover the birds in a park.
Let's wait for the evening : nocturnal copulation in a tropical damselfly Phylolestes ethelae (Odonata, Synlestidae)
(2024)
Sexual selection is one of the main causes of the diversity of reproductive behaviours observed intra- and interspecifically. Here we study the reproductive behaviour of a unique species, Phylolestes ethelae, the only ...
Buzos cupidos a falta de Tinder para corales
(2023)
Se presenta una descripción del proceso de reproducción sexual, natural y asistida de corales.
New cranium of the endemic Caribbean platyrrhine, Antillothrix bernensis, from La Altagracia province, Dominican Republic
(2017)
Recent paleontological collection in submerged caves in the eastern Dominican Republic has yielded new specimens of Antillothrix bernensis. Here we describe a complete cranium of an adult individual (MHD 20) and provide ...
Mitogenomic sequences support a north–south subspecies subdivision within Solenodon paradoxus
(2017)
Solenodons are insectivores found only in Hispaniola and Cuba, with a Mesozoic divergence date versus extant mainland mammals. Solenodons are the oldest lineage of living eutherian mammal for which a mitogenome sequence ...
Establishing a marine conservation baseline for the insular Caribbean
(2015)
Highlights: • A single insular Caribbean protected area dataset with accurate boundary information was developed. • MPA coverage across the insular Caribbean is not far behind global reference values. • The insular Caribbean ...
Análisis de tendencias climáticas basado en metadatos de estaciones de la red de medición de la Oficina Nacional de Meteorología (ONAMET) de la República Dominicana
(2014)
La recolección y el estudio de metadatos constituyen un aspecto fundamental del análisis de series históricas de variables meteorológicas. Los resultados obtenidos para la estación de levantamiento de Santo Domingo, ...
An update on the distribution of threatened odonate species from the Greater Antilles
(2015)
The Antilles harbour several island endemic odonate species, including some palaeoendemics, within a relatively small and anthropized area. Such attributes give this archipelago a special significance for the conservation ...
First skull of Antillothrix bernensis, an extinct relict monkey from the Dominican Republic
(2011)
The nearly pristine remains of Antillothrix bernensis, a capuchin-sized (Cebus) extinct platyrrhine from the Dominican Republic, have been found submerged in an underwater cave. This represents the first specimen of an ...